Lying on my bed I was scrolling through the Instagram as usual. Again a random friend request. I ignored it as usual because that's what I have been doing ever since I joined Instagram. I never accepted strange and unknown follow requests as I literally fear the hackers. Suddenly I was interrupted by a phone call. Yawning and opening my mouth as much as I can I picked up the call. It was my friend. She asked me to follow and message a stranger. Me being myself denied this and told her that I won't as I never messaged people I don't know. But the eager inside me to know who he is grew more and more and being fed up with this feeling, I texted him a Hi…..!!! 

For some strange reason I didn't like him at all. Never saw him, never talked to him, even before he replied to my text, I assumed everything and literally told myself that, "Khushi, you don't like this boy.'' Ahmm Ahmm like here means as a human being, kindly don't assume things ;) I was not at all waiting for his reply as I had been given the task to report our conversations to my friend. Just sitting with my hands joined together I prayed that,'' God please, do something and don't let him reply to my texts''. When the phone binged with a notification sound and I grabbed it to see who it was, my dream shattered. I didn't expect him to reply back.   The reply was a Hello!!!

Our texts were always simple and to the point. Starting with just Hi or Hello and ending with Bye. In between these two, we either talked about my friend; as she was the mutual one; or just some nonsense. Somewhere I felt that what I thought about him was the same what he thought about me. That she is CRAZY. I always kept reminding myself that I talk to him only because of her (my friend).I would have been literally the happiest person on earth, if somehow we stopped talking. A couple of months went by like this, when unknowingly one day we stopped texting each other. Before this day came, I kept explaining myself that I don't want to text him and talk to him. But once my phone stopped receiving those texts, I started craving for it. Although our interactions were very small and to the point, still I waited for the message. 

HE WAS LIKE A KNOWN STRANGER!!!