Reaching his apartment the first
thing he did is he switched on his PS4 and threw his college bag
in some corner of the room. He started his favorite game FIFA
with his favorite team Arsenal. The Play station seemed to his
partner because he used to spend most of him time and never get bore of it.
Varun was a lazy bone for everything in his life starting form relationships,
eating, studying, working but this Play station also used to shut down his mind
from every important thing. Meanwhile Rhea was waiting near the college gate
and trying Varun’s number but the call ended up with a computer generated voice
speaking “The person you are trying to call is currently unavailable so
please try after sometime.“ This continued for near about twenty five times
but till then she got frustrated as she missed her college bus. So she took a
cab and headed towards her apartment. Around 3 o’clock Varun realized that he
had promised something to Rhea but it was too late so he started calling her
but this time he doubled the number Rhea tried. So he grabbed his shirt and
went to Rhea’s apartment but he found it was locked, so he decided to wait. He
took out his cigarette packet from his pocket and lighted one of them. He stood
there more than two hours and ended up lighting five cigarettes. Suddenly he
saw her coming so he headed towards her to ask what the reason for not picking
up his call was.
‘Hii Rhea where were you?’
‘Varun please I don’t want to talk
with you it was already a bad day for me and please don’t add up more to it I
just beg you to stay away from this.’
‘Rhea why didn’t you pick up my
call I called near about fifty times?’
‘Varun I didn’t see that’s why I
didn’t receive!’
‘Common Rhea you are just giving me
a lame excuse you exactly did the same what I did’
‘Varun Please stop talking all this
nonsense else I will punch your face’
‘Fine if want me to stay out of
this then its ok! I am staying out of this’
‘Good bye Varun’
‘What is wrong with you why are you
behaving like a jackass?’
‘Just fucking stay out of this I don’t
want to tell you anything Varun!’
With this Rhea curtly closed the door.
Varun was really exploited by Rhea behavior so out of anger he just kicked on
her door and moved away from that place. Meanwhile Rhea was continuing sobering
without a pause as if someone has put pressed the stop button of her life.
Around nine thirty Rhea was feeling hungry so she went to the kitchen to see if
Appeksha has cooked something. But she founded the expressionless utensils
lying rack. Suddenly there was a text from appeksha showing up that she will stay
at her uncle’s house and will have her dinner there only. This added more to
her obscurity as she was in no mood for cooking. But then she saw a packet of
cornflakes lying on the rack which took off some load from her mind but there
was no milk so she locked the apartment and went down to the shop near her
apartment. She took a packet of milk and was moving from there. All of a sudden
she saw Varun smoking in the corner of that shop and Varun also noticed that
Rhea had a caught him in her sight. He smashed the cigarette with his ankle and
went towards her.
‘Hii Rhea what are you doing here
at this time?’
‘Can I ask you the same Varun?’
‘No I just came to take lab Record
from a friend!’
‘Lab record? Huh!!!’
‘Yeah tomorrow is the deadline for
submission’
‘I know your character very well so
stop lying!’
‘Seriously Rhea why would I lie to
you!’
‘Show me your record?’
‘Actually I was just going to take
that only!’
‘I know you have waiting here because
you just want to know why I was throwing up at you!’
‘Not at all! You are mistaken’
‘So you are thinking to go back to
your place? As its been too late and I don’t think you have that much energy to
get up and go’
‘Yeah I have to because tomorrow I have
to attend morning classes’
‘Don’t worry about the classes I will
wake you up early’
‘No No I will manage!’
‘Common don’t be shy my roommate will not come
today so it would be better you stay back here only so that I won’t be alone
for the night’
After thinking for a second Varun agreed
up to what Rhea said and moved upstairs!
©Biswadeep Das 6th
October 2015
