School bell rang. All students of Class 3 left class room one by one. I was busy searching my lost pencil under the bench. Thus I was late to leave the classroom. Yeah.. finally I found my pencil. Now it was time to leave the classroom. But what I saw when I was packing up my bag that a girl was still sitting in class room crying. I looked around. I found nobody around except us there. I knew her. She lived in the apartment next to mine. We studied in the same class but we had never talked before. I went to her and offered her a chocolate first. She denied. Instead she started crying loud. I asked, “What happened?”. She replied, “I don’t understand how will I reach home.” As for what I was knowing, she was coming to school in school van. So I asked whether van is not coming.
She replied, “No, not like that. Van must be there waiting for me. But I can’t go to van untill entire school gets emptied.”
“But your van will go by then. Just move fast.” I said.
“No, I can’t.” she replied.
“But why?” I asked.
“Because my frock is torn from behind. You also leave; I will manage myself.” She replied little angrily.
“But how will you leave this room like this?” I asked.
She didn’t say anything thinking for a while.
“May I help you?” I asked.
“What will you do?” She asked surprisingly.
I thought for a while. I took out the chewed chewing gum from my mouth. Then I teared a piece of paper out of my notebook and made a drawing of two big smileys almost of the same size as the size of her bums. I fixed the paper on her bum with the help of chewing gum so that nobody can see torn part of her frock. I told her to keep both her hand on bums to hide the paper. We got out of the class. First, I took her to Principal’s office.
“See ma’m, what somebody has done with her. She is feeling embarrassed. How will she go home? She was even hesitant to get out of the class. I brought her here.” I said to Principal.
Principal looked shocked. “Oh my God..” She said.
“Ma’m, I am surely going to tell her mom about this. This type of fun can’t be entertained in the school like this. These are her bum, not notice board. Somebody intentionally did this.” I told to Principal.
“I understand” Principal told me. Then she turned to girl and asked her, “Beta, who did this? Do you know? Or do you have doubt on anybody?”
“I don’t know.” she replied.
“OK. I will take harsh action on this tomorrow. But for now, you please remove the paper. It doesn’t look good.” Principal said looking at me.
“No, ma’m. I want to show this to her mom. Otherwise her mom won’t believe me and will scold me assuming I made her cry.” I replied.
“Oh boy. OK, as you wish. But I can’t send her in school van. Other students will tease her. Do one thing. You both go to home in my car and you take care of her.” Principal said.
My plan succeeded. She smiled at me. I smiled back at her. I extended my hands to her and she held my hand; and we started walking towards Principal's cab. When we reached her home, she gave me kiss on my cheek saying “Thank you”. That day, I held her hand, sat beside her and even touched her bums first time, but when I attempted to touch her bums second time, that was disaster. I am Arjun Kapoor and this is my story with Prachi Desai.
From that day onwards, we became very good friends. We went to school together, shared lunchbox, played games together. All went well till we reached our teenage. Years had passed and we were at teenage now. Our friendship was same but thinking had been changed by now. Physical distance had started increasing between us, for obvious reasons. But I wanted to get rid of the distances. My eyes always kept rolling all over her body parts. I had my first sex education in Class 9th and I watched quite a few porn movies too. What I used to miss was experiencing sex and for that, Prachi was always the main lead in my fantasies now.
One day, she was alone at her home. She called me to accompany her and also to help her with maths assignments. I didn’t want to miss this opportunity; so reached there on time. She was ready with her maths assignment. I saw open books and other stationary items lying all over entire bed in her bedroom. Seeing this, the first thought came in my mind that how would I be able to manage to make her sleep with me on this bed. I joined her for assignment although my focus was not on assignment. I had no idea as to how will I move further towards my target. So to give it a try, I started cracking jokes in between while studying. Simple jokes to romantic jokes and then I jumped to X rated jokes; just to observe her expressions. She was enjoying my every kind of jokes and I observed that distance between us was decreasing with each joke. There came a moment when we both were lying on bed with just a little distance; then finally I thought to zero in distance. I was about to move towards her when she turned towards me. I thought she wants it too. She was trying to say something; but it seemed she was feeling shy. So, before she could speak anything, I grabbed her with my hands and pulled her towards my body. I almost hugged her. I then started rolling my hands on her body for which I was striving for long time. She started behaving odd as if she was uncomfortable; but that didn’t stop me. I rolled my hands all over body; then when I touched her bums, she pushed me away saying, “What are you doing, Arjun?”.
“I like you, Prachi” saying this I again moved towards her but she withdrew herself again.
“What's the problem, Prachi? We are good friends since almost last 10 years.” I said.
