She chose him.

It was one of those lazy afternoons when the table tennis court was not available for our routine post-lunch-games. It was too hot to go out for a walk. The inactivity was killing. We loitered in the garden area of the office premises, inhaling the stray cool breeze that came our way. We were laughing about something that my friend shared when a guy passed us. ‘Hey’ my friend greeted him. He halted in his tracks ‘Hey, Hi!’ he exclaimed. ‘Long time!’ they both echoed in unison and laughed. Laughter is contagious and we were already laughing before he passed by, leaving the smile lingering on my face. I kind of continued to smile or maybe smiled a little more if that was possible in response to the laughter happening around me. They happened to be old colleagues now working in separate functions and the guy had then moved on to another office in another city. They continued to chat, and I had nothing to do but to be a silent observer of their conversation. They guy ...