Akash and Aditi were walking down a deserted road in the university, happily unaware of its' emptiness, the darkness and the silence that even engulfed their bickering.
"See, that's where you are wrong." Aditi pointed out exasperatedly, with her eyebrows raised and palms outstretched, "you cannot change a system for good unless you go through it completely." she stressed on the last word and looked at Akash expectantly but Akash only turned his head around in full rejection of her idea.
"Only then can you understand its faults and only then...can you come up with improvements." she finished, her eyes and palms relaxed.
Akash who had been waiting for his turn turned his head slowly and smiled a knowing smile. He shook his head.
"No, No. See, whenever you approach anything you always have an idea of how to do it. When I came to college, I had a certain idea of how a college should be. And when I actually came here, its the complete opposite. And its not my own feeling. A lot of people feel the same."
"The world" interjected Aditi, "does not function according to your whims.."
"Oh Come ON!" Akash shouted, turning his whole body now in rejection of her idea and flailed his hands wildly in protest. He turned to face Aditi again when she suddenly grabbed his arm with a finger on her lips.
"Wha.." Akash said loudly, confused but Aditi squeezed his arm further and he quietened down.
"Can you hear that?" she whispered, "Looks like there is something in the bushes"
"What? Like an animal?" Akash suggested quietly.
They both listened quietly until the rustling stopped, their head bundled together, Akash looking in the distance and Aditi looking at him. Suddenly Akash turned his head on the road ahead as a couple emerged from the bushes with their arms around each other.
"Perverts!" Akash exclaims in a low voice as he tries to make out the figures in the distance, "Clever, they come out on the other side of the lamp. I can't see them properly."
"And why do you want to see them?" asked Aditi as she resumed walking.
"I don't want to see them. I want them to see that I saw them." Akash said. Aditi turned around to see a naughty smile on his face. Akash trotted to catch up.
"So basically, you want to embarrass them."
"Of course" Akash said in a tone as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"But why?" Aditi asked mildly interested and not joining with Akash's tone.
"Because..." Akash hesitated, "they are perverts."
"And why are they perverts? Because they were fooling around or because they were fooling around in the bushes?" Aditi asked in the same mild tone.
Akash walked on quietly for some time then looked at Aditi.
"Because..." Akash began slowly, "they were doing in the bushes?" Akash looked at Aditi expectantly.
"Are you asking me or telling me?" Aditi smiled her knowing smile and looked at him. They were standing under the streetlamp and Aditi could see Akash completely, not the half lit ghost of a face on the way earlier. Akash was looking at Aditi in a completely different light. An odd sense of adventure was filling him in and he was suddenly feeling frozen and full of adrenaline at the same time. Aditi moved forward to come closer, her expression unfathomable. Akash smiled hesitantly and let out a short breath. Aditi waited, then smiled too. And suddenly Akash lost all sense of awareness and leaned forward to kiss her. They kissed slowly, gently, their hands moving on each others' bodies randomly not knowing what to do while standing in the middle of an empty road under the full glare of a streetlamp.
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