Favorite Contact

If you think that you’re having a boring quarantine

Try living on a quarantined government campus

Where there are potentially no neighbors and a lot of offices

Not a single human was visible insight

Apart from the usual house helps and home guards

And of course, my family

Who was too bored to do anything

Even the cellular network in the bedroom was mercurial

No Books to read

No Movies to watch

No Shows to binge

Life had come to a standstill

How was I alive in that time of crisis then?

I really wouldn’t have survived the lockdown without going insane

Had it not been for her

The person who I discovered was, just like me, stuck there

Wandering aimlessly about the front yard

I heard a voice, a feminine voice

And before I could even realize

I was walking towards the voice

Sitting on that dilapidated wall,

Between the two houses

A girl, about the same age as mine,

Was singing Good Riddance by Green Day

The voice, along with the vibrating guitar strings, was unequivocally ecstatic

I just sat there

Under the shade of the large tree in the middle of the yard

Listening to her

Feeling the song with my eyes shut

And as soon as the song paused

I opened my eyes to find her face turned around

Looking at me

Her mesmerizing blue eyes, speaking to me

Asking me so many questions at once

“Why did you stop? I love that song!” I said.

“Since when have you been sitting here?” She asked

“Since the second stanza”

Her eyes were puzzled for a moment before she turned around

Smiling at me she continued the song from the beginning

We sat there for 3 hours and thus

A quarantine routine was made

We would meet exactly at 4 PM and would sit there until dinner time

Singing, talking, discussing, debating

Sometimes sitting there in silence

We both looked forward to those 4 PM talks

And soon talking was not only limited to verbal conversations

We exchanged numbers

We started texting

Day in day out

It was not just a quarantine thing

But I was glad I finally found someone

Someone who understood me better than most people

Who didn’t need words

To know what I was feeling

We would just wit on that old wall for hours

Hand in hand

Sitting next to each other facing the opposite directions

I think while all the others did something productive to pass their time

When I was with her, it was as if time didn’t exist

It was just the two of us

In that specific moment

Forever

And neither time nor death

Would ever be able to separate us

I don’t believe things would hardly change when the lockdown is over

I’ve got the person I would like to spend my life with

And she’s right there at the top of “My Favorite Contacts”

Forever!