Judgement Day

This is Part V of the story. There are in all 5 parts of the story; each of them is about Saturday meetups with friends. All 5 parts are connected. Here is link to earlier parts: Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IV

Saturday | Set Your Day

29^th July, 2016(Friday before last Saturday of the month)
Chetna missed the college all this week. She kept her phone switched off. She was disturbed and sad. Suddenly something clicked into her mind and she dialed a number.
Automated message started on other side of phone : “Hello friends, main hoon apka dost aur host RJ Mickey. Aap humse relationship advice le sakte hai jiska jawab apko Saturday morning subah 6 aur 7 ke bech diya jayega. Rules yaad rakhiye 1) gaaliya dena not allowed 2) aap kisika naam nai use kar sakkte, aap sirf intial alphabet use kar sakte hai. Yaad rakhiye yeh call live radio pe sab log sunn rahe hai. Apna msg record kijiye is beep ke baad”

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeepppppppppppppppp

Chetna told everything; how she met Tanya in market, titwala temple visit, Viva with Aditya and everything happened with fish pond game. Also, she told everything that happened in last few weeks. We realised someone has told her everything. On radio call, She used initial letters instead of names like A(Aditya), M(Mohit), T(Tanya) and so on.

Biggest co-incidence was that everyone of us were listening to radio at that time.

Few minutes later, again there was another call, this time it was from Tanya.
“Hello main T(Tanya) baat kar rahi hu. Wahi T(Tanya) jiske bare mein kuch der pehle ek C(Chetna) naam ke caller ne baat ki thi. Kuch baatien hai jo C(Chetna) ko b nai pata. M(Mohit) ne woh ‘I Love You from M’ wali chit nai dali thi, woh maine dali thi. Usse toh main har baat mein aage kar rahi thi”

Just when I thought there is enough drama in this day, there was another call.
 “Main A(Aditya) bol raha hu. Dear C, I am sorry maine tujhe hurt kiya. But jo mere saath hua woh bhi acha nai hua, M(Mohit) and T(Tanya) tum dono ne mere saath bhi galat kiya. Undono ko kal main expose kar duga sab friends ke saamne, backstabbers”

30^th July, 2016(Last Saturday of the month)
Morning 6 am
Everyone was near radio, wondering whom will Mickey favour and what will happen today.
Show started with an introduction song followed by Mickey who talk in usual Amitabh Bachchan’s voice(mimicry)

“Hello morning friends, main hu apka host and dost RRRRRRJJJJJJJJ Mickeyyyyy. Kal na kuch alag hua, teen logo ne ek hi problem ki baat ki. Toh aaj start karte hai, uss ek problem se.  Calls ki recording chalai jaye”

All three calls from Chetna, Tanya and Aditya were played.
“Sabse pehle mujhe yeh samaj nai aata ki jab A(Aditya) and M(Mohit) ne kabhi C(Chetna se baat nai ki toh undono ko usse pyar kaise hua. Mujhe na ek kahani yaad aati hai, woh kahani kuch iss prakar hai.

Ek ladki ke ghar kuch electricity ka problem ho jata hai. Woh electrician ki jagah ek galat number laga deti hai. Dusre side ek ladka baat karta hai jo usse batata hai ki number galat lagaya hai. But woh ladka usko fir bhi problem ko solve karne mein help karta hai, kyunki uss ladke ko electricity ka gyaan tha. Aise hi dono ki dosti ho jati hai aur dono ek dusre se roz baat karte hai. Woh dono ek dusre ko bahut achese se jaan gaye the bus dekha nai tha. Fir ek din ladka aur ladki ek garden mein milne ka plan banate hai. Ladka jaise usse dekhta hai, woh usse propose kar deta hai aur ladki b haan kehti hai. Aur log isse love at first sight ka naam de deti hai. Kyunki log yeh jaante hi nai the yeh toh phone ke zariye ek dusre ko pehle se hi jaan chuke hai.

Aisa hi kuch hota hai hamare saath. ‘Attraction at first sight’ ko ‘Love at first sight’ ka naam de dete hai. Movies mein villain ka role karne wala kitna bhi handsome ho, aakhir mein toh aap chahte hai heroine usse nai, hero ko mile. But real life mein jyadatar toh sirf face, color ya body dekhke pyar karne ka sochte hai. Kaisa lagega agar koi apni girlfriend ke liye kahe, ‘she is my body mate’ instead of ‘she is my soul mate’. Acha nai lagega na. Agar aap kisko uske paise ke liye pyar karte ho toh iska matlab to yeh hua ki aap khud ko sell kar rahe ho. Agar aap sochte hai kiske saath mera future easily secure ho jayega, means khud se future secure nai ho raha toh kisi aur ka sahara le rahe hai. Log kaise face, color, body ya paisa dekh ke kisko pasand karte hai. Kya kabhi aap aisa sochte ho meri mom ashwariya se kum beautiful hai, I m so unlucky or mere dad ke pass ambani se kum paisa hai, I am so unlucky. Nahi sochte na. But fir pyar dundte waqt kyun sochte ho. I don’t say ki beauty with brain nai hote or handsome and smart nai hote but first thing to love should be soul. Find a soul to love.

