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Dev: The party last night was so boring. I wish you were here. At least I would have had some interesting conversations like how we had in the last party.
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Rhea: Really? Didn't u meet an angel this time? Last time u met a devil - this time I thot u'd meet a nice angel who wud sweep u off yer feet.
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Dev: No actually, I don't like angels. I am pretty devilish too. lol ;)
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Rhea: ahahaha.. OK I think I mite just fall asleep as it's quite late now. And I got a long day at work 2mrw. Bfn
Rhea is offline.

Dev closed his GTalk window and got back to his work. Dev and Rhea studied engineering from the same college in Mumbai, Rhea being two years his junior. Though they were in the same college, they never really met there. When Rhea came to Delhi for her cousin's engagement, she bumped into Dev at a party. They were introduced through common friends and during their conversations, they found out about their college connection! The world's a small place, isn't it?

Since both of them were in different locations, they added each other on GTalk to stay in touch. What started with occasional hi and hello, soon became conversations that both of them looked forward to. They found that they shared quite a few common interests like books, music, food, etc. They had this very interesting thing going on where each would share a song with the other one that would convey the mood that they have been in that day. Their conversations would range from the lyrics to the music to the artist to the mood and they totally enjoyed doing so. The penchant for music that they shared brought them quite close. It so happened that they looked forward to speak to each other every single day.

Dev and Rhea spent close to four months speaking to each other via phone, email and chat. One fine day, Dev's company decided to send him for a day to Mumbai for a conference. Dev was quite thrilled at this idea as he would get a chance to meet Rhea. He was even considering staying back in Mumbai for a couple of days. Unfortunately, the trip to Mumbai fell in the middle of a week and he had important meetings the following days in Delhi. So he couldn't extend his stay in Mumbai. Still, he was quite excited to be in Mumbai and decided to give a surprise to Rhea once he reached.

Dev managed really well to keep his Mumbai trip under wraps. His conference was from 11 am to 4 pm and his flight for Delhi on the same day was at 8.30 pm. He thought that after the conference he would call up Rhea and meet her for a cup of coffee or something. But things don't work out as we want them to, do they? Unfortunately, after the conference, some delegates showed keen interest in knowing about his company's new product and he had to give them a few presentations which went on till 6.30. Finally he didn't have the time to meet her, but he thought he should at least give her a call and say hello. He knew she would be mad at him for not meeting her up despite being in Mumbai, but still, to be polite he decided to. But then again, things don't work out as we want them to! He took out his phone to find out that the battery had drained off. He kept it back in his pocket and headed to the airport.

Once he was back in Delhi, he thought it would be best not to mention about this incident to Rhea, just so that she doesn't get upset. But things don't work out the way we want them to. One day Rhea gets an update on Facebook saying "Dev Mehta has been tagged in an album 'LTC, Mumbai 2010'". She checked the date and she realized that Dev was in Mumbai just 2 days ago and he didn't inform her. That night she met him online and when Dev was talking casually, this is how the conversation went:
Rhea: The weather in Mumbai is terrible... its so hot .. didnt u think so when u were here a few days ago? is delhi as bad as mumbai now?
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Dev: I really wanted to give you a surprise. But it was so crazy. I was there just for a day, the phone was conked off, I had to rush for the flight, some clients clung on to me ... you know how it is. I am sorry. I really wanted to meet you.
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Rhea: k. gd nite
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Dev felt really terrible for what he did. He cursed himself for not telling her. More than that he cursed Facebook. That very instant he went on to his FB privacy settings and disallowed anybody else to tag him. But still the damage couldn't be undone. He dropped her a few mails, no reply. SMSes, no reply. He would ping her on GTalk, no reply. This went on for a few days and he was also tired of 'stalking' her as she would say. But he would always feel that his day wasn't complete if he wouldn't speak to her.

One day while listening to Howie Day's collide, he felt that the song really suited his situation right now. He missed sharing the song with Rhea. So he thought let's use the wretched Facebook that ruined his life to some use. He posted one stanza from the song as his status message and he wished she read it.
"Even the best fall down sometimes
Even the wrong words seem to rhyme
Out of the doubt that fills my mind
I somehow find
You and I collide"

That night when he logged on to his FB account to see if anyone left any comments on his status - he found random people leaving juvenile comments like - 'Who's the YOU dude' ... 'Mr Mehta - whom do you wanna collide with' and one dope even left a comment that said - 'ummn, ya. whatever'. But the one whose comment he wanted to see did not leave any. Suddenly he saw his GTalk window flashing - Rhea says... He opened the window and saw a message from Rhea. She was online
Rhea: I like it - your FB status message.
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