Here I am, belonging to the 'log kya kahenge' society who unintentionally, unknowingly, uncontrollably fell in love with a girl not considering the caste and religion and obviously, with love comes responsibility, romance, fun, naughtiness and emotions and these can only be totally expressed in utter privacy. We had been in a relation from a year but we surely needed some privacy for ourselves because it was scary and risky to steal some moments of love for a few seconds in the corners of any place. The only other available option was to book a room to spend some quality time which was doubly risky and it posed a lot of problems, questions and torture for couples, unmarried couples and moreover, couples from the same city.
My friends had booked and used different hotel rooms through various platforms and sometimes just a room in some affordable lodge but I never had the guts to do so since I hear everyday news about those so-called raids from the police, the fear of our family knowing about it and the mental torture by hundreds of people around us who love poking their nose around in others' lives rather than booking a room for themselves. And I don’t really understand as to how spending some private time with our loved one, whom we trust, admire, adore, feel secure and comfortable about: is considered to be against the rules of our culture or rather our morale just because we aren't married. With time changes the world and it's thinking and we need to adopt that because it’s not wrong.
Then came StayUncle, though the name was attractive enough but not sufficient to convince me that it's safe. It as an unusual and a one-of-a-kind step taken by a newly initiated start-up in a society where it had minimal chances of surviving and being accepted. And such startups usually lack that attention and get dissolved though that wasn’t what happened in this case because I, being a part of Young India know what the other youths of my age group feel about love, lust, trust and romance.
I went through the StayUncle website and got persuaded a little. And then there's a tumblr blog of StayUncle which provided some more faith but as and when I would think about the consequences of being caught and insulted and harassed, not taking this risk would feel like the better option. Since I had that little amount of confidence in StayUncle, I felt more like trying it out once because that one chance of spending a moment alone with my partner would strengthen our bond much more times and so I continued surfing the net and I went through different websites that reviewed StayUncle and also the hotel that I desired to stay in. I also compared StayUncle with several other platforms to be sure about my choice and also to check whether any other such platform was available that i was not aware of yet. Yet I trembled. The state or rather the country is filled with secular people with different cultures, beliefs and thinkings but the count of people with the opposite of broad-mindedness are much more and way more enough to ruin the life and career of a person with a long-lasting impact.
Everyday, thrice in a day, for around a week I would use the StayUncle app and almost book the hotel but would step back. I finally picked up the courage and booked the hotel on 15/02/17 i.e., 2 days from the most special moment thinking that 'jo hoga dekha jayega'(not because I didn’t care but because it was a way of convincing myself that nothing wrong was gonna happen) though I trusted StayUncle much more than the initial stages because of the survey that i had done though it was less than the fear that I had.
Then came this day where I had to spend the most beautiful moment of my life. I met her and got in a cab to reach the hotel. I remember her face, she was dependent on me which was a way to assure herself that I had taken the right decision and would not put her or us into any disaster. She had covered her face with a scarf and I was dead scared and there were chills running through my body. I just wished that our day ended as expected without any hassles. We reached the hotel and there were already a family and two other men standing there. The staff greeted us and asked us to wait for a moment so they could finish with them. I wondered, 'what will they think about us?', 'how will the staff react seeing an unmarried couple merely of age 20-21?', ‘Is it risky?’, 'What questions will I have to answer?'. My girl sat and was waiting on the couch looking everywhere around in fear of seeing someone known though I assured her of taking off her scarf. She was feeling ounces of excitement, happinesses, nervousness, fear, tense with another ton of her hopes, wishes and expectations. Just when I had finished thinking, one of the staff members greeted us again and called us for the booking process and there I was, standing in front of a young lady with a smile with her two other staff members having no whatsoever feeling or wonder of finding us there and she asked, 'You are from StayUncle right?' I nodded and replied with an assent. She said okay and handed me a form to fill in some basic details i.e., name, address, contact and time of arrival and departure and asked our id proofs and took a picture of ours. All this barely took around 4-5 minutes. They took around half a minute more for the processing and the key was given to me. I was surprised. The voice in my head asked, 'is that it?'. I got my id proofs back and me and my love were led to the room with one of the staff members through the clean and royally lit corridor. He opened the room and guided us with the use of TV, AC and any other services if needed for food, guidance or in case of any emergency. He kept our bags in the room, wished us a great day and left the room. We heaved a sigh of relief, smiled at each other and looked at the room. The room was beautiful, neat, private, quiet and there was no one to bother us. All that was needed was to make sure that the door was closed.
It was time to leave. We indeed spent the best moments of our life, with those little chats, jokes, troubling each other, naughtiness, romance, the feelings that we had long not expressed, the smiles, the tears, the excitement. It was cozy, warm, comfortable and damn loving when we were the closest to each other. By now our bond was much stronger and we felt much more inclined towards each other. We explored and expressed all our desires, feelings and emotions. In fact, some of our conversations turned out to be so silly and funny that we still can't believe that we spoke all that. And that was maybe because our hearts never felt so free and comfortable and secure in front of others and also that we never got a chance to be in a place that was safe and secure and assured us the privacy that we needed. We also ordered some food that was lip-smacking and the service was fast enough to not keep us waiting. Everytime we used the service, we felt that we were important. Our happiness knew no bounds. For the first time we were so engrossed in each other that we didn't care of the entire world and all we cared about was that moment and about each other. We were lost in our own imaginative world that had come into reality. Our eyes shined accompanied by a big smile and our heartbeats synched to each other that beat with the pace of a race car at one time and the pace of a swan floating on water at the other. We never wanted it to end. Wish it forever existed with nothing else but those walls enclosed as a room with me and her trapped inside it with nothing but the better. It would be a readaption of 'ham tum ek kamre mein band ho, aur chaabi kho jaye'. At the end of the day, we had thousands of words spoken, millions of expressions exchanged and billions of feelings felt with those unforgettable moments forever recorded in our hearts with esteemed gratitude filled for the staff members, the hotel as well as for StayUncle. Unfortunately, six hours passed by like a twitch of my fingers.
We expressed how we felt about the day to each other and left the room. The checkout was pretty short. What changed from then was the fear and longingness of privacy as that was not a concern anymore. I was more confident about StayUncle and those long surveys with shivering hands and fear of being exposed and losing my loved one due to different possible consequences was no more needed and moreover, I don't need to feel unfortunate or sad when we need to feel love, touch and romance. All I gotta do is use the app or web, choose the hotel and the date and time, pay by card and Voila! The rest is known! So ditch the feeling of you-know-what and chuck the fear of you-know-who and choose you-know-where to spend your time and all that just by using a trustworthy friend's app or site and You-Know-What that is, don't you?
And believe me, this is not an advertisement, this is fucking real!!
