Burning Souls

Calm before the storm

David was standing beside Chris in the street in front of Chris’s home. Chris met David at the start of his secondary school and both became friends, because of the same interest in bikes and PC GAMES and internet. David would often come to Chris’s house and then time passed quickly. Some months after their friendship, David saw Sheena looking out from her window talking with someone down the street. Chris was also standing besides David.

“Dude, that girl is awesome.” said David.

“Yeah, but she is very reserved type. Only talks to some chosen ones.”

“Does she talks to you?”

“Yes, sometimes when she has problems in solving numericals relating to semiconductor devices.”

“You are one lucky man.” 

“No man, you are misunderstanding, I think she just thinks me of as a friend.” said Chris.

“Every great love affair starts from a friendship.”

“I know, I tried sometimes, but her response was neutral.”

“Is she living here from birth?”

“No, they moved in my street and our city some 4 years ago.”

“But, I must tell you, she has got perfect set of boobs.”

“You don’t need to tell me.” said Chris with a cunning smile on his face.

“What’s her name?”

“Sheena Sway.”

“Sheena, quite a sexy name.You got a bomb in your neighbor man.”

“She is not my neighbor, look at her house, and its 8 houses far from my house.”

“Yeah, but the first house in which a girl of our age lives is our neighbor.”

“That’s so true.”

From then on David would ask Chris about Sheena, whenever he got chance. Chris knew that David also liked Sheena or rather lusted for her. But he understood that, because of the age factor, they were at 18, so they were full with testosterone all the time, looking at boobs of every girl they see and then masturbating after seeing a porn film, desiring that woman at time of climax. It was with almost all the boys of that age. With time, Chris grew more familiar to Sheena and would often go to her home with studies as an excuse. But all they did was also study or some casual talk. Chris knew how to talk with elders, he dressed well also fashionably with narrow bottom jeans and long T’s. But he never proposed a girl, so he always criticized himself, whenever he lost a chance to say to her. On the other hand Sheena was also like him, she was neither too shy nor too extrovert. She was cute and with big boobs. She didn’t come out from his house often, except for tuitions or for school and sometime went to market. Most of the time she stayed home.

The first year of secondary school was remembered by David and Chris with references to the trip they made to a mountain destination, the hit of the year PC GAME called ‘MAX PAYNE’ and a new bike bought by David and most importantly, to Chris, it was him going to her house and looking at her beautiful boobs and also talking to her.

Chris was suddenly interrupted by a phone ringing, in the middle of the night. The call was from one of their clients who wanted to update his website’s contents urgently, so people could see it the other day. After downloading the query Chris went to the server room and uploaded the query. He was tired of sitting at his office chair for three hours. He decided to first go to washroom and then have a cup of coffee. He was drinking coffee, standing and looking out at the vast span of tall buildings in front of him, which made the landscape very attractive. He also felt the cold winter air. 

He was thinking how peaceful a night is, no sounds of cars, no crowds of people, just pleasant chilly air and your thoughts with you at the night. He loved the NIGHT. Chris kept standing there with cofee in one hand, the other hand in pocket of his trouser, looking at the tall buildings through a large glass window whose one part was open, Chris loved the chilly air air hitting his skin. He often dreamt of this scene, working in a big MNC in Silicon Valley.

Chris resumed his work after 20 minutes. He saw the minimized Facebook window flashing in a yellow light. It was a status update from a friend. A status update at around 3 in the morning! How much addiction this internet can bring, no one can guess. Chris also updated his status. It says “Working at my office, while all of you are sleeping L.”

“Have you generated the reports for the error in the network connections of the Nuclear Electronics?” asked Chris to his fellow asst. Engineer.

“Yes, and I also mailed them to our manager.”

“That’s good.” “What are you doing now?”

“Just downloading the latest video clip of our all time sexy actress, you know her name.”

“Okay, mail it to me also when finished downloading.”

“OK, I’ll.”

Chris was again looking at the picture in the right hand column of Facebook. A young man with golden brown hairs, smiling face like some model. Below the picture was written “David Fink” and below the name was a button on which was written “add as a friend”. Add as a friend, what a fucking suggestion, Chris thought. Chris wouldn’t even want to see his face. Chris was remembering THAT secondary school year, which changed him. Just thinking of the things which happened THAT year switched his mind from happiness to extreme sadness and embarrassment. Those things made him think he was inferior, was incapable of living life. It was now 2 hours left before his shift would end. And there was nothing to do. Again he was going back in time...

Chris and David were seated in the front row of Professor Thomas’s tuition for mathematics. There were 14 other students sitting in that room. The girl’s were seated in a separate row, Sheena was also among them. Chris was noticing a change in behavior of David towards him. Now David was friendlier to those cool students, who talked about girls, girls and girls. Chris also was like them, but a much smaller version of those types of COOL boys. He also wore branded clothes, talked like a brave boy, knew latest things talked about by the boys. But still Sheena was just his friend, nothing more. Chris was not a loser. He was just a normal boy, who knew latest things, fashion, and porn but still was single, despite having Sheena in her street living 8 houses far from his. He doesn’t know how to make a move. 

In the tuition, all boys talked about only Sheena and her boobs. They would look at her boobs, fucking her right there in their minds. A group of 7 boys always sat in the last two rows, who were the movers and shakers. 3 of them care for their studies, while others just came to see Sheena. The remaining 5 would indulge in solving problems of math. David started sitting in that last row group, while Chris found another friend who was also good in math. Chris was friendly to everyone, but he sat in front row. During study hour, Chris would hear laughter from back row. 

One of them was Palsy Tidi, a short structured creature, with bones as thin as a stick. By seeing him for first time, he radiated an aura of dependence, his face has flesh which was only enough to cover his bones. He looked so weak, that you could imagine kicking him and he would be flying in the air. But there was one thing which overcame all his physical shortcomings, that was his tongue. He talked with a high pitch and would talk a lot. He quickly gave sharp answers in response to taunts fired at him. Generally he always smiled, and taunting everyone he found introvert. Perhaps he hated his weakness, which was why he made fun of introverts. He found his target in the tuition, Chris and would taunt him often. He sort of hated Chris, because he was having Sheena in her street and still she gave him no response. Chris was lacking balls, he thought.