August-
Munish's birthday: 18th August was the day Munish turned 18. To make this day a bit more special for him we decided to give him a few surprises. In the morning nobody came with him in the metro. I was carrying a huge card with me in which we had written a few birthday quotes and general wishes. In class EVERYBODY wrote something or the other for him while we kept Munish away on some pretext or the other. And when the card was filled with birthday wishes, we gave it to him. He was surprised. Surprised that we remembered and bothered to do something for him. Then he gave us a treat in McDonald's and Surabhi and I mysteriously disappeared. We were walking the streets of Kamala Nagar in search of a birthday cake. And when we got it from CCD, we were walking the streets in search of a knife (which no shop had :/). Finally the cake was cut with the back of a spoon and eaten up by the hungry onlookers (read us) in a downright savage way.
"Thank you so much guys!" he said to everybody.
Munish's birthday: 18th August was the day Munish turned 18. To make this day a bit more special for him we decided to give him a few surprises. In the morning nobody came with him in the metro. I was carrying a huge card with me in which we had written a few birthday quotes and general wishes. In class EVERYBODY wrote something or the other for him while we kept Munish away on some pretext or the other. And when the card was filled with birthday wishes, we gave it to him. He was surprised. Surprised that we remembered and bothered to do something for him. Then he gave us a treat in McDonald's and Surabhi and I mysteriously disappeared. We were walking the streets of Kamala Nagar in search of a birthday cake. And when we got it from CCD, we were walking the streets in search of a knife (which no shop had :/). Finally the cake was cut with the back of a spoon and eaten up by the hungry onlookers (read us) in a downright savage way.
"Thank you so much guys!" he said to everybody.
The lady walks in: Classes ended and the four of us- Munish, Shruti, Surabhi and me, packed our bags to go to Kamala Nagar as usual. I went to the photocopy shop with Shruti and Surabhi while Munish stayed back. None of us noticed the new girl. When we come back from the shope after spending a fortune on copying notes, we saw Munish talking to the strange new girl. I went upto him and pulling his arm, very tactlessly said "Munish chal, we dont have the time! We're getting late." And he turned to give such a patronizing look, I tell you. Then he introduced me to the new girl and said "This is Bhagyashree."
You must know, I have a foot-in-mouth disease which seems to have no cure.
After hearing this I exclaimed loudly "oh this is bhagyashree? Right!" Yes it was embarrassing just two seconds later! Anyway, that exclamation was made because we all ha dheard her name being called out everyday and used to wonder who would this be. I myself had imagined her to be a simple girl in salwaar kameez who would be rather geeky. But she was a complete opposite of that image. She was tall, towering over me, and almost Munish's height. She wore a purple striped shirt with shorts. She had her sunglasses on her head and was talking in a very confident, say-one-wrong-word-and-i'll-break-your-face sort of way. I just said hi and then had a general talk with her for sometime. But after that we dropped the plan to go to Kamala so we stayed and talked to her some more.
Shruti's treat: Shruti had completed two years with her boyfriend so she was giving us all a treat at McDonald's. One happy girl she was that day and i can still see her jumping up and down with excitement. She was so happy that she did not even mind a few extra people. That was th first time she had openly shown us her excitement and happiness. That day i decided to nickname her Pixie.
That was also the first time Bhagyashree went out with us. We sat there for good two hours, eating and talking and laughing loudly! That was also the day when the five of us had gone back to college in an auto for the first time as it was raining like crazy. I remember us screaming with laughter, imagining what would be AS's reaction if we entered in an auto in her class, parking it right outside our classroom door. That was also the day when we went to Kamala again with a large group of people from our class.
That was also the first time Bhagyashree went out with us. We sat there for good two hours, eating and talking and laughing loudly! That was also the day when the five of us had gone back to college in an auto for the first time as it was raining like crazy. I remember us screaming with laughter, imagining what would be AS's reaction if we entered in an auto in her class, parking it right outside our classroom door. That was also the day when we went to Kamala again with a large group of people from our class.
Waiting for a third phase! Hope it comes pretty soon!
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