I woke up at ten the next morning and went straight to the shower to wash all the sleep away. Just then, I noticed a missed call on my phone from an unknown number, so I decided to call it back. A groggy voice sounded from the other side. Someone on the other side had a perfect morning voice and when they started talking I noticed that it was Jay and mentally cursed myself for thinking like that. A bunch of kids were going to a small disco premiere in the city today and Jay wanted to know whether I was coming. I asked my parents and told him that I could go and so because I don't really like to wear dresses, I wore jeans and a lace top with flat Roman sandals. I thought I was dressed pretty good, until I got to the place because Karan, Jay and Arya were all dressed up in nice suit tops, ties and jeans with high tops and Rhea had her hair French braided at the top and left down with a gorgeous neon yellow skirt, a lace black top and six inch silver heels. I just looked at all of them and fiddled around with the charm bracelet that Jay gave me when I was eight. It had a dolphin, a love heart, a flower and a skull on it. According to Jay, it meant something. The dolphin signified intelligence, the love heart signified love and purity, the flower represented innocence and fragility and the skull represented fearlessness and the willingness to take risks. It was silver and the charms were gold and I really liked it.
I asked Jay silently where we were going and he said it was the disco premiere launch of a new disco hall in the city, so I nodded and kept walking. Though the disco hall was only a few blocks down from Jay's house, you would have thought Rhea was struggling to walk with her heels, but really it was just me. I kept complaining that it smelt bad and there were rocks everywhere and the wind was blowing on my face until Jay just gave up, shoved a donut in my mouth and then I was satisfied. I stopped complaining. There was a red carpet laid out at the door and I looked up at Jay. He told me that because it was a local Indian disco hall, there was a small inauguration with celebrities coming. I immediately started dreaming about Ranveer Singh and Varun Dhawan. But my dream was cut short when Jay told me it was just small television stars. And so I turned around and made a pouty face at Jay with my back to the red carpet when he grabbed my phone and snapped a picture. I ran up to him to ask him why he did that when he showed me my phone.
'Some random celebrity posed behind you, so I thought, why not?' Jay laughed at my shocked face.
The celebrity he had taken a picture with me was Siddharth Nigam my absolute obsession. The talented gymnast and actor! Apparently he had seen me making faces at Jay and just randomly posed. I quickly turned around to see him, but he had already entered the disco. It seemed that my fangirling moment was a delayed reaction when I suddenly screamed and Jay jumped, then I dragged him in to the disco hall to go and join Karan, Rhea and Arya.
When we walked down the hallway, it was lit with side lights and there were posters of various movies on each side. At first I was kind of confused because there were only Telugu movie posters, then I realised as we walked down, that the posters decorated the sides to a door. The first door was Telugu, the second door with Tamil, the third door, with Kannada and the fourth door with Hindi. They were thinking of expanding more to include Malayalam and Punjabi, but this is all they had for now and it was magnificent. We entered the last door, the Hindi one because that's where the party was tonight and as soon as we walked in, we found rich red seats to sit on. We sat on them, listened to the celebrities being introduced and I obviously clapped and cheered loudly for Siddharth Nigam while my friends looked awkwardly at me! After that, they moved away the chairs and on the sides were drinks and they put on the music and everyone started to jump up and down! They blasted a mix of old and new songs and I jumped up and down grooving to the music at first, before I realised that I'm an awful dancer, so with a quick blush covering my face, I went and sat down next to Karan. He wasn't dancing and was talking to Jay. Jay was so tired, so I went and got him a glass of water (because I dragged him onto the dance floor when it was dandia and he was so sweet, willing to learn it with me and all). Rhea and Arya were the only ones out on the dance floor enjoying themselves and partying hard, while we all on sat on the edge. A few minutes later (or at least what felt like it) i found myself being woken up by Jay shaking my arm. I had fallen asleep on Karan's shoulder, and he had fallen asleep on my head. After that, we dragged ourselves out of the hall and made our way to Jay's house. Once we got there, I had shaken off all my sleep and was too awake to go back to sleep, whereas Rhea (who always gets tired at 9:30pm sharp), Arya and Karan had all nodded of straight away, on the mattresses that Jay had laid out for everyone.
I made my way out to the balcony and sat near the railing, leaning my head against the wall and looking out at the moonlit night. Lucky for me, Jay's balcony faced his garden and so my eyes were fixated on the beautiful rows of flowers that fenced his garden and the little gazebo right in the centre. I remember when we were younger and Jay and I used to sit the garden, hold each other's hands and stare right into each other's eyes. We were quite characteristic back then and used to think we had powers when we sat in that gazebo. Jay told me that he would only play in the gazebo when I was around and no one else was allowed in there, even for years after. I chuckled lightly to myself and laid my head back, when I noticed a presence right next to me. For a few minutes, I only allowed myself a few breaths. I looked back and noticed that Jay had sat down next to me, his knees tucked under his chin, just like mine were. Jay and I could talk, without even using words and as soon as he looked at me, he knew I was thinking about that gazebo. I let a few tears slip down my face because, if I had to reveal my inner emotions around anyone, it was only Jay. Then I laid my head against his shoulder and we just looked at the garden in silence. It felt right to be back with Jay again. Then a few minutes later, I felt someone lift my head up and I walked back to the mattress next to Rhea and fell asleep.
