The business!!!!!

  It was a hectic day; I had to travel more than usual to reach my target. It was as if the economic downturn was hitting my work as well. People were less reactive as if they had lost their feelings altogether. My work was at times very very challenging, stiff competition, the economic downturn, pressure of keeping up to the life style and the commitments I had were making me go crazy.

I believed in work life balance and so never told or discussed about work with my wife Shreya. We got married after falling in love 3 years ago; we loved each other even more as days passed. Shreya was a home maker, though she didn’t like being at home, I preferred that because I did not want her to find out how hard I was working. I made sure that I fulfilled all her wishes. She was happy, but at times she got upset because I hardly accompanied her to public functions.

It was a bright sunny morning of early November, November 7^th 1999 to be very precise and the Y2K problem was at its peak and many software companies were worried about their future as to what will happen on 1^st Jan 2000 , since many software firms were pessimistic about their future, retrenchment was at its peak. Many would lose their jobs and few their lives as well because they won’t be able to fund their commitments, but I was definitely not among them, job loss had not let me down.

I was 25, when I got into this new business and was at work when I saw Shreya. She was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen. At that point of time I was so busy with work that I couldn’t keep track of her for long. I decided that I would take a day off to follow her tracks. I was bold enough to take steps immediately, what may come. I believed in myself and never regretted my decisions and finally I approached her, let her know about my inclination to her. She was shocked because no one had ever spoken to her so politely even after knowing her past. She was also a victim of the society factor; I was too, so I ignored that part. We started spending more time together and after getting to know each other better we decided to get married, she understood enough and promised not to ask about my business after I promised her that I was not doing anything illegal.

After marriage, like a typical married guy I had more commitments than before, I had to work even harder. A few months later, from the savings from my earlier job and help from my friends I bought a new flat and moved in.

I was very punctual with my work timings. I made sure that I reached home 8pm dot and spent the rest of the evening with my love. Usually I started at 6am, reached my first changing point before office. It was a small room which I had taken for rent which I used as a meeting place with friends and business partners. My work was such that I had to plan a lot. The environment in which I was working was very stringent, for instance no mobile phones were allowed. One incident to prove the strictness of rules is, when I was on duty, my mobile phone rang, I had forgotten to switch it off, the moment it rang, people around me were so shocked and they looked at their mobile phones and I guess they were thinking either mobile phones were a pain these days or were thinking how much technology has become affordable. I couldn’t afford taking it out, I just started looking around as if to find whose mobile was it, but guess they were not interested and I lost business during that trip. Technology was an important part in my life, I had to keep track of my business, stay in touch with my partners and more important keep my business a secret. Another important aspect of my business was to present myself. I had to do it in the best possible way in order to get business. People did react to my looks, in fact only for my looks and nothing else was I paid, like peahens that got attracted to peacocks, but the only difference here was that both men and women were equally attracted. My job as such had many constraints; another one to add is the co-existence with the fellow workers and the authorities. At times the authorities acted up to their name and did not let allow me do my business in their area. Despite so many problems there were a few good things about my business, one of them being free travel. I had the right to travel for free in buses and trains, even in the first class and I got paid extra for that.

Patience was another important aspect in my business. There were situations when the outcome of my work was not that very fruitful, but I never got dejected, I worked even harder. It was worth the money, It was as equal as working for the World Bank, no income tax “what you earn is what you take”, I was really happy about this part. I was also planning to diversify my business from the usual work area. I was planning to venture into new locations. I was even planning to bring in few partners, partners who had good reach in their area and also utilize their talent and techniques for the development of the business in my area.

After 45 mins of travel I reached my room, changed myself, thought a little bit about how to develop my business and then headed back home in my bike which I usually kept at the rented place. I reached home in another 15mins.

Shreya was waiting for me at the dinner table and welcomed me with a wide smile, her smile was the thing which made me work harder and harder. We ate our dinner and discussed a little about our future. Shreya was

 asking me if the downturn was affecting my business as well. I kissed her forehead and reassured her that everything was fine. She fell asleep after a while and after thinking for a while I forced myself to sleep.

