Prologue
What can i say about a guy who lost his girlfriend by the time the two of them were to exchange their engagement rings?
That he plunged into the deepest ocean of trauma? that, for whatever happened, he lost his faith in God?
That he was so madly immersed in the love of his mortal girlfriend that, after she was gone, forever, he wrote an immortal love story in her memory?
Or may be that, after a long interval of time, one day, love knocked at his door once again?
ONE
Dusk had fallen when Shashi walked out of the exit gate of the busy Delhi airport. A chilly winter welcomed him for the very first time to "The City Beautiful". The evening was even more beautiful for it was Valentine's Day. Love was in the air and red was the color everywhere. The temperature must have been close to 4 degrees. Adding to the winter chill was the cool breeze which was blowing that evening, compelling the just arrived passengers to pull out their jackets.
Enjoying the initial few moments. Shashi left his body feel and embrace the cold surrounding him, but he could not bear it for long. Soon he pulled out his jacket and zipped it up till his neck. The foggy breathe that he exhaled was visible. It was that cold.
At the exit door, the constant announcement, the honking taxis, the crazy relatives and the masses of passengers all made the place chaotically noisy. A few taxi's drivers had besieged Shashi, offering him a paid ride. Amid the hustle-bustle of getting a passenger one of the drivers almost lifted his bag and asked,
"kithey jaana hai, paaji?"
Shashi quickly retaliated by snatching his luggage back from him. With his gesture he signaled his disagreement to take a cab.
He then made this way out of the gathering. In one hand he had his favourite "The Times Of India" and a half-filled water bottle while in the other he held the handle of his wheeled bad which he rolled in tandem with his walk. He walked till the parking lot where there was not much of a crowd. The place was calm, the weather was pleasant. Underneath a row of tall lamp post, there stood scores of cars. Shashi perched his back against the bonnet of the first car in the series. By then the exposed parts of his body has turned cold. He placed the newspaper on the bonnet and put the water bottle over it to prevent it from flying off with the wind. Looking here and there in search of someone, he rubbed his cold palm against each other and breathe out a puff of warm air to warm them up.
Seconds later, he pulled out his cellphone from the pocket of his jeans and switched it on to make a call.
"Yes I'm at the parking lot", he said and kept describing the whereabouts of the place he was at, until a black BMW stop right in front of him.
"Sah i-i-i-i-i-l!" shouted someone as the door of the car opened.
It was the nickname with which Shashi has been baptized during the college days, and it still hadn't left him.
His Friend Sourabh and Aman had come out of the car to embrace Shashi. A round of warm greetings and smiles occupied the next few minutes. It was nostalgic for them to meet each other after so long. The last time they had been together was during their first reunion which had happened almost five year back. Maybe that's why they couldn't help themselves from celebrating this moment with a long, melodramatic hug. It might have been bizarre for others to watch the three guys hugging each other on a Valentine's Day evening!
The headline of the fluttering "The Times Of India" under the half-filled bottle over the bonnet of the car behind them read, "Supreme court finally does away with section 377; Homosexuality now legal in India".
Moments later, While happy dumped Shashi's luggage in the rear of the car, Shashi took the back seat and releaxed. Aman started the vehicle and Sourabh turned off the music system to enable further conversation.
They talked to each other for a while as Aman drove the car out of the airport towards the city.
After a drive of some fifteen kilometers, Aman stopped the car in front of a local bear shop.
"What happen, Dude?" probed Sourabh.
"Nothing much - just need to enjoy this moment as Shashi is with us, this calls for an celebration.
Sourabh ordered 3 bear, then we started with the old school and college talks.
We recalled many old memories, of bunking class, having bear after each semesters, first girl propose experience and many more.
Then Aman pointed us by taking the name, "Bhavana", (Bhavana was a sweet, sexy, intelligent girl) who use to be the crush of Shashi. After listening the name Sourabh started recalling the thing, and started teasing Shashi.
PRESENT DAY
Bhavana, Shashi, Aman, and Sourabh together use to go for their tuition classes in the same institution.
The first day in TIME class was really exciting for us, new student, new teacher and new classroom.
The first day of TIME class, Bhavana was the first to arrive in the classroom, next was me with my friends Aman and Sourabh, then the other student arrived.
Shashi had a first talk with Bhavana, that was not a talk basically was a formal introduction, we then shared our number and became good friend. As time passes away, after few month we became very good friend, you can say BEST FRIEND FOREVER. We started bunking the classes and going out for movies, park, coffee day. Everyday was full with excitement with a new dream in our head.
Then after 4 month of the classes, Shashi received a call from MNC company (Gurgaon) regarding job and he has to join the office within a weak with the post of Programmer he was really excited about the job letter offer and immediately decided to go Gurgaon. He doesn't realize that he would be going away from Bhavana and the thing will not remain the same.
1 YEAR AGO
Having bear together and talking about the past, the same topic was today also that is it true "you (Shashi) still love Bhavana". and we had a pin drop silent for a while, then Shashi speak, Yes, I still love bhavana.
Sourabh and Aman asked Shashi. Do you know where she is know. Shashi told NO, no did I have her number. Then after a few more discussion, we decided to go Aman house.
Moving on the way to Aman house, Their was a heavy rainfall, we decided to stay at the near by hotel, which was cheap and good. We all went to the hotel, when we arrived at the receipt of the hotel, we found only single room available, we were very happy, as the room was available. We got the Room key of 402. When we arrive near our Room, which was 402, we saw two beautiful girl near our room. We just thought in our mind, that now the thing will be good and happening. We started with hello and continued the talk till we exchanged the number. The room was booked separately for us and for them, but as to continue the conversation, we stayed in the same room and the talk began. After few hour, we became frank as good friend and share our secret, we came to know that they are new to this place and they have arrive here to see this place. As Aman and Sourabh used to stay at this place, so they were having the good knowledge of this place, where to stay, where to eat, the places to see.
