An Hour @ Airport

              “This is an announcement for the passenger travelling in Air-India flight no.:9552 to New York. Due to technical reasons, the flight will be delayed by 3 hours. Inconvenience regretted.”

The passengers of the flight were disappointed and one of such passenger was Hiren Shah- a well-known businessman from Ahmedabad. He was waiting to board this flight. Hiren was an MBA and He had completed few years back. And had become very successful. His parents were proud of his son, He has been a very good son. And now they were looking for a good alliance for his marriage. But Hiren was not interested. He had been avoiding this proposals for almost 2 years now. Only Hiren knew the reason. It was love of his life-Juhi.

                   Juhi was his collage mate. Hiren and Juhi fall in the very first semester.  They were always together from studies, movies, hanging out with friends and celebrating festivals, they had decided to get married once they settled down after completing MBA.

After collage, Hiren joined his father’s business and Juhi, joined a reputed firm. Hiren and Juhi remained together even after MBA until Juhi suddenly disappeared somewhere. None of the friends or class mates knew her where about. But Hiren was waiting for her. He had faith in his love and he was sure one day, Juhi will come back.

Hiren wanted to expand his father’s business, so often he had to go abroad. And this time he was going to USA. He took flight from Ahmedabad, reached Mumbai; and there he was to change flight. But his flight was delayed, so he was seating in waiting lounge- working on his laptop.

Suddenly, a little child came to him, kid seemed to be interested in the laptop. He just stood there for some time. Hiren noticed the kid, but he was waiting for the kid to do something. He loved kids and he was very sure that the kid will make a move. And that is what happened, the kid occasionally started playing with the laptop’s keyboard.

Hiren smiled and looked at the kid. Kid came near, sat in Hiren’s lap and Hiren showed him some cartoon clips. Suddenly the kid got down and started running towards a lady. Hiren followed the kid to make sure he does not fall while running.

The kid reached to the lady-his mother, the lady turned around to pick up her child. Hiren looked at her. It was none other than Juhi. Juhi also saw Hiren. And it was a long never ending silence…