I got up a little late next morning. Timing was very important because I would lose customers after the peak hour, so I hurried up, reached my room, prepared myself for work and started from there. In 15 mins I reached my work place. After praying to God I started my work “ Amma, thaaye dharmam pannunga……aaiya..dharmam pannunga …” another hard day to go!!!!!!!!!

 

I think, U think and they think!!! (PART 2)

Dominik was cursing the guy sitting opposite to him, cursing only because he was sure that the guy opposite was teasing or thinking stupid about him, Dominik wanted to tell him, “don’t you dare think like that about me”
That morning Dominik and Shreya reached Spencer Plaza and were going around and after enough window shopping they finally settled down at coffee day, Dominik was as usual busy finding out someone who was more beautiful than Shreya and convincing himself that Shreya was in fact beautiful than her, typical lover J. After enough argument as to which tasted better Cremosa or Mahwah without even knowing how they tasted, finally decided to get the former only because it sounded better. Dominik went to the counter and found himself in a big queue evidently all men as if it was a rule that only men had to pay the bill and carry the load. He didn’t mind much because in front of him was a girl and wished to start of a new conversation and it so happened that she had come with a branded jerk who was busy with his magazine at the desk…. He thought, wish at times he could act like a jerk, but Shreya was sweet enough to be made to work. He then got busy watching people placing funny orders and act as If they drank at coffee day everyday…. Many had come for the first time thinking that Coffee day’s logo “ a lot can happen over coffee “ would work great for them ,many hoping that something good happens and a few hoping that something bad happens so that they can get a new girl.

Shreya on the other hand was going through the menu card planning for her next round, when she felt someone come and sit opposite to her, the moment she raised her head, she turned red like a cup of hot lemon tea, she was about to spill herself over when a girl came from behind that guy, a cute girl in fact, Shreya thought, very odd when a girl praises another girl, but Shreya had to admit it, and thought if Dominik sees her, he would be s awed by her beauty as if she knew perfectly what he thought about all the time.
The guy was none other than Raja, Shreya’s UG mate.

Raja: Hi Shreya, how are you?? Remember me?

Shreya (with a heavy voice): How can I ever forget you? I treated you like my best friend and what did you do to me?? I never expected that from you.

Raja: Shreya, just listen to me for minute. Firstly, this is Shalini, my love and soon to be my life partner.
Shalini gave her a humble smile, but didn’t speak.

Shreya: Ah! So you found another one?? No wonder I thought right about u…….

Raja: Shreya…

Dominik got back just as Raja was about to talk…

Dominik: Heyyyyyyyyyyy dude, how are you???

Raja: Im good man, how are you???

Dominik: Doing great man, all thanks to u J…. So who is this cute lady??? ;-)

Shreya: Grrrrr… some idiot!!!

Raja (Blushing...): yes man… my fiancée in fact; we are getting married next month.

Dominik: Cool congrats man…Hey I owe you a lot dude, had you not given the letter to Shreya on my behalf, it would have ended long back….. Good thing I did not write my name on it!!!

Shreya: What the hell… which letter are you talking about…

Raja (smiling): The letter which stopped you from talking to me for all these years….. The letter you thought I gave to you, was actually given written by Dominik, he was a scary goat those days, I wonder how he got u finally..

Dominik: Don’t start that again man, those days are gone…

Shreya (Staring at Dominik) : Youuuuuuuuuuu…..

And spat a slap landed on his face, Dominik turned red like another cup of hot lemon tea…

Raja: Hey cool down, its old story… so how are things going on??

