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'I am coming'. reading these three words on the text message sent by my best friend on a warm April day was like a gust of cool air filling me with solace, after which I turned the mobile phone off and began my waiting for two days therewithal planning about the trip we had decided to take around the city I live in.
My waiting ended when she came on the second day asserting to stay for three days. We decided she should rest on the first day and on the second day we started our 'expedition around the town'.
Everyone knows about the renowned locations, has seen them online and visited them thousands of times and that everyone included my best friend too and that was the reason I wanted to do something different.
I wanted to show her the hidden treasures that I have discovered in the two years I have lived here. So I decided to take her to Books N Brew, a bookstore cafe, and started our day with the famous cheese paratha and masala chai in its nice comfortable ambiance. "Why didn't you tell me about this gem?", she asked implying the cafe and the food served in front of us since the food lover she was. We spent some time there biting into the cheesy delicacy and savoring the refreshing flavor of the chai while our imagination took us to another dimension, reading the books.
After we were finished we paid the bill and came outside where the scooty was parked with our supplies we had brought from home, resting in the under-seat compartment of the scooty, we drove off to Garden of Fragrance. It was a fragrant botanic garden with shrubs, flowers, and a path. We took our supplies out which consisted of the food basket and the sitting mat and after finding a shaded place we chose to sit there and spend the rest of the late afternoon and the evening there.
Peaceful that's how the whole world felt in that moment with a soft hindi song playing in the background, chirping of birds flowed in the air, a light breeze caressing our suntanned skin while some sunlight trickled in through the cracks of the canopy and the 21-st century teenager we were, we clicked some pictures in the polaroid camera as a reminder of this memorable day.
Tng!Tng!Tng!
Listening to the sound I looked around me to found KulcheWali who was passing by us, my best friend's eyes fell on her too and we knew what we wanted next. "Mmmm...it was uh-mazing", Harman exclaimed finishing her kulcha and I answered, "Yahi toh baat hai sadgi main(This is the beauty in simplicity)" to which she nodded. That day I not only made memories and explored the city with my best friend but the found elegance in simplicity too.
