A pleasant reminder of a beautiful memory

Ironic it may sound, a particular type of punishment in class usually sends nervous vibes, come to think of it, it should not have, but then it’s always scary when the teacher mentions the punishment as, the guy should go and sit next a girl, well sounds funny now, but it didn’t that time. Right from those days, we have distanced ourselves from girls, rather indirectly been drove that way, no wonder in that case, talking to a girl would raise eyebrows, need not to mention the nervousness inside which always tells the girl will go and complain to the principal. For us, we know only that they exist in our class and nothing more than that.

Knowing our freedom is one ring away, it’s always a nice feeling when the last period starts. As the bell rang, myself and Karthik rushed to the ground to start the evening games, usually it’s not preplanned, its more to do with availability of any game for play than to do with the interest, whatever it is, we enjoy it. Karthik stays near to my house and hence we make it a point to cycle together everyday. As usual, we played for a while and decided its time to start. We avoid main road as the traffic would be more, we talk a lot during we cycle, and its always fun. It isn’t any different this time also. From the main road we need to take a right turn in order enter the less crowded lane which we usually prefer, we decided to stick to the same route and as we approached the turn, I didn’t know whats going to happen in next few metres.

As we took the turn, I noticed a girl walking on the right side of that broad road and she figured to me as very familiar, I immediately know who the girl is, I wanted to confirm it with Karthik who is cycling to my left, and she is still in front of us, with the kind of alienated relationship we have with girls, I didn’t want to confirm anything with Karthik till we distance ourselves from her. In the next few seconds we pedaled past her, I turned a little to my right and ensured we are well ahead of her, immediately I turned to Karthik and in a kind of high voice asked him, doesn’t she look like Chethana? Even before I could complete my query I could see a girl turning her face from the left side of the road towards us, there she is, real Chethana. Silence, whole world seemed to suddenly start practicing yoga, such a silence, I didn’t know what to do, she looked at us for a brief moment as we passed her, my heartbeat raised exponentially, all this while, myself and Karthik had so much of chatter, the next few minutes we had so called uneasy calm, he broke the silence, “I was praying that you shouldn’t ask anything and that’s exactly what you did!!!”, Will it result in anyproblem? I asked. She is going to complain tomorrow and because of you Im also going to get suspended, he sounded very nervous when he said that. Karthik is a very strong character, hearing him say something like that is the last thing I wanted that time, there were butterflies all over my stomach, how am I going to manage this tomorrow. Only I know that I didn’t mean any harm and did my best to delay my enquiry so that we move past her, When I asked my query to Karthik, I hadn’t noticed a girl walking on the left and to my luck she happened to be the real one. I explained all this to Karthik, he was really upset, “You couldn’t keep your mouth shut? You could have asked me once we reached home, he completed, as we headed towards my home.

Anybody who would have looked at me that time would have known something has happened, no wonder my Mom asked me immediately, with all the seriousness in the world I explained her and sitting beside me was Karthik who was making comments about the situations I was explaining, hearing all that, I was expecting my mom to become serious as well, to my surprise she started laughing, If you are that afraid who asked you to talk about a girl she asked, I didn’t know what to say, but at least I felt better with that casual approach. I decided that day, never again I would do something like that…, my memory stopped there, I couldn’t recollect what happened next day at school, natural it is to forget what has happened 14 years ago, all this came to my mind when I was looking at a Maha lacto booklet I received as a compliment for collecting Maha lacto chocolate covers and sending it.This happened during my last trip to the native, I was digging out old stuffs and with that came to my mind this unforgettable experience, whenever I think of that incident, it puts on a smile to my face and so to my mom who still remembers the incident as fresh as I do… a treasured memory indeed to remind of those beautiful times

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