Shreya was speechless, she was cursing herself for what she did and for what Raja never did… after a nice chat they left and the moment Raja and Shalini left, Shreya started crying, her white face with tears running down her cheek, she was looking like a cold cup of water with water droplets all around the cup..She was still cursing her that she missed such a nice friend only because of her stupidity…
Dominik convinced her a lot and apologized a lot and they started from there at 05.30pm……. they got into an auto and reached Nungambakkam station….
The clock struck 6.15pm and they got into the train and after the train reached Saidapet, they got a place to sit, sitting opposite was a guy smiling at Dominik for all the wrong reasons….. Dominik knew why he was smiling….
The guy sitting opposite, when the train reached Tambaram, got up to get out of the train, Shreya had got down earlier…. After which Dominik had called her and again apologized to her and wished her “HAPPY VALENTINE’s DAY “. The guy told Dominik “Thank you Sir, I was not smiling at you with a wrong reason, I knew what had happened, after all what I think, U think and they think are all same.”

HAPPY VALENTINE’s DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think, U think and they think!!!

The clock struck 6.15 pm; Dominik had just reached the Nungambakkam station and was heading home after the last day of training in the office. It was a short but awfully long day comparing the other weekdays, may be because it was a Friday and He was looking forward to the weekend. He knew how eager He was to spend another weekend with his love. Her name was Shreya, in her early 20’s she was the most beautiful girl He had ever seen, hmmm He knew He was sounding like a typical lover, but then , she in fact was the most beautiful girl by many standards. She was doing her final year MBA in Loyala college…His full name is Dominik Aryan and he was working as a business consultant with a multinational company. He joined this product based company recently after a sobbing exit from his old company which was like his second home. He had met Shreya at a UK education convention with big hopes of doing his PG overseas and dropped that idea and started working just to support her makeup kit J, actually to make sure that he stays with her.
He got into the train and managed to suck himself inside the jam packed train, after the train stopped at Saidapet station, a third of the train compartment became empty, as if they were giving free mobile phones to everyone there. He made himself comfortable and saw a young couple sitting opposite to him, hand in hand. The girl was exceptionally beautiful, for a moment his mind slipped off track and doubted if this girl was more beautiful than Shreya, he took another look at the girl and noticed something odd. Tears rolling down her cheek, bringing along with them a hint of powder and cream, they didn’t make much difference because she was still looking beautiful. Thoughts flashed across his mind, a million questions went as to why she was crying, what could have gone wrong, why wasn’t the guy trying to convince her. He was thinking silly about the guy as to his inability to convince her. The train reached Chromepet and the guy whispered something into her ears and she got up to go. She started weeping even more as if that was going to be their last meeting, as if God had sent her a message that they will not meet after that day. After the girl got down, the guy took his mobile and called a number, Dominik was pretty sure that he was talking to that girl and He was in fact correct, He heard the girl crying over the phone. The chat continued for a few minutes and they guy hung up the phone. The train reached Tambaram and the train was empty in a few minutes. The guy was the last to leave and they went in the opposite directions, as he was heading towards the sorrow field and Dominik towards the happyville.
Dominik reached home in another 15 minutes, freshened up , ate his dinner and started fighting with his mobile and was busy messaging Shreya. They decided that they will meet tomorrow at 10 am at Madras Christian College. Shreya reached the college before Dominik did and as if a dog smelling a bone from a hundred meters, she smelled him coming and the moment he was near enough to hug, she turned back and gave a tight hug, a feast to the youngsters around, disgust to the elderly lovers. They spent the day doing all possible things to enjoy life to the fullest extent. The day passed very quickly. It was as if God was watching from above, the clock struck 6.15pm and they both were sitting in the train, tears running down Shreya’s cheeks, Dominik was wondering if God had replaced them in place of the couple he had seen yesterday and it was as if everything was becoming clear to him and he got the answers for all the questions which went through his mind yesterday and he realized what could have possibly gone wrong with the couple , also he was cursing the guy sitting opposite for the way he was smiling and knew what he was thinking……..
To be continued…………………

Raja lay his head on the desk, resting on his hands, a million thoughts.......

