Series: Unveiling Geeta- A Journey through Pain and Redemption by Nalin Verma (Part 3)

In this series, Nalin Verma captures the poignancy of relationships and how love can make one hopeful despite being hopeless.

Previous Parts: Part 1 | Part 2

Geeta was the only girl student studying in the eighth grade at the school in our village. We would sit on the grass beneath the giant Peepal tree, as the school building had caved in long ago. Parts of the debris had been beaten flat and some of the students sat on the smoothened portions.

Geeta was tall and fair-complexioned. She was almost my age. I had a huge crush on her, and she in turn responded fairly to my advances. We would often steal moments of privacy to touch and kiss each other. One day, our fathers caught us in an intimate position hidden amidst plants in a pea and mustard field and banished us from the village. Our romantic dalliance when we were underage was treated as moral turpitude, and our guardians ensured that henceforth we had no chance to ever see each other. Geeta and I had not met in thirty years since then.