"Sorry to disappoint You, but You are still alive." I whisper in her ear.

As I tilt my head back to see her expressions changing. She looks into my eyes and a smile run across my lips again.

God! There is something in her twinkling eyes. So calm yet so much chaos. Her expressions changes within a minute and she tries to stand on her own. But before she can get success, the last boy from the group rushed and pushed her slightly again, enough to lose her balance.

This time I held her waist. "Easy Girl, easy. I know I'm too hot but You should control yourself. Atleast, among so many people. I'm kind of shy guy." I tease her adding a wink to my comment.

"Yaa Yaa! Shy Boy!" She placed her hands on my chest to take support and stands straight to look straight into my eyes.

Damn! Why I can hear my heart thumping against the cage of ribs. It seems like the time has stopped at this moment. Her hand rest still for a moment on my heart. I don't no if I'm imagining it or actually it is happening. It seems like She too has felt the same as I do.

Next second, She withdraws her hands back, "You never miss any chance of flirting. Do you?" She snaps at me with a smirk.

"No, never." I confirm her words with the same smirk.

"Come, let me show You the Karaoke. There, they are enjoying it." She moves swiftly this time. Giving me a clear view of inside the canopy shaped, roofed area.

"By the way, thanks for holding me." She adds while stepping ahead.

"Oh. Your welcome. But does that mean, I can touch you now?" I inquire, just to remind her last night rudeness.

"Certainly Not. We are still strangers, not even acquaint." She replies, raising an eye brow.

I steps ahead, glancing backwards to give a last check at Jerry and Jane at their table. Is Jerry holding her hand? Oh my God!

I stop at my place, shell shocked! How? I mean, Why? How is it possible? Jerry knows Jane for more then two years. Yeah, if I'm not wrong. Jane told once that She has graduated from our college only just after a year. And She had seen us there.

Yet, all these years, Jerry never indicated that he even likes Jane. And today, he is holding her hand!

"Estella!" I call her name aloud. I think it must be almost a scream, as everyone start to look at my direction. I just avoid their looks and concentrate what I am up to.

"Ryan, calm down. I still can hear a normal audible voice. You don't need to freak the people here by screaming my name in that shocked tone. As if you have seen some Ghost." She chide at me.

"I will! And I have all reasons to wonder. Leave your Karaoke and tell me. What have you done to my friend? He was pale and now he is holding her hand! How? Why?" I blurt it all at once without any hesitation.

"I think your friend's heart heals super fast. Nothing else." She replies with a teasing tone in her voice gazing at Jerry and Jane from our place only.

"Or You have told him something which We both were unaware of. Come on Estella! I know my friend. He used to be a playboy, and nowadays he is behaving like a perfect Romeo." I follow her as she moves inside.
"Earlier for you and now he is holding her hand and looking into her eyes as if met his long lost love!"

"Oh by the way you know, Juliet was not Romeo's first love interest. It was his wish to see the lady which drag him to Capult's feast. And there he saw Juliet for the first time. Rest is well known to all." She turns and starts to tell me the history of Love Saga! Widening her eyes with one raised eyebrow. Why I even mentioned the name?

"Ok, now stop trying to distract me. You are not Rosaline! He is not Romeo and Jane is certainly  not Juliet. And this place is not Capult's or Montague's castle." I try to calm and keep myself focused on the matter.

"Great. So you knew It all. Then why to worry let's have some fun and let them enjoy their time. Come on Ryan, your friends are getting closer. You should be happy." She again tries to trick me. And to be honest, I'm quiet tricked too as I'm really happy for Jane and Jerry but this Estella! I need to know her now.

"Ok I agree you has done for what we came here. But atleast tell me how you did it? Come on girl. This will haunt me at nights." I accept, unfinished things and unanswered inquires irritates me.

"Chill Ryan. Don't freak out in sleep or your hook up will freak out too." She burst into laughter while saying it.

God! I just can't believe. She just said it. And why the hell on earth I'm feeling embarrassed. Hook ups, It's something I'm quiet proud of.

"You are Impossible!" This is all I can tell her at the moment.

"Aww ok, ok. Stop blushing. Actually, apart from my card, I told Jerry few things about Jane and how much She admires him from our college days. Even He was the reason of her first break up." She says widening her eyes.

"What! You ought to be kidding me." I express my shock, sitting on the chair infront of Estella, across the table, near that semi -circle of people, enjoying karaoke.

"If it please You. You can take it as a joke." She replies with zest.

"He was the reason of her first break-up. Wow! Wait a second, if I'm not wrong she has been in a kind of relationship in her college. Which was ours too. But we never met in college days then how Jerry was responsible for her breakup?" I inquire again grabbing the cup of coffee, the waitress has just served.

"Well, to cut a long tale in short, Jane had a crush on Jerry, her senior when You both saved her from getting ragged. I'm sure none of you even remember it. But later on when a guy from her class approached her, She accepted his proposal as Jerry was just a dream for her. Later on, by the end of the year that guy's insecurities raised high and he broke up with Jane accusing her to cheat on him with Jerry." She tells the story of Jane's first break up sipping her strawberry shake with ice cream.

"God! We met her in college. I mean, yeah, she told us that she was our junior but had we met? How do I not remember it?" I wonder, gazing at Jane out there.

