We were walking back to campus hostels.Girls and Boys.Talking.Laughing.Talking. There was never
such a sighting recorded before in the history of our engg life. if
someone from outside ,who didn’t know abt us ,looked
at that group, it would look like a utopian group
of class mates.There was lot of boisterous talking happening. Sridhar,Ramesh Vijay
,Siva and some others were walking along
with girls and they were all talking with lot of
excitement .😃 .Never
thought our class girls would talk so congenially. Everyone was so
ecstatic. Me and Kishan were an exception and we
were walking a few meters ahead
of them . Why we both were not with them??No
idea!!..But we both were in their talk-audible-range.
Ramesh was all over jumping like Pawan kalyan in Khushi and speaking merrily to the girls. Why wouldn’t he? That was his moment. That’s wat he imagined
would happen when he came to this college 4
years ago . He was enjoying so much
that he was oblivious of the fact that he was having his moment at
the very end of the college life. Sreedhar surprised me. Like a guide to the new tourists, he
was talking and explaining things to them.
He was very natural and he was having fun
too .I am sure that in that specifc moment he forgot that he never spoke to the girls in the entire time spent in college 😃. There were
Vijay,Siva too
talking and also assisting Sreedhar in that walk-the-talk time 😃. As mentioned earlier, me and Kishan
were walking silently listening to them. But our topic did come up in their
chat. Sreedhar was asking the girls if they
knew about kishan and me. I think they said something which kinda meant
“yea..they are in our class..”.As Kishan became popular a few hours ago,they knew abt
him and he got some attention in their discussion. My situation was
like..haha…don’t ask !!!For them I was a guy from the class 😃 .Then sreedhar briefed them abt us that we were calm-silent,
good-nice guys . We stopped when someone called from back and
me&kishan exchanged “hi”s with them.. ( haha such a shameful
moment..after 4 years ….getting officially
introduced now….haha ) . We dropped them off
at girls hostel and we walked towards ours. Ramesh ,sreedhar,vijay,Siva
and others were all jubilant. Me and Kishan were not that much I guess. I mean
we didn’t bother much may be. Not sure. I remember that way.
That night, we all-ramesh,kishan,sreedhar,vijay,siva ,( not
sure abt dadiravi and others..dadiravi was always a
busy person) assembled on the terrace of new hostel.( or was it the roof
of the mess hall ? I think so) . Everyone was all happy that the event was
success and were proud. Feeling like heroes.
Amidst the fun talk, Ramesh, out of the blue, quipped in his unique style “
entamma sreedhar , girls tho full matlaaduthunnaav kadaaa
eeroju…you were completely in diff world while talking to them” . That
statement stung sreedhar very badly and he retorted “ cha cha..why would
I get carried away, Ramesh..i wud never do
that. Only you guys are important to me.Not them ”
etc etc . 😃😃.He was very embarrassed
for a second. 😃. Ramesh would have thought that everything would change
from the next day. Ramesh’s chronic 4 year-complaint abt the rest of the gang was that we never supported him in the
matters of being friendly with girls. Whenever I asked him in reply
“did we stop u ever?” , his answer was “you
aren’t understanding, because of u guys ,I
had to be like this, I couldn’t talk to them,how
can I go alone and talk, u guys never
supported me, you all ruined my life” …haha.
How many times have I been asked those
questions by Ramesh...!!!
Wait for the worst moment..!!!! Sigh !!!
Next day, me ramesh kishan( think sreedhar wasnt there with
us), had a burger at KPHB main road and walking back to the college campus. I didn’t know that a few min later I was going to
witness an event which could easily enter into my special list of “the
best embarrassing moments ever”. At
the main building we stumbled upon Sudheera,
Neeharika and some others. Needless to say, it was a
why-am-i-still-alive-why-didnt-I-die-already moment of our
lives. Despite having good talk last evening, both parties literally froze.World came to still for a second.
Awkwarddddd!!! Finally ,without knowing how, there was an exchange of some words and
phrases like “hi” “uhhh” “ ohhh”
“where are u coming from” “oh ok” “bye”
, not necessarily in that order 😃. It wasn’t a talk, was it?. Theres no scale to measure the artificiality of that
situation .The whole time-period of
that encounter was hardly 1 min. We met, we
spoke,we left. But that 1 min was like an eternity for all of us. Atleast to me
. To kishan too,I guess. I think ,after they left,while walking back to
the hostel, we laughed like hell . We laughed at
what just happened on earth and how the
equation with them would never change. And with Ramesh around in those
kind of situations, you bet there would be a
guaranteed one hundred percent entertainment 😃😃😃
Haha.. the previous evening, we felt like
we achieved something. We felt like heroes. Haha.. Not at all. We were not. We
were just the same. We were not real heroes. we were Surreal heroes in
the Real world 😃😃😃
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