He Looked at his dad horrified while his dad stared at him furiously. After a minute of staring game, harsh's father threw the pamphlet at him and says to him "Time to be serious junior!, 8am to 9pm batch, address is behind the brochure". Harsh looked at the brochure and he knew that the bad times are about to roll.
As his father proceeded for the breakfast,harsh said to himself "I am so dead,bro!" And he heard a loud shout by his father,"8 am!".
Harsh jumped from his bed quickly and got ready,later having breakfast with his family. His dad was still there sipping a glass of juice and about to take his medicines. His dad suffers from blood pressure problem and a minor heart related problem. He said to harsh,while he was still eating "we are leaving in 10 and for your kind of information, I am going to drop you today!". Harsh nods his head and continues with his breakfast. 5 minutes later, his father called Shyam,his personal driver. Shyam comes and ask "kya hua malik? "(what happened boss?). His father replies " aaj baba bhi sath me chal rahe hai, pehle unko andheri station me chodke aayenge, unke coaching center par! fir office ke liye niklenge!"(today, master is going with us, we will drop him at andheri station , where his coaching center is!, then we will leave for office!) . Shyam replied "theek hai malik!" (okay, boss!)
While shyam makes his move, he again shouted and ordered him, "aaj rolls royce nikalna"(we will go by rolls royce today!) . shyam replied him by saying "jaisa aap kahe maalik! "(as you say, boss!) .
After 5 minutes, Harsh left for his class with his dad and as soon as he got into the car, he received a text message from JIGNESH
saying "just had a conversation with RAJESH SIR . He said me to bring you at azad maidan, sharp 9:00am..dont worry ill bring a cricket kit for you. "
After seeing his text, he looked at his father busy reading his Forbes magazine.
(flashback - few moments ago)
When his father alarmed him to get ready for his first day to coaching center.. He called up jignesh,
Jignesh who was in a deep sleep, woke up from his call and was humming to his hello,
Harsh replied after his humming, "Bro, he enrolled me in some mba institute".
After this jignesh came into his senses and got up from his bed and said, " holy shit!, but what about your dreams? ".
Harsh replied ," i guess this is my destiny, my dreams are never gonna fulfill !".
Jignesh replied, "shut up! , anything is possible!, let me think of something... Ill call you up after some time" and then he hangs up the call.(back to the scene)
While traveling halfway to his center, he was thinking about his escape plan from his center, so that he can reach ground on time.
When his car reached outside the coaching center, his father said to him, " so son! , This is the time you gonna learn, how and what is to be done ! Go and have fun! " . After he said "have fun " , harsh thinks to himself " seriously? Fun? " and then his father opens the car door for harsh and waited until harsh gets to the building.
After he got into the building he pushed the lift button and was waifing for the lift to reach his floor. After a minute , When the lift door opens , everyone inside the lift got out, it seemed that the lift was full of people and atlast it got empty. Harsh was, exactly 1 feet away from the lift, and when people were leaving the lift ,he was standing still and thinking what to do? , whether ditch his dreams and concentrate on his MBA or ditch MBA and live his dreams . During this thought process , he closed his eyes and saw his mother standing, crying and asked him "please!, dont do this! ".
He opened his eyes and saw the lift man , who waiting for him to enter the lift. It was an empty lift, he was still confused about the final decision ! . Suddenly liftman ask him, " bhaiya ji!, kahan jaana hai aapko"( where do you wanna go, brother?) . And then he looks into his eyes and replies " MBA " . And then he replies to him " aao, pahuchata hu vaha tak " ( come, ill drop you there) .
He enters into the lift and then the liftman press button 5. While he was going up , jignesh calls him up asking , where he was. He replied "I choose MBA, i cant see her suffer more because of me!" . Jignesh replies "bro, dont do this to yourself !.. You still have a chance to be under guidance of rajesh sir, the one who trained top cricketers of our country. " . He replied " no bro,i am in the lift right now, there is no chance of running away". Soon he reached to 5th floor, where his coaching center is! . When he pushed the door , he saw 3 teachers, one was holding a bouquet and other two were holding up a chart written "WELCOME TO SAKET MBA INSTITUTE, HARSH" . He was still on the call with jignesh, he said to him " you still have a chance, run away! . Life gives you a second chance, dont leave it! , otherwise you will regret whole life about it!. Consider this lift as a second chance. " . Suddenly a teacher who was holding the bouquet asked him " Are you , harsh? " he replies to jignesh on call "45 mins and ill be there" and ends up the call.
