CHAPTER: 2
3rd
January
Classes
reopened after the vacation. I and Maddy being from Ranchi boarded the same
train, when we entered the room Omi, Papun and Shintu were already there.
“Here comes
both Daddy Cool and Loverboy of our room” said Shintu.
“So tell us
both of you who got an upper hand on that golden goose??”
“I was
completely out of touch, you know trip to Goa and all, never really got time to
talk to her” replied Maddy.
“That’s lame
but look at the smile on Jeet’s face, something’s cooking there” commented Omi.
“ Not
really, you know casual talk and sometimes video chats that’s all, and Maddy
you may not got time for her but she was really concerned for her daddy, the
seminude pic of that foreign chick from that beach on Goa that you uploaded on
facebook really made her go nuts, I am
sure you don’t wanna hear all those out of line comments” I replied.
“You filthy
bastard, you plotted against me, you gonna pay for that” said Maddy.
“That not
plotting, what you thing I made it up, you should have thought about it before
uploading that pic, but all you wanna be is a hotshot but I guess all you have become is a filthy jerk to her”
“Please guys
cut it short, it’s the first day of 4th semester, we have met after
such a long vacation and all you guys have left to talk about is Sana”
interfered Papun.
But I guess
we were gonna hear that name more frequently in the coming days. My phone
beeped and the name which flashed..wanna guess…yup it was Sana.
“Hi sir,
welcome back, vacation was too long, getting bored at home, can we meet
tomorrow need some help on which books to be followed”.
“ya sure see
you tomorrow in canteen at five” I messaged her back.
Next day at
canteen
“Tell me sir
how was the vacation” enquired she.
“Nothing
special only B.S.N.L training in advance telecomm. and a project on 3G, what’s
about you?”
“Same old
same old, so tell me you find any pretty face there, you remember my 20 sec.
courage rule right.”
“None that I
fall for and that 20 sec rule I will keep that in mind.”
“Sir I also
need to ask you a favor, you know I am in NSS and we are organizing a blood
donation camp and I want you to be a part of it”
Well that
girl literary wants to suck my blood.
“Really, you
remember you got a techfather too whom you can ask for all the favors in the
world and trust me he is not gonna refuse”.
“You want me
to ask Mr. Skinny for blood, well we can’t afford to replenish 2units from the blood bank in return of one
that he’s gonna donate.”
We both
laughed on that.
“And anyways
after that cheap trick of uploading that pic I am really not in a mood of
talking to him.”
“What I am
gonna get in return of my loss”
“First of
all helping someone is not a loss, Don’t you sound like him, anyways what you
want”.
“Well how
should I put it right, may I have the honor to ask the most beautiful girl to spend
an evening with me?”
“Finally you
are flirting with me.”
“Not at all
I am just being extra friendly with someone who is extra beautiful, and things
in life appears the way you wanna see them. You can see that evening out as a
date or just two friends hanging out together watching movie and grabbing some
dinner.”
“You play
with words so beautifully that you always find a way to manipulate me. Thank
god I am not your girlfriend otherwise who knows what horrible things you had
made me to do”
“So I take
it as a yes.”
“Ya
whatever, I am so addicted to your company that I wouldn’t have missed that
even if you had refused to donate blood.”
“Well that’s
charity and fun altogether, and seriously I haven’t seen a better combination
of both.”
“It’s Sunday,where
are you going so early, you are supposed to be in your bed” said Omi.
“Well today
is that blood donation camp and Sana have requested my help” I replied.
“She didn’t
tell me about it” Maddy sprang out of his bed .
“Ya she is
not talking to you for now, until you are not gonna remove that pic from your
profile don’t expect any word from that side, well you know what do me favor
and keep that for a little longer so I can get ample time to make her fall for
me by criticizing you.”
“Hey I
thought you are scared of syringes and you are going to donate blood” said
Papun.
“Well if it
can take me closer to her than that’s the least price I can pay, anyway you
people enjoy your sleep I got to go, and Maddy off the record she promised me
to be on my bedside.”
Well the
very sight of syringe do scared the hell out of me but I had to hold on to that fear, I didn’t
want her to tell me be a man. I never quite understood what is there to do with
syringes and manhood. Well she was by my side all the time, I guess she sensed
my fear so she hold my hand for the whole time. After it they put on a red cap
on me and clicked a pic.
