It's an NDA Love Story. (Part IV)

A Cadets love story


All day i kept finding time and guts to make the call. Finally, got the phone free as well. Trust me; the nervousness was more than my first jump from the ten meter board! Trin... trin...... (%$#@&*)...... Trin.... trin.....
"Hi! Busy are you?". "Took so long, to take the call."
"Avijit!!!!". Khyati screamed. "Where on earth have you been?? and no no not busy. Unknown, outside Delhi number so i wondered.....ANYWAY... How are you? Finally got time to call eh? Didn't even tell me before leaving, you jackass!"


{{Yea sure! you stood me up.. switched off your phone and acted like a psycho and I get to be the jackass}} 


Well of course this was just me speaking to myself. All I could manage to say really was, "hmm.... ya... got busy..". "You tell me how are things at your end?" I have no idea in which inauspicious hour I asked this question and BAM the dam of stories broke.... from ragging, to screwed attendance, to the  masala coke of D-school, the hot deb-soc guy and God knows what all!


On the other end of the line Khyati was panicking and thinking to herself {{What...what else can i talk about to keep the awkwardness apart.... stories! stories!! more stories! Hunt!!!}}
"Oh yes, I forgot to tell you this!" Said Khyati.


{{What now!?}} Of course, it sounded more like, " Oh...What? Go on."


She had overheard some guys talking about exchanging girlfriends if they were bored with theirs. Then began, the entire lecture on, 'How girls are so OBJECTIFIED'.   Blah... blah....'shallow beings'.... blah blah blah 'use them'... blah blah....'chauvinists'.... blah blah BLAH..... 


{{Dude!! If those guys are dating for time pass. I seriously can't care less, but i do care about my time which sure is passing and God knows when I'll get to call next.}} 


**Beep beep** Darn! My balance went poof!


Time passed with a series of awkward phone-calls, which gradually got better... Terms passed and term breaks passed quicker.... She meanwhile got into a relationship with some douche and broke up too. {{Thank God!!}}   


**~~ Few Years Later~~**


Khyati speaks


I landed in the city at around 4:00 pm. the same evening I had a ball to attend!!! Sounds soooo chick flick! I'm here for a week. It's an extended weekend and an off for a day or two won't do any harm. I'm basically here for Avi's passing out parade and witness his very first pipping ceremony, the only one without the alcohol! I wonder how this tradition started! Dipping your rank in neat alcohol... well the only logic which I could figure was that perhaps the alcohol would help the rank vaporize,  so you get the new one faster :D. This is how i spent my flight journey, thinking about random stuff to distract myself. Well yes, I'm not so great with air travel.


That jerk couldn't even come to pick me up! Says he is occupied with the drill practices. Occupied! Really! I complete my submissions four freaking days before the actual due date, travel a hundred kilometres only so that HE is not partner-less in the ball... Huh... Yes I'm indeed obliging him! he... he....


Reached the guest room and then finally I got time to be excited. How awfully fast time flies!! It feels like yesterday when he would be this shabby guy with the crazily low waist jeans, the stubb and unkempt hair and today for the first time I'm going to see him in uniform. Though, the changes were visible in the term breaks. The jeans had decided to be a little more disciplined, the 'ya' had turned into a 'yes', 'good evening aunty' turned into a 'good evening ma'am'.....Nevertheless, the guy and the man in uniform are just too different to compare. I wonder how he would be.... bleh chuck that! Hardly anytime left. I should get ready.


**Text message**
"Hey, I am so sorry; I couldn't even ask if you have settled properly. Any problems with absolutely anything (apart from myself though :p ) Please let me know instantly. Shall see you in the academy. Let me know when you are about to reach. I've spoken to my Dad's course-mate, the car will be there at 7:30pm."


Meanwhile in the Academy


I and my buddy were getting ready in the cabin. The bottle of 'brasso' had finished everywhere! There's not a lot you can do with the uniform you know. People were logging in and out of Facebook, showing who their partners are going to be! More excited were the juniors, after all "Girls" were coming to the academy!! Even my buddy had managed a partner on the last day. Almost all our liberties (holidays) were spent hunting for prospective partners and the hard work paid and we both had somebody accompanying us.