“But that doesn’t mean I am open to this. See Arjun, you are a good guy and I like you too. but no physical relation please, at least right now.” she said trying to convince me.
“Then what will it make difference we make relation at later stage?” I said.
“Arjun, please try to understand. I never thought of you that way. And never expected this from you.” She said.
“Because till now we were kids but now we are not. uff, you won’t understand. Can’t we do just foreplay? Nothing would happen in that.” Now I was trying hard to convince her.
“No, I already said no.” she replied.
I got little angry. I held her hand, pulled her towards me, grabbed her into my hands and started kissing on her cheeks. When I was about to kiss her lips, she pushed me away and pointed me the door saying “Get out of my house, Arjun.”
I waited for a moment to calm myself. After that, I said “It’s ok, dear. If you don’t wish to have a relation, it’s ok for me. Let’s continue with maths.”
“Oh! Forget maths and me as well. I am weak at maths that’s my problem and that I will manage.” She said in full anger. I was shocked to hear this. I asked, “Why?”.
“I was alone at home. Still I invited you to my home because I trusted you. But today you broke that trust. Now I never want to meet you again or keep our friendship. I can’t trust you anymore now and can’t even feel safe with you. Please get out of my home.” She said.
I started walking towards the door. She followed me perhaps to confirm whether I left home and she close the door. I stepped out of her home. She stood inside her home holding door.
“Is it all over?” I asked for confirmation before leaving.
“Yes. Now, no need to say anything else. Just Go. Please.” She closed the door on my face saying this.
Since that day, she broke all relations with me. She stopped talking with me, even avoided looking at me. I was surprised that what wrong did I do. Nothing had happened between us. Later I realized that it was my mistake. I tried to say sorry to her but she didn’t give me a chance. Finally, ego peeped in. I got hurt by her behaviour. If she doesn’t think about me, why should I keep on thinking about her. So, ultimately I just stopped thinking about her. Who cares! and so our friendship ended on a very sour note. End of Chapter One.
Then came college. In college, I wanted to have a girlfriend who was not so conservative about relationship like Prachi. Thus I was looking for hot and open-minded girl and for that there were lot of girls around. I talked to many girls but finding the right mix of beauty and brain is always hard. Finally, I set my eyes on Anushka Sharma. She was not as cute-looking as Prachi but she was hot, intelligent and open-minded.
Soon enough we became good friends. The days had come when we started sitting beside each other during lectures, having lunch together in recess, going out, watching movies etc. I liked spending time with her. My college days were going great with her. I used to hate vacations as they meant I couldn't see her. So vacation were always difficult for me. Initially, I felt hesitant to contact her during vacations. But then I tried calling her once. She attended the call and talked to me. Since then, we used to talk almost daily during vacations. One day, we decided to meet during vacation. We fixed a nearby public garden for the date. It was almost dark when we met that evening. We sat at a deserted corner of the garden, there were no lights there and was actually a couples corner. We looked at each other. Ideally, I would have leaned towards her to kiss; but to my surprise, I didn’t do anything of that sort. I was just looking at her, seeing her beautiful smile and dimples on her cheeks. I felt like sitting there forever just looking at her beautiful face. She started feeling shy. She kept looking at the surroundings to avoid any eye contact. I held her hands. I wanted to hug her. But suddenly “Arjun,” she said. “Yes” I replied.
“I am getting late. My parents must be waiting for me. I should leave now.” she said with her usual smile on her face.
“When will we meet again?” I asked.
“Our college resumes after a week. So, see you then?” she replied.
“No, it’s too long. Can’t we meet daily?” I said.
“Arjun, don’t be crazy.” she said.
“Ok. Let’s meet at least once before college resumes. Please!!” I was going crazy trying to convince her hard.
“Ok done. I will give you a call.” She replied.
After reaching home, a thought came to my mind that, why I didn’t attempt anything with Anushka which I tried with Prachi. A thought about Prachi also came in my mind. I used to see her many times whenever she was passing by my home on her two-wheeler but she used to avoid any eye contact with me. She was quite cute and beautiful girl yet, like what she was in childhood. I had a doubt that she had a boyfriend. As she was not ready to talk to me, I even didn’t prefer to contact her. I think, Prachi never tried to understand how sorry I was or perhaps she didn’t want to. Frustrated, I threw out thoughts of Prachi and switched back to Anushka again. After thinking for while, I realized that I had different feeling for Anushka. I had soft corner for her. I also realized how kiddish I behaved with Anushka in our last meeting. I didn’t know what that feeling was, probably love or just a crush. But my chemistry was blossoming with Anushka till that bloody Rose Day in our college.