“Let’s go, I
need to feed you some chocolates and coffee” said she.
“Well you
know that’s not gonna make up for my loss”
“Ya I
remember my promise, tell me when you wanna go out”
“Let’s make
it tomorrow, I will pick you up at 4o’clock.”
“That sounds
perfect, see you tomorrow.”
The real
surprise of that blood donation came the next day. It was Papun with a
newspaper in his hand came to me
“That girl’s
made you famous, have you seen today’s newspaper”
In the
middle page it was my pic they clicked after I donated. Sana had it published.
I looked like a complete idiot with that red cap on me. For the next 2min. we
all laughed at that pic. I need to thank her, after all it’s because of her my
pic got printed in a newspaper I thought. The next thing I did was call my
parents and brag about my pic on that newspaper.
“Going on a date, so someone
among us is going places” said Omi. I replied with a smile on my face
“Don’t tell
Maddy but it’s not a date, we are just dealing in charity, it’s her charity to
go out with me in response of my charity of donating blood.” I replied. Then
entered Maddy in the room
“You going
somewhere” he asked me.
“He is going
out on a date with your techdaughter, give him your blessings father-in-law.”
said Shintu.
“A date huh,
have you forgotten how things went pretty nasty last time when you were
acquainted to a girl.”
Fuck you
Maddy, that was necessary to bring Shika’s name in middle of it, a name which I
want to completely erase from my memory but I have to live with it.
It was
around 1st semester, there was this hottie in our class. Whenever
she used to enter the classroom everyone used to hoot over her and whenever
professors called her roll number for attendance the whole class used to roar present
sir in unison.
It was one
of such day, some people said present sir over her roll number abs somehow I
didn’t on that particular day. His boyfriend was sitting in front of me. He
messaged her that Jeet have given that proxy. That pissed off girl with all her
murderous rage came to me and asked
“Have you
given that proxy against my name.”
I decline
but she wasn’t in a mood to hear anything.
“Then tell
me the name of those who did it or you gonna regret this big time.”
Well frankly
I do regret it till now but how could I take the name of my friends? She went
to the registrar and complained against me.
After half
an hour of lectures over moral issues and threatening me for suspension and
black dot he did something I least expected.
As they says
life screws you whenever you least expect it to do so. That registrar screwed
me completely.
He called my
dad and told him
“Your son
gives proxy attendance of girls.”
My dad was
really stun, in all those academic years of mine he never had heard a single complain
against me let alone a complain about a girl.
After lots
of persuasion he allowed me to attend classes.
When I
entered the classroom everyone looked at me like I was some renouned culprit
and has come out of prison just completing my sentence.
“Don’t worry
everything gonna be fine”, said my roommates but all their assurance was going
in vain.
“How am I
gonna face my dad, what will I tell him, will he even talk to me” all these
uncertainties were killing me from inside. First time in
college I
felt like crying, the more I was scared I more I wanted to screw that girl.
“I am so
gonna take that damn bitch down” I acclaimed.
It really
took time to made dad understand that it was just misunderstanding. Thank god
dad didn’t told mom about it. Even today when I return home he asks me about it
and whether any disciplinary action was taken against me.
That girl
didn’t stop there, she took the game one step forward, she made her boyfriend
who was the head of the literary society throw Omi out of it only because of me
with an absurd reason that the article was way out of line, abstract and
vulgar.
But we
avenge it the better way.
“We can’t
sit like this, we have to do something about her” said Omi.
“Ya but what
can we do, nobody even believed that it wasn’t Jeet, we are already in a lot of
trouble and revenge doesn’t seems a good idea.” Papun looked in a dilemma.
“I have a
plan, but the risk factor involved is too high, if anyone wants to back out he
is free to leave.”
But nobody
seemed to be in a mood to back out. Shintu go on to narrate the plan.
“You know 15
days are left for the end semester exam and after 5 days i.e Monday starts the
lab practical exams and assignment submission. The back side of the girls
hostel is under construction, the guards on the front gate remain active for
the whole night but one in the back side goes down by midnight. We will break
in the girls hostel on Sunday after
midnight, reach to Shikha’s room and burgle those lab practical files and
assignment files and dispose them in back of the dispensary where they dispose
all those medical cartoons.”
We were
stunned for a moment, didn’t knew what to say, but the next second when we
thought of the humiliation we were facing because of her, the idea seemed
perfect.
