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Campfire

A lot of work gathered in past one month but Mayank couldn't concentrate. How could he do ? His dream boy finally came in his household after a long wait, now focusing in office work is simply meaningless. In this time he received two messages from Adiraj. His adrenaline raise at peak reading those messages, they went on jungle safari so many times but now he'll have Abhi with him! No need to mention that the safari proposal made a perfect excuse to abandon work.

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Abhi, who was lost in his thoughts and memories of childhood, startled with Mayank's sudden "Boom!!" Then a wide grinning.
"Ohff! Dara diya tumne"
"Aur darayunga jungle le jaake"
"Kab ? Aur wapas kiyu aa gaye ? Office ka kaam nahi hai ?"
"Kamal hai! Ghar me dulhan aa gaya hai aur me kaam se kaam rakhunga ?"
Dulhan, Abhi is called with this name after long time. Mayank took him on his lap, his mascular hands coiled Abhi's waist.
"Aur jungle ? Wo to aj hi jaane ka soch raha tha"
"Don't joke please"
"I'm not. See, Adi just messaged me" Mayank shows his phone to Abhi, "he planned a group camping today"
"That Adi ? Your doctor friend ?"
"Oh yes, tumhe yad hai ?"
"Tumse juda har ek baat yaad hai" Abhi's fingers roamed in Mayank's soft hairs. "To kab jaa rahe hain hum ?"
"Afternoon. Adi will pick us"

Preparation began in its way. Mayank and Darshan are habitual with camping. They packed tents, beddings, candles, first-aid boxes etc. Abhi made some dishes for carrying in camping.
Adi reached exactly at 4:00 pm. Mayank ran with great enthusiasm holding Abhi's hand and stopped near the car. Shalini is seeing them from passenger seat. Mayank wasn't aware about her part in the camping. He felt a little disturbed but then noticed the bandage on her forehead.
"Tumhe chot kaise lagi Shalu ?"
"None of your business"
"Matlab ? Tumhe kaise lagi mejhe ye janne ka haq nahi hai ?"
"Arey yaar Mayu" Adiraj interrupted, "chhoti si chot hai, mere sath hi crash hua I mean mere gari ke sath. Maine ilach kar diya hai tu tension mat le"
Mayank hummed and opened the backdoor but Darshan shouted from behind; "abe o Romeo ke pote! Mujh par saara bojh chhodke khud apna dulhan leke bhaga ?"
"Oh sorry. Sit Abhi, I'm coming"
Mayank and Darshan carried the buskets and bags to the car. Adi larked; "Daru tu samajhta kahe nahi, deewanapan kehte hain ise. Bag to kya, apni dulhan ki liye Mayu kuch bhi chhod ke bhaag sakta hai"
He spelled his last words aiming at Shalini. Fuel fell on fire as expected, Shalini gets more angry on Adi than Abhiyank as she knows Adi is telling these to irritate her. Mayank also raised middle finger dedicating his two friends. Nobody cared at poor Abhi, his fair face turned totally red with shyness.

After starting drive Adi saw him through mirror. "Sorry Abhi, majak majak me tumhe apna intro dena hi bhul gaya. I'm Adiraj, a gynecologist. Mayank's childhood friend and your brother-in-law iykyk"
"Tera behtar intro mil gaya tha mujhe aat saal pehle" Abhi thought and smirked. Then said; "Oh hi Adi, Mayank told about you"
"Really ? Actually me too from Punjab but unfortunately tumse pehle kabhi nahi mila. But we are lucky that we got a good young Indian friends' group in this foreign land"
"Wait wait" Darshan said, "you three are Punjabi, Shalini too is by birth Punjabi. In Punjabion ke group me bass mai hi Delhi ka laddu hun ?"
"No no,  Delhi ka Daru hai tu" Mayank stated.
Larks, leg pulling, laughters continued. Adi's car kept running through forest road.