Trivandrum
'Hey whats up dude? aren't you coming for playing?' I asked Ashwin, A wheatish brown complexed boy. I know him from the moment I moved to Thiruvanathapuram after my father's transfer. We lived in a small house near karamana river.I could see the river from my home. Ashwin and Hari are my close friends and they both live in next street to mine.
'Yah! Where is Hari? He has gone some where I think' Ashwin spoke while scrapping someone in orkut.That time orkut was the only social networking site known to us.
'Let me call him'
I phoned Hari. We got our own cellphones as a present from parents because of good score in 10th. My friends also got best score but among them I topped.
'dai, Evida?(Where are you?)'
'Coming soon dude. There is a chick in our county'
'What? where?'
'I told you nah! My uncle's flat, which was for rent, is now occupied'
Hari once told me about his uncle's flat and we three together tried to rent it to someone for some commission which could make us some pocket money.
'We will be there soon man'.
'No need I will manage my own.' He told me in funny voice and hung the phone.
'Dude a chick next door' I made a try to make Ashwin divert from scrapping and that worked.
'Where?'
'In Hari's uncle's flat'
'Nice. Lets go'
We cycled to next street and took some risky moves and even just missed a ramming with our milk boy's M80 scooter. Hari was standing there in front of the building.
'Do you need some help?' I asked Hari while parking my bicycle in the center of the road.
'Who is the chick?' Ashwin asked with anxiety.
'Thats my father's friend's daughter.'
'What's her name?' I am also having the same excitement like that of Ashwin's.
'No need to know. She is the most beautiful girl I ever saw.'
'Then where is she?'
'Ah lets go and take the playing materials. Ashwin go and take the bat and I will fetch the ball. The stumps are safe up the terrace. manu go and seek it.'
'Done dude' We both said in unison to Hari's commands.
I looked at door of flat 7c where I could see the living room. I couldn't see the trace of any human but could see only well furnished room.
'Manu are you gone there to make the stumps or to fetch it?'
'Coming Ash' I shouted to answer Ashwin.
While I were running down I didn't see a man walk of a flat. He collided with me so hard that he also fell down.
'Ouch! ah' I were crying I broke my hand while falling down.
'What happened son? Are you hurt?' The grown up man asked while trying to stand up. I couldn't stand up because my angle was twisted and my hand was broken due to falling on pointed edge of the steps. He took me in his hands and put me slowly in the sofa. That time a girl came from the kitchen and asked.
'What happened papa. Who is this boy?'
'I don't know him. What is your name, son?' He told while trying to make some calls.
'Manu where are you? stupid' Ashwin were searching me. I thought I should shout for him but I couldn't because of the pain.
'Is your name, Manu? Are those your friends looking for you? Anjana I rammed this boy while I stepped out.'
Anjana. She is as beautiful as the name is. This was our first time I saw her. The pain and everything just happened around became mute to me and I thought only about Anjana. Her pink churithar and suiting earrings made my mind fly high. Within seconds Anjana's father found that I am fainted. He called an ambulance.
Anjana with her father often came to visit me While I was at the hospital. After a week they discharged me and told not to move my right hand. How could a 15 year old boy could do nothing even though his hand is broken? But my thoughts were about Anjana.
'You sleepy head. What are you dreaming of?' Ashwin came into the room after firing a question.
(to be continued...)