On Rose Day, I decided to propose Anushka. She was sitting beside me in the classroom as usual that day but something was wrong with her. I hadn’t seen her such nervous before. I had put on sky blue T-shirt that day which was her favourite color but she didn’t notice, instead she was busy with her mobile. Various thoughts started arising in my mind but I didn’t ask anything then. After lectures ended, I took her to the canteen even though she was not in the mood for it. I ordered Chhole Bhature, her favourite; along with some pastry. I had a surprise planned for Anushka. I requested for an extra bowl. Then, I made a border around pastry with two roses such that head of both roses touched each other and I tried to make shape of heart with them. I covered this design with a bowl. Having two plates - one of Chhole Bhature & other of Pastry - in both my hands; I approached her. She was sitting with her back towards me. As I reached there, I heard that she was talking to somebody with the help of earphones. I paused to hear what she was talking.
“Shahid, please try to understand. That was not about us. How did you forget the days we spent together. Don’t you realize how much I love you? So, how can I do this to you? … “ I heard. Hearing this, I literally got paralyzed. My doubts had come true. Somehow I managed to hold plates in my hands. It was not possible for me to stand behind her and to listen to her love story. I didn’t want her to know that I overheard anything. I made some artificial noise with plates and then resumed walking towards her; and to my surprise she disconnected the phone too.
“So, here’s your favourite Chhole Bhature.” I said happily as if nothing had happened.
“Oh! Thank you. And what’s in the other plate?” She asked with not much excitement.
“It’s all yours. You may uncover to see.” I said.
As she took off the covering bowl, she was surprised to see pastry with rose border.
“Oh wow! Thanks again.” She said, this time with excitement.
I looked into the plate, fortunately the heart shape design had already been spoiled; instead it looked like a broken heart, and that was true for me.
“A pastry and roses for you! Just a small gift from me for a special day.” I said.
After a while, I added in a sad voice, “Sorry! I didn’t find any other color of rose. So, I bought the red ones.”
“That’s ok, dear. I can’t thank you enough.” She said in a pleasing tone.
“By finishing all these..” I replied. We both laughed. That day was the end of hope for our relationship and all those dreams which I had seen.
After that day, all things remained same except my approach and inclination towards her. I tried my best to never let her feel that there is any change in my behavior. I was waiting for completion of graduation so that I can set away from Anushka permanently. Because it was difficult for me to spend anymore time with Anushka; after knowing everything. On the last day of college, she gave me a gentle hug. A good-bye hug perhaps. End of Chapter Two.
After completion of college, I started with moderate salary job. My profile was to sell the product, brand name of which was pronounced “I-PAD”. But this “I-PAD” was not the first brand name which comes in mind for tablet PCs. Spelling of this brand name was “AaiPad", the brand name for women’s sanitary pads. But I never used to clarify about spelling of brand name and which product it represents whenever I was describing my job profile to others verbally. I basically had to deal with dealers, distributors, chemists etc. Initially, I felt a lot difficulty achieving my targets. I was frustrated and thinking to leave the job. But it is said that when one door is closed; other gets opened. I had a very good friendship with Boss’s secretary, as we were almost of the same age; while all other staff was of either around 35 or more than that. She was also a part time fashion designer. One day, suddenly she asked me the reason for my frustration. Perhaps she must be noticing me frustrated. I talked with her about issues with me. To my surprise, hearing my problem; she extended her hand for help. For me, it was not possible to sell product to end consumers; which became possible with her help. The company was only concerned with the sales figures; irrespective of what I do to sell the products. With the help of my new secretary friend, I encouraged some housewives to become agent and sell the product on my behalf. Against that, I used to pay them commission as percentage of what I was getting as an incentive from the company. That’s how, I succeeded in achieving the targets and my job was saved as well.
My conversation with secretary started with word “AaiPad”, moved further to 3 golden words “I Love You”. My first successful affair started with her. My boss was not happy knowing about my affair with her, but I had a pleasure of at least defeating someone in the war of love, which I couldn’t before. Although we used to get very less time to spend together in office, as I had fieldwork and she had back-office work. As per our reporting system, everyday I had to report daily targets and achievements to my girlfriend only in the evening. Thus, I was reporting very late in the evening and she also used to sit late waiting for me. Boss had a usual time of leaving office meanwhile. And then once all staff members leave, we were using office premise for our romantic purpose.
After an affair of around 6 months, we decided to marry. Finally, on one fine day; I got engaged to her. She was Shraddha Kapoor, a beautiful and intelligent girl. I was Kapoor, she was Kapoor. Kapoor & Kapoor, happy family; and thank god my father-in-law was not Shakti Kapoor. Hilariously, my father-in-law’s name was Ram Kapoor and my mother-in-law’s name was Asha, so combination created Asha-Ram Kapoor.
