MY ROCKSTAR- PART I

Long Locks, Enchanting Eyes, Velvety Voice and Saccharine Smile- Boy! O Boy!!!

My heart melted, my hands started quivering vigorously and I went weak in my legs when I first saw him. I still vividly remember that day, standing there like a dumb person on the college stairs mesmerized by his mere look. OH GOSH!!! Never in my life had I received such strong vibrations from anyone except for BRYAN ADAMS!!! He is the original and the invincible ROCKSTAR of my whole life. From childhood I crazily followed each of his songs and mugged up all the lyrics. Every night I kissed him good night..Oh! I mean the huge life-size poster on my cupboard!!! In reply 'BRYAN' always winked back at me(well, at least that's what the impression i got)...But this guy... He simply walked away in front of my very eyes without even giving a teeny-weeny attention to me. Had my friend not shaken me to reality, I would have stood there for hours and hours, till God knows what time!!! I was completely bowled over by him…

His style of walking with shoulders drooped and baggy jeans hanging loose, his style of keeping his curly long hair completely wet till the hair gel dried up and he had to reapply, his style of rolling his eyes 360 degrees whenever he heard something out of this world, his monstrous style of laughing loudly for no substantial reason till the other person got scared, his style of not giving a ‘F**K’ to what the other people thought of him, his style of living life on his own terms sometimes sensitively but most of the times carelessly …every bit of his persona extremely attracted me.

He had lot of airs, was quite evidently snobbish but not totally arrogant and immensely serious to the core. Well he had every reason to be like the way he was… after all not many get admission in the most prestigious college through the ECA quota trials. Thousands of aspirants apply for just 10 seats…only a few lucky talented people get selected and I can proudly say that he was one of them. NO, in fact he was THE BEST of all.

Initially, I was too shy to even face him let alone speak. The moment he entered the class, I used to go all jittery and jumpy…Even though I would pretend having a hearty conversation with my girl gang, the corner of my eyes always kept a constant vigil on him. I would follow him everywhere, every damn place on the earth… be it the college canteen, the classroom, the parking lot (barring the gents washroom!!!) Slowly I realized that it was too tiring observing him solely this way. As the days passed, my desperation to be his crony exceeded all sky-high limits. I wanted to be a part of his life; I wanted to be close to him always and most importantly I wanted him to give me full attention.

So finally as all my resistance level gave away and my heart couldn’t bear it any longer, I walked up to him like a debutant on the cricket field…all nervous, edgy and at the same time surveying every wee bit in the immediate surrounding. The last bench of the class, he sitting there humming a tune with a book and headphones plugged in his ears, me standing there staring at him mumbling under my breath… That’s all I remember. The next moment- smiles spread across both of our faces, the shaking of hands and the nodding of heads. The deal was struck. The friendship took off. The seeds of love were sown...

He was my FRIEND...

MY ROCKSTAR!!!

MY BRYAN ADAMS!!! and I was the luckiest girl on the earth!!!