Sandhya's and Shine's Love Story...

Sandhya and Shine first met in the first year of their engineering. Shine was this very decent, well mannered, silent guy with a very sweet and innocent smile on his face. Sandhya on the other hand was a very bubbly, masti khor, khurafati ladki (I am mentioning all this cause I know her inside out ).But she too appeared (she still manages to BTW )to the world excatly the way Shine was .I guess cupid hit the couple long before they realized that they were in love.
Shine always used to be in Sandhya's check out list during our sessions of bird watching (yea yea... girls too enjoy bird watching... we would generally term it as Genda watching ). And Shine obviously used to keep admiring Sandhya. It used to be clearly visible on his face. I wonder how his friends never realized what he felt for Sandhya.I guess it was in the second year when the two of them started interacting with each other more. Tuition classes, Texplosion, Chronos, submissions, assignments... Shine would find such reasons to call up Sandhya and interact with her more than often. Third year aate aate AAG DONO TARAF BARABAR KI LAG CHUKI THI and I, being Sandhya's closest friend decided to walk up to Shine and ask him upfront about his feelings for Sandhya. Sandhya was so conscious about the whole thing that she used to keep giving me promises, warnings and threatening for not disclosing her feelings to anyone. But I strongly felt that the two were meant for each other and so I walked up to Shine and asked him.... "Dude, I know you like her.. say it now.. how long are you gonna keep it to yourself ". Shine kept stretching the argument and finally there was no conclusion to the whole argument session (Shine & I still tend to get into such argument sessions ). He later confessed that if I would have pestered him a little more, he would have said everything.. But yaar.. I lack patience
I guess after this particular incident, their feeling for each other were pretty clear and visible to them. Shine tried asking out Sandhya a couple of times, but she refused cause she was too shy (its difficult to digest the fact that this khurafati ladki can blush and go pink as well ). I guess, after this Shine included Ashwin in his plan of action and told him that he wants to propose to Sandhya. Ashwin was really happy and went and told Sandhya.. "I am so hapy for you two ".. Sandhya got the hints and she was really happy too that day. She came and told me, "You know, Shine might propose to me". It was Sandhya's birthday one day later.Shine and Ashwin wanted to buy her a gift. They came over to my place to take suggestions and I happened to ask Shine.. "What's the plan Shine... Why is Ashwin so happy for the two of you " .... And Shine got puzzled and went bonkers over Ashwin.."Why the hell did you tell Sonal about this. I dont want this to go wrong in any way" ... LOL.. Ashwin called me and asked me to keep my BIG MOUTH shut for the next time
I guess Ashwin then spoke to Shine and convinced him to actually speak to me regarding the whole plan. I still remember that day, 4th March 2005. Sandhya had invited Ashwin, Shine and me for dinner. It was her 21st birthday. Shine and Ashwin came down to my place and then Shine, for the first time, told me that he loves Sandhya a lot and he wanted to know how does she feel about it. Is she anywhere close to where he stands? I cant explain how happy was I that day. The three of us kept planning how would we call Sandhya and how will Shine propose to her. Ashwin and me used to get engaged in our silly fights & forget about Sandhya and Shine. Shine had to then cool us down every time to bring us back to the original topic
Later in the evening, I called Sandhya and asked her to meet me near Nigdi to pick me up for dinner. Shine went there instead of me and proposed to her. Her answer was obviously yes. Ashwin and I were waiting near Reliance web world for the two of them and I was praying that the whole thing should go well and Sandhya shouldn't end up beating Shine with her sandals . But everything went smoothly and they finally became the sweetest couple of the college.
That's their story from my end. I am sure there are many more faces and facts involved in it. I have shared all that I knew. BTW... The couple is very close to my heart. And all I can wish for is happiness for the two of them . God bless