After engagement, Shraddha left “AaiPad” job and became full-time fashion designer. She was perfect in all aspects; her wardrobe choice, looks everything and also wanted me to be perfect. Yes, I should wear fine clothes even on my moderate salary but I am not going for a ramp-walk anywhere so do I need to be that perfect about my clothes. After engagement, initial days of our golden period were quite exciting and full of romance. But then, I observed dramatic change in her behavior. After few weeks of being with her started becoming a headache. Lifestyle, hobbies, habits etc. was now more priority than love and romance. Romance had already been evaporated out of our relationship. And there was no readiness to adjust with each other as well. She never tried to adjust according to my style. Neither could I to her style. Difference of opinions started creating more distance between us. Still perhaps, we had a strong feelings for each other, which made our engagement work. Sometimes fight, sometimes love but still we were happy; and this went quite good till my friend’s marriage function that year.
That year, one of my best friends, Sushant Rajput’s marriage was there. Sushant was residing in the same building where Prachi was living. Sushant was a common friend of mine and Prachi. After my break up with Prachi, I used to get news about Prachi from Sushant only. Initially when I had a lust on Prachi, I had a doubt that there’s something between Sushant and Prachi. But then later, my doubt got cleared when Sushant came to me and said, “Bro, there’s nothing between us. But, if you have courage for Prachi; please move ahead. I am with you.” Later after my break up with Prachi, I realised why Sushant told those words to me.
Sushant invited me and Shraddha both to attend his marriage. The date on which Sushant’s wedding was planned, the same day Shraddha had some picnic program with her friends. So, there was a clash. I was expecting that Shraddha would postpone or cancel her picnic program and join me. So, I insisted her to join me for Sushant’s wedding, but she refused. Other way around, she insisted me to join her picnic program the same day, for which I denied. I told her to choose out of these two options, either me or her picnic. She chose to go for picnic instead of joining me. That was high point of toleration in this relationship. Till that day almost in all the instances, I always tried to adjust according to what she wished. This was the first time I told her to adjust for me but she didn’t.
Sushant was marrying his long-time sweetheart Parineeti. Marriage function was organized at a club outskirt of the city. So, there was an open ground around the club. Prachi was also there at the function. She was looking stunning in her traditional dress. Our eyes met but as usual she turned her face. While having dinner, we sat beside each other in the group. But as we were in group, I couldn’t talk to her. After dinner, people were busy enjoying the function; while I escaped to have few puffs of cigarette. I went out of club and in a dark corner beside the club. I just had couple of puffs when I heard somebody's footstep. I threw out the cigarette immediately and started moving towards the club. Suddenly, I saw Prachi standing in front of me. I had no idea as to what was she doing there. Before I could think more on it; she looked around, came close to me and locked her lips with mine. I was shocked but enjoying the moment as well. Although she separated soon. Quickly she asked me, “You just had smoke, na?”
“Ya”, I replied. She was busy looking around and I was looking at her. I then continued, “But what was that you just did here?”
“Leave all these questions. Just forget what has happened. And as such we didn’t get any private time with each other and I was hesitant to talk with you there. I just saw you escaping from the Club, so I followed you to get some private time.” She replied.
“Please slap me hard. Am I seeing a dream?” I said.
“You are not seeing a dream, Arjun. It’s true. I know all you wanted was just what we did, right? And even if you want more than this then also you are free. I am alone at my flat tonight.. Mom and Dad are out of town. You are most welcome spend night with me.” She replied.
“Just relax, Prachi. Let me understand first what’s this going on here.” I said.
“What do you want to understand? After all, what do you wish? The fact is in front of you.” She said in little loud voice, as she started getting angry now.
“Ya.. but I have never expected this after what had happened between us.” I said.
“I was hesitant to contact you but couldn’t you ever try to talk to me? You are friend with me on Facebook. We both are on WhatsApp as well. Didn’t you ever thought to use any of these technologies to actually talk to me?” She said with at top of her anger.
“You used to turn your face away always whenever I tried to make an eye contact with you. Then how these technologies are going to help me out when the person is not even ready to look at me?” I said in calm voice.
She didn’t say anything.
“And as such, I heard that you had a boyfriend so ..” I stopped.
“He is no longer my boyfriend now.” she stopped me in between and said.
“Why? What happened?” I asked.
“Arjun, I am really sorry for what happened that day. I was so wrong about understanding you. I understood how good as the person you are when I got to know other boys. When you attempted to dry hump me and I disagreed, you stopped immediately. But the same has not happened with my boyfriend. I thought he really loves me by heart, and physical relation is not important for him. But I was wrong. Somehow he got an idea as to I won’t be ready for sex with him before marriage. So, he diluted brown sugar in my drink and attempted to make relation with me. I was semi-conscious but still somehow I managed to escape from him. I made mistake recognizing the right man.” She started literally crying while saying this.
