Sophia Meets Her Love

23 Mar 2011 1 Comment

by Sonali Joshi-Bhatt in General Tags: Characters of the story - Sophia

Writer’s note: To enjoy this story, I would suggest that you first read this one as both these stories are connected.

It was a weekend and Sophia was at her friend’s place having a sumptuous meal. While they were having lunch, Sophia told her about the guy she saw in the traffic jam two weeks ago. She told her friend how they both raced their cars with each other once they were out of the traffic jam.

Sophia’s friend was curious to know all the details and Sophia began to feed her with those. However, when her friend heard the climax of the incident, she was disappointed and felt bad for Sophia.

They spoke about it for a few more minutes but after some time Sophia somehow did not want to talk about it. To digress from the topic, she picked up a book from the couch. Her friend had just finished reading that book.

“Oh, it’s a great book,” Sophia said looking at ‘The Alchemist’

“I loved it too”, her friend chimed in.

They talked about other things while Sophia skimmed through the pages of ‘The Alchemist’. Though she did not feel like talking to her friend about that guy, she was certainly thinking about him. She wondered if she would ever meet him and really longed to see him again.

Sophia was still skimming through the pages when she glanced upon page 156. The alchemist tells Santiago – “There’s one (old Arab proverb) that says – “Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.””

Sophia looked at her watch and realized that it was getting late. She promised her friend that she would meet her the next weekend and got into her car. While driving, Sophia began to think about the lines she read in ‘The Alchemist’. All this time, she was secretly wishing to meet that guy again and was hoping to get stuck in the traffic jam and see him beside him just like the way it happened two weeks ago. But now she started to worry if what the alchemist said could be true. “If it has happened once, what are the chances that it would happen twice?” she uttered to herself.

She knew that she was hoping for something that only happened in fairy tales. She had never heard of such coincidences in real life and shrugged off the thoughts of meeting that guy again. But she was completely unaware of what was going to happen in the next few minutes. Destiny was actually trying to unite her with the love of her life!

While she was still thinking about it, she saw the traffic signal turned yellow and like always, she was trying to decide whether to stop or accelerate. At first, she wanted to accelerate and cross the street before the signal turns red but then she pushed her brakes to slow down and stop. She never liked traffic signals but she knew that she didn’t like accidents either! While she was waiting there for the signal to turn green, she heard loud music coming from another car that just stopped in the lane next to her.

She casually turned around to look and was stunned to see that it was the same guy she was flirting with two weeks ago!

To be contd…