Ab aate hai dusri kahani pe. Iss kahani mein 2 hero hai, 2 heroine aur 1 villian. Villian dono heroine ko kidnap karke , dono ko alag alag deewaro mein chunwa deta hai. Dono hero villain ko marte hai aur heroine ko nikalne ki koshish karte hai. Ek zor se deewar pe hathoda marta hai aur dusra dheere dheere deewar thodne ki koshish karta hai. Jab pehle wale ki deewar tuth jati toh uski heroine b thodi injured hoti hai kyunki hathode ke war se deewar ka kuch hissa uspe bhi gira tha. Dusre hero ko time zyada lagta hai but uski heroine sahi-salamat nikalti hai. Aisa hi hai real life mein. Kuch log apne aas pass ek deewar bana dete hai. Darr ki deewar, past ki deewar, morals ki deewar. Jab aapko koi pasand aaye toh uski deewar pe hathoda chala ke thodne ki koshish mat karo. Dheere dhere unko samjo, unhe apko test karne do, fir aage socho.

Ab karte hai dosti ki baat. Sabse comman sentences kya hai dosti ke. “Usne mujhe call nai kiya , main bhi nai karuga.” “Woh mera best friend hai fir bhi mere upar hasa, main b aisa karuga.” “Usne mere msg ka reply nai diya , main b nai duga.” “Tune mujhe mara, ab main bhi tujhe maruga.” “Pehle call usse karna chahiye”. TIT FOR TAT. Dosti ko humne trading business bana diya hai. Aur kisi ko maaf karna ya apni galti ko manna toh apni izzat ke khilaf hai. Dost ne kya kiya woh dekhai deta hai but kyun kiya woh nai dikhai deta hai. Intention bhi dekho. Yeh toh aisa hogaya jaise humne kisika gift accept nai kiya because uspe upar ka gift wrapper pasand nai aaya. Soch lo ek baar.

Ab aate hai Ms C(Chetna) ke bare mein. Kya uski koi galti thi. Zyadatar toh nai but zara si toh thi. Apko waha se chale jana nai chahiye tha. Sabke saamne keh “Na” keh dena tha. Undono ne attraction ko love samja yeh galat tha but Zaroori nai unhone aapko propose kiya toh bure ho gaye. Humhe sikke ka dusra pehlu bhi samajna chahiye. Aur agar T(Tanya) ki baat  mane toh M(Mohit) ne aapko propose hi nai kiya tha. Aap ruk ke baat kar leti toh sab clear ho jata. Haan agar woh dono fir bhi nai samajte toh usne baat band karna hi sahi hota. Aur aapki asli galti yeh hui ki aapne apne aap ko sab se alag kar diya. Sab se baat karna band kar diya. Khud ko saaza dena, yeh kafi galat tha.

Ummed hai aapko inn sab baato se aapke jawab mil gaye honge. Aaj aap sab zaroor milna. Aur jab milo toh apni dosti ki nayi shurwat ke liye ek dusre ko chocolate dena. So agar aaj aapko koi chocolate de toh samaj jao ki usse aapke saath, dosti ki nayi shurwat karni hai. Jaate ek aakhri kahani hamare boys ke liye. Kuch dene pehle kuch bacho ke beech ek cricket match hua , first prize tha ek season ball aur second prize tha ek tennis ball. Match jeetne par jeetne wali team ke captain kaha ki usse season ball nai , tennis ball chahiye. Wajah puchne usne kaha ki woh chota hai toh woh season ball se khel nai payega toh usse sirf wohi chahiye jo uski zarurat puri kare. Baccho ki life kitni uncomplicated hoti hai. Hum boys kisi ladki ki taraf attract hote hai toh seedha sochte hai woh toh sabse pehle mujhe baat karegi and sab jealous honge. Samajne ki koshish karo woh ladki hai koi trophy nai. Friendship karo, khushiya batne ke liye, kisiko jealous karne ke liye nai.

Ab lete hai break aur break ke baad baat karege kuch aur topic pe”

As soon as advertisement started, I got call
Me: Hello
Tanya: Tu kidar hai
Me: Arey hello ka jawab b nai diya. Landline pe phone kiya hai toh obvious hai, ghar pe hu
Tanya: ok
Me: Kyun
Tanya: Arey woh actually jab Mickey ne cricket wala example diya toh mujhe laga tu ya fir Naveen hi RJ Mickey ho. Toh maine Naveen ko call kiya toh b ghar par hi tha.
Me: Ho sakta hai, yeh baat aur bhi bahut logo ko malum ho.
Tanya: Hmm. Sunn. I am sorry, meri wajah tu iss sab mein phasa
Me: Arey sorry mat bol. Infact you tried to do something good for me.
Tanya: But still tere liye chocolate le aaugi aaj sham ko
Me: Americano shop pata hai ?
Tanya: Haan pata hai, Kyun?
Me: Waha se lana mere liye chocolate. Waha sabse mehengi milti hai
Tanya: Shut up Mohit, I know tu chocolate nai khata. But I hope aaj Chetna aaye aur sab ko maaf karde
Me: Don’t worry, sab acha hoga

30^th July, 2016 (Evening)
All of us gathered at our reunion point. As it was last Saturday of the month. There were too many friends. Suddenly, someone kept hand on my shoulder. I turned back, it was Aditya. We said sorry to each other and hugged. Soon Chetna came. We (Me, Aditya and Tanya) said sorry to her. She smiled back and gave us all chocolate. We can feel new beginning and end of all fights.

