You and I Collide

Chapter Uno

A/N:

I'm glad that you guys liked the prologue. I hope that you enjoy this chapter as well. I suggest that you go to go to H and then click on Hum Tum. Click on Ladki Kyon and listen. (Real player is required.) Its the song to this chapter. Its in Hindi/Punjabi but the english lyrics are at

FLASHBACK

"Hey, Raven!"

Raven stopped walking as she then turned around, wondering who called her name. Her eyes landed on Roy, who was waving to her. A sigh escaped from her lips.

"Remember me? I'm-"

"Roy," Raven completed.

"Yeah! So, I was wondering if you wanted to sight-see with me. I mean we're only going to be here for a couple of hours before we have to go back onto the plane."

Raven opened her mouth to speak but nothing came out. She didn't know how to refuse him, so she didn't. She bit her lip. "Sure."

"Great!" Roy replied enthusiastically.

"Great," Raven repeated flatly.

"Where do you want to go first?" Roy asked as they started to walk towards the exit.


"Do we really have to go in there?" Roy groaned.

"Part of the deal was that I get to choose where we go first and I want to go to a museum," Raven replied, grabbing his hand as they entered in.

They first visited the abstract section, Raven's personal favorite form of art.

She stopped and stood looking at this particular picture. "What do you think of it?"

Roy hadn't been paying attention. "Were you talking to me?"

Raven sighed. "Yeah. What do you think of this picture?"

Roy turned around to look at it and frowned. It had a white background and in the middle, there was a black curved line. "Reminds me of spaghetti. Speaking of spaghetti, let's go get some food!" he exclaimed, ready to get out of the museum.

"You're a cartoonist. Aren't you supposed to appreciate art?"

"Well, isn't that a big assumption to make?"

FLASHBACK

"You and Me," Roy said.

Raven raised an eyebrow and turned to look at him. "What?"

"That's what I'm thinking of calling it."

"Calling…what?"

"This," he answered, his ego boosting with pride as he showed her his magnificent cartoon.

Raven widened her eyes. "This is pretty good."

He grinned. "I know. Hold your applause."

"Anyway, it's a comic strip about two kids who are always fighting with each other. There's a boy and a girl. The boy really likes the girl but he hides his feeling by teasing her. The girl is sassy and is always talking back to him but she secretly likes him too." he explained.

"Here. I already made this issue."

Raven placed her book down and took a few minutes to look it. She chuckled and anyone knew Raven, knew that Raven wasn't the one to laugh at anything.

In the comic strip:

A young boy, around the age of eight or nine, was at the beach, wearing a bright red shirt with matching beige khakis. He had spiky brown hair and light hazel eyes. A young girl, around the same age as the boy, laid in the hammock. She wore a short pink dress. She had dark chestnut hair and blazing oceanic eyes that flared when she was angry.

The boy started to pace around, whistling loudly.

"Could you not whistle?" the girl asked, irritated as she put down her book.

"Why?"

"It's rude, especially to girls."

"I'm only whistling because someone is beautiful."

The girl blushed. "Thank You."

The boy raised an eyebrow. "I wasn't talking about you. I was talking about me."

The girl grunted in frustration. She picked up her book and aimed to throw it him but she missed.

"Haha! You throw like a girl!" the boy burst out laughing.

Instead, the book hit the coconut tree and shook a coconut out, which fell on the boy's head.

The girl smiled of triumph.


END OF FLASHBACK


"Okay, now it's my turn to pick where we're going," Roy told Raven.

"So, where do you want to go?" Raven inquired.

"What about Central Park?"

"Oh. Its one of my favorite places."

He smiled. "That's good to know."

They rode a bus to Central Park, and arrived there shortly after.

Central Park

"Would you cut that out?" Raven asked, crossing her arms.

"What? It's not like I'm hurting anyone."

"You're hurting yourself."

"You sound like my mother."

Raven sighed in frustration and grabbed the cigarette out of his mouth, throwing it into the nearest garbage can.

"That was not cool. You probably never even smoked a cig."

"No, I never have and I won't ever."

"You can't have a fair opinion unless you actually tried it."

Raven raised an eyebrow. Fair opinion? She sighed. "Fine, I'll try one. But just one!"

Roy grinned and happily gave her cigarette. Raven reluctantly placed it into her mouth and waited for Roy to light it up.

"Blow," he told her.

Raven blew into the cigarette and started to cough. She immediately threw the cigarette into the garbage can. "That was horrible." She took out a box of Tic-Tacs and threw them all in her mouth.

Later…

"Only god knows why boys aren't like girls!"

Raven widened her eyes. "Excuse me?"

"I mean, you girls think too much but understand little. A girl's heart says one thing, and she does another. A girl is in love with you, but she wants you to make the move. A girl is all tangled up herself, but the only thing she worries about untangling is her hair."

He continued. "Then, don't even get me started on the things you girls say! We're good friends, but I've never looked at you that way. Leave it to a girl to say that you're unlike anyone else she ever met and then in a few days she can't find anything different about you. "

He paused and Raven finally thought she had a chance to yell at him but he interrupted her. "A girl approaches you only to change you. She devises schemes to destroy you. She makes you laugh with what she says; first she makes you laugh, then she makes you angry."

" Hey, if you're so happy on your own, then why do you pursue women?" Raven asked as she put her hands on her hips.

"Eh, if the body is sexy…."


Raven widened her eyes and shook her head. "You have to be the sexist, most chauvinistic pig I've ever met! You men are lucky to have us women on Earth. A girl teaches you the way to live. A girl makes you from a beast into a man. You wouldn't last a second without her! But she knows you'd never be able to admit it."

"You men aren't so high and mighty yourselves. A wet towel left on the floor, the toothpaste cap tossed aside, wearing yesterday's socks inside-out, heedless of the time!"

Roy looked down at his socks that he still wore from yesterday and were inside out.

"And then the way you act. You didn't tell me your name; want to go for a coffee? Shall I drop you home? Will we meet again sometime? Your mom and dad aren't at home? Should I come over? Oh, your friend is going home alone. Should I escort her? "she mimicked.

"You girls aren't the easiest creatures to live with it. Or date for that matter! I mean, who knows how many occasions you girls remind us about."

" Our eyes met on the first of March; on the fourth of April, I came to meet you," he mimicked as he scooted closer to her on the bench. He then touched her hand. "On the 21st of May, I touched you; on the sixth of June, something happened to me!"

By then, people in the park had been watching the two, listening to their conversation. A circle surrounded them. Raven stood from the bench. "At first, they circle you like bumblebees. Then they say they're busy and start to avoid you. Understand, darling, I have a lot of work today. At least listen to me!"

At this, Roy put his hands on his ears, not wanting to hear anymore. "Can someone shut her up?"

She continued. "So what if I'm far away? Your name is in my heart. The face they were crazy about gets boring. After a few days, their eyes start wandering. Life doesn't run on love alone. Why don't you do a course in interior design?

Roy walked up to her and silenced her lips with a kiss. Silence is safe. That much he knew.

Raven widened her eyes as this almost-like stranger was kissing me. Roy pulled away and turning around, he whistled.

The crowd around them went aww. Raven took his shoulder and turned him around. With all the might in her, she struck his face.

A/N:

This chapter is very close to the movie. The Central Park scene where they start talking about whose superior, girls or boys, the lines from that conversation is directly from the song Ladki Kyon, which means "God knows why girls aren't like boys." It's a very funny song in Hum Tum.

I'll try to update with another chapter soon!

Peace.

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