The day had been silent. Nitesh called up to inform that he
had safely reached home. Pia had not called form the past two days. She had
only told Mannu that it was confirm she was coming with her family. Plans had
been made, but Mannu was expecting a warm phone call from her to ask about his
whereabouts. It didn’t happen. Mannu consoled him hour after hour. She had
strictly requested him not to call her. Mannu had agreed happily that time, but
it was worrying him now. Things were looking unclear to him. The fear from
within made him wonder about the worst possibilities. The beauty of wait was being
killed as Mannu waited to talk to Pia. Since lunch Mannu was surviving on eggs
and loaf of bread.
“Pia would never be happy seeing me like this.” He talked to
himself sipping tea on the rooftop.
“But is she really concerned at all?” Second thoughts dominated
his psyche.
All this and that
that Mannu was doing from the past three days was just to see her, once. Pia
with her family was coming to Jaipur for the celebration of Diwali. The city was lit as far as Mannu
could see. His young mind had futured that
this was one golden chance for them to see each other. The risk had to be
taken. He tried to defeat the inner voice that cursed him for lying to his
parents. From the past two days he was
hiding from the whole world just to see her. The day went in reading a novel
from Sidney Sheldon. TV seemed un interesting. He could not focus and time
usually went in skipping channels. As he woke up at three or four in the
morning he would find the TV switched on, the lights turned on and the window
panes open. As if it was a normal hour, he put things back to normal, read a
page or two and slept again. It was more like an extended dose of drowsiness.
Sleep had escaped his eyes as he left the hostel, more so when Nitesh also left
him.
“No...You’re not prepared to meet her.”A voice from my
within said aloud to him. The day of meeting had finally come. The train was to
arrive in afternoon. The percentage of sweat drops on his palms and feet was
increasing with every tick of the stationary clock. When he had waited so long
for this day then why was his heart grabbed with a figment of fear? The jug had
also spilled down from the stool and water lay all over the floor. He couldn’t
find what to make out of this incident. Was it a bad omen? Or was it just
because the cord of the mobile charger tuck with the jug? He had no answer.
Also, Pia’s phone was still awaited.
With loud music he tried hard to change his bent of mind, to let
calmness overcome anxiety. Fantasies
started to pour in. He wondered what will he say to her, how will he say a
hello and how would he look? A bunch of hairs were popping up from the back of
his head. Extra amount of hair gel could not make the settlement as required.
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