1999 – A Love Story that can color you Green with Jealousy!

We were taking the long stairs to our class as our ponytails swayed left and right. They always told us to climb away from the railing for there were naughty boys always looking up under our short, oh-we-are-17 skirts! Disgusting.

Y: Do you like people with boyfriends?
Me: It’s a personal choice. I really don’t care. Whyyyyy?
Y: *Blushes*
Me: Really? Who? When?
Y: We cannot tell anyone else. He has a reputation in school.
What does reputation in school has got to do with having a girlfriend? Badnaami...haww!!
Me: Bataooo...tell me all!
After hearing the whole tale where the Kinetic Honda wriggled when he proposed, I told her if you ever have kids they will look like Dalmatians. You know, she was all white, and he, not-so-much.
Yep, we thought of kids even if we had the smallest crush. Sometimes we named them too!

2004, A phone rings. She was howling.
Me: What happened?
Y: He’s breaking up with me.
Me: Why? Wait, I’ll come over.
Y: *howls*
Me: Don’t cry ya. Tell me what happened?
After many swollen eyed sessions of ‘you’ll find someone better’ and ‘that jerk’, all became well in paradise! After all, here he had this sweetheart. And there was a big shortage of girls in IIT!

2009, A phone rings. She was mad
Y: Why can’t you come?
Me:*Don’t know what to say. Guilty,very guilty*
Y: I can’t imagine my wedding without you.
Me: I know. I really want to come, but I need to come back with my husband otherwise I’ll have to attend a wedding with my in-laws.
Seriously, I had got married in December, stayed without the hubby till June due to damn visa issues, visited my hometown again in August and October; I was in no position to attend another friend’s wedding in my maika! Although the guilt will remain forever, I still can’t figure out how I would have managed.
Y:*about to howl*
Me: You’ll be on my mind all the time. You’ll tell me all na?

January 2012, a phone rings. I disconnect it. She messages on Gtalk.
Y: You there?
Me: Ya, just waking up.
Y: Call me. Need to talk.
Me: Need to rush somewhere. Will take a quick shower and call you back.
All through the shower I knew what it was.

Me: Is it what I think it is?
Y: You one track mind.
Me: Acha, batao. Kya hua?
Y: Ummm, I need to ask you something.
Me: what?
Y: Ummm. I’m pregnant
Uncontrolled laughter for 5 minutes! Our entire lives flashed before my eyes. The staircase, their dating days, the difficult times, the mushy times, the many visits to IIT, the accident, the engagement, the accident after the engagement, the wedding I couldn’t attend, everything.
Me: All this while I was asking you if you were ‘down’ yet! And by the way, you were travelling around that time, right? Tell me ALL!


So, that’s life from the 17th to the 30th year of our lives. I can’t imagine my chaddi buddies making ponytails or running around little boys. But yes, I can imagine myself spoiling all the kids around me. Watch out for that my sweetiesss!