My Journey - A Left Right Left Story

XXV

21st October, 2006.

So, yesterday we all had the unique experience of having dinner in an informal setting. Even more so when it was cooked by Rajveer and Gunny. Needless to say that things were pretty awkward, and only became normal when both Huda and Yudi tried to steal some food from Aalekh's plate, this resulted in a chase with both Huda and Yudi trying to hide behind their respective mentors.

Anyways, I was incharge of breakfast and come on yaar it is Diwali so I may have gone a little overboard with it ?? Jo bhi ho, I was really happy with my handiwork and by the looks on their faces it seemed others were pretty impressed too. So without a delay everyone dug in, all awkwardness from previous night forgotten. Well it could also be the fact that  all of us were still in our pyjamas.  

As soon as they had their first bite Huda, Yudi and Pooja fell at her feet doing full drama about the food.

Huda : Oye Phoolan tu toh Maha Kali ke saath saath shakshath Anapoorana ka avatar nikli.

Yudi : Dude yeh dono kaun hai ?

Huda : Arrey mere angrez yeh dono Devi yani ki goddesses hai.

Yudi : Oh okay.

Pooja : Oye, Jatt tu ne pehli baar ekdum sahi signal pakda hai. Arrey meri angry caller tune toh aaj aisa recharge kiya hai jaise ki ₹1 mai 100 message aur 5 min ka talk time free.

Ali : Waqi mai Naina, khanna kafi swadisht hai.

Yudi : Please Naina academy mai bhi kamse kam month mai ek baar humare liye khana banna do. I'm ligit begging you.

Abhimanyu : Hum baat karenge Suri ji se permission ke liye. 

Gunny : I'll back you up.

Shalini : Me too.

Naina : Okaaayyy ??

Aalekh (whispering) : Itna accha pakati hai, par khata kon hai ? 

Rajveer (also whispering) : Yeh toh main bhi janna chaunga.   

Baqi ka breakfast bhi kuch aise hi guzra. And after that we all went about our day. Abhimanyu took everyone to the main town, while Rajveer, Gunny, Bunty and I checked and triple checked everything to make sure everything was alright and working.

We all regrouped around 4 to start to get ready for the party which started around 8.

The prep reminded me of Fresher's Ball. But in the end all of us reached the party 'fashionably late'. 

And by God did it feel like any other corporate party, with sleaze balls trying to chat me up for contracts. A nice reminder as to why I wanted an out as the CEO. The mixture between the military and civilian was so odd to see. Power hungry 'adults' were trying to get cozy with the faculty. The not so patriotic cadets were trying to flirt with the creamy layer, while most of the girls were trying to flirt with our dear captains. That was honestly a funny thing to see. 

Gunny had his scary glare firmly on his place and for the first time was happy to see Dr. Mishra acting all territorial with Rajveer. That left Abhimanyu to deal with the brunt of it all. Poor guy actually started to hang around Mucchad and Mogambo to just avoid it all. After that the girls redirected their attention towards the other boy cadets. Pooja was defending Ali, Yudi was clinging to Madhu and Huda had Sheela acting like Dr. Mishra. That left Aalekh who opted to use Gunny's tactic.

Sab party ke rhythm mai settle ho hi rahe the ki main ne dekha ki Dr. Mishra was sneaking out. Yaar iss aurat ko bhi chain nahi hai. Seriously usse abhi aapna plan start karna zaroori hai. Uske upar se dono Abhimanyu aur Rajveer dhyan nahi de rahe hai. Luckily Gunny mera ishara samjh gaye and started towards the entrance while I made a pathetic excuse of a phone call.

As we followed her it was clear ki kya hone wala hai, so we send off alerts to the other two as well. Abhimanyu ka immediately reply aa gaya, they will settle the others back and then join us. Which by the looks of it would be greatly appreciated. I mean how in the ever loving heck did she manage to sneak 15 people into the campus ? Bunty ji was also there, ready with a brief of the situation.       

Ab triggers toh inko lene de nahi sakte hum, so we started to work our way from outer circle. But that clearly failed. Par tab tak baki ke 2 bhi aa gaye the. 

Main ne Dr. Mishra ko subdue kara hi tha ki i got shot. Woh bhi left shoulder, it seems like a normal flesh wound par of course it would cause panic. Gunny aur Bunty ji offered to take Dr. Mishra and gang to headquarters while the other two were busy acting as if I was dieing. Seriously yaar yeh log itna panic aapne khud ki injuries par kyun nahi dikhate ? It was also clear that while Rajveer's panic was accepted, Abhimanyu's panic surprised others.         

And with that they rushed me to the hospital.

Happy Diwali to me.