“Oh I see! Sorry to hear that. But what can I do now? I would be happy to be your boyfriend but I am already engaged now. Probably you also must be knowing that.” I said.
“Ya, I know. I just wanted to let you know that I don’t have any problem with you now. You are good boy and I am happy about you.” She said with smiley face.
“Thanks” I said.
“Why are you alone today? Where is your fiance?” She asked.
“She has her friend’s wedding to attend today. So, she is there and I am here.” I lied.
“Oh I see! I think I should leave now. You can continue your cigarette . Bye” She said.
“Prachi” I called her when she was about to leave.
“Yes” She looked back and said.
“One more kiss please? I didn’t enjoy the first one actually.” I said.
She smiled and came close to me again. We kissed again but this time kiss was pleasureful.
Since that day, my first parallel affair started with Prachi. After that day, we started remaining in touch regularly. We started talking, dating, kissing and doing what maximum we could.
After around 4 months of Sushant’s wedding, Shraddha’s cousin's wedding was there. Shraddha wanted me to put on wardrobe of her choice on that day. But as she was not in the city when I planned to go for shopping, she emailed me the designs. Now my task was to find exact matching wardrobe from the market. And that was really pathetic task as I was knowing it’s hard to find exact matching cloth from any place. Even I had no idea as to where I would find almost matching cloth. I alloted my one full Sunday for this shopping only. I started with one showroom,and after around couple of hours, I had visited almost 5 showrooms; but didn’t find anything. Tired, I entered a mall in nearby area. For reaching the men’s section in the mall, I had to pass through women’s section. On my way, I found the rack of bags in which my eyes got stuck on a beautiful pink bag. I decided to gift that bag to Shraddha. I rushed to rack and as soon as I tried to pick up that bag, somebody on other side of rack grabbed it. To my surprise, I found Anushka having that bag in her hand and she was observing it. She immediately placed it back into rack as she might read the price tag. As soon as she placed the bag back, I picked up that bag and said “Hi”. I found aged aunty was there instead of Anushka. “Hello” she replied back having smile on her face. When she smiled, I saw her fallen teeths and gap between teeths. I can bet that even a cockroach can easily insert into mouth through that gap. She kept on looking and smiling at me. The way she was looking at me, I started having doubt. I was scared. So, before she mistakes me for a gigolo and tries something wrong with me, I decided to escape from there. I moved away from there. Not too far, I found Anushka again. I patted her back to call her. She looked at me and she was literally surprised. Immediately, she started firing questions on me like “Where did I go?”, “Why didn’t I remain in touch?” etc. I just proposed her to have coffee together as a response. She agreed. We went to “The Facebook Cafe” on the ground floor of the mall. There, I talked about Shraddha, our love story, our engagement life etc. She listened everything calmly. But the question which was pinching her badly was “Why I didn’t remain in touch with her?” She asked that question more than twice and I tried to avoid giving reply two times. But, finally I had to answer it when it was asked third time.
“I thought you must be settled with Shahid by now.” I said.
“Shahid?” she asked surprisingly.
“Ya, Shahid. Don’t you love him?” I asked.
“Of course! I love him but…” She replied but stopped after “but”.
“Then what’s wrong in it? If you love him, you should be settled with him by now.” I said.
“Excuse me. What are you talking? How can I be settled with him?” She said.
“Because you love him.” I said.
“Ya, that’s true. But what you say is not possible.” She replied.
“Why it’s not possible? If you love him, then why can’t you settle with him?” I asked.
“Because he is my cousin, not boyfriend. And for your kind information, I don’t have any boyfriend yet. I don’t have brother in blood relation. So, I love Shahid more than a brother.” She replied.
Shocked to hear this, I couldn’t speak anything for few seconds.
“Oh.. was that so?” Hardly I managed to say this.
“Ya. It is. You perhaps assumed that he must be my boyfriend. right?” She asked.
“Ya. But I don’t understand how can Shahid be you cousin.” I said.
“I am not doing Bol Bachchan with you, Arjun. His full name is Shahid Kapoor.” She replied.
Again I found a Kapoor. Now, I am getting tired of these Kapoors. Bollywood and my life, both are full of Kapoors.
“OK. But still I can’t understand how can Shahid be Kapoor?” I fired again.
“It’s enough, Arjun. If you don’t trust me, it’s OK. But at least, don’t doubt me with Shahid. And tell me one thing, can’t I say I love you to my cousin?” She said in Anger. So, I also decided not to argue much about Shahid with her. Because arguing with girl is like fighting with a pig in the mud; no matter who wins, you will get dirty.