Naveen came from behind and took me to his girlfriend.
Me: Abey tune usse radio ki puri baat bata di. Yeh problem hamara tha etc
Naveen: Arey nai, tu tension mat le. Kuch zyada nai bataya. Woh waise bhi ja rahi hai, sirf tujhe dekhna chahti hai.

Naveen(to his girlfriend): Meet Mohit, he is RJ Mickey
Naveen’s girlfriend: OMG!!! you are amazing person. I love your show.
Me: Thanks. But don’t tell anyone, I have to hide my real identity from public.
Naveen’s girlfriend: No worries. It will be secret. Chalo bye guys.
She left.

Naveen: Tanya ko tujh pe doubt nai hua, mujhe toh usne morning mein call bhi kiya.
Me: Mujhe b kiya who bhi landline pe.Maine usse baat ki.
Naveen: But tu toh radio pe tha na ?
Me: Haan, but hum ek din pehle raat ko 11 baje sab record kar dete hai.
Naveen: Tu ek bata tune khudko kuch favour kyun nai kiya ?
Me: Woh mere profession ke liye galat hota. Mujhe partiality nai karni thi, Khud se toh bilkul nai karni thi. Aur maine woh Pankaj ki tennis ball wali baat se soch liya ki mujhe season ball ke piche nai bhagna chahiye. Yeh decided tha main usse propose nai karuga. Isiliye fish pond mein bhi “I love you nai likha”. Ab chale? sab wait kar rahe honge.
Naveen: Ek aakhiri sawal, tune uss chit mein fir kya likha tha?
Me: You are precious, don’t let anyone have you as part of his life, easily.

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Check Mate

This is Part IV of the story. There are in all 5 parts of the story; each of them is about Saturday meetups with friends. All 5 parts are connected. Here is link to earlier parts: Part I , Part II and Part III

Saturday｜Set your day

Check Mate

23^rd July, 2016(Saturday)[FOURTH SET YOUR DAY]

10 am
I went to Tanya’s place. His 10 year old brother(Pankaj) greeted me.
Me: Panku, kidar ja raha hai ?
Pankaj: Cricket khelne, aaj hamara final hai. Agar jeeta toh ek season ball milega aur hara toh do tennis ball milega
Me: All the best, Tanya kaha hai ?
Pankaj: Upar Naveen ke saath baithi hai
(Naveen is our college friend and he know everyone)

I went upstairs
Me: Hi Naveen
Tanya: Shut up Mohit. Pata nai tum logo ko yeh formality ka hi-bye karne mein kya maza aata hai
Naveen: Relax, abhi isse kuch pata nai hai
Me: ek min, mujhe kya pata nai hai ?
Tanya: Tujhe pata hai aaj Adi ne kyun bulaya hai
Me: Woh keh raha tha ki aise hi milna hai. I think ab fir koi ladki pasand aayi hogi usse
Tanya: Nahi, woh aaj hi Chetna ko propose karne wala hai
Me(Shocked): Kya ? kisne kaaha ? and usko tune waise bhi yeh kaha tha na ki Chetna ki shadi ho chuki hai
Tanya: Usko sab malum pad gaya. Yeh ki maine jooth kaha. Yeh bhi ki hum last week usse mile the. Everything. Last week, ek viva mein dono saath the and un dino mein hi, Chetna ne usse bataya ki hum mile the. Aaj Chetna bhi aane wali and Adi usse propose karne wala hai. Adi ne Naveen ko sab bata diya hai and usse bhi bulaya hai support ke liye
Mohit: But Adi ne mujhe Chetna ke bare mein kuch nai bataya. Iska matlab usne kuch bada plan kiya hai. Ab kya hoga ? Mujhe tension ho raha hai
Naveen: Ab kuch nai. Tu darr kyun raha hai uss selfish aadmi se. Maine toh usse muh pe keh diya ki main nai aauga aaj
Tanya: I think tu usse propose kar de, aaj hi kar de, Adi se pehle
Me: Pagal hai kya, majak chal raha hai. Propose karna koi majak hai kya. Mujhe kuch samaj nai aa raha kya karu
Tanya: Ek kaam karte hai. Agar Pankaj match jeet ke aaya aur Season ball mila toh tu usse propose karega.
I didn’t agreed nor I refused

6 30 pm
We(Me, Tanya and Naveen) were on terrace silent and all thinking about what will happen today. I saw Pankaj coming with tennis balls.
Me: Dekh woh match haar gaya, Its decided now. I will not propose. Mujhe waise hi yeh sab propose wropose nai samajta.
Tanya was looking at me with anger. Soon Pankaj also came up on terrace.
Tanya: Tu haar kaise gaya, subah toh bahot confident tha
Pankaj:  Didi, maine hara nai hu, jeet ke aaya hu
Tanya: Toh yeh tennis balls kyun ? jeetne wale ko season ball milna tha na ?
Pankaj: Didi, season ball ka kya karuga, woh itna heavy hota hai, hamare pads helmet bhi nai hai. Mujhe toh sirf tennis balls hi chahiye the. Season ball kitna bhi mehenga ho, mujhe zarurat toh tennis ball ki hi hai na.
Tanya(looking at me): Ab ?
Me(Ignoring eye contact): Ab kuch nai. Tune kaha tha match jeetega “aur” season balls layega toh woh sab…………… (pause)…… Chal 6 40 hue hai. 7 baje waha pahuchna bhi hai.

