“And there goes the final whistle, Liverpool have won comfortably”, echoed the words of FIFA11 commentators Andy Grey and Martin Tyler. As this words passed through headphones and echoed back into the ears of our protagonist Gaurav, along with the sight of his winning team celebrating, he passed a soothing smile. The kind of smile his parents had when he had passed his SSC examinations with flying colors. Fast forward four years and they never got to wear that smile again.
As he leaned on his chair with heavy chest proud as if he has conquered the world, he tried to exercise his neck by moving it towards the left side, and then right and then again left and he almost sprained his neck. He turned towards the right side again and he saw something which almost took his newly found bliss level to zero. His plane of happiness encountered an engine failure and crashed and burned.
He saw clock and he saw the time. It was 1.30 am. He had exams in exactly 12 hours from now. He couldn’t believe it. He had finished his dinner by 9.30 and thought he would just check his facebook page for any notification and then may be play a game or 2 online and then do proper studies. And how the hell he ended up wasting so much time, the victory seemed nothing to him now. He was confused. Quickly he decide that he will take a nap for 2 hours and then freshen up and finish at least 2 modules….
20 minutes passed and he was still lying in his bed trying to get sleep. Sleep is a weird phenomena, it never comes when we need it the most. He checked his cell phone which he had kept below his pillow. He started reading his “unread” messages, around half a dozen messages from his girlfriend sadhana,
“ my love for you is like pacific ocean, thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiissssssssss big”
Messages were cure enough to send love tickles through his heart. He checked the time, it was almost 2 am. He wanted to call her. He was caught into a dilemma. “I should call her” and “ I shouldn’t disturb her”. And as usual he listened to his selfish heart and pressed the green button of his cell phone. Her cell phone rang but she dint pick.
At this instance He was happy as well as sad, happy because he was not guilty of disrupting her sleep and sad because he couldn’t fulfill his urge to talk to her. He was getting irritated with every passing second.
And suddenly he felt something tickling his ears. It was his mobile with “sadhana calling” flashing the blue lighted sceen.
gaurav picked n before he could even say a simple "hello", he got bombarded with all sorts of questions
"i was in the loo when u called. i couldnt sleep . where were you? i was trying to call u from past 3 hours , what happend to your cellphone, y u switch it off ?? "
" please dont remind me about past hours"...i literally wasted , my whole life is bloody wasted, totaly wasted im gud for nothing ya, i have exams in next 10 hours or so and im not even prepared with 1 module , m geting royally screwdd tomorow" he went on to say a lot,
sadhana was quite as usual, she was the least caring person herself. but when it came to important stuff like exams, she used to give her best, 100% efforts..she couldnt resist her sweet smile.
she knew everything about gaurav and his freakish nature
"baby, just come out in the balcony for a while" she replied calmly
"for what" gaurav asked, still pissed at himself and everything else
"listen, just come out n feel the fresh air u idiot" she said so sweetly and as always he couldnt resist her 'order'.
"ok now listen, u still have time, do as much as u can, next paper after a week na, so tomorrow u can sleep whole evening and night, today u just concentrate for this 10 hours" she said
"yes, but im feeling so mindfucked, n i dont have any idea what to start"
she smiled again
"ur getting mindfucked??, ur supposedly mr. cool" she laughed and then said
"ok, u have four modules na, just start with the 3rd one, number 3 is lucky for you today, i read ur horoscope"
gaurav forgot about his woes for a split second and giggled
"oye, that 3rd module comes very tough , and i know that horoscope thing u just made it up"
"no, tomorrow its gonna come very easy, like very very easy, so do it"
"ok my darling, i sure will" gaurav was all cheered up now
"now dont be romantic, u know u suck at it"
gaurav laughed,
"ok , now look at the moon" sadhana went on..
"moon.. and u...hmmm becoming romantic ha" gaurav interrupted
"oh shut up!! u know im not like other girls...all lovey-dovey stuff..dont be optimistic u fool, im not gonna say 'i want moon' or 'ur my moon'..hahaha" she passed on her evil laugh which made gaurav even more cheerful
"just look at the moon and see the 2 bright stars on the right side of the moon"
"yeah spotted " gaurav replied
"just look at those stars and pray that ur paper goes good" she said with a pleasant smile
"ok my darling, done " gaurav said after pretendint to pray for 1 minute or so..
"now that's more like my obedient darling" she said, and this time she passed on a naughty smile
from here on their conversation went from being general to bit private and privacy is not the genre we would like to touch upon..
it was 3.00 am now and gaurav had finished talking or rather was forced by sadhana to stop talking. he entered his room with a smile. his face was glowing like a moon. he seemed all enthusiastic and all set to study. he sorted all the 3rd module notes and kept on his table.
but when he was about to close the lid of his laptop, something weird happened. "i would just check my facebook page for one last time" thought crossed his mind. its like how they show in movies. "jaise koi hawa ka halka sa jhoka aaya". he moved his fingers over his touch pad. his fingers started typing "www.facebook.com automatically. within no time the domains got replaced by gmail, yahoo. he started checking his wall, mails , notifications.
'the one last time' continued for the next three hours until he was transported to a dream state with his cheek getting the imprints of the keyboard below.
P.S. 1) gaurav was awakened at 10am by his best friend rowen who called him to tell that he too ended up doing nothing. they spoke for around 1 hour and the topic of their discussion was certainly not related to studies...:P
2)details of their conversation cant be revealed because of the high level of TRUST between them...:)
3)they both ended up screwing that day's paper, but that conversation changed their lives. the day which started abruptly for gaurav set a great landmark for better things to come and he went on to clear all the remaining papers...:D
4)and for rowen, well, gaurav's sixth sense is always spot on...;)
