I was Moonstruck? Trust me, I was not!

Suddenly the moon bloomed like a big lotus flower on the surface of the lake, and all the windows of the hotel, which opened towards the shore, started opening one by one, and from them the faces of various tourists started peeping out.

 
This always happens on Naini Lake whenever I visit Nainital and I go for a boat ride on the lake on moonlit nights so that I can see the beautiful tourists in the hotels' balconies lined up on the shore of the lake. The lake is so close to the hotels that I could even hear them.

It was again a full moon night, so the entire scene was like a milky moonlight as always. The mountain ranges in the backdrop seemed lost in a dreamy silence. The clouds had fallen asleep out of exhaustion, and the boat club building on the lake shore was full of romantic couples. You know I love that lonely, winding, deserted road around the lake, which looks like a grey ribbon of beauty, especially during the night hours.

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It was a very beautiful scene, and my whole attention was centered on that particular window opening towards the lake shore, whose curtains were shimmering and where I had seen a beautiful girl standing this evening. I knew tonight I would see an amazing beauty emerging from behind those curtains, and I was eagerly waiting for that moment.

Suddenly a window opened, and a beautiful woman's face was peeking out looking at the moon, and there was such a lovely smile on her face, as if that charming beauty was not looking at the moon but at her wedding cake.

She looked back and called, "Hey Tony!"

A harsh voice came from inside the room, "What is it?"

"Moon!" The beauty said, "Come quickly!"

"I am working!" The man said again in a harsh voice.

"Finish your work! Come quickly, it's a romantic view!"

"Oh damn!" Saying this, the man came to the window. The man looked very angry at first but softened after seeing the view outside. Slowly, the beautiful shadows of the past days started shimmering on his face. The woman came close to him.

He put his hand around her waist and said, “Tina!”

“Yes, Tony!”

“Do you remember? The moon was as big; in fact, it must have been double this when we were sitting on the terrace of your house, and your father refused to let me marry you?”

“Yes, I remember. But you showed your father’s bank balance to my father, and my father was convinced that your father is also a rich man like my father.”

“Then your father fixed our marriage, remember?”

“Umm!” Tina put her head on Tony’s shoulder.

I moved the boat forward and looked towards the next window, where a handsome, tall young man with poetic eyes was standing in the window and looking at the moon.

Suddenly a voice came from inside the room, “Danish!”

The young man took a deep puff of a cigarette and threw it out of the window and then made a bad face and said, “Yes, Simi, what is it?”

“It is quite late now; when will you sleep?”

The young man turned his face away from the window and looked towards the room and said, “I am not feeling sleepy yet.”

Then the same voice came from inside the room, “We will be able to sleep if you lie down on the bed next to me.”

“You can go to sleep, I will sit for a while. Let me smoke one more cigarette.” The young man took out another cigarette, lighted it, and looked at the moon.

“Why can’t I sleep the whole night?”

Meanwhile, Simi, who was short and heavy with messy hair, came to the window. Her heavy make-up made her look even more unattractive. As soon as she came, she grabbed Danish's arm and dragged him inside the room.

She said, "How will you be able to sleep if you keep looking at the moon all night? Come on, let's sleep now."

"You go to bed, I will sleep later." But he was feeling he would be moonstruck if he slept with this woman anymore!

Simi lovingly said, "Come on, Danish!" She grabbed his arm and dragged him towards the bed.

Dinesh angrily freed his arm and almost shouted, "I have already said I will sleep later! Why do you keep pulling me?"

Simi had tears in her eyes. She said while crying loudly, "You always keep looking at the moon. You never look at me. What is so special about this moon?"

I now knew why Danish had no interest in sleeping and why he preferred Moon to Simi.

I moved towards the next open window where a young man was standing in a very beautiful pose with a beautiful girl like an angel, wearing a tight shirt and lower. She was standing as if she was posing in front of a camera.

The girl seemed to be a model to me.

The boy said lovingly, “The moon is not as beautiful as you.”