At 7 10 pm
We were late. As soon as we enter I saw Chetna sitting right next to Aditya. I wanted to go back home but I cannot go back now. Chetna gave us smile and greeted us.
Chetna: Haan, Prem tum kuch keh rahe the. Kaho na
Prem: Arey haan, toh batao “Work is worship” yeh quote sabse zyada kiske upar suit hota hai
*All silent*
Prem: Mandir ke Pandit par sabse zyada suit hota hai…. Hai na
Chetna and Prem were laughing in full energy. Everyone else was silent. Aditya was continuously giving me one evil look.
Aditya: Chalo ab yeh jokes chodo lets play Fish-Pond now. Ab toh Mohit aur Tanya bhi aa gaye.
Prem: Kuch khate hai na pehle ?
Aditya(looking towards me): Nai, baad mein. Fish-Pond ke baad shayad kisi ko bhook na lage

About Fish-Pond
Fish-Pond is a game in which a Jar represents Pond and Chits/Messages represent Fish. Everyone writes message about someone without writing their own name and put them in the jar. Names are never revealed, not even after finishing the game. Messages are then read one by one. However, option is given to avoid reading any message.

Game started
Aditya: Pehle hum sab Prem ke liye messages likhte hai.
Everyone wrote something. I was not in mood. So I just wrote “You are good at heart”. He started reading them one by one. There were no special messages for him.

Tanya: Ab Chetna ke liye
Aditya: Nai woh nai. Usko last mein . Ab Mohit ke liye
Kiran and Prem were not writing anything. Tanya completed writing first followed by Chetna. Aditya was writing something big. They gave jar to me. I opened chits one by one and started reading out.
I: Blank – (In mind: This must be from Kiran/Prem)
II: “Be confident, I am with you” – (In mind:This must be Tanya)
III: I didn’t read this one to everyone. “Yeh Saturday aur next Saturday, dono tere liye yaadgar rahege. Iss Saturday ko main relationship mein aauga and next Saturday ko teri pol kholuga, sabko batauga tu dosto ko cheat karta hai” – I understood its Aditya and passed the chit to Tanya to read.
IV: Blank again – (In mind: This must be from Kiran/Prem)
V: Happy to be you friend. I understood its from Chetna. I smiled at her and read it loud.

This gave Aditya some tension

Aditya: I think ab Chetna ke liye hi likhte hai
Everyone agreed.
Chetna: Mujhse ek ek kar ke padhne ko nai hota. Main sab ek saath padugi
Chetna opened first chit, read it in her mind. Her smile vanished. She opened second and third. Now she was looking angry
Chetna: Yeh kya bakwaas hai !! maine teen chits kholi hai. Ek mein “I love you” without name. Second mein “I love you from Mohit” and Third mein “I love you from Adi”. Yeh sab baato ki wajah se main uss time pe kisi se baat nai karti thi. I am going. Mujhe yeh sab nai pasand.
She threw the jar with remaining chits in it and started walking. Aditya went after her to apologise. 

I was still sitting in shock and confuse. Prem, Kiran and Tanya were also sitting, looking at each other.

Tanya: Mujhe laga tu propose nai karega. Isi liye maine tere naam se I love you likha.
Me: Kya Zarurat thi. And maine koi propose nai kiya
Tanya: kya ? Ek maine likha tere naam se aur Adi ne likha toh teesra kisne likha ?
Prem(with fear): Maine
Tanya: Bewakoof hai kya tu ? Tu beech mein kaha se aaya . Tu toh Adi ke support mein hai na.
Prem: Woh bahut achi lag rahi thi. Woh mere jokes pe hass bhi rahi thi and usne mujhe Fish-Pond mein likha bhi “You are good at heart”
Tanya: Arey pagal. Tujhe toh har ladki achi lagti hai aur
Me(stopping Tanya): Woh “You are good at heart” maine likha tha
Prem: Oh Shit

That night, Chetna left without talking to anyone. Aditya tried to apologise but Chetna was not ready to listen and left the place. Rest of us also left soon.

29^th July, 2016(Friday before last Saturday of the month)

Chetna missed the college all that week. Also, she kept her phone switched off. She was disturbed and sad. Suddenly, something clicked into her mind and she dialed a number.
Automated message started on other side of phone : “Hello friends, main hoon apka dost aur host RJ Mickey. Aap humse relationship advice le sakte hai jiska jawab apko Saturday morning subah 6 aur 7 ke bech diya jayega. Rules yaad rakhiye 1) gaaliya dena not allowed 2) aap kisika naam nai use kar sakkte, aap sirf intial alphabet use kar sakte hai. Yaad rakhiye yeh call live radio pe sab log sunn rahe hai. Apna msg record kijiye is beep ke baad”

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeepppppppppppppppp

Biggest co-incidence was that everyone of us were listening to radio that time.

***End of Part IV***

Part V : Judgement Day 

Please read the note in the comment section

When She Said NO

When you propose someone, it tough to handle “no”and its more awkward to face that person again. May be that’s why people choose days like college farewell to propose. People also choose farewell day because that day is already a special day and a “yes” makes it memorable. Let’s move to our story.

