"Hmm..." she voiced, and then continued sipping her tea. I realized that my attempt to strike up a conversation had failed once again. Ever since Alo had paired us up a few minutes ago, the urge to initiate a conversation had been eating away at me, and failing to do so felt self-destructive.

"Choo- choo.." Very soon a non-stop goods train, stormed into the platform with a deafening noise, stirring dust from all over the platform into motion. Lost amidst the heavy metallic symphony, I thought, 'Somewhere along the lines of working on Shilpi, I must have gotten reallyyyy detached from reality,' my eyes locked on the railroad.

"So..." she voiced as the train left the platform, instantly drawing my attention, "...what about you?" she asked, most likely continuing from where our group interaction was interrupted. 

"ssp Aa.r.gh," after quickly taking a sip and clearing my throat I smiled at her, saying, "Aaa- I am doing just fine, what about you?" and then as soon as I finished speaking, I instantly regretted losing the opportunity of being the speaker, and handing over the mic back to her once again,

She continued to gaze at me for a while before leaning back in her seat and placing the tea cup on one arm of the small wooden bench where we were sitting. I sipped my tea, briefly glancing at the opposite platform to take a break from the nerve-wracking moments of eye contact, awaiting her response.

"When," she began, the texture of her voice almost in sync with the temperature of the atmosphere surrounding us... cold. It almost sent a shiver down my spine, " '...when I turned around," she narrated, "to look at the past, there was no one except me standing in that lonely alley. I was crying, all alone...' " 

For a moment everything was dead silent until a wild realization dawned upon me and I looked back at her face, totally dumbfounded,

"Remember this line?" she whispered, her short hair waving subtly with the cool breeze.