“Of course, you can say I love you. Nothing wrong.” I replied calmly.
“Didn’t you ever think of talking on this confusion with me? How did you assume about my affair with Shahid without knowing the fact.” She said in little loud voice.
“Actually, I was about to propose you that day but I didn’t, as this confusion was created.” I replied in calm voice.
“Just a small confusion and it destroyed a relationship before it was built.” She said in disappointment.
“I am so sorry for doubting you, dear.” I was trying to make her calm.
“Now there is no meaning of sorry, Arjun. Do you know what my heart was saying that some day you will come to me and say those three magical words. I was waiting for you. But see what you did. You even broke our friendship after college.” She said while almost started crying.
“Please don’t cry, Anushka. There is no meaning of crying now. We can’t change what’s gone but at least we can remain friends for lifetime.” I said.
“No please. That would hurt me a lot. I have no courage to see you with your fiance.” She said.
“Ok. Let’s keep our friendship separate from my relationship with Shraddha. I will never bring you in front of Shraddha and not even other way around. It’s OK, now?” I tried to convince her.
She said no to this as well. But after my hard efforts, I succeed in convincing Anushka. I asked for her help for the task of wardrobe hunting given by Shraddha. She helped me. And finally we found almost matching wardrobe at the end of the day. So, I spent almost half a day with Anushka. And then, my second parallel affair started. My crush was with me now.
Almost around 6 months passed. My relationship with Prachi and Anushka were getting better; while my relationship with Shraddha had worsened. I realized difference of opinions, no willingness for adjustment, lack of romance etc. were there between me and Shraddha; which created lot of chaos between us. I was not happy with this relationship now. That time, my marriage date was already fixed. It was just two months left for my marriage but I was now not sure about marrying Shraddha. I didn’t want these things with Shraddha for lifetime. But, I didn’t know how to say NO to Shraddha. Also, I didn’t know what will I do if I do break up with Shraddha. In fact, I was confused. Although I had 3 girls in my life, but I was not sure whom I had true feelings whether for Prachi, Anushka or Shraddha. Even I was not sure whether Prachi or Anushka would be ready to marry me if I do break up with Shraddha.
I had thought long and hard one fine day. I took bottle of neat rum, drunk as much as I could and stood in front of mirror and I started talking to myself, like what Big B did in Amar Akbar Anthony.
“No doubt she is beautiful, sexy, well mannered, a good family person, intelligent but I don’t love her, even though she is official love of my life. Gone are the days when she used to wait for me in the office till late eve. Now, she has no time for me and I am not even a priority to her. Why don’t she understand that love is the priority for man which he looks forward out of woman; no any other thing? While in my case, all other things have become important for her but not love. I am really tired now.” One side of thought said.
“But why don’t you talk to her whatever the issue is. At least give her a chance. Try to know the reason for this change.” Other side of thought said.
“I already did but she said that we have entire life for love and to spend time with each other. This is the time to celebrate life fully. Now I didn’t understand what celebration is & what’s the importance of this relationship for her.” One side of thought said.
“But I think whatever I am going to decide, I should give Shraddha an idea as to what I am going to do otherwise she will get hurt. I mean if I am planning to do break up with her, I should tell her indirectly in advance.” Other side of thought said.
“Yes, I should do that. But what after that? What if I do break up with Shraddha?” I asked myself.
“I will have two options to choose, either Prachi or Anushka for marriage. For that, I should meet both, try to know as to what they think about marrying with me. I should know their readiness and reaction. In short, I should propose them indirectly for marriage and try to know their response. Then I will be able to decide.” I replied myself.
“Yes, I got it. I will do like this only.” deciding this, I went to bed for the next morning.
Next day, I met Shraddha but this time in a public garden instead of any shopping mall, cafe etc where we used to meet usually after engagement. I had not experienced romantic time with Shraddha since our engagement. Perhaps I wanted those romantic moments back that day, so I preferred to meet her in public garden. I chose the same garden and same corner where I had met Anushka. The reason for meeting Shraddha was also to give idea as to what I may do but I didn’t have any idea as to how would I say this. After initial few talks, I finally got the chance and I asked her, “What if one day I say no to this relationship?”. She remained silent for few seconds.
“I won’t say no Arjun. I know I am not behaving good with you, perhaps I am not behaving like what you expect out of me. Of course, I would ask for the reason; but irrespective of whether you can give justifiable reason or not, I won't force you to continue this relationship. I will move away from your life if you are not comfortable with me. Because ultimately it’s your life.” She replied and again became silent. Before I could speak anything, she continued further, “I would suggest, just think once that why I was doing all this to you before you decide anything. When I saw you first time in the office, I found a simple boy having tea in the dish instead of cup. But once we became friends, we started talking; I found a pure heart boy. I fell in love with that heart. And perhaps that’s why, I couldn’t see you frustrated whenever your targets were not being achieved.”
