Senseless Syndrome

ramanujam May 3rd, 2006

Nikhil was returning home late as usual and he was accompanied by one of his close friends Ondipuli a.k.a Tinku. They both started late from Heaven’s Dumping Yard(meeting place…) but a little time was saved as BFB dropped both of them in the railway station with the borrowed bike. They stood in the queue to get the tickets and as they got down the stairs the train started and left. What a bad luck!!!

‘We’ll have to wait for at least another 15 minutes for the next train da’, said Nikhil
‘No probs da machi…’ replied Tinku with his ever enchanting smile.
But within a minute the next train arrived. Nikhil travels regularly in train but has never seen two trains in such quick succession.
‘Get in here da, this is less crowded’ said Tinku.
As soon as they entered the compartment their eyes moved towards the girl clad in the blue salwar kameez. Nikhil took a glance and moved on to the other side but it was Tinku who was responsible for the day’s happenings.
‘Dei she looks good… we’ll go there and stand da, time pass!’ said Tinku.
‘Ok! As you wish, come on’ replied Nikhil
They both went and stood near the entrance enjoying both the warm breeze and the great looks. As Nikhil took another glance at her his sight fell on the man sitting next to her with whom she was conversing. The man was stout and hefty and no way resembled the girl and he felt that it could not be her father. In the meantime
‘Machi do you think that man is her father, I don’t think so…’ said Tinku.
Two accused people thinking in the same way!!!!

Within a minute Tinku’s station arrived and he got down and there were 4 more stations to Nikhil’s destination. He glanced at her again and again and longed that she get down before him so that he could have a closer look when she gets down. He opened his bag and took the Sidney Sheldon novel in which over the past week he has not even crossed 25 pages. Not in sigh he threw it back into the bag and waited. At last Nikhil’s stationed too arrived but he was in no mood to get down as though feeling a separation of a decade’s bondage but he had to. He took one last glance at her and unwillingly got down as the train slowed down.

He reluctantly climbed the stairs and moved amidst the crowded lobby and somehow got on to the road. He got his fauvorite 5 star chocolate from the potti kadai and walked dreaming all the way chewing the chocolate. As he took the left turn near the Hanuman koil it was as though a 1000 watts bulb was glowing inside Nikhil. The same girl and the man were walking behind him. Suddenly an instinct told him ‘did I do something wrong…was he following me…No way…’ He turned back slightly and looked at her. She looked even more beautiful in the shining sodium vapour lamp. Is this what we call as ‘Backward Glance’!!! Nikhil felt that there is some chemistry working between the two!!!

He looked back in regular intervals so as to see where they are parting. He neared his home but still they were coming behind. A slight fear rose inside Nikhil but he felt his courage too. He entered his apartment and so did the two. Nikhil was totally confused and they entered flat no 12. Nikhil lived in flat number 11 and when he came to know that they were the new occupants of his opposite flat he was flying in the sky!!! His joy had no bounds. He switched on his computer and played Bryan Adams’ “I m on cloud #9”. What a song to match the situation!!!

Read THE BLUE BEAUTY-Was it a dream???-1…

DISCLAIMER: All characters and places are purely fictional and any similitude with the author or his friend whose name has been used is a mere coincide and I am no way responsible

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