Serendipity... Revisited...

Its Thursday... 7 in the morning... In A smoggy July London city hotel room, Sam was getting ready... He is clearly nervous... He is checking everything twice or thrice which is very unlike him...

Sam a.k.a. Samir Chaterjee...23yrs...5'9''... Average build... Masters' Student Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi... Working as a college intern in a large mobile manufacturing company in London... He lives about 15 minutes away from the company... Though his day at work starts at 930, he'd go to the kings' cross by 830 everyday... Why Is that...?

It all started a couple of weeks ago, when he 1st arrived in London, he was at the station at 830 in the morning to check out the trains which are comfortable to him to go to work... And there she is wearing a white chudidar walking past him and disappeared in a flash... He couldn't get her out of his head the whole day and the next day he went to the station early hoping to get a glimpse of her... And there she again... But this time, he followed her to the train which became his routine for the coming days... She travelling in the same train that he had to also helped...

Coming back to the present... He got up, cleaned himself, wore the best looking clothes he has... He left the hotel a bit early, got a bunch of flowers, reached the station and waited for her... He finally decided to ask her out after all these days...

Niha a.k.a Niharika Shah...24yrs... Aspiring photographer... Working as an assistant to James Smith, very well known name in the field...

She had a feeling in her gut that day that some thing is gonna happen although she doesn't know what it is... But she prayed that the guy whoz been following her for the last few days to ask her out or at least talk to her... She has noticed this guy whos following her recently... When first she had seen him, she didn't care much.... But after a few days, she began to notice... He seemed to be a good kid... Cute and kinda nerdy... He'd always smile at her everyday and she too responded with a smile...

This day, she felt something different... She took extra care how she looks... She also started a bit earlier to go to the station...When she reached the station, she noticed that guy sitting on the bench with a bunch of flowers in his hand... She was very happy to see him that day... He is really looking handsome that day... He sure took a  lot of care in his appearance... 

But before he came and talked to her, she ran into an old friend of hers who in her super excitement to catch up failed to notice that her friends interest is some place else... Niha couldn't do much as  she was a good friend of hers...

Sam was waiting patiently... He had made it clear to himself that he'd talk to her that day... So he was waiting for that new gal to go away...

Now its 840 and the train they have to board has already arrived... So they got into the train in different compartments... Sam saw her getting into the train in some compartment and decided to meet her on the train... So, the train searching for her...

Niha asked her friend to wait for a while and started walking towards the direction in which the weird guy went... at 850 AM on 7th July 2005, Niha was standing at one end of the train compartment and saw the guy on the other end... She was ecstatic... She could see that the guy on the cloud9...She saw him  walking towards her and she waited for him there....Then It happened... There was a very big spark of light in the train accompanied by a big thundering sound... She didn't know wat happened and everything went dark...

When Sam woke up, he was in the hospital... He his arm bandaged... He also noticed the chaos in the hospital... He came to know that there was a bomb blast in the train in the very compartment that day and almost everyone in there were dead...

While checking out, he didn't ask the cops or the doctors about the gal because firstly he doesn't have the courage to handle if something bad has happened.... Secondly he doesn't know anything about her... The one thing he did do in the next few weeks of his stay in London is not to travel in the Subway....

Coming to the gal... Well she migrated to a different country to remove those memories...

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Pavan