Shraddha’s voice started stammering. Tears started rolling from her eyes. Tears are very powerful and effective weapon gifted to women by god; which can do anything.
“Oh my sweetheart, my intention was not to make you cry. I was asking just for the sake of. Please don’t cry baby” saying this I hugged her. She hugged me back tight. After long time, I enjoyed tight hug with Shraddha. Few seconds later, she looked at me. She started caressing my cheeks. She came close to me & gave gentle lip-kiss first. I then kissed her back & that resulted into wild kiss. That day after a long time, I experienced romantic moments with Shraddha.
As I already decided, it was time to fix meeting with Prachi and Anushka. Till my last meeting with Shraddha in garden, my intention was clear as to discontinue relationship with Shraddha. But after that day, I became more confused. I didn’t want to marry Shraddha but our last meeting in garden made me think otherwise. But as I wanted to know other two girls’ views about marrying me, I didn’t drop an idea of meeting them and fixed the day for it. I called both at Picasa Mall in heart of the city. Even though location was same but I fixed different dating locations and time. I called Prachi at 5 pm at “Jellybean Scoops” and Anushka at 6 pm at “Gingerbread Cakes & Bakeries”. Both locations were in the same mall. It seems this entire mall was owned by Google, as all names were matching with either different Google products or various Android versions. I was fully prepared as to how and what will I talk with these girls. Everything was going as per plan till I received two phone calls back to back which created mess. First phone call from Prachi saying she would be half an hour late n second call from Anushka saying she would be half an hour early. I tried to convince both to come on time but none was ready. I was stuck, confused and finally crossed my fingers.
I went and occupied table at “Jellybean Scoops” at around 5.15 pm where Prachi was supposed to come. To my surprise, I got a phone call from Anushka at around 5.25 PM saying, she is waiting for me at Gingerbread. I told her to wait for me, as it was almost about 5.30 PM so I had no other option. 5.30 PM passed. It was about 5.35 PM. I got second call from Anushka which I intentionally didn’t attend. I called Prachi but she didn’t receive. There seemed no sign of Prachi to come. Finally got bored, I rushed to Gingerbread where Anushka was waiting. I joined Anushka. Anushka was looking beautiful in her Red Kurti and Black Jeans. We first gave order to waiter. While I was busy giving order to waiter, my phone rang and that was call from Prachi. Obviously, I rejected the call. She sent SMS saying, “waiting for u at jelly bean”. I replied, “ok. coming soon”. Finished giving order, I requested Anushka to allow me for 5 mins. She agreed. I got out of Gingebread and reached Jellybean to join Prachi. I saw Prachi in Blue T-shirt which was my favourite color. As soon as I reached there, she started firing questions, “Where were you? On one hand, you kept on calling me & on other hand, I didn’t find you here.”
“I just went to washroom.” I replied.
“But washroom is available here inside. Look there in front of me. Then why you went out?” Counter-firing by Prachi.
“Oh! I didn’t notice.” I said.
She was looking at me full of doubt, as it seemed she was also noticing me breathing hard and having sweat on my face. She was about to say something but before she could speak anything, I asked here, “Can we order something first?”
“Ya sure.” She replied.
I called waiter. He came to write order. When I was busy giving order, my phone rang and that was call from Anushka. Obviously I rejected the call. She sent SMS saying, “Order is ready on table. Where r u?”. For while, I started hating word “Order”. Finished giving order, I requested Prachi to allow me for 5 mins saying, “My friend is waiting out. He has some urgent work. May I?”. She allowed me. I left Jellybean and rushed to Gingerbread . Situation was becoming difficult to tackle. When I reached to Anushka, she told me, “You took too much time. Puffs are getting cold.”. I replied, “I am really sorry. Actually badly stuck.”
“Ya, he was stuck with me.” I heard voice from behind. When I looked back, Prachi was standing there. I turned speechless. My heartbeat went faster.
“So, is this the friend who have urgent work? But this friend is She not He.” Prachi said.
Anushka looked surprised. She asked Prachi, “Sorry! I didn't get u. And who are you?”
“Had he left you alone few mins back?” Prachi asked Anushka.
“Yes.” Anushka replied.
“He just did the same with me. He left you to join me and then he left me to join you. In fact there must a gap between these two meetings. But thank God, I came late and everything got cleared. You are cheater, Arjun.” Prachi said in anger.
“How dare you to call my husband a cheater!” I then heard a third voice. We 3 looked at the direction of voice and that was the most shocking. I saw Shraddha standing there. My heart started pumping at highest pace now.