Raja lay his head on the desk, resting on his hands, a million thoughts flashing through his mind. Thoughts so fast that he lost his cool, stoop up, banged the table and walked away….the whole team staring at him.
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It was 17th July, late in the evening and Raja had just returned from office after obtaining the flight tickets. He was leaving for Australia on an official trip that night along with one other friend, 3 days after the first batch had left. His tickets got delayed due to visa problems.
Raja was in his late 20’s and was working for a Multinational bank as an Executive.
11 pm, Raja checked in at the baggage counter carrying his hand luggage and his laptop to get into the flight. Twenty minutes later he was sitting inside the flight, sitting next was his colleague Amar. Amar was in his early 40’s and was heading this project and was a serious character and acted professionally all the time with least sense of humor at any given time. It was a connecting flight to Australia via Malaysia. Ten hours had passed and now 9am, 18th July, both of them where sitting at the KL international airport, their connecting flight was at 8pm and Raja wanted to use this time by doing anything except sitting with Amar.
Raja requested Amar to take care of his luggage and told he would return on time for the flight to Australia and started exploring the place. Malaysia, to its reputation was full of shopping malls and full of people from around the world. So many people passed him, but one girl caught his eyes. Wasting no time Raja went near her and expressed his interest towards that girl. The girl showing an expression of shock, immediately took her mobile and started typing something. Raja got scared and thought that she was going to call the police. Raja immediately apologized and said he did not mean any offence. The girl then smiled and showed Raja her mobile screen to Raja which read “Hi, thanks for your humbleness, I cannot speak, I am dumb. Still interest? J “. Our hero was even more shocked, not sure what to do, he took his mobile and started typing, when the girl stopped him and again showed her mobile and this time it read “ I can’t speak, but I can very well hear “
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An hour later after too much typing and even more talking, they familiarized each other. The girl, to Raja’s surprise was also an Indian, in fact a Bangalorian and was in Malaysia for the shopping festival. She was working for a software company, in her early twenties, fair and depicting the modern Indian culture. Raja had seen many people type quickly using their mobile phones, but she was even quicker, as if she had a software which turned her thoughts to messages. She mentioned that she had lost her ability to speak in an accident a few months ago when a car coming in the opposite direction had hit her vehicle. Both of them agreed not to discuss about the accident anymore. Time passed by and Raja was getting late for his next flight. Excusing himself he stood up and they exchanged e-mail addresses’ and promised to be in touch.
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All along the journey Raja was thinking about the girl and was wondering if she would make his perfect life partner and will his parents accept her since she couldn’t speak. After reaching Australia he called up his parents and told what had happened in Malaysia, and to his surprise they were ok with the marriage, Raja was waiting to return to India and meet her and tell her this news, though he never told this over the e-mail conversations which he had over the days. During his stay in Australia, he used to call his friend Shreya, talking to her for hours but never told about his love. Shreya was his college mate and his first love, she was the beauty queen of the college, but Raja never proposed her fearing that he might lose her friendship.
Raja in one of the mail conversations with the girl told that he wanted to marry her. The girl told she was also interested but will have to check with her parents.
The girl, one fine day mailed him that her parents were also fine with the marriage and this made Raja even more eager to return to India.
Taking this girl for granted our hero got busy with work and the number of mails exchanged got reduced. ----------------------------
Shreya, unaware of Raja’s love life one day sent him a mail expressing her love for him. She had started liking him because he had told her that he lost his hearing ability in the left ear because of an accident while trying to save a girl who also met with an accident at the same time. Shreya though that he saved that girl without worrying about his life.
Raja was a bit shocked and took a few days to reply to her mail, finally he replied saying that he also loved her a lot. It was as if Raja had got an option of choosing a new car and didn’t have to worry about his old bike. He ignored the other girl completely. Raja and Shreya exchanged mails and to show their faith and commitment towards each other even exchanged their passwords.
It was December 6th and Shreya was going through the mails in Raja’s mail box to refresh their love, especially the initial mails exchanged between them…..one dated as old as 11th September, her eyes became bigger, she had noticed a mail which read “ From: Pooja Hi dear……” .
Shreya double clicked the mail and started reading the mails exchanged.
Shreya went through those mails and was so shocked, Raja had done a job better than a Xerox machine, copying the contents while Shreya re-lived the moments. She felt as if Raja was talking to her in person.
Shreya was dumb struck, she closed the mail box and walked away. Days passed and the exchange of mails continued and she never showed the effect of those mails in her, it was as if her part of brain which read Pooja’s mails was not working or worse, lost.
