Garam Chai

          Chapter 1: NOTIFICATION  
                                                                  It’s morning in Mumbai and Nikhil is standing in his balcony of his flat on the 23rd floor looking at some random guys were sitting together and sipping tea and enjoying in each others company like making fun of each other that brings a little smile on his face maybe reminding him of something from past. Suddenly microwave starts to beep and he came back to his senses and when he turned around and looked at his flat he realized that there is no-one for him to talk and that’s when his loneliness hits him. He came back to his senses and went towards the kitchen as his phone was still on the balcony table and it started to ring with notification bell so he turned back and went to check his phone so that he can check whether it was something urgent. He reached there and grabbed his phone and found that it was a notification from Google Photos and when he clicked on it some pictures popped which made him emotional as well as bring some smile on his face. The photos that popped out were taken 5 years back on the same day in which he was on a Tapri(stall) sipping tea on a rainy day with his best friend Shwetank.                                                                                                (Shwetank was Nikhil’s bestfriend from college days with whom he shared the most precious bond of his life called friendship as they were also roommates so it was meant to be a something special about them. They always used to do things together like bunking classes and spending time on canteen judging couples and bitching about college and professor whom lecture they have been bunking and also about the topper who will call out there name to the professor for punishment rather other people used to call them a couple due to such behavior)                                                                                                               Looking at those pictures Nik went back to the day when he was very sad because he got his first kt(back) in the 2nd Semester so he went back to his room feeling a point of guilt about it and wrapped his blanket around him and started to cry for a bit listening to music inside it. After an hour Shwetank came back from college and smashed the door of his room and saw that Nik is wrapped in his blanket and crying so he went to his side and asked him to tell what happened to him but he was not telling him anything so Shwetank forcefully grabbed his hand inside the blanket and pulled him out of it and asked him to follow him as they were going for a ride. It was cloudy outside so they decided to left their phones in the room but Nik took his phone secretly with him knowing that whenever they went outside something is going to happen and they used to stuck somewhere all because of Shwetank as his nature was to fuck things up unknowingly. He went outside and Shwetank was already on his bike waiting for him so he went and sat on the bike and they went to a ride suddenly it started to rain heavily so nik told him to stop the bike somewhere otherwise they will get wet and fall ill but shwet was not in a mood to listen the shit he was screaming and accelerated the speed so that he shouldn’t thought to jump off bike after a while Nik accepted his loss and gave up to the thought of stopping by somewhere as they were all drained out until now. Shwet looked at the side mirror where he saw now nik also started to enjoy the rain and some of the sadness of his face was gone so he decided to confront him
Shwet: Now you can cry as much as you want and no-one will notice your tears in this rain.
Nik: I am not crying.
Shwet: but you were crying when I came to room folding yourself in that blanket so I thought you should cry in open.
Nik: Cause at that time I was sad.
Shwet: And why are you not now.
Nik: This rain made me forgot that thing I was scared about.
Shwet: But you were scared of this too 5 mins ago now what happened.
Nik: Now my fear of getting wet and fall ill is over because of you cause I am already drowned in it.
Shwet: So it means you’re enjoying it.
Nik: ofcourse yes! What is this all about.
Shwet: See now you are already in a state where you know you’re enjoying and if anything will happen you gonna take care of it.
Nik: yup.
Shwet: That’s what life is all about if you have to enjoy your journey and the results will follow if you gonna give all your time thinking about results then what will be the meaning of your journey.
Nik: Okay okay I understand now don’t want any lecture from you and now I want to go hostel cause I think now I got the result.
Shwet: What result?
(Nik sneezes loudly!)
Shwet: Ooooo.
Nik: what Oo. Take a U turn.
(Shwet looked back at him as like he had done something)
Shwet: Actually!!! I forgot to tell you something more important.
Nik: What? (Screamingly)
Shwet: I forgot to look into petrol tank.
Nik: And?
Shwet: And now we don’t have petrol to way back.
  (Nik got angry on him for being such a irresponsible person and now
they are way ahead of their path of hostel and out of the city) 
Shwet: hey look at that(showing something to nik with his finger)
Nik: What is it?
Shwet: It’s a Tapri(stall) dude. We can have a cup of tea first then think about what to do next.
Nik: In this situation in the middle of nowhere you want to have tea first! (sneezes again)
        Okay! Now I want it too.
(They went to the stall and ordered tea and now Shwet also started to shiver because of the  cold on which nik started to laugh and he suddenly  remember that he have his phone so that he can call someone to come up with petrol but before that he thought to take some pictures of shivering and sneezing)

(Cut to today)
Nikhil’s phone rang and he came back to his senses from the memories. (It was a office call)
Then he went to his office but his whole day just passed thinking about his college days and specially about Shwetank.
He came back home and decided to call him the next day but he didn’t have that courage to call him directly after what happened between them in college farewell so he found his number and decided to message him first if he still have that number.
Nikhil: Hey!
(message delivered)