The teacher again asked him "whom do you want ? " he replied him with a smile saying, "no one!, thank you! " and ran away in full speed . He took stairs and ran downwards . After a minute, he came out from the building and saw railway station,which was exactly opposite to him. He runs towards the ticket counter and ask for a second class ticket to cst via harbor line , as instructed by jignesh. After he gets the ticket , he runs towards the platforms - way bridge and looks towards the indicators , searching for a upcoming train to his destination. After 30 seconds, he noticed a upcoming train in platform no 3, which was going to depart in 2 min.
He ran in full speed, minding his foot steps on stairs and catches a first class compartment instead of catching a second class one. Harsh has never travelled in train before, in his entire life, because his father made him to travel in his luxurious cars instead of travelling with middle class crowd. Harsh didn't have any idea about the local trains and its compartments . The compartment of train was empty. After a minute the train began to move. Harsh removes his earphones from his pocket and plugs in his cellphone and plays his favorite song "sky full of stars by coldplay". Harsh was a die hard fan of this band, even he has a picture of him with the lead singer of band, which was framed in his room. He was sitting exactly beside, one of the windows of the compartment. he was feeling the breeze of air coming towards him. Soon after few mins, train stopped at the first station . 3 women got on the train and three of them looked furiously at him. When he made a eye contact with them, he felt little uncomfortable but soon, he ignored them and enjoyed the comfort of the soft seats. After some time, train stopped on another station and another few women got on the train, and now everyone started looking at and talking about him , Some of them pointed towards him. He thought that they found his identity!. Soon after 10 minutes, train stopped at kurla station, where two lady and one male constable got on the train and spot him and at same time they told him to get off from the seat and after he stood up from his seat, they aggressively drag him out of the train. He shouted "leave me!, what the hell are you doing? ". The male constable replied him "dont you know, what you did ?" . The constable rotate him behind and showed the door of the compartment, it was written in bold " 1st class ladies compartment " and below that it was written "ONLY LADIES". after he noticed that he was on ladies compartment whole time, he said "oh shit " and kept his head down. Later he said to male constable, "actually i was in a hurry, to be honest i am traveling in a train for the first time! ".
He replied "ohho first time?, beta, aaj tera jail jaana bhi first time hoga"(ohho, first time?, son, you"ll soon go to jail for first time .).
Later they dragged him towards railway police station. After they entered, the male constable confiscate all his belongings and threw him up in the bars.
Harsh got up and asked the head constable , "sir , please believe me! , i am literally traveling for first time, i was not aware about all this. "
The constable replied "according to the law, for this crime, you need a lawyer for your bail and fine ". He stammered "lawyer? " . He again replied to him "yes lawyer! ".
After a minute of thinking, he asked " can i call my lawyer? ". He replied "yes sure! " . He called a constable and ordered him to hand over his phone for a call. After a min harsh got his cellphone in his hand. Head constable said "only one call, thats it! ". Harsh nodded to him.
He called up Jignesh,
Jignesh picks up and says " yeah i am on my way" and disconnects the call.
Harsh astonished, says "saale ne call kaat diya"(that bastard, hung up my call). The constable says " chal, hogaya ek call, de phone!"(okay, so that was your one call, now give your phone back!). He request the head constable "please sir, one more call, please sir!" . He replied "okay okay, last call ".
He again called Jignesh
He picked up,
Harsh - listen!, i am in police station. For godsake, dont hung up the phone.
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SECRET OF MY HAPPINESS
General FictionGenre - romance, drama Synopsis - A boy named Harsh, born in a Gujarati family where he struggles his feelings to convince his parents about the passion he had for cricket since childhood . However his parents had different plans for him and had...