"You hardly remember things Ryan." Estella's voice echoes in my ears as if taunting me.

"Sorry! Can you repeat yourself?" I ask her.

"Nothing important." She whispers, looking away.

"And how do you know all this? Don't tell me, You were there to see all this." I comment on her detailed narration.

"Yes, I was." She replies plainly.

"What!" Her reply shock me enough to cough out my sipped coffee.

"Relax Ryan. I was her classmate so I have seen all of it taking place around my very own existence." She answers reading my shocked expressions.

"You too were there in our college? Is that the reason, I feel like, like I know you?" I question looking into her eyes.

She looks into my eyes. For a second I felt as the world around me has gone on mute mode.

"I don't think so Ryan. The Ryan, I have seen in college was nothing like this." Her voice broke into that silence and in flick of second she stood up to leave.

"Hey, wait. What you mean by that. Atleast tell me, We have met earlier or not." I hold her hand before she can leave.

"Ryan please!" She snapped back at me glaring at my hand at her's.

"Ok, My fault. I'm sorry. I will not forget that You are 'Miss Touch Me Not'.

"Nothing like that Ryan. I just don't like it when anyone touches me." She replies this time with a bit of relaxed impression.

"Ok. I got it. And about our college days. Yes, I agree, I was a nerd." I let a laugh escape at the thought of how I used to be, back then.

"The Handsome Nerd' if I rectify you. That was your name among juniors. 'RYAN, THE HANDSOME NERD' who has some secret girlfriend or something like that." She adds up to my words taking her place back in front of me across the table.

"What? You serious? But why that GF and all stuff?" I really never heard this part of my life.

"Because you never looked at any hottie of our college." She explains taking the straw in her mouth with high brows.

"Oh! So that's the reason, You know so much about Me." I smirk at her disclosure. She hasn't mentioned but it's clear. She too has crush on me but I never acknowledged her existence. That mean I was right about her stacking skills. Who knows I may be right about Digger thing too.

"Not exactly. How many juniors of Yours knows that You loves your guitar, which you never flaunts. Or How many of your juniors knows that You still have the first guitar of yours was gifted you by your..." She reveals things which I don't want to let anyone know. I'm petrified! How?

"Stop it!" I cut her words as I don't want to hear that word which I still fight to forget.

"How do You know all this? Who told You?" I question her clearly this time. No one can reach to that depth of my life, my heart! That's what I'm trying all these years. Then how She  knows so much?

"You haven't told me yet what you had said to that couple at Elevator. Why should I tell you, who told all this to me?" She replies cunningly. I think I'm just getting over possessive about that part of my life. She must not know about it. Jerry must have blurted few things, she is just trying to impress me or She actually knows?

"Nothing serious, I just told them that my fiancee is angry at me so if they can excuse us I will fix her. I mean Your mood." And told her the fact. Her mouth got open as if I shocked her.

"You dirty..." she starts to groan at me.

"Hey, I meant to fix your mood by my sweet talks and gifts. JESUS! what's wrong with you females? That old lady looked at me with same expressions. I had to mention 'Talks' part to them too." I clear my deed. Her expressions changes quickly and She bursts into laughter.

Hiding her face behind her palms, She is giggling like a toddler. Oh My God! How She can be so cute. I'm gazing at her like a fool, forgetting everything.

"See, I told You. We are Strangers, not even acquaint." She said hardly  controlling her giggles.

"Hey, let's try it." I jump on the mic as The lyrics of next song on appeare at Karaoke. I don't care if it's requested by someone else.

"You were looking at me like you wanted to stay
When I saw you yesterday"

I sing as good and rhythmic I can be and looked at her. She raised an eyebrow with a slight of smile at her lips.

"I'm not wasting your time, I'm not playing no games
I see you" 

She stand up at her place, as if to leave.

"Who knows the secret tomorrow will hold?
We don't really need to know
'Cause you're here with me now, I don't want you to go
You're here with me now, I don't want you to go"

I quickly step ahead to hold her hand and almost drag her in the mid of circle.

"Maybe we're perfect strangers
Maybe it's not forever
Maybe intellect will change us
Maybe we'll stay together
Maybe we'll walk away
Maybe we'll realize
We're only human."

I swirl her around and there you go. Her slight smile turn into a full bright smile then with another move of our hands, her waist starts to swing with rhythm and music. So is mine.

"Maybe we don't need no reason
Maybe we're perfect strangers
Maybe it's not forever
Maybe intellect will change us
Maybe we'll stay together
Maybe we'll walk away
Maybe we'll realize
We're only human
Maybe we don't need no reason"

I have to accept it's really hard to match with the energy and tempo of song while dancing. I starts to skip beats and all sudden she holds my hand and starts to sing rest of lyrics in mic.

"Why...
Come on, come on, come on now
Maybe we don't need no reason
Why
Come on, come on, come on now."

She grabs the mic from my hands and pass it on to someone in crowd.

We all start to dance with music. A young boy around sixteen takes the turn and perform rest of song while we enjoy the song, dancing and changing partners.

I never thought it could be this much fun.

When I turn back at the end of music, I realise A Blonde with waves is swirling in my arms. We all clap together. But something is lacking, I look around for Estella. But she is not  anywhere around. She has left without saying even a Good Bye.

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