It all began with a casual email that she wrote to him. Her approach to life then had not been any more serious than the tone of their conversations.
'An alliance is anything that involves two people' she had said to him. ‘It need not be further complicated by categorizing it. Keep it simple.’ And thus she had denied tagging their alliance to any name. This was after he had said to her ’Let’s be friends’ after her third email in which she had mentioned that she was not looking for any new relationships or commitments in her life. He had explained to her that he wasn't looking for any romantic involvements himself. All that he cared for was good companionship and a casual friendship. But she did not budge. For her friendship was never casual. ‘I give a part of myself to the friends that I make and if for any reason that friendship doesn't last, I never get back that part’ she had written back in the email. And simply by reading it he could imagine the serious face that she would have made while writing that line. In his next email, he tried explaining his philosophy to her; friends either give you companionship or memories, both of which are a treasure to live with. To this email her reply was long silence of three weeks in which he checked his email every hour. Hope turned into despair and he wrote a new email to her with subject line- I agree to a nameless alliance. The next hour he checked his inbox in every five minutes. Just before the end of the hour she responded. And then the emails continued.
He was not of the type who could be bullied by a girl. In his past relationships, he had discovered that he could not keep himself committed to a woman who tells her what to do. He was even ready to let go the girl he had loved when she had asked him to get a haircut done. With reasons as petty as this, he had walked out of relationships with no regret. But when he was writing emails to this distant female, he felt like he was communicating with someone who was as detached as himself. With her it was never about what she wanted him to do. It was the way it should be. It was as if no other way ever existed.
They continued to reply on the same email for months. Twelve months and 279 emails later, he wrote to her- One year to nameless alliance! Her reaction to the email was another email with subject line ‘Let’s be friends’. To which she received a long silence of three weeks in which she checked her email every hour. Until she finally wrote to him again…
He was not of the type who could be bullied by a girl. In his past relationships, he had discovered that he could not keep himself committed to a woman who tells her what to do. He was even ready to let go the girl he had loved when she had asked him to get a haircut done. With reasons as petty as this, he had walked out of relationships with no regret. But when he was writing emails to this distant female, he felt like he was communicating with someone who was as detached as himself. With her it was never about what she wanted him to do. It was the way it should be. It was as if no other way ever existed.
They continued to reply on the same email for months. Twelve months and 279 emails later, he wrote to her- One year to nameless alliance! Her reaction to the email was another email with subject line ‘Let’s be friends’. To which she received a long silence of three weeks in which she checked her email every hour. Until she finally wrote to him again…
