Everything apart it was Siddharth on my mind. I wondered why was I so eager to talk to him? What was so special about him? Why do I even care? It has been two years and a half and I am dying like a teenage girl to talk, to giggle and want him to ask for that incomplete coffee and what not? What was up?
The bright new day at the office was a great one, we had many new interactions but that damn smile could not leave my mind. I would steal glances and see him gleam with a smile to every new person he met. LUNCH HOURS Up in the cafeteria, I saw him, surrounded by many people….
“Hi” he uttered with the ultimate surprise. I looked at him in amazement, my lips parted in surprise and eyebrows raised with the sudden joy of surprise. “Woah, Hi” I was out aloud in the expression and overwhelmed. I never thought I would meet him like this. 4 YEARS AGO INDIRA GANDHI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, DELHI Cabin crew announcing:…
I just rushed to the hospital and grabbed a form to admit her, the nurse and other attendants put her on the stretcher and gave her the basic first aid. There were going to be stitches in the head. As soon as I got there I was all the more Nervous and the peculiar hospital and medicinal…
The next Morning I woke up. My college ended at 3 pm and Work hours started at 5 Pm which use to extend till 3 in the morning. I use to come home and sleep exhausted. I moved away from Marla’s place into the city a few years back and Rebo also came to live…
I was running breathlessly towards my home with the packet of the magic powder closely hugging my bosom and money from the mothers’ purse in the other hand. It was the green crisp Note, the money note which made me Jacob, the rich brat! I reached the house and on my tip toes went upstairs…
I left home and bright sunshine greeted me. It was a young spring day full of life. I smiled and walked my way towards the Lake, the lonely one. It became a daily habit of mine to start my day with this Lake. Karl and Marla are divorced now. I stay with my sister Rebo…
He climbs down the stairs, two at a time like playing sun, moon, land, stars and in seconds he is out of the door and makes his flight back to the lakeside. After 10 minutes of his nonstop running, he is finally there and completely out of breath, he rolls over the ground breathing heavily and looking towards the kids lifts his hand up to grab him. All the four pick him up.
Marla smelled of alcohol, Karl looked at Siwan who seemed drunk too. Karl looked at both of them in a disgusting manner and knew not what to say. He has been suffering alone whole day to the memories of her demised sister, was feeling guilty of ignoring Marla and his son for so long, and here is she, drinking with the other Guy? With the Baby Doctor? What is he doing with her?