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One fine day, Raja was browsing through the net and a pop up showed a new mail in his Gmail account. He opened his mail box and it read -“Orkut account notification -You have a new friend’s request from Sharada”. Our hero, after all turned out to be a flirt, he opened the website and changed his setting such that to change the profile visits tab to “hide profile visits” and went on to browse through Sharada’s profile and her friends list which was not that big and all of them being good looking girls, he was a bit excited, and was looking at his prospective new lover….though he did not act on the friend’s requested immediately and continued visiting her profile for the next few days, he thought that making her wait will make her think that he is busy and special. Later, one day he accepted her request and sent a formal message telling her that thanks for adding him as her friend and also asked how she came to know about him. Every day he checked his mail box for a reply from Sharada, but was disappointed every time he didn’t get a mail, it was as if she was acting the same way as he did…making him wait and making herself look special.
Raja, as usual opened his mail box and jumped out of his bed in excitement because he had received a message from Sharada. He quickly opened orkut and read through the message almost ten times and was blushing, the dark face glowing red. Sharada had told that she went through his profile and had liked the contents of the various fields. Raja was appreciating his abilities to copy content from others and put it in his own. He quickly typed back and sent a message stating he was happy to hear this from her and looking forward to a great friendship ahead.
A new friendship and love story was in the making, may be third time lucky for Raja and third time lucky for all the girls he had already fallen in love and for those he was going to love in the future.
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He received mails from Shreya, but seldom replied, Shreya was also least bothered since she was getting ready for something big, big indeed.
The love between Sharada and Raja was blossoming, in fact moving towards the end. Sharada had once told Raja, that the end of their love story was the beginning of her marriage life and she meant only her marriage life and not their marriage life, Raja did not realize the singleness of the marriage proposal she had made. Raja was a guitar player and Sharada was going to play the strings this time and use the strings to strangle Raja.
Sharada told Raja that she would like to meet him in person and listen to him play the guitar. They both decided that they would meet at 8pm at the pizza place, the one near the Army HQ.
Raja lay his head on the desk, resting on his hands, a million thoughts flashing through his mind, not sure what was he supposed to do during their first meeting and how to impress her. Thoughts so fast that he lost his cool, stoop up, banged the table and walked away….the whole team staring at him.
On the agreed date they both met at sharp 8pm and Raja was carrying his electric guitar. They had food and she told that she would like to listen to him play the guitar in the open, it was already dark and it being a place near the Army HQ was almost deserted.
Sharada said that she needs to make a call and moved a little bit away and took her mobile and opened the music folder, she played the AK47 music file and the china mobile with 8 small speakers was good enough to make it sound like a real gunshot, Raja could not hear this because he had hearing problems in his left ear, all because of an accident a few months ago and also because he was busy tuning the guitar. The security guard who was standing near the fence, after listening to the sound turned, and as it was dark, mistook Raja for the terrorist and the guitar in the dark was looking like a rocket launcher, Raja unaware of this was fine tuning the guitar, playing music for his own death, the guard thought that Raja was preparing the rocket launcher to fire. The guard warned him to drop the weapon, but since Raja had problems listening from one side and also he was very busy fine tuning the guitar, ignored the warning and as if the mobile music was magnified many times, two gun shots in fine tune with each other went straight through Raja’s chest. Raja immediately fell on the floor, blood flowing all over the place. Since it was just after the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, the guard didn’t think much before shooting. Sharada didn’t react much to the situation and came running to him as if she was the one who shot him, Shreya who was standing near the guard also walked to him. She was the one who had told the guard that she was a reporter and had followed Raja whom she had overheard talking over the phone about an attack.
Raja was still alive but fast losing his consciousness. Shreya told Raja which during his last few minutes made him think…..may be he should have listened fully about the accident which the girl was talking about at the KL airport, maybe he should have proposed to Shreya earlier and broken the friendship for good…… a min later Raja lost his life…..
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Shreya and Sharada were sitting in a restaurant waiting for another person to come in, with mixed emotions.
Suddenly Shreya smiled on seeing that person. Pooja walked in and her eyes were doing all the talking. She was the girl whom Raja had met at the KL airport. Shreya started talking, Sharada was eager to know why she was a part of this, but had done this after Shreya had told that she would be happy after doing this. Shreya started, “I was going through Raja’s mail box and saw Pooja’s mail and I found that she had lost her speech in an accident a few months ago and in the same accident she also lost her dear friend in the same accident.” Sharada stopped her and continued as if she had read the same mail and knew what exactly happened next. Pooja was shocked to hear this and was wondering how Sharada knew this much. Sharada then told her that she was Isha’s sister. Pooja then started to get it, Isha had died in that accident and in which Pooja had lost her speech. The car which had hit their 2 wheeler was driven by Raja under the influence of alcohol, it turned out that Raja had escaped the suit by bribing the officials and also told a false story to impress Shreya.
Sharada started crying and told “I would have been happy if I had known this earlier, I would have told this to Raja during his last moments…………………
Shreya smiled and started drinking her coffee because she had told this to Raja….
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………….. I closed the book, immediately opened my Gmail account, changed my password and took my mobile and sent a message to my love “Dear. I love you a lot! “.