“That’s a
brilliant idea but how we gonna enter her room, it will be locked from inside”
asked Papun.
The time was
very less and we had to reach a solution very soon, we can’t to waste this
opportunity.
Day 3:
Only 2 days
were remaining and we haven’t yet came to a conclusion.
“What
happened Prithvi you looked tensed after you received that phone” asked Omi.
“Nothing, it
was Chandani, she is having some trouble from Sikha her roommate and wanna
change her room.”
That’s it,
our solution was right there in form of Chandani. All we need to do is
convience them join the plan.
On hearing
our Prithvi dazed us for quite sometime and after a pause full of surprise and
terror he finally said
“Have you
people gone nuts, do you even know what could happen to you if it goes public.”
But after
hours of our persistent effort he said
“Fine, I
will talk to Chandani about it but I can’t guarantee anything.”
Now all we
can do is wait for Chandani’s decision. All our planning now depends upon her
answer.
Day 4:
We were
gathered in the room and eagerly waiting for Prithvi’s arrival. The moment he
entered we all literary jumped over him with the same question
“What did
she said.”
“Well don’t
know what to say, you guys are in luck or badluck. Sikha have pissed her off
enough to easily make her join our venture.”
Ah a sigh of
relief. Prithvi continue to add
“She said
Sikha will fall asleep by 1 o’clock, you should be there around 2 to 2:30 a.m.
She have asked you to be near the toilet on the second floor, she will
accompany you from there there to the room. You will get 10 minutes to do the
job and get your ass out of that palce. In between if you get caught, you can’t
take her name. Are we clear on that?”
“Yes”, we
all replied.
Doomsday:
All planning
and plotting was done. Our anxiety was on a all time high.
We were
waiting for the right time to come. Around 1:30 we came out of our hostel and
slowly proceeded towards the girls hostel.
“You guys
are pretty sure that you really wanna do that, I mean we get expelled for that”
Papun looked really tensed while asking this question.
Papun, the
biggest geek. The only one in our group who don’t have crappy grade. Didn’t
wanna mess with the luscious career waiting to kick start after the college I
presume. But you friendship is a thing which make you do stupid things and you
don’t even regret them.
“ After
having come so far you can’t back off now” said Shintu.
By now we
have reached the girls hostel, the guard was in long asleep. We were now
waiting for the signal from Chandani. At that instant the phone blinked, it was
from Chandani
“Everything
clear, make it quick.”
We entered
in the girls hostel from the backside and reached the toilet on second floor,
Chandani was witing for us there.
“Slowly
follow me” said she.
We did as
commanded. After passing one lobby we reached the room in the second one.
“All her
stuffs are on that table, grab them and get the hell out of here”
We opened
our bagpack and put all those practical files and assignment files. Slowly we
slipped out of that goddamn room and heard Chandani locking from inside. We
were on our own now. We slowly walked out of first lobby and reached near the
toilet. Everything seemed too easy, getting in hostel, taking those files,
something’s missing. Yup things in life are not so smooth so was with this
burglary. The warden seems to be up for a late night pee.
“Hey you,
stop right there”, she shouted the instant she saw us.
We were
freezed for a sec and then ran for our life. We came out of that under
construction section, the guard was still sleeping. We ran towards our hostel
but by that time the warden was out also and her screaming’s woke up the guard.
Though he couldn’t catch us but saw in which hostel we were getting in. In the
mean time we weren’t able to dispose those files.
Within 5
minutes our hostel was surrounded by
security guard and few faculties from the nearby quarters started coming in.
An overnight
security check was on its way.
We were
scared like hell as we weren’t been able to dispose those files.
“Now what
will happen, I told you this was a bad idea” said Papun. He was trembling while
saying those words.
“Nothing’s
gonna happen, you stay quiet” we were also too damn scared but we tried to keep
him under calm as we don’t want him to spill everything out.
After few
minutes someone knocked the door. Shintu opened it.
It was our
hostel warden, h.o.d of electrical department and a security guard.
“What
happened sir, any problem” asked Omi.
“Girls
hostel have been burgled and those boys were from this hostel.”
“From this
hostel, how’s that possible, something must be wrong and what you gonna find in
this room.” I said trying to avoid the search.