We decide that we will be with them in this trip, the girl name were Pooja and Sakshi, they were both from Ranchi. We planned the trip and decide to complete this trip within a week as she was here for a weak.
We first plan to visit the Disco as it was night, so we thought to enjoy each and every moment, we went to the Disco as Disco entry for Couple in the Saturday night are free, and today it was Saturday, so we thought to go their and enjoy. It was 11:30 PM we reach their with full party Mood, we went to the SOCIAL club, famous in the town, we had a drink and some fast food order, and at the time of the BILL PAYMENT we realize the impact of GST as it was a shocking, we received double amount bill, that beacuse of the GST tax.
Over all we ignored the GST issue that time and payed the bill and enjoyed the party.
By 01:00 AM the disco used to get close, we hired the paid cab, and went to our hotel, the same hotel.
We then met at the afternoon, the day was pleasant with cloudy weather. We planned to visit the historical place, we then continued the trip to historical places, and so on..... the weak trip finished.
We then moved to our normal life, Sourabh was married to a girl Kiran, software engineer.
Shashi, Aman decided to visit Sourabh home, as Shashi had not met with Sourabh wife, then we arrived at Sourabh home at the evening, we purchased some sweet along with the flower bookie and reached their. We had our dinner and started talking with each other, Kiran was a girl who likes to interact with people and share their views on the topic, as the discussion continued further, Kiran asked Shashi are you married or single, then Sourabh and Aman again started teasing with the name Bhavana, and we again went to Four year back story.
FOUR YEAR BACK
Shashi started telling him about the Bhavana and the related story about it, as Shashi started describing about her, her likes, her ambition and about her looks. All were earger to listen it and Sourabh and Aman used to make few comedy in between the story.
Bhavana, was a pretty girl, whose hometown was in Samastipur, a girl full of dreams. Bhavana has 3 sisters and 1 brother, she was the youngest among them. Her father was a bank manager and her mother was a housewife. Bhavana wanted to study in top MBA college, so she planned to move patna and took admission in TIME institute. As she was new to the place and people so she went to girl pg in order to get a room for herself. she then joined Time institute and I(Shashi) met with her(Bhavana) the first day of the class in the Time institute. "LOG KEHTEY HAI NA PEHLA JHALAK MAIN PYAR HO JAANA" i was also feeling the same. Mujhe usse dekhte hi pyar ho gaya. We met with each other share our name and exchanges or number.
We use to talk with our mobile phone before the class and after the class,the topic doesn't used to be regarding the study. We use to talk before the class, when you will reach the class?, "call me when you step out from the pg" and after the class " kya kar rahi ho, free ho toh miltey hai".
And so on we became best friend, we started sharing our personnel problem, family talk and we gave a title to our friendship as "BEST FRIEND FOREVER". Soon I (Shashi) stared liking her, but was afraid to tell her, as i was thing if i say "i like her", she would break our friendship and that the thing i don't want.
I started liking her, seeing her photos, listening to every word she would ask for or tell me, You all can say i was crazy about her.
Kiran stopped me at the middle, she told in the excitement " I know her", we all were shocked, she showed us the photo, and confirmed with us is she the same Bhavana, you guys are talking about, as she use to live in the same pg in which my office staff used to live. We viewed the photo and confirmed with the sparking light in the eyes( as the sparking effect was due to the water, which came out through the eyes of Shashi after seeing her picture) and said Yesssssss, She is Bhavana, the same girl i was talking about.
PRESENT DAY
Kiran called her female staff, who used to live in the same pg, she asked her about the address and the girl Bhavana. She gave the address, but told that she is not here, as she has went to her home for a 10 days of holidays.
Kiran and Bhavana have met each other, as the pg of her female staff was same, so she used to go for shopping few of the time. I(Shashi) was very happy as he haven't met her since the last four years nor have listen her voice. Shashi was feeling each days now as years. they days went remembering her and finally 10 days went away, now came the day when she has to return back to her working place.
Shashi,Sourabh, Aman, Kiran was excited to meet her. They planned to surprise her.
Sourabh, Aman and Kiran decided to hide Shashi at first and then after few time, he would come to her in the Pg and give her a surprise and the same happened.
It was really amazing, excitement and thrilling when they met, Bhavana was shocked to see Shashi. They ran toward each other and hug each other.
The first question was, How, When, Where, ................all at once, it was really a time when we were having no words to say, just to see each other.
She told about herself and asked her what are doing now, when do you reached this place, how come you know about me.........and my only question was "tumne mujhse ek baar bhi bola nahi ki tum ja rahi......tumne na mujhe apna number message kiya, na facebook, na whatsapp, .......maine tumhe kaha kaha nahi khoja......"
Bhavana said, "i always have missed you and always have loved you", but i thought you are busy in your own world, so thought not to disturb you. Shashi replied, "Pagli tumse hi meri duniya hai, tumse hi mera sab kuch hai...... agar tumhi nahi toh fir kya duniya aur kya khushi". Listening to these word Bhavana eyes was filled with water(tear) and she hugged Shashi and told "I LOVE YOU", I MISS YOU.
Bhavana and Shashi returned to their home, talked about their relation and feeling to their parent and planned to get married soon, they had planned their ring ceremony on the same day. i.e, today. At the time of the Ring ceremony, when they were about to share the Ring, Bhavana felt on the floor, and when she was took at the hospital, she was declared dead, as she was suffering from cancer and was on the last stage.
So at last the future is unpredictable, when and how thing changes people aren't aware off.
So we should take change, whenever we feel right.
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