Two days before farewell
Neha entered library.
Priya : Hi Neha. Teri aakhein puri lal lagi padi hai, lagta hai tu Yash ke liye itni excited hai ki tu soyi nai
Neha: Nai yaar, aisa kuch nai hai
Priya: Come on, sabko pata hai, tum dono pura din ek dusre se baatien karte rehte ho and Yash tujhe officially propose karne wala hai on farewell day
Neha: Yeh official propose kya hota hai ? kuch bhi. Actually, yeh Tarun ka kamal hai. Uss din, maine uss se kaha ki mujhse ko koi first chapter ke points ke raat ko 3 baje bhi puchega toh main bata dugi, itna achese yaad hai mujhe. And guess what, he actually called me at 3 am aur bola first chapter ki points bata. Uske baad fir neend nai aayi
Priya: LOL, waise yeh Tarun ko tere aur Yash ke relationship se problem nai hai ? After all both of you are long time close friends.
Neha:  Usse problem toh nai hai, but he personally doesn’t like Yash because of his past relations. But hota hai yeh sab. He(Tarun) cares for me. But I know Yash better and I know Yash acha insaan hai.



Farewell Day
I don’t understand why people choose farewell spot so far from college. I have to attend my cousin’s wedding in Thane and this farewell party is in Vashi.  So I have to unfortunately leave the party in the half way. I was more disappointed that I will miss the Yash-Neha thing. And just then, Neha was called on stage by the host. We all know it must be Yash who must have asked for this announcement. Neha was on stage. We all were wrong, it was Tarun who called for this announcement. Tarun came up on stage, went on his knees and proposed Neha. Neha with anger in her eyes, left the stage without saying anything. All excitement went off air and so I left for station. When I reached the station, Tarun was already there. He smiled at me. He was with me throughout the journey. We started talking about casual topics (topics except about what happened at the party). Although, Tarun and me were in same class, it was first time, we were talking so well. It was beginning of our friendship.

Exam Days
During exams days,  I came to know that Yash didn’t proposed Neha on that day. She was not anymore in contact with most of the college friends, not even with Yash and Tarun. She was only in contact with 2-3 female friends.

3 years after farewell (Saturday)
Today, Tarun has become one for my close friends. Every Saturday night, we meet out at some ice-cream parlour.

Shopkeeper: Namaste sir, would you like to try our new special gulkand flavour falooda
Me(looking at Tarun): Chal try karte hai
Tarun(to shopkeeper): Kitne ka hai ?
Shopkeeper: Rs 120 per cup
Tarun: Nai wahi regular falooda do, woh hamara favourite hai
Me: Arey, kabhi kabhi chalta hai
Tarun: Tu shant reh. Kisi achi occasion pe khayege

We picked up our tray and were walking towards table. A guy came near me.
Vikas: Hi, aap Sanjay ke cousin ho na
Me:Ya, Vikas na
Vikas: Haan…….So sab kaisa chal raha hai
Me: Mast aap batao
Vikas: Haan, sab acha chal raha hai. Picnic pe chaloge na hamare saath
Me: Haan mostly
Vikas: Toh whatsapp pe group mein add kar lu
We exchanged number and he left.

Tarun was silent and was in deep thinking
Me: Tere ghar ka kya hua, koi ghar rent pe mila
Tarun: woh chhod. Yeh bata tu isse kaise janta hai ?
Me: Yeh Vikas hai, mere cousin ke saath office mein kaam karta hai
Tarun: Ek kaam karega, but ek request hai, abi iske related kuch sawal mat puchna
Me(confused): haan bol
Tarun: Yeh jo Vikas hai na, mujhe uska nature bata kaisa hai, uske mom dad kaise hai ? kal tak kar payega ?
Me: kyun ?
Tarun: Yaar kaha na sawal mat puch aur kar payega toh bata ?
Me: ok, done. I will try my best
There was sudden change in his behaviour that day. 

I went back home called my cousin and collected all required information about Vikas and his family. Everything was positive about Vikas. That night, I was confused about what exactly is going through Tarun’s mind. I decided to have some chat with Vikas and try to find link between Vikas and Tarun. But the moment checked his profile pic on whatsapp, I was in shock.  Vikas was Neha's Husband. I interpreted things my way and was disappointed with Tarun.

Next day (Sunday)
We met. I told him everything about Vikas and his parents just to fulfil my commitment.
Me: Ab kuch kahu aur kuch puchu
Tarun: Baad mein, Pehle kuch le lete hai

We went to the counter.
Shopkeeper: Namaste Sir, aaj bhi wohi aapka favourite regular falooda ?
Tarun: Haan (after 2 sec pause) Wait, woh kal ek naya flavour bataya na, woh dijiye

We got back our tables.
Tarun: Ab bol
Me: Yaar, Neha is married now. Ab uska picha chod de. Kyun tu ab bhi uske piche padha hai, let her be happy in her life
Tarun: Tu galat samaj raha hai, bhai. Maine tere se Neha ke liye kuch nai pucha. Na address manga aur na phone number. Sirf uske husband aur family ka nature pucha
Me: Haan toh
Tarun: Main usse aaj bhi apni best friend manta hu. Aaj hum dono baat nai karte but iska matlab yeh nai ki I don’t care for her. Main sirf itna janna chahta tha ki woh khush hai na and agar uske in-laws ache hai toh matlab woh khush hai.
Me: Aur woh college ke time ka propose, Woh sab kya tha ?
Tarun: Yaar uske dimaag mein Yash ka bukhar tha. And Yash sahi ladka nai tha. Maine sunn liya tha ki Yash uske saath relationship sirf naam ke liye bana raha hai. Aur Neha ko jab bhi main Yash ke liye kuch kehta tha toh usko lagta tha I am being jealous. And I knew agar main propose karunga toh fir Yash nahi karega. Because Yash waise bhi serious nai hai aur kuch problem hua toh bhaag jayega.
Me: Aur agar uss din Neha haan kehti fir ?
Tarun (smiled): Jo possible nai, uski baat nai karte hai. Ab kuch aur baat kare ? jaise rent pe ghar ke bare mein ? ab tak nai mila mujhe. Main kahi shift nai hua toh main apna naya ghar renovate kaise karwauga
Me: Ab yaar koi mil nai raha jo apna ghar sirf do mahine ke liye rent pe de
We discussed few things and after sometime, I left for home.