The girl said, “But you are more beautiful than the moon.”

The boy laughed and said, “Which product advertisement dialogues were these?”

The model, “I forgot? I am sure the writer had written these dialogues very lovingly.” And then she changes her pose. Seeing the girl changing her pose, the boy also changed his pose and said, “Darling!”

The girl said, “Yes!”

The boy, “Look, there is one moon in the sky, one in the lake, and one in this window next to me.”

The girl said, “One is in my eyes, one is in my heart, one is in my soul.”

The boy spreads his arms and says, "Come, let's get lost in this moonlit night. Let's wash away the false love with the soap of true love."

The girl said, "Is this your love for me or an advertisement for a soap company?"

The boy laughed again, "You are absolutely right. These were dialogues from a soap company's advertisement."

The boy leaned a little towards the girl and said, "Sweetie."

The model girl also leaned closer to the boy and put her hand on his chest and said softly...

But I did not hear what she said because now something was going to happen, which I wasn't interested in hearing or watching, so I moved the boat forward.

I looked at the next window, where a middle-height man's sad and serious face was lost in thoughts, looking at the moon. There was a light knock on the door behind. But the man's thoughtful face showed that he did not notice the knock. The man was still lost in his thoughts, looking at the moon.

Just then, someone moved slowly towards the window. The man lost in thought did not even notice the muffled sound. A beautiful woman came in, pressing her lips with her teeth. She was wearing horse riding attire and a small whip in her hand.

Coming near the window, she looked carefully at the man's face, who was lost in his thoughts.

She smiled to herself on seeing him. The woman said, “I enjoyed the horse ride in the moonlight. I wish you could have come along!”

“Okay, next time I will come along too.”

“Ugh! I am hungry again! I always feel very hungry after horse riding.

The man smiled.

“I have ordered chicken sandwiches.”

The woman disappears from the window for a few moments. When she came back, she was eating chicken sandwiches, and while eating, she asked, “What were you doing?”

“I kept looking at the moon and waiting for you.”

“You are lying. You were lost in some thought. Whose memories were haunting you?”

“Your memory! Can anyone else come to my mind in this beautiful moonlight when you are around?”

Woman, “Yes, this moon is very beautiful. It has shown the way to our love in every walk of life. It has heard our sighs, seen our tears, and felt the kisses of our love. I remember them all one by one! These beautiful moonlit nights! Alas! Someone can take the whole world from me, only if I get my moon!''

Man, ''One day that will also be possible! Now that Elon Musk has become the boss in America, we will now have control over the moon too.''

Woman, ''Alas! I wish to sit on Elon's spaceship and be the first to go to the moon!''

Suddenly I saw a small poor girl looking at that woman from the road below their window with greedy eyes eating her sandwich. That woman also saw her and dropped her sandwich in her lap. That girl immediately ran fast from there with the sandwich. She was eating the sandwich and running and was looking back, as if someone was chasing her to snatch her sandwich.

Tears rolled down the woman's eyes.

The man said, "Those who live on the upper floors must go to the moon and get it. Going to the moon is good or maybe beneficial for humanity. But people who live on the lower floors have not yet found the moon, which is prepared using a few grams of flour and which comes as a result of their hard work day and night.

The woman looked at him with wet eyes, "This is not your philosophy class! You have come here to rest at this hill station!" The woman, wiping her tears, looked at her husband with great pride and love and, holding his hand, said, "Come, let's have a rest now."

They both walked out of the window holding each other's hands.

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I am looking at the moon while rowing my boat in the lake, and then the next window opened, and I saw that girl standing there whom I was looking for since evening. She was not looking at me, but her smile was really sweet and cute.

Do you think when I was writing this story I was Moonstruck? Trust me, I was not, except for the fact that I'm a little dreamy and in love with fiction. If you feel I am loony, to be frank, I often connect my stories to the keyword with my own past experiences. If you feel I am lovesick or romantic and irrational, you're wrong, but if you still feel the same, consider moonstruck yourself.

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