Forever: The phone call | Part 2 | Complete

Chapter 3

The sounds of heavy iron chains was ringing in my ears. My hands were cuffed and so were my feet. The weight of heavy irong loop in my neck was crushing me down. I woke up, it was just a dream. The dream that was over.  But the meaning of that dream, it remained with me. Indeed I was cuffed, with the aftershocks of yesterday's disaster. I was a slave of my own mistakes.

I felt awfully bad the whole day and was already ready to kill anyone messing with me. You know when people say 'Talk about satan and he's right there to trouble you’ they're telling the truth.

I got a text from Kautuk. Ugh! There's no self respect for a desperate guy. I took at least 15 minutes contemplating what will happen if I open the message. Eventually I gave up. I opened the chats and voila! Look what I got.
(A is me and K is him)

K: You broke my heart that day. What wrong did I do to you?
A: You are either drunk or texting the wrong person.

His reply was faster than instant noodles.

K: Yes, I am drunk. Drunk in your love.
A: You immature little prick, you are confusing infatuation for love. I'm pretty sure that I had made myself clear when I said I'm leaving. I left her house and this so call 'conversation’. So if we're done, can you please go down the trash and mind your own business so that I can return to mine and forget I ever spoke with a douch like you?

K: Your insults are Amrit to me.
A: Will you stop that! How many times do I have to tell that I'm not interested. Where is your male ego when I need it the most? Pull it out so that you don't message me anymore.
K: Why don't you get it? I'm in love. In love with you. Look I'm not hurrying you but I already see a future with you. We can get married and I'll do all household work. You don't even have to cook, I'll present a new dish daily.
A: Either you stop now or I report your chats to customer care.

K: I promise you all the happiness in this world. You can keep your surname after marriage. Please Ahana, give me a chance, please.
K: Ahana, you there? I'm waiting.
K: I'll wait until you give me a reply, please!!

I reported him to customer care who ensured me that he won't be able message or call me. I took screenshots of all the chats as a proof and quickly called Sampriya.

S: Ahana, what?
A: Same to you Sampriya. What is wrong with your friend? What were you thinking introducing me to that desperate bull and then giving him my number? Do you even know what he just did.
S: He was trying to be a gentleman and propose to you. What's wrong with that?
A: I'll tell you what's wrong. That person is already naming our future kids.
S: Look if you don't like him, I have another friend of mine. You both will make a really good couple.

A: For once keep the bottle of insanity aside and listen carefully. If you are in search of a bait to get your friend hitched with, I'm certainly not available. Moreover you have proved what a selfish pig you are  that's searching for baits for her bunch of amorous friends. I will volunteer to put up posters to alert girls about you.
S: You are such an ungrateful human. I was stupid to think a girl like you should get a boyfriend. You don't deserve one. You are just a pretentious useless filthy individual that I befriended. I regret it more than anything. You have hurt my friend so much, if he does something unwilling to himself, I'll hunt you down.
A: Oh hope he does something wrong on his own, if not then I'll do something to him.

I cut the call fuming with anger. I don't really get what made her do this. For once I was really friendly and polite to her. I didn't even hurt her bunnies or wax her ponies. She on the other hand threw me in a cage with some mindless freak and is not even sorry about it. Infact, she has the audacity to question my actions. How valid is her behavior?

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The feeling of being alone is something I'm used to, since the last 8 months. The last time I felt secure was when I was with him, with….. with Abhaas. The moment he left me drowning in the water of loneliness and got into a taxi to leave Mumbai, I stopped feeling secure. I thought I could trust Sampriya, but she turned out to be another Cobra in a basket of flowers.

I don't think I'll come our of this college life in one piece. With so many new tendencies around, I'm lost. I don't know how to differentiate between good and bad, between real and fake, between Abhaas and others. I went back to my 4th lecture and sat on my usual bench. I replaced my back on the next seat. No more Sampriya or Sampriya clones sitting next to me. I wanted to bang my head on the desk and fret upon my life. With all this going around there was some scent in the air. I could tell that it was rose for sure. It's not like I hate roses, but they don't smell that good and they are kind of cliché. Something brushed on my hand as I placed it in my desk compartment. There it was, a rose with a card. Similar to the one I found in the library. It read Ahana, you are beautiful.

It felt good for a change. With a herd of people trying to mess with my life, there is a soul in this college that thinks I'm beautiful. This person wants me to feel good and so I will. I don't know who it is, but there is someone. Maybe that someone is someone I know, someone I care a lot about, someone who's smile lits my heart up, someone that I wish comes back.

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