That same Sunday night
Vikas forwarded a message in the whatapp group about a house available for rent.
Someone: Arey tune real estate commission ka bhi business shuru kiya hai
Vikas: Nai dost, yeh jiska ghar hai woh meri wife ke pechan ki hai. Unko paiso ki need hai isiliye ghar rent pe de rahe hai. Meri wife ne kaha sab groups mein forward karne ke liye.
My mind was thinking that God is such a big gamer, on one side Tarun is looking for home and on another side, Neha searching tenant for her friend. What a big co-incidence. I forwarded same message to Tarun but never told him about the source of the message.

After few days
Tarun shifted to that place.
Tarun : Tu toh bol raha tha lady ko paiso ki zarurat hai
Me: Haan
Tarun: Usne kaha usko koi zarurat nai hai, woh toh USA ja rahi hai kuch months ke liye, isiliye rent pe de rahi hai
Me: Pata nai, mujhe jo kaha gaya woh bataya
It means Neha knew that Tarun is looking for house on rent.

Deep inside my heart, I understood one thing: Silence can never define friendship, only silent care can.

Temple Run

This is Part III of story. There are 5 parts of the story, each of them is about Saturday meetups with friends. All 5 parts are connected. Link to earlier part : Part-I Part-II

Saturday｜Set your day

Temple Run

15^th July, 2016(Friday)
Got the message from Tanya : “kal subah 6:30 baje, mere ghar ke pass aa jana and hum titwala jayege, meri friend  bhi chalegi saath mein”


16^th July, 2016(Saturday)[THIRD SET YOUR DAY]
6:25 am
I reached there before time. Tanya was already standing with Chetna. I was in complete shock. Tanya gave a happy smile. Tanya introduced me to Chetna pretending that I don't know Chetna. We started our journey to titwala in Tanya’s car. I was sitting in front seat along with driver.Tanya and Chetna on back seat.

Tanya: FM on karo na
Me: Kaunsa channel chalu karu
Tanya:Koi bhi
Chetna: Mohit, Radio Youth Zindagi lagao

Hearing my name in her voice was like hearing a song. I was super excited. I switched on the FM channel “Radio Youth Zindagi”

Tanya: uspe ka chalta hai iss time ? new song ?
Chetna: Nahi, uspe ek show aata hai “Relation advice from RJ Mickey” and uspe yeh RJ Mickey, Big B ke awaz mein relationship advise deta hai between 6 am to 7am of the questions asked on day before.
Tanya: But Big B hi kyun ?
Chetna: May be becoz log usse jaldi connect hote hai

Till 7am we were listening to radio show then we started talking on random topic. We reached titwala at 7 30 am. And I realised that Chetna is now in comfort zone while talking with me.

We were in temple. She was standing next to me. I don’t know what she was exactly praying but I prayed for her “Bhagwan iski jo bhi wish hai usse pura kar dena”

Then we went for a breakfast to a nearby restaurant which was around 5 mins from temple.
Me: woh ladka kaun tha, jo tumare saath classes pe aata tha
Chetna: woh toh mera cousin tha
Me: Toh tum kisi se baat kyun nai karti thi
Chetna: uss time koi ek ladka pareshan karta tha. Uss wajah se main pareshan rehti thi. Boys se kum baat karti thi. Mera cousin bhi meri safety ke liye saath tha
Me: Ab bhi boys se kum baat karti ho na?
Chetna: Nai, I have a changed a lot. College mein kum baat karti hu bcoz abi toh college start hua hai. But mera best friend bhi ek ladka hai, Yash mera best friend hai. Hum din mein ek baar toh phone pe baat karte hi hai
Me: Hey, give me 10 mins, main aata hu

I went outside and came after sometime

Tanya: Kidar gaya tha
Me: Mandir
Tanya: kyun
Me:  Arey kuch kaam tha, mat puch.

Same day. 7pm
I reached our reunion point. Tanya was already there. She was smiling.

Me: Thank you so so so so very much. You made my day, my life
Tanya: Kuch bhi bol raha hai.
Me: Sach mein
Tanya: Acha chal fir party de. Waise bhi last week jo hua uske baad I don’t think koi aayega, aaj.
Me: ok, leke aata hu kuch, wait kar
Tanya: Ruk, pehle yeh bata subah jab hum breakfast kar rahe the tu suddenly firse mandir kyun gaya  tha ?
Me: Pehle jab hum mandir gaye the, tab maine pray kiya tha. Chetna ki jo bhi wish ho usse pura karna, Bhagwan
Tanya: ok toh ?
Me: fir jab hum breakfast karne baithe, toh usne bataya uska Yash karke koi best friend hai aur dono roz baat karte hai. Toh main darr gaya. Main wapas gaya and pray kiya ki
Tanya: Ki ?
Me: Chetna ki jo bhi wish ho usse pura karna but agar uski koi wish Yash ke saath future related toh uss wish ko pura nai bhi karoge toh chalega

Tanya had an uncontrollable laughter that time.

