Long La(o)st Friendship

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"Text him, you Idiot" said my brother Raghav in an irritated voice. Who would be irritated, I am sitting and debating with my mind for the past one hour. In this whole span of one hour,  my brother is encouraging me to text Rudra. You may think what kind of  brother and sister are we? But more than siblings, we are friends, who doesn't have any secrets.

"Let me start the conversation" telling this he grabbed my phone from me. In spite of my resistance, he sent "HI" message to Rudra. Initially I was brave, but I don't know why I am being hesitant now.

"Here, your phone" said Raghav and handed my phone back to me.

"I am going out and I will be back in few minutes" he said.

Suddenly, I am afraid for some unknown reason and said "No, don't go".

He gave me a know look, smiled and said, "Don't panic. Nothing will happen by sending a simple hi, okay". Now I found the reason for my frightened behavior. Again a question came in my mind and asked Raghav, "What if he reply?"

"Text him back" he said casually.

"No, I won't" I said with little hesitation. He laughed at my behavior and said "Text him, anyways today is the day". I stood there un-reacted.

He observed me, "If you want, you text him or wait for me, we will text him together once I  return back" he said in a serious tone. I just nodded.

"Relax, don't think too much" he said and smiled to make me normal. But I am becoming more nervous by each passing second. My face is showing my inner emotions clearly. He sensed it and sighed that all his efforts to make me normal are becoming useless.

"I will return as soon as possible" he said and went. I was standing there idle. I want to distract myself from this situation, from this reality. So I decided to sleep for sometime or at-least till Raghav arrives. I kept my phone aside in the side table of my bed and laid in the bed to get some sleep. Just then my phone vibrated with a message. Message from Rudra.

"Why don't you let me sleep, Dude?" I said opening his message.

It was just an 'Hi, how are you?' message.

"Getting mad because of you" was the only words that came in my mind. I typed that and sent it without any second thought. I instantly regret sending that message to him. I couldn't  even delete it because my phone showed that the message had been delivered to him.

'Someone come and kill me'I said in frustration. I don't know what to do. I switched off my phone. I sighed in relief that I am escaped from his reply messages. I know this is the very childish way of escapism. But this gives me some relaxation at the moment and I peacefully drifted to sleep.

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