"Well, miss do you need anything?" Ivan asked politely.
"I....need the milk package which I have forgotten in your store earlier." Hana replied bit hesitant. "Can you please help me? Do I need to confirm something to take it back?" She asks with puppy eyes holding some worries in them.
"No need miss. As I have seen you purchase it you can take the new package from the milk section but you don't need to pay again as you have paid earlier. " He replied while signaling her to milk section.
"But....." she is slightly hesitant.
"You don't need to worry miss, I will be the eyewitness here. You can just take a new package and go". He replied sensing worries in her eyes.
"Thank you!, thank you so much. I.... I don't know how to thank you. You have saved my day today."She bowed to him deeply expressing her gratitude towards him for helping her.
He nodded in a polite way meant like, it's ok for him to help her.
She picked up the new package of milk and bowed him again before going out of store.
She blushed slightly keeping her head down while moving out of his sight.
But even though she left the conventional store, but her heart didn't leave, her mind didn't leave, her soul have stayed there, with him.
He stayed there still for a second or two, fixing his gaze on her moving image, before turning back to work.
She turned back to see him again, but seeing his back turned against her she sighed. She walked off slowly to her way back with heavy heart.
After walking to some distance she checked phone for any messages, but her eyes moved to see the time on screen with bold letters mocking her for her lethargic strolling her way back.
"Shit!!! It's already 7:45pm. I need to go into the campus before 8:00pm". She cursed in her mind for being late. "If I return late I need to show the ID before entering. But I have forgotten to take it while I was hurry."
"My god, please help me.... Help me to reach dormitory soon....." She prayed in her heart to reach soon.
She snapped out of his capture of her heart as soon as she sees the time. She suddenly comes back to reality coming out of his world. She bolted her way back, hugging the milk package as her life.
"Thankfully I have reached within time. " She sighed again My legs are giving out.
Even though she is now within the campus but her legs didn't stop yet, she is still running, but along with her even her heart is running.
She is going towards the dormitory. She is tired due to long run, sweating due to hard work but the perspiration on her body was like fresh dew on grass in early morning of spring, her face is blooming like red rose.
But the fact due to which she is blushing red might be either because of running or by frosting in winter.
But her face, her eyes seems to be telling some other reasons. Her eyes are sparkling as bright as brightest star in night sky. She is blushing like blooming red rose, the redness of blush spreading all over her face.
Her heart is beating vigorously, just by remembering his eyes, how their eyes met, how captivating his eyes were. It's making her wanting to see those turquoise eyes again and again.
She walks through the gate like she entered the new world, now she is feeling like walking on heavenly path, on the same path on which she has been walking hundreds of times, she is seeing her same old world with her new eyes filled with love, love for someone whom she doesn't even know.
These eyes filled with love seem to show her new world, now she is seeing many things around her which were left unseen or ignored by these eyes many a times. But today everything seems wonderful.
Even the cold winter, heavy snow, strong winds which, she used to curse for bad weather, today the same weather or may be worse than everytime is looking like wonderful spring welcoming her to heaven. She started to feel hot even in this type of weather. She is panting slightly even though it had already been sometime since she stopped running.
Now she is walking on footpath surrounded by heavy snow, rose plants grown by both the sides of footpath, leaves of which were covered by the snow, street lights focusing down on her path, making the whole scene beautiful in her heart. She felt like a bride who is walking down on her aisle. Everything is white and bright decorated by snow which looks like heaven has prepared this for welcoming her on the aisle. She even felt as nervous as bride to be.
She reached in front of dormitory with these all kinds of mixed feelings, her emotions were mixed with happiness, excitement, bothered, confusion and little bit sadness with hint of blush on face. Her heart was fluttering as newly formed butterfly from cocoon. This was the first time in her life she felt this unknown feeling which was completely new to her.
Even though she doesn't know about it, she wants to feel this again, feel the joy of heart fluttering.
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