--- End of Part III---

Every thing was fine till now. But what will happen when Adi come across the reality.

Catch up part IV : Check mate

Wrong Number

This is Part II of story. There are 5 parts of the story, each of them is about Saturday meetups with friends. All 5 parts are connected . Click here for Part I : Hero or Villain

Saturday::Set your day

9^th July, 2016(Saturday)[SECOND SET YOUR DAY]
7:05PM
Aditya, Kiran and Prem were already there.

Me: Hi guys
Others:Hi
Me:Ek good news hai, Mujhe part time job mili hai
Aditya: Congrats yaar bus ab yeh Tanya bhi good news leke aaye mere liye

Suddenly Tanya came
Tanya: Sorry Adi, news achi nai hai
Aditya: kyun
Tanya: woh ladka jo Chetna ke saath classes pe aata tha woh uska fiancée tha and sad part is uske 18^th birthday ke 10 din ke andar uski shadi bhi ho gayi. Choti si age mein shadi ho gayi isiliye woh sabse apni shadi ki baat chupati hai.

Everyone was disappointed.
Aditya: main ghar ja raha hu

Aditya left the place, Prem and Kiran went with him. Even I was about to leave.

Me: Chal main bhi nikalta hu

Tanya: ruk maine snacks order kiye hai, leke aati hu
Tanya went and came back
Me: yaar tujhe pata hai yeh sab hua hai, fir bhi tu itna sab layi hai.
Tanya: Teen reasons hai, Pehle kal tera birthday tha, dusra tera job laga hai. Unlogo ne toh pucha bhi nai kaunsi job hai, kya hai. Aur iss Aditya ke liye tu Chetna ko sacrifice kar raha tha.
Me: Kya Sacrifice ? woh kabhi meri thi hi nai aur ab toh ho bhi nahi sakti. Woh toh “wrong number” thi, jispe time waste kiya.
Tanya: Tune shayad ache se suna nai, maine kaha tha teen reasons. Teesra reason hai ki Aditya ab tere raste se hat gaya
Me: Kya fayada
Tanya: Chetna ki koi shadi nai hui, maine jooth kaha tha
Me(with excitement): kya ? are you serious ?
Tanya: haan main serious hu
Me: toh woh ladka jo uske saath aata tha ?
Tanya: woh Chetna ka cousin hai

On one side, I was confused between my Hero-Villain theory, but on other side I was equally happy. It was a big relief to know that she is still single.

*** End of Part II***

So many lies but still hoping things will work. Will they ?
Catch up Part III : Temple Run (Click on link)

Hero or Villain

This is Part I of story. There are 5 parts of the story, each of them is about Saturday meetups with friends. All 5 parts are connected

Saturday::Set your day

Life changes after 12^th, friends get divided into different streams. But some friends still make their way to stay in touch. Even we made it. Our college ended in Mid-February and since feb only, we started reunion meets. Every last Saturday of the month was a re-union day. Initially our strength was 30-35 friends in first reunion but now it has decreased to 8-9 friends on our last(5^th reunion).

1^st July, 2016(Friday)
11:30 PM
I got a call from Aditya
Aditya: Hi Mohit
Me: Hi
Aditya: Kal reunion karte hai
Me: Bhai kal pehla Saturday hai, last nai
Aditya: I know par kuch hai, jo mujhse tum logo se discuss karna hai, ab aur questions nai. Just be there at 7 pm sharp
Mohit: ok

2^nd July, 2016(Saturday)[FIRST SET YOUR DAY]
7:30 PM

I was late and I was last one to reach there. There were four friends waiting for me. Aditya, Kiran(male), Prem and Tanya
After few minutes of discussion on why I am late. Aditya spelled the beans.
Aditya: Guys, mujhe pyaar ho gaya hai
Prem: Kaun woh Kiran ? woh teri padosan ? lucky yaar , kafi beautiful hai
Kiran: Nai yaar Kiran mat bol, hamare group mein se koi bhi Kiran naam ki ladki se relation nai rakhega
Aditya: Its Chetna. Yaad hai woh maths classes wali ladki.

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Let me introduce them one by one

Aditya: Aditya by character is a synonym of being selfish. Aditya was amongst those boys who pretend to get injured after they finish up their batting. He is so-called-friend to everyone.

Kiran: Kiran has mastery in writing ‘application for correction in ID’. From aadhar card to election card, from college id to school id, everytime his gender was mistaken as female. His second irritation point was being called as KKKKiran.

Prem: His name defines him. If you are a girl and Prem have seen you, even once then congratulations you were/are his crush. He falls in so offen that I feel that even gravitational force has lesser power as compared to his love force.

Tanya: Straight forward. ‘Zero second’ is the time difference between her thinking and saying something. Ladkiyo ki Sunny Deol .Not a tomboy but a fighter. She does only what she think is right. We know each other very well as she was my school mate,

Chetna: Every class has one such girl whom every guy likes. Chetna was Ashwariya Rai of the class. She was our classmate(at private classes which was only for maths subject). She was always accompanied with a boy. I never saw her talking to any other boy or girl. No one knows her college, her number or anything except her name.