Today the classes of etiquette and manners were going to be put to test. All the mirrors everywhere were occupied. I too managed to get one. Possibly tried everything to set whatever was left of my hair. Then, there were guys practicing how to converse. The committed ones were the advisors! Hah!! I was cool... After all it was Khyati! 


By 7:00 all of us were in the venue. The ladies had started arriving.... A fellow course-mate got ditched at the last moment. So there he was already with the drinks! Poor him!


**Text message**
"I have reached."


Read that message and somehow the entire super cool attitude vaporized!! Dude!! She's here as my sort of DATE!! I ran towards the gate. I was sweating more because of the nervousness!! Fortunately or unfortunately I spent all the time in front of the mirror spraying a cologne, when others were practising how and what to talk. I reached, she was getting out of the car. I wonder how these females manage to walk on those 6- inches tall things. It's like a continuous obstacle course. Well... you get nothing without effort, is all i can say or seeeee......  She looked incredibly beautiful!! I walked towards her, she looked at me and said, "Hi.." with that typically marvellous smile of hers. All the wishing and manners perhaps sublimed with the hotness and all that I could manage was, "You look stunning." Then she said, "Yo! I know. But these heels sure are killing me." And I knew it was the same good old friend, just a little glammed up. "You look smart, I must say!"


We entered and I can bet, almost all my course-mates gave me the "lucky bastard" look! She sure can dance and I kept cracking jokes to hide my outrageously embarrassing dancing skills. We ate a little, the food was brilliant! It killed me to not abandon her and sit with two overloaded plates. It was late and people were now out of the dancing mode and had shifted to the talking mode. Some, sticking to their partners and some with shifted interests. :D 


She got up and said, "It's kinda late. I should leave now." We left the place and were walking towards the drive way. She suddenly hopped and stood in front of me and in a very irritated, cute way said, "WHAT! What are you?! Not a freaking bit has changed. You are still as hopeless, as useless and as DUMB as ever! You BUG me!!!" 


All I could do was smile..... I had my heart beating in my mouth. I could actually bloody feel the heart beat in my neck! "The food was bloody good today. Wasn't it?" I said. Dude!!! What was I thinking! I could get an instructor grading in spoiling moments. She took off her heels, held them in one hand (yea it didn't come on my head) and with the other shook my hand strongly and said, "It was a pleasure coming here. I think you should rush back to whatever food is left. I sall beg your leave. Thank you and Good night". Then she stormed out. 


KILLL ME!!! I went after her and said, "Khyati, wait Please". 


"Yes?". She said, fuming.
I said, "Don't give that raised eye brow look, it reminds of the funny teacher we had. Do you remember? Hahahaa... ha..HA"..... "O.K! Shit!! Sorry!! Nevertheless... I... wait... umm.... ya so what was i saying..... ok yes...."


"WHAT Avi??". Khyati said. "You like me? That's why all these years you called once in two weeks? Got time to update your status but never drop one inbox message? Spent term breaks sleeping an eating and met me only twice each time? And when you met that ex of mine "Ohh he was so funny right!!!!". "I travel all the way from Delhi and all that's important to you is food!! Right Avijit Singh! You do like me!


"I agree that I have not been the best at this but you too do understand. Don't you?". I calmly said."Those calls I made by bunking classes, for which I had to roll for ten times more the duration of the call. About not dropping an inbox message, I just didn't want ten other pair of eyes scanning your photo albums; about term breaks, It's you who almost ALWAYS has exams. And that moth** fuc*** , I swear I could have ripped him apart, had i stayed longer. And about today....... sigh........ I genuinely apologize but Khyati, I beg you to understand that, I'm not in some ordinary college. It's an academy and life can be quite ruthless here. Spending so many years in an all guys fortress has done, not much good, to my conversing skills and expressing capacity either". "I know, It's too much to ask for, you are flesh and bones after all." "What can I do.... With me, It's going to be like this. For whatever little time I'll have with you, I'll try to give you all I can". "I like you dammit and possibly even love you!". "It's always been you and just been you". 


By then we were standing right in front of each other. I looked her in the eye and said, "Ma'am, I'm Sorry it took so long". She looked at me, made a mischievous face, gave a sly smile and said, "L.O.L". She hopped and hugged me and said, "I like you too Idiot!". I hugged her back laughing and said, "I swear I could kill you, had you stopped at your freaking L.O.L". 




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