for being mad at and about...

for being mad at and about…

It was all about he being the egoistic, jealous man and he was put up with this not so sentimental but suspicious and super judgmental woman.
Rehan didn’t even know that he was falling in love with Anaida. Anaida had never been in love before and didn’t know what kind of a ‘yucki’ word Love was. When Rehan realized his ‘I miss her’ phase to be ‘I love her’ phase, he didn’t take any time to confess his feelings to Anaida. Anaida was thrilled in the beginning, but she did want it to happen. And she ultimately said the affirmative word. It went well for sometime, but Rehan and Anaida did not build the foundation of trust too strong yet, and that was going to pose a challenge in their relationship soon.
The distance ruled Rehan and Anaida’s relationship. They even followed a different time zone! But that didn’t pose a major problem. They would always find time for each other. But the personalities they were, the barriers soon started getting taller than their tolerance. Silly misunderstandings required hours of explanation and yucki love soon stared fading away. Rehan never wanted to build something where he had to explain things to Anaida. But the super judgmental and suspicious she was, nothing would satisfy her and she would need every minute detail. Even when Rehan would not answer a call, during his ‘daylight sleeping’, Anaida would assume that as a ‘draught in Affection Reservoir’ towards her.
One day Anaida somehow realized the need for more trust and wished to know Rehan more. Obviously she could not ask him directly, so she told him things about her first, expecting that Rehan shall follow. She did do some not so pleasant things in the past that only she knew about. She could have kept those things hidden throughout her life, but she only wanted to win Rehan’s trust. But in stead, Rehan had more doubts about those dangerous confessions. It was more of ‘why did you do what did you do.’ Anaida didn’t have answers for those questions. What she had done had been a forgettable momentary thing. And although she knew it was unethical, she didn’t expect the consequences to affect her this very way. Somewhere she had hurt Rehan’s ego. His jealousy was challenged. But Rehan did love Anaida. He did not want to loose her like that. He respected the courage she showed in admitting those facts. Externally he kept calm. Inside though, he was boiling. He decided to keep a verbal distance with Anaida for a while. Anaida ‘judged’ that act as now a ‘severe drought in love’. She only prayed to her God to settle things between her and Rehan…
Anaida during that time happened to read something on how Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston’s relationship went down the drain. She found something useful from that article that she read and she feared losing Rehan one more time that day.
According to what she read, there were three stages to love. The first stage was called the blind love. In that stage the ‘birds’ were said to have liked everything about each other. She realized that the drunken dancing videos Rehan had shown earlier had appeared to be ‘cute’ and then playing strip poker was ‘adorable’ no matter how much stupid did she think Rehan was at that stage to share his ‘embarrassment’. So did “Am I looking fat, Honey?” for the millionth time got a “No Sugar, you look just as ravishing!” for million plus one-nth time, Anaida realized that!
But then the second stage was going to be slightly different. It was not the easier part, and definitely not so smooth at all, she read, it was in the second stage when the ‘birds’ had to open their eyes for the rest of the world and start taking each other for granted, little by little. In this process the ‘birds’ still don’t know each other entirely. Anaida knew Rehan couldn’t tell how she liked her eggs done for breakfast the other time when she asked him. And when she went to buy him shoes to gift she didn’t know what size to buy, and compromised on a shirt as she knew that size well. But then the second stage was also prone to get boring as the presence was said to be a duty and not volunteership. The article said the second stage was longer than the first, and if successful the relationship could last eternally but if any relationship which had to terminate, it goes down in the drain in stage two.
Anaida feared that she wouldn’t have to take difficult decisions in near future, or Rehan’s non-speaking would continue for too long. Anaida introspected and found that she liked the magnetic spell Rehan had cast on her, which she couldn’t help but think about him every five minutes in her daytime and dream about him at night. And her madness about him had begun to grow but she puzzled if the things were same on the other side.
Anaida finally reached the third stage on the paper! The third stage sounded like music to her ears. It read that in the third stage, the two people know each other’s strengths and weaknesses and always think about each other’s preferences, and how their better half will react to a particular thing, not as a duty, but with instincts. In this stage, difficult topics wouldn’t be a problem for a discussion. Anaida remarked a closer example of her parent’s story which was going through a thin time when her elder sister was born. She thought her parents must have still been in second stage love back then. But today when she looks at them, the unconditional love that they have for each other is more than evident. Once on their long haul flight, Anaida’s Mother didn’t get her special gluten free, no sugar lunch. Anaida’s father made the flight attendant’s flight somewhat miserable back then. Both of them went without food for the entire journey, although Anaida’s father had no special dietary requirements.
Anaida wished Rehan would feel that much love and affection for her one day. But presently this was far from happening. The reality was that Anaida was mad about him, but in some ways, Rehan was mad at her. Anaida decided that she was not going to wait and watch the destiny play its game on them. She thought, if something has to happen, she would have to make an effort to change the situation. Maybe it was time for another confession, a confession to make Rehan realize how much he is thought upon and loved and to make him realize the worth of the smile on his face to her. She decided to tell this to Rehan the next time she would see him. Then she smiled at herself and thought about Rehan one more time and reached her phone to reach him…

(In my knowledge the article Anaida reads about does not exist. I read about that article in an entertainment magazine as part of a conversation which could have happened between Brad Pitt and one of his co-stars and built this fictional story.)