I am Miss Universe

I wake up in the morning, not feeling like P.Diddy. Bad dreams. The phone rings, and it's the woman. I love waking up to her voice, but today she speaks for barely a few minutes, then she's gone.

Have you ever been in a long distance relationship? You're always wishing you could be with her, and the short span you DO get with her is like magic. It's like your birthday and christmas and winning every competition you enter, all that times two million. It's a glee that's borderline illegal. But the distance and circumstances that keep you apart isn't easy to handle.

The first time I heard the woman sing, it was an insane recording of her singing 'When you say nothing at all', on her best friend's phone. Then I brought her home, and I realized that it was the first song on my playlist and had been for the longest time. I just never noticed.A sign, right?

Then, out of the blue, the woman starts fighting with me. I don't understand where it comes from, or where it's going. I'm trying to talk it over, but she just won't let me. And I'm getting more frustrated and upset by the minute.

Then Waseem calls me. We were supposed to take a meeting at 8, and he had overslept, as usual. I was past caring. He says the meeting's been postponed and the others are at the beach. Let's go take some photos, yes? I had promised someone I'd go to work, and seeing the foul mood I was in, I almost told him to go hang himself. But as I didn't feel like working either, I didn't see the harm in taking the morning off. So I went. And in the car he plays Tu Bin Bataye, and I realize I can't be angry at the woman after all.

The others are in Arun Ice Cream, he said. So we walk in. And they're all singing When you say nothing at all. Joe's playing the guitar. I'm a little surprised, and I bow and wave. Then they move their chairs aside and

' the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall'

the woman gets up from behind them.

She was supposed to be in Cochin, arguing pointlessly with me.

But she was standing there.

You should have seen my face.