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Back to the story.
Aditya: Its Chetna. Yaad hai woh maths classes wali ladki.
Prem: Lucky yaar, kaha mili ?
Aditya: College mein yaar. 
Me : Par woh to NG College of Management mein hai aur tu SN college mein
(Tanya was giving me a strange look)
Aditya: Arey sorry, tum logo ko shayad bataya nai, maine apna admission SN college mein se cancel karwa ke NG College of Management mein liya hai.
Tanya: Haan thik hai, but hume kyun bulaya hai yaha ?
Aditya: Tum log mujhe support karna future mein. Khaas kar tu Tanya. Kal usne apni friend ko kaha woh Mc Donalds ke  yaha shift hui hai, means tere area mein. Chalo guys promise me, you will support. Kiran ?
Kiran: I promise
Aditya: Prem ?
Prem: I promise to support
Aditya: Tanya ?
Tanya: Promise kya ? tujhe hum pe vishwas nai hai kya. Iske baad, Mohit se bhi promise mat le. Haan karugi support bus. Ab kuch khane ke liye leke aau ? Self service hai, koi waiter nai aayega.
Aditya: Thanks. Ya leke aa, aaj waise bhi tera turn hai.
Tanya(turning towards me) : Chal Mohit, tera support lagegi, sab main akele nai utha sakti.

We reached counter. She turned back and confirmed that none of our friends is with us.
Tanya: Tujhe Chetna pasand hai na ?
Me: nai toh
Tanya: Marr khani hai meri, mujhse jooth bolega ?
Me: Pasand nai bus thoda thoda like karta hu
Tanya: ek hi baat hai
Me: Par, tujhe kaise malum pada
Tanya: Chetna ek alien type girl hai. Uske bare mein kisko kuch nai pata. Adi ko isliye malum pada bcoz who dono ek hi college mein hai. But tujhe pehle se pata tha.
Me: Ok. Par ab its time to support our friend Adi. Khud ka fayada dekhna galat hoga. Usse sab bata deta hu ki main bhi usse like karta tha but abi nai.
Tanya: Oh Harshvardhan ! sachai ki murat, daani purush
Mohit: Harshvardhan ? Harishchandra na ?
Tanya: Haan jo bhi hai. Koi friend nai hai woh. Aaj kaam pada hai isiliye salaam kar raha hai. And teri pyar kya jootha hai. Mahanpurush banne ki koi zarurat nai hai. Tujhe promise karne se aise hi nai bachaya. Uss selfish ko maddat karne se acha hai tu Chetna ko panne ki koshish kar,  main support karugi tujhe aur...

Tanya stopped herself when she saw Prem coming toward us.

After sometime, we all finished eating and decided two things. One, we will meet on every Saturday and second, Aditya will propose Chetna by last Saturday of this month. We were about to leave just then an old lady came with heavy bag walking towards apartment nearby.
Me: Aunty help karu ?
Lady: haan beta yeh lo, 2^nd floor pe chalna hai, le sakte ho isse
Me: haan aunty, itna bhi heavy nai hai.
I waved everyone bye and went with the lady inside the apartment. When I came back outside.
Watchman: kya sahib, nuksaan karwa diya mera. Main saman leke jata toh mere ko aunty 10 rupayee baksish deti thi na.
I had no answer for him.

Tanya was still standing there.
Tanya: Dekha, live example.
Mohit: Kya matlab ? main samja nai
Tanya: “Neki kar, dariya mein dal”. Log sochte hai ki yeh neki ko dariya mein dalne ki baat ho rahi hai. Galat sochte hai. Yeh dariya mein na uss nekki karnewale ko dalne ki baat hoti hai. Acha karne walo ko koi yaad nai rakhta. Ab bhi tu usko support karega toh soch le, nuksaan tera hi hoga. Aage tu soch. Main chalti hu bye.
She left without even waiting for me to say bye.

I know that Tanya manipulated the meaning of that quote. But, today my heart wanted to accept the wrong meaning. I realised that heart always accept that advice which favours us the most. Now only question in my mind was am I doing right or wrong ?  will I be hero or villain in other's view ?

*** End of Part I***

Tanya was always seen with a guy at classes. Who was that guy and how his reality will impact us.
To know catch up Part II : Wrong Number (Click on link)

Muskaan

पाँच तत्व की इस दुनिया में

महत्व सिर्फ उसकी हँसी का था

इत्र लगाने से तो सिर्फ कपडे महकते थे

मेरा 'मोहित' होना तो उसकी खुशी से था

वो खुश हो तो दिन मेरा अच्छा बन जाता था

नाराज़ हो तो मेरे चेहरे का भी रंग उत्तर जाता था

पर आज उसकी वो हँसी कही गुम थी

आज मेरी वजह से उसकी आँखें नम थी

नाराज़गी नहीं, शायद मेरी साँसे कम थी

शोर करती हस्पताल की उस मशीन को क्या पता

दिल की धड़कन तो उसकी मुस्कराहट से बढ़ती है

इंजेक्शन में दवा बरते उस डॉक्टर को क्या पता

जीने की दुआ तो उसकी मुस्कान से मिलती है

दौडते हुए आसुओ को समजा दो

जिंदगी तो उनकी खुशी से चलती है

आँखों को बंद करते उस हाथ रोक लो

उसकी मुस्कान को आखरी बार देखना बाकी है

अब लगता है भगवन के पास जाने का समय आ गया है

दुनिया को अलविदा कहना का समय आ गया है

खुदा से उसकी मुस्कान वापस मागने का समय आ गया है

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