Where it all BEGAN!

He used to call his dad each day this year asking when are you coming home papa, today following his father's foot steps Shreyas knew what it was to sit in a bank on a closing day. It was not just a closing day for him, tomorrow  was a D day. He took a new job from Delhi to Bangalore but he was not satisfied here, six months went by daily he used to curse his luck, saying why did he leave Delhi, he was so happy there friends, love, travel he had everything he could dream of.  But may be it was fate that made him come to this alien city.

          It was almost 8 PM his work was not finished yet, there was a cricket match going on Ind vs WI, which he being a cricket fan was missing it. Off late he had become workaholic may be it was to keep him busy and forget Nidhi or may be loved the idea of his mind being pre occupied with things. Although he didn’t quite like working there, a new city with no friends unknown language and a rural posting he had no other option but to work. Shreyas used to console himself by looking at his brand new bike, his posh life style, the expenditures he made and most importantly the happiness in his parents eyes as their son was HOME. People saying money can't buy happiness but have you heard the karrrrr sound ATM makes on 27th of every month, well that karrrrr sound was why Shreyas was surviving in that alien city.

          Finally at about 9 PM his work was done and he called his parents that he was leaving for home. A 60km ride generally makes your parents worry and that too riding in the highway during night. A worried Mother on the other end of the line said, beta drive carefully and come I am making Alu parathe your favorite. He wore his helmet put on his gloves and zoom started his brand new Bajaj Avenger F.L.G  his first investment all thanks to the bank. Around 10:30 he was home the highway route makes it fast but as usual he got that scolding from his Maa, I know you drove fast to reach home now go freshen up Alu parathe is ready. He giggled and went to change. No one and he means it no one could beat his mom's Alu parathe. He looked at his dad and smiled finally he had realized all those years when his dad used to come late how he would have felt working in the bank. They had their family dinner and his bro was teasing him saying like father like son now enjoy your life, he was enjoying that moment. After dinner was the time to discuss the elephant in the rom his results which was about to be published in a few hours, yes that was a D day moment for Shreyas. The family talk had started and his dad wished him all the best and went to sleep.

          Sleep was something which Shreyas was deprived of for a couple of months now. The reason in short was boy meets a girl feels in love with her, girl hesitates but finally accepts they live happily but that after part was not to be written in his life may be it was karma for what he had once did. Long distance never works his friends kept on telling him as he was leaving Delhi 6 months back but he had faith on his love it would. Initially it was good but then it was all bout why don’t you call me anymore, you can’t even spare a few minutes for me. They used to fight they used to make up but a lot changed, that physical presence of your partner along with you holding arms making love, those couple moments together is needed in a relationship unfortunately a video call on skype and those long night WhatsApp conversations couldn’t save their relationship. Now all he had was memories of someone that he used to know. It was Nidhi who used to see Shreyas results and say sorry baby I know you worked so hard but and used to pause at this moment, when Shreyas was about to cry she used to shout and hug him saying congratulations you did it again. He hated her for doing that but loved her for bringing that smile on his face. Tonight he was alone there was no Nidhi to talk to it was almost two months they hadn’t spoke with one other.

It was 11:30 only half an hour was left for midnight it felt as if the watch had stopped at that moment Shreyas could literally hear the clock ticking tick tock tick tock finally the clock struck 12 it was midnight. This time Nidhi was not there to call him yet he had hope his cell would ring. It was just him sitting there with sweaty hands, trembling and a fearing what would happen. He couldn’t work at Bangalore any more he hated that place. 12:05 he opened his laptop ,the website isn’t working, generally a website crashes because of a huge number of hits at a single time so he opened other forums to get some information on the results. It's funny how a person can accumulate all the negative thoughts in merely a couple of seconds. Wait what it's delayed, what do you mean it's delayed it's supposed  to be published at midnight it's already 10 minutes past midnight some one in the forum said the results were delayed till 2 AM . That's two hours what will I do know he thought God it was going to be a long night.