It Happened One Day

A weekend getaway in the midst of the lovely hills of Lonavala. Seems like an excellent place to meet and fall in love with someone. But not when you are in an overcrowded water park with almost 1000 other people jostling and pushing you. Overweight aunties wearing ill fitting clothes and uncles with beer bellies hanging out obscenly. But then love is ubiquitous. It has the tendency of catching hold of you when u least expect it.

So one fine weekend, Mr. Cupid decided to visit a Water park. He thought, well its a weekend, and i have every right to have a break. So he landed with his bows and arrows in the water park wearing, well as always, what he mostly wears. It was a lovely day. Sunny and cool at the same time. He was just beginnning to relax when he saw a guy. He was with his friends it seems but he seemed far away and distant, lost in his own world. Mr Cupid decided to observe this guy. I still dont understand why he could not have minded his own business.

Then he saw another group of people approaching the first group. In the group was a girl, not very pretty but a good looking girl neverthless. She approached the guy with a big smile on her face. The guy too responded like wise. With a cute, shy smile. This got Mr. Cupid interested. He decided to stay close to both of them. Well, but their togetherness was short lived. And both went separate ways in there own separate groups.

It wasnt until much later, when they both got together again . Meanwhile, while they were separate, our Mr. Cupid was going nuts trying to keep both of them in sight. He was oblivious to a 1000 other ppl around him. Many young, eager guys and gals, waiting to fall in love with someone. But he just didnt pay any attention to them. He was too busy trying to keep track of the girl and the guy. He had after all chosen his targets for the day.

Finally, he got them in sight. They were sitting together and talking. Their conversation was sweet and free flowing. The guy made the girl laugh and smile alot and the girl just couldnt stop laughing and giggling. Well, the guy was also smiling. He was a bit shy and reserved but this was enough for Mr. Cupid to get ideas. He was planning to make the two ppl fall in love with each other. Well, it was his day off but who cares. He was always ready to help usher out two lonely souls on to the glorious path of love. He was just waiting and watching them both to find any complications. Seeing none, he decided it was time, he did his deed.

Now funny thing about the Love Shot is that it should pierce both the prospective people at the same time. It's actually said to be a single arrow that goes through both their hearts. And Cupid is a master Archer. He never misses. So, now he was just waiting for then to come into position when he could bind them forever with one arrow. He got the opportunity soon. They were both playing passing the parcel with the rest of the group. And as luck would have had it, they were sitting in the apt positions.

Now Mr. Cupid, took out his bow and arrow and took aim. The whole scene was so enchanting. Music playing in the background mingled with the laughter. The guy and the girl were playing, not really aware of the fact that in a moment, their two lives would get entangled forever. Cupid took aim and let go of the bow.

And suddenly, the music stopped. The girl's mobile phone started to ring. and she got up and when she got up, the love shot, just grazed her arm. Not her heart but her arm. she flinched but then went ahead with her conversation. In the meantime, the guy had also gotten up as he was the out in the game. When he got up, the love shot pierced his foot. He too flinched a bit and went ahead to fulfill his punishment as IT.

Mr. Cupid was horrified. He had never missed a shot ever before.

He was asked to sing a song and he started singing. He had a melodious voice. A voice dipped in honey. Meanwhile the girl was back and sat there mesmerised by the voice. She joined him after a while and they both sang. A song that was full of love and longing and a needing for the Love. She was looking at him from beneath her long lashes and he too was stealing glances at her. But soon, it was time for them to go to their respective homes. One in Pune and one in Mumbai. They both were on their way. However, they felt as if they had left something behind. What, they could not put there finger on. But something had gone amiss in just one day.

Mr. Cupid was helpless as he could not do anything. He just hoped that the love shot would work somehow and make them fall in love with each other. Till then, well, all he could do was wait and watch the progress. He was going home dejected, when he saw another couple in the very first stages of falling in love with each other. Well, he decided to take one more shot, and he took aim. Voila, it found its mark and the girl and the guy were in love with each other. This gave Mr. Cupid the satisfaction that his aim was perfect and the love shots were also good and had not reached there expiry dates.

As for the Mr Desirable and Miss Pretty, they would never realise how close they came to falling in love with each other. But then its never too late. May be, the small Love Shot wounds would work wonders for them. Well, we can only Hope!!