The Call !!

What?

The first time it happened, the first thought I had after I woke up,

"She's no more"

Raj is shouting from the other room telling me to wake up.. I didn't want to listen to him. I am surrounded by something else.

All my emotions were heavily building in.. I didn't know what I felt., I had to puke.. I ran to the washroom, held on to the basin and coughed violently. Nothing has come out. All I could feel was a pain in chest, the thought of her absence made me forget about everything else around me.

As I walked back to the room, my legs slipped into one another and before I knew, I was on floor. The room began spinning around and Danny came in running and barking, he sensed that something is wrong.

And in another few moments Raj, my flatmate ran in, picked me up and was shocked and worried. He asked "Were you drunk yesterday?"

All I could say was "Sandhya" and he dragged me on to the nearby stool and went on to grope over his mobile, and in a few seconds.. there she is.. Sandhya.. Sanju.. on the mobile., She evidently woke up to our video call and looked at the way I am and just said "You drunk!?"

I said "no", ensured that it's a live call.. pinched myself hard enough to remember that it's not a dream, talked to her for a minute and bid her good bye

I got up, freshed up still unable to forget the dream that appeared so real.

And as I began to go for my shoes., Danny jumped around. He never likes me wearing my shoes, may be thought of me leaving troubles him.

Strange, this thought felt familiar.
Deja Vu huh? Crazy day it is..

I Shaked my head off and went on to office..

After all it's a special day.. I had my first international business call to make. I called mom before entering the office as I always do, I skipped​ the question of marriage as I always do and ran in to the shiny office building.

A regular office day it was, same old stats same old reports.. all I was waiting for, is the call. I waited for the clock to tick 16:30.. as it did., I ran to my bay, got my electronics ready and started making last minute preparations.

Finally..

I am not sure if I was really waiting for it, but was pretty excited about it. After all, I was about to make my first international business call.

I did attend a few calls earlier, but never was I alone.. never was I supposed to take the lead. But then, you never know what life shows you the next minute.

Philosophy aside, I just took my note pad, my pen, pencil (freshly sharpened.. I pricked myself to make sure), my laptop, charger for the laptop, checked for power connections, organized it all well before the call time.

As the clock hit 17:00 I made the call to the boss Deekshit.. it felt weird.. All his points felt weirdly similar. I knew what he would say. I knew what ideas to kill. I apologized for my clumsiness, cut the call ran out to find my mobile ringing.. it's Bil..

It got cut before I answered it.. what the heck!!

I sort of knew what's going to happen.

Am I facing a fricking premonition..

I must see her. I ran to my seat..

I just grabbed my keys and turned around to find Srini, a few bays away..

I ran to him, caught his collar and shouted at his face " what's happening? What happened to Sanju? "

He said something.. all I could make out from his speech was..

"She planned a.."

and there was a loud blaring noise.., our fire alarm went off, and next second I see the rats running off the roof and there's smoke everywhere. And all of a sudden there's a big sound., Someone fired a cracker inside the office, but the sound is too loud for a cracker. I could suddenly feel the weight of something on me. I couldn't move..

My eyes were burning. I can smell ashes. I tried hard to open eyes, it was hard and I could hear someone telling me to wake up.. and then I heard something familiar..

It was my phone ringing..

I open my eyes to see 17th March on the display of my daily alarm