I am standing in the garden of my house in Nasik. Its been a week since I moved here. I got to know a few people of my age here. Well, actually just a guy named amit patil. He lives in the neighbourhood. I stand and close my eyes. Just all the faces of my friends flash before my eyes. But only one face is dominant-my best friend, devika .
My eyes suddenly fill up with tears but I look towards the sky and calm myself down.
I miss her.
And so I go inside the beautiful house that my mom got from the company. It was a duplex bunglow. And it was magnificient. I go to my room and dial devikas’s number. She picks it up in one ring.
“hi baby! How are you? I miss you.” She said.
“oh sweetie I miss you too…more than I can express.”I say a little sad.
“aww….dont be sad. Okay tell me how is it there?”se tried to distract me.
“yeah its good. The weather is beautiful here. And the house is perfect. But its just lonely her.mom is not home. Again. Its been like this since a week. She goes off early in the morning and comes back late at night, talks a little to me and then goes off to sleep. I am alone in this stupid house.”
“its okay baby. When are you joining school?”
“um…mom talked to a school’s principal already. I am just to meet him and see the school.” I sighed inwardly.
“don’t worry, it’ll all get better when you start school.” She encouraged me.
“hope so.” I said. And with that she distracted me with all her stupid talks making me laugh. By the time I was at the end of the conversation we both were almost crying.
“miss you, idiot” I choked out through my tears.
“yeah, whatever. Bie. See you later. Will miss you baby.” She said almost crying.
“bye.” Isaid as I hung up.
And just like that the tears fell out of my eyes.
After a crying session of 10 minutes I heard the front door open. Iwiped my tears put on a happy face and saw my mom coming inside.
“hey mom. You’re early today.” I said cheerfully. She was busy with something on her cellphone.
“yeah I thought-what the hell? Why are you crying?!” she asked me horrified.
“no maa. I am not crying.” I rolled my eyes at her.
“but you were. Why is that?” she came and hugged me.
“I just miss devika…and banglore.” I sniffed.
“its okay baby. It’ll all be okay because we are going to your school tomorrow!” she chiped happily.
“yeah right. Mum that’s going to be such an awesome experience for me! First day of school again!”I quipped sarcastically.
“oh don’t give me that shit. It is a good school. One of the bests. Now lets have some mother daughter bonding time. Whatsay?” she winked at me.
“I see no harm in that girlfriend” I say as we go to the kitchen.
I help my mom in the kitchen while we talk about how work has been for her and how I’ve been adjusting here. Soon the topic drifted towars utterly random things like how sonakshi is doing well in film industry to how good it would be if money grew on trees to god knows whatnot.
After all that talking I go to my room after wishing my mom a goodnight and log on to facebook. I see a few friend requests that I decide to ignore, notifications from my friends and a few messages. I log out after all that and realize that its 11:50 pm.
I seriously need to sleep if I want to wake up early tomorrow to go to the school.so I close my eyes imagining things that never existed and god knows when I fell in a dreamless sleep.