He sat on the stairs of the overbridge, evening sunlight brightening his then dull face

He sat on the stairs of the overbridge, evening sunlight brightening his then dull face, tears rolling down his cheek, with a smile on his face, hand full of sleeping pills and a bottle of brandy in another hand.Even he was not sure if he was happy that his miseries are going to end or was upset that he couldn't find a true love.
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One month ago, 10am, bright sunny morning, he was waiting for Shreya at the railway station, dressed up like a hero. Minutes passed like hours and waiting for half long hour, he saw her walking towards him, his eyes became brighter by the second and there she went past him and as if someone threw stones at those bright bulbs, both went dark. He was wondering why she ignored him and went past. She got into the slowly moving bus and our her hero followed the bus in his bike.

Shreya was working for a multinational bank and our hero was working for a private company. Shreya was a good looking girl, in her early twenties, bright eyes, eye liners making them look even more bright, long dark hair, medium built and a mix of conventional and hi fi culture. Dressed up so very neatly to prove that she respected the tradition of India and was modern enough to break many hearts, like that of our hero.
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Her bus stop came and she got down from the bus and started walking towards her office building, our hero stopped his bike right in front of her and eyes met. She was sending messages to him and it was crystal clear that he had done something very stupid the other day, our hero was clueless as to what she was trying to tell. It seemed to him as if the message was encrypted with 1024 bit encryption code. The staring lasted for another minute and there came bombs like words from her mouth, “You have no sense at all, you are least bothered about me when I’m with you, I have to remind you about everything and how dare you forget my birthday?, that’s it I am through with you!."
Our, hero was dumb struck, was cursing himself for what he did, actually for what he forgot to do. Running around her like an insect flying around a light bulb at night, was trying to convince her, but she was reluctant to listen to him.
It took him almost half an hour to convince her and by that time she realized that she was getting late for office. She told him she will meet him at 8pm at the coffee shop.
The clock struck 8pm, our guy was there at 7.30pm, not wanting to mess this up again.
The moment the clock struck 8, and there she came walking, as if she was hiding behind the wall waiting for the clock to hit 8. She looked fresh like ever, as if she had just replaced her face with a spare one, freshly made up.
Our hero ordered for 2cups of coffee. It smelled all over the place and our hero was the one responsible for that, he was badly drunk, all because of his office party earlier that afternoon. She smelled it and got up to go when our hero caught hold of her hand and made her sit. He was sure that this could be his last meeting with her and so to save himself, he built up a story to make him look pitiful.Forgettting Shreya's birthday was the cause for all this.
He started “Shreya, I am sorry that I am drunk, but I didn’t have the courage to tell you what I am going to tell you now, under my senses. Please do not mistake me and I am telling you this only because I love you and do not wish to hide anything”.
Shreya raised her dark thin eyebrows, shooting many questions eye to eye.
Our hero this time, was a bit clear that she wanted more information and explanation. It was as if the alcohol decrypted the code and made him a bit intelligent. He started again, “ Shreya, I met Pooja last night, the day of your birthday and it seems she has left her husband and is living with her parents….and “
