No sleep, wide, open eyes on that auspicious Saturday night cause his birthday was up to come on the 11th. I had to climb up many walls just to wish him a happy birthday on time. In April, he was in London. We have a 5 hours difference in time. So if I had to wish him at 12, I had to stay awake till 5 am at the crack of the dawn. Guess what, for him, I let my one night's beauty sleep at stake became a night owl. How funny, I had set an alarm for that! Couldn't take the chance, if I fell asleep!
Just when the clock hands struck 5 in my time, I immediately sent the wishing text that I had drafted 2 weeks before that special day. I thought to myself, "At last it's 5 am!" And, I didn't wait for the alarm to ring. I was ready with my fingers jerking, counting down seconds before his birthday. I can't tell you how much I yearned to be the first to wish him. That day, the sky got the most charming star. Oh my!
The text that I sent was, "Wishing you a day that is as special as you are. I mean, I wish you a happier birthday than anyone else has ever wished you." Soon after this text, he replied in a minute or two, "Thank you!" Again wrote, "Thank you for being the first one to wish me. No one has ever wished me so in time." I replied, "If I could do, I'd be there sitting beside you making you smile like the way you always do." He thanked me again.
Mr Man In Black's birthday beginning went great. Those words meant so much coming from him the night. But I was about to get a heart attack that'd seriously lead me to death when I heard his voice after 4 long months. I heard my mom talking to him and she handed over the phone to me. I was completely stunned. Later I got to know that NB's mom was the one who made him call us. Though, let's focus on the bread, I talked to him!!!!!!
As soon as I heard him talking to me, his dulcet voice reached my ears as pieces of heaven. His voice gave me tremors. I wonder what he thought while talking to me after so long. We had a short conversation at 11 pm and I noted each letter he spoke. I asked him about how his birthday went and he said it in a disappointing tone as if he wasn't happy, "Now birthday doesn't matter. Same as any other day." I felt awful. But that 11 min conversation at 11 heated me so much that I couldn't sleep the whole night again. I swear my smile's the result when he is the cause. And, I was smiling that whole night.
The album that I had almost done writing a couple of days before his birthday, I couldn't even sing to him one of them as he failed to show up at the right time here. Cause he was about to come in February. But that was cancelled. And another fact is, I had to extend my album another step after his birthday to add the track written about all the happenings, feelings and emotions that came upon his birthday. Other incidents also showed up that led me to finish my album at last on 11th May. You know, I had to write all about us. All of my songs are about him as I can smell him in every breeze I breathe.
You know what, I can forget my birthday but it's impossible for me to ever forget his birthday!