The Day When Everything Went Wrong :

It was December 4^th, Saturday morning. I was lying partly on the bed and partly on her. She was becoming mischievous and I was no different. One one side of the bed, I left my laptop ON and neither of us noticed that some video in the laptop was running since long. But the moment I realized this, without her noticing, I ran my favourite sound track ‘s playlist on my laptop at a low volume , adding spice to the romantic ambience of the room. Everything was so perfect---you know….a dimly lit room, light music running in the background, nice bed sheets, nice scent spread across the room, and HER and me.

I was watching her eye lashes going down further, gently closing her eyes. Her eyes dazzling, her cute nose, making an irregular figure on her cheeks. I touched her nose with mine after which I rubbed it against hers, just like mothers do with their beautiful babies. My baby, she smiled with mischievous shyness.

What a beautiful moment that was! And, ofcourse,I had to make a memorable one, and how could that be without a kiss? And that’s why in no time, I thought of innumerous things, like I would do this…do that…make it more memorable….So much planning for a kiss?

“TRING…..TRING….TRING…..” This sounded like “BANG…..BANG..BANG…” to me! I woke up , just to realize that my cell phone was ringing….”.Holyshit!!!..it was again a dream….oh, illi (Ileana), I missed you again…” I thought to myself.

The phone was still ringing; I could see “Srinath Calling….”! With little disappointment, I lifted the call and said “Hi……..ummm..uhh….Anna, whats up?”

Srinath as usual in his cheerful tone said” Hero! Its already 9:30..you were supposed to come to my place at 10…where are you now??”

First of all I was little disturbed, then secondly I was addled, muddled and fuddled…I felt “aaah..god ,what a timing?...then I answered him…..

Me: Anna, Cheppanna!!

Srinath: Vedava, where are you?

Me: …”Anna, I am “almost ready”, “just taking my bike”, ” near chaderghat””

Srinath: Hmmm….. “Ok..come soon….remember we need to shop”..

Me: “what ? shop? Oh, ya , ya ! shop and followed by movie..…remember? ok, am coming…cya”!

Then for a moment, I thought to myself, what the hell I said..….first being ..i am almost ready, secondly I am taking my bike and thirdly I am near chadarghat…..!! what a parody. Holyshit, how come Srinath believed this, I just pondered…within no time I realized that he knows very well about me..and I just laughed inside and rushed to the washroom.

Nevertheless, later I started my bike ride and headed across my “lovely hyderabadi roads”…remember they are “LOVELY”. I was just crossing chadarghat, starting on the left of the road,where-in I observed that the man who was following me on his bike took right, as I occupied left. I just felt what if this is also occupied. Well, so this man, started blowing his horn now. For me, it is a sign of protest. But for this man, may be it is like expressing joy, resentment, frustration, romance and bare lust (two brisk blasts), Later, while I was crossing habsiguda, I have to stop near a signal, where in without any reason a traffic police man said to me ”bandi side theesko”. meaning “come aside”. I just thought, another cheap constable, “Uski @#$%$#@*”. He stopped me for no good reason. I was wearing helmet and was riding calmly at moving traffic speed. He asked me for pollution certificate , expecting that i may not be knowing its sticker pasted on the front. I simply replied its already pasted on dome of my bike and then he said no no i am asking for RC and your licence. He asked me to park my bike taking left turn where i was to go straight and it was my traffic signal. I told him i am in hurry and i have to go straight. he was rude and asked me to park the bike i did, showed him all the papers and my licence. Now, he is thinking what to ask….and finally asked me about the” font “of my number plate, which according to him is improper. I just saw time, it was 12 sharp, which means it is lunch time, so this guy is collecting his lunch money from me, I thought to myself… i was already irate and cant afford to loose anytime, so I took out my wallet from the backside of my jeans and with style asked him ”entha kavali?” Meaning..”how much?” The very next moment I can see smiles of heaven on his sluggish face…

However destiny played a cruel role here. Unfortunately my wallet was void of money. So I had to take that constable to a nearby ATM and then give him 100 bugs for no reason.

And by the time I reached Srinath’s place, it was already little past 1 PM. As usual, he greeted me with a 24-carrot smile. He was all set and was just waiting for me. So after having hot tea prepared by aunty , we both headed to shopping mall.

“Men” and “Shopping”…..seems two unrelated words. I had pretty disastrous experiences with some of my female friends when it comes to shopping. Which made me realize that shopping never means buying? Sometime back, one good friend asked me to accompany her for “shopping”. We both walked around the whole city and then she decided to buy a scarf from the corner shop outside her house.. Goddamnit, then why she roamed whole city? i thought to myself that I should take revenge by taking her around 8 different pubs (not drinking anything) and then going back to the first one to get a glass of water. By the way, guys, I don’t drink in reality, but definitely given a chance, would take this revenge. Now, this same “shopping” with men is glorifying experience. The moment we both entered mall, we selected one peice. Hardly it took 1-3 minutes. I was super thrilled considering my earlier experiences. However, we both wanted to make sure that we did not leave anything better. So this thought made us to roam multiple malls. Finally thinking that the first one is best one. By the way, we did not buy it, but we “choose” it.

“Anna”, I said all of a sudden. “What about movie plan?”. Then we both called our dear friend Sai, and he was also interested to accompany us. Then completing our lunch at a thai food court, we went to Srinath’s place. 15 minuted were remaining for the movie to begin. All the three of us are ascertained to watch it at any cost. The plan was to go triples on bike. So I took my bike out, only to realize that it was punctured badly. “HolyShit!! Anna, bike is puctuerd” I said. Then he immediately called SAI to bring his bike, However sadly, some one else took Sai’s bike. Then, Srinath, chilled me and took out his active. But destiny…..destiny man….it has enchained us and made us dumb…..his active was not starting…..now we watched the time…it was exactly the show time. Even then we decided to watch the show, even if we were late. No matter what, we are so determined. So finally we all planned to go in auto only to see the banner “HOUSE-FUL” outside theatre.

Well, now that it is out of hands and it being a Saturday, suddenly Sai asked us ““shall we go to that place?”, showing something, which I didn’t notice clearly.

Unknowingly, I said “oh! That one…?” And before any of ours dirty brain-cells could start thinking something filthy, Sai cleared the picture…that he was referring to a sit-out. Then, I said, oh ya, even I was thinking the same…we all had big laughJ

Later that day, they both went to second show and finally made their day.