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Pooja, who a few months ago had married a guy against her wish, was our hero’s first love. Our hero had told a lot about her to Shreya during the initial days of meeting. Shreya, then being a friend of our hero had tolerated him telling about her and made him feel comfortable.
Since now Shreya and our hero were a pair, She never encouraged him talk about her, this situation being no exception, but the alcohol had given him either abnormal courage to talk or made him deaf from hearing what Shreya was shouting about.
After an hour long one sided discussion, our hero told that Pooja needed his support and he wanted to help. Shreya hearing this, got up and walked away, at this stage our hero was in no position to stop her since alcohol had made him dizzy, not realizing what he had done, he lay down and got up only when the waiter told him to leave.
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The next morning our hero realized that the story went bad and Shreya who was already fed up with him, decided to break up with him. Weeks passed, our hero tried to contact Shreya but couldn’t. One evening, while returning from office, half lost in thoughts, suddenly came to full strength when he saw someone. Pooja was walking on the other side of the road.
Fifteen minutes later both of them were sitting in a coffee shop and discussing about their lives. Pooja was a bit dull and after enough nagging by our hero , Pooja told him what had happened. Our hero was shocked to hear the same story what he had told to Shreya the other day. He was not sure if he was dreaming or if Pooja had overheard his chat with Shreya.
Shreya who was passing by saw him and both eyes met, this made her even more determined about her decision.
Our hero, for the next few days was so engaged with Pooja’s problem that he totally forgot about Shreya. The few days spent with Pooja were heavenly, and it so happened that he never heard from her again.
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Something had happened to Pooja as per our hero. Our hero was very upset and started drinking more and more. One fine day he saw Shreya getting down from a car and another handsome guy accompanied her. He tried to talk to her, but she said that they both were now engaged.
He felt as if a stone wall landed on his head. Shreya had a smirk on her face. Shreya and so called her fiancée went away while our hero was standing like a pole.
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A while later He sat on the stairs of the overbridge,evening sunlight brightening his then dull face, tears rolling down his cheek, with a smile on his face, hand full of sleeping pills and a bottle of brandy in another hand. Even he was not sure if he was happy that miseries are going to end or was upset that he couldn't find a true love.”
Meanwhile Shreya and Pooja were talking to each other and the guy was Pooja’s husband. They had played a prank with our hero. Shreya had met Pooja the other day after meeting our hero and told her what our hero had told. Pooja told that it was not the situation.
Next, day our hero, was standing again at the same bus stop, dressed in white, waiting for Shreya and to his surprise, she went pass him. She was not the usual bright girl, she had lost her charm, he tried calling her but she ignored. He later realized that he was no longer alive, the overdose of sleeping pills and alcohol had taken his life. He was one among the angles………..
He saw another angel fly by and SPAT!!! A pat on his back……a a a his mom was standing by with a cup of coffee and shouting “Dreaming again? “
It was a dream after all….that day was very important….it was Shreya’s birthday!!!!!!