Tera Zikr

Chapter - 2

(flashback)
It was a long hectic day and I just wanted a break from, everything. I made myself a cup of coffee and sat in the balcony. That was a perfect evening. A calm evening with bird chirping sounds and not vehicle horn sounds. My apartment was on 9th floor and the sunset from here was a blessing. Earlier almost everyday I'd sit down and see the sun kissing the horizon and then vanishing somewhere in it but now it had been a long time since I vitnessed one. Although I had clicked many pictures in which one can see sunset but that doesn't count as vitnessing one. It was my work which made me do it, I couldn't feel the beauty of it, but today, it was just me, my coffee and the beautiful sunset. I leaned back on the bean bag in the balcony and just stared at the setting sun. The sky was a mixture of blue, orange and yellow and  everything about it was amazing. I enjoyed staring at the sky with a complete blank head, without any thoughts, without any worries when my phone rang grabbing my attention. "Hey", I said as soon as I picked up the call. "Hey man. Where are you?", Puneet - my so-called friend - asked. "At home", I replied. "Are you free from 20th to 26th this month? Actually you have to be free because you are coming on my bachelor's trip to Goa", he said in one go. "Oh..okay", I said. I was a bit confused. Although we were friends, we knew each other since college days but we were not that close that he'll invite me to his bachelor trip. Well did he invite me or did he just ordered me to come? "You there?", he asked. "Umm.. Ya.. Ya I'm", I said still wondering for this sudden invite, but everything got cleared when while talking he accidentally told me the actual reason behind it. "And we will be enjoying a lot and clicking a lot of pictures there", he said. He wanted me to come as his photographer and click his' and his friend's pictures, but that's okay, I needed a break and a trip to Goa was good for that and as I can't stay away from my passion, I'd get that too.