Wednesday, November 14, 2007

In her shoes?


She strutted into the room with an aborning sense of anxiety. After all she was here on a self imposed torture to dissect the room of the so called supernal stranger she would love to hate.
“So this is her sanctum”, she mused to herself.
She seemed girly, yet not entirely. The room was done in shades of pink and blue-not quite stereotype and the colors did go surprisingly well together.
I wonder what type she would fall into, it had a strange stasis.
It suggested that she bordered dangerously between being a girl’s girl and a guy’s girl…..maybe little more of a girl’s girl.
The room was strewn with cushions, way too many infact…a side table on one corner of the room by the bed lodged a bedside lamp and a pile of books mostly clichéd best sellers, few books on Indian as well as world history and a bunch of travel journals. Your conventional reader-maybe voracious, maybe not!
A lone figure of Garfield confirmed that she didn’t hate stuffed toys but she sure loved Garfield and the donkey from Shrek. Cliché again!
The inbuilt shelf in the wall housed photo albums and some nonage baggage (teenage scrap books and dog-eared year books!)
Girlie girlie girlie!
She examined the bangle stand disdainfully; it was a mélange of every possible color in the world flirting with each other…not her type definitely!
She was so not like her and that made it maybe easier to dislike her even more!
Maybe...maybe,there just might be the slightest chance that they could be friends in another life in another world.
In the middle of this extensive examination she caught a glance of herself in the mirror across the room,
And admired what she saw, and she knew a lot men would agree. Few vain moments later her eyes ran across the room evasively again.
Finally they eyes rested on the shoe rack…they had a pair of floaters and two sneakers that were lost in an array of neatly arranged varicolored shoes.
Some had large heels, some tiny and few were flat…the wide spectrum of shoes brought about the obvious conclusion that there was a shoe fetish of sorts.
She had seen women who could boast of larger and far better collections but the owner of the room was definitely fond of shoes.
What else was she like? She mulled over that thought as she maundered about the room.
Her large kohl adorned doe eyes swept across the room a last few times and her gaze finally lingered on a photograph.
It was a picture of him and “her”.
Tears stained the floor invisibly and washed everything else out of sight.
“What did she have that I didn’t?” The only question playing on her mind as she ran out of the room sobbing.
She wasn’t sure if she hated her but in a vague moment of clarity she was sure about one thing…she was sure she wanted to be in “her” shoes…only so that she could be with him.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

WOW!

Unknown said...

.. Im so sorry ash...
If you only let me know how you felt... why save it for a blog..
sorry...

Unknown said...

i liked this one of the first two!!! love the description from the dog eared books...to.... kohl adorned eyes;)

what cant you do????really!!!!!!