“Don’t you
try to be oversmart with me, all those buttery words gonna make the suspicion
more on this room, guards go on and search thoroughly”
They started
the search, each and every bag was thoroughly searched and finally came the
turn of that bagpack containing those files.
“Sir that’s
our college bag, you only gonna find stationary in it” I again interfered.
“If it
contains only stationary than you have nothing to worry about but if have
something else we both will have to talk” I get that abrupt answer in return.
The more
they started to unchain the bag the more our pulses rose.
“It’s empty
sir”, the guard said.
Wo…what its
empty, how could that be possible.
After they
left the room
“Where did
those files vanished” asked Papun.
“Where you
want them to be..any gueses…well I put them in the flush”, said Maddy.
We all
jumped over him and hugged him
“Maddy you
are a savior buddy.”
Now all we
were waiting for is the results to be announced and before seeing ours we
scrolled the laptop screen and reached her roll number.
Shintu
announced “That bitch got 4 backlogs in 5 subjects.”
We are not
proud of what we did, but we don’t regret it either.
We nailed
the whole expedition and in the end the risk was worth it to see her looser
face sank down to earth.
Coming out
of thoughts I replied to Maddy
“ You don’t
see the big picture, you only remember what Sikha did to us don’t you recall
what we did to her, anyway I can’t be late for my date so got to go, bye.”
After
watching the movie we were on our way toward a restaurant. We watched Gangs Of
Wassepur. It was full of vulgar dialogs. Till today I regret the choice of
movie, escaping the amazing spiderman we choose GOW, not one of my best
decision. We had to be mum for the whole movie with a series of cheap comments
flowing in air. And one of them pointed her too which really flushed the mood
in gutter. We were felling relieved after coming out of the hall and discussing
the movie was not a good idea.
After
acquiring a table I resumed the conversation
“Look I need
to apologies for having you watched such a horrible movie.”
“Chill, that
wasn’t your fault, how could you know what’s in there before watching the
movie, it’s just those inglorious bastards who lack the common attribute to be
called as civilized.”
“But it’s
not only those filthy people, something else is also there, u look terrible
tonight”
“Nothings
there”
“Common you
can tell me stuffs, if you call me your friend then you gonna behave like one,
it’s cool with me, you can tell anything without hesitation.”
After a long
pause she started talking
“You know I
got a big sister Priyanka di, she works in an IT company in Delhi. She fall in
love with one of her co employs, they wanted to marry but when dad came to know
about it he asked her to return home so that they can arrange for their
marriage but when she came home, she was home arrested. Mukund my jiju when
came to know about it rushed to our house but my dad’s hired goons didn’t even
let him enter the house, he was thrown out of the house.”
The waiter
came with our order and interrupted the story. After he left
“ So
Priyanka di decided to elope from the house. It was a wedding and my parents
were gone there. Di’s room was locked from outside and they ordered me not to
open it till they come. But the way she was crying I couldn’t resist myself
opening the door and help her to elope. When they returned and couldn’t find
di, I took the beating and finally dad asserted that he will not see their
faces ever again.”
She looked
completely heartbroken, her voice started chocking and seemed like was on the
verge of crying. After a little pause she continued
“ In this
vacation, jiju and di came to visit us. You know di was 6 month pregnant and
dad didn’t even see their faces. From inside he ordered mom to shut the door on
their faces. Now you tell me what was their mistake, what’s the mistake of that
baby who hasn’t even arrived. All she wanted was to have mom and dad to be with
her during the delivery.”
A tear
rolled down her cheek.
“Today di
called, it’s the time, ah how badly I wanna be there but when I told dad about
it he said if I went there he will not ever talk to me. I can’t help myself
from abstaining my mind from those thoughts.”
“You know
it’s not always someone’s fault, it wasn’t your di and jiju’s fault when they
fell in love with each other. And judging your dad as culprit is also not true.
Think like this, he loved her so much and wanted her life to be perfect but
when she choosed someone she took that privilege from him. Every father wants
to be the hero in his daughter’s life but when someone else took that place
it’s really hard for a father to adjust. Under social pressure he did made an
mistake but you people needs to make him realize that mistake instead of
accusing him.”
“Yup, you
are right and I also ruined the evening.”
“No, you
just made it for me, you believed in me and told me your story, I couldn’t have
asked for anything more.”
“But I do
owe you an evening out, may be some other day.”
A waiting of lifetime for that evening to come.
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