“And for your kind information his name is Karan, not Arjun.” Shraddha came near to me and said.
“Karan?” Prachi asked in exclamation.
“Ya Karan Johar, my husband. And I am Ekta Kapoor, his wife.” Shraddha replied.
Again one more Kapoor. What the f*ck! What name Shraddha gave me. Obviously, I am not his type.
“What? How can a Kapoor be a wife of Johar?” Anushka asked.
“I was Kapoor before marriage. I don’t want to change my surname. So, I didn’t change. Simple!!” Shraddha replied.
“Where were you, Karan? I searched you in the entire mall but I didn’t see you anywhere. And what I see here? What are you doing with these two bitches?” Shraddha asked me.
“Actually darling..” I tried to reply but Shraddha stopped me in between and started speaking, “I know, you didn’t want me to purchase that expensive gown. It’s OK. I didn’t. What was the point to get angry and leave the mart?” saying this, she gave me a light slap.
“I don’t believe all this. What’s going on?” Prachi said in anger.
“Can you see Donut Mega Mart there?” Shraddha asked Prachi.
“Yes.” Prachi replied.
“We both were shopping together there. He got angry at some point and left me alone there. So searching him, I found him here.” Shraddha said.
“Karan, Arjun, duplicates? Do duplicates really exists in real life?” Prachi asked Anushka. Anushka nodded in surprise.
“Now, what are you waiting for. Let’s go. We are getting late for home.” saying this, Shraddha held my hand and took me out of Gingerbread. She drew me to little far place and then let off my hand.
“I saved you, Arjun. You are free now.” Shraddha said.
“But tell me what was that, Shraddha.” I asked.
“Then go and tell those bitches that you are Arjun not Karan. And get beaten up.” She replied. I was speechless.
“And what the hell you ask me. The same question I can ask you as well. I had a doubt when you indirectly told for break up with me. But today, I got sure.” She said. She stopped for a moment and then continued, “And ya, don’t be confused. That girl in blue t-shirt seems good for you. Go and grab her.”
“What are you saying, Shraddha? It’s not like that.” I said.
“No further discussion please, Arjun. I already freed you up. You are totally free now. Go and live your life with the girl of your choice.” She said in little angry voice.
“Can’t you allow me to speak anything?” I shouted.
“No please. I am going home. And never try to contact me again. And as such, you won’t like to contact me even. You already have two options. So, better to forget me.” She said and started walking towards exit.
I held her hand to stop her. “Please leave my hand.” she said without looking at me. I still didn’t. She literally shouted. People around started looking at us. Looking at the situation, I preferred to leave her hand. As soon as I left her hand, she resumed walking towards exit. I was silent looking at her going out. I watched her till I could see her. I was nervous. My plan totally failed; instead it lead to unexpected result. The way Shraddha behaved, I was not sure whether Shraddha would be back into my life. But, I was still optimistic about two girls who must waiting for me at Gingerbread. I headed back to Gingerbread. To my surprise, I found none of those two girls was present. Instead waiter was standing near the table having bill in his hand.
“Sir, those girls left without paying. I know you were also present on this table. So, will you pay the bill now? Or else we know, how to recover the bill amount.” Waiter asked me.
I went to waiter and paid the bill. Waiter started taking unused food and plates. I stopped him saying, “Did these things order by me?”
“Yes” Waiter replied.
“Did I pay bill for this?” I asked again.
“Yes” Waiter replied again.
“Then I know, how to recover for what I am paying.” I said.
Waiter placed the plates and food back on the table. As such, I was hungry. I sat on the chair and finished all the food.
After leaving mall, I stood on roadside. With the help of cigarette puffs, I tried to relax my mind. One by one, I tried to contact each of three girls via different communication media which were available like phone call, SMS, whatsapp, facebook etc. But I couldn’t contact anyone through any media. I spend almost 2 hours puffing cigarettes one-after-one and trying to contact girls one-after-one. But, no result materialized. Tired and frustrated, I reached home. And to my surprise, something was also waiting for me at home.
My dad, Sanjay Kapoor, was waiting for me. As soon as I reached home; he started firing his words towards me. And the words were about Shraddha.
“Suddenly what happened, Arjun? Mr. Kapoor’s phone was there. He told me that Shraddha doesn’t want this relationship.” Dad asked.
I didn’t understand why Shraddha was so hurry to take such a decision and involve parents in the matter so quickly. Although, I didn’t reply to Dad’s question.
“Reply me, Arjun. I am asking you.” Dad asked me angrily.
“Didn’t you try to convince Mr. Kapoor and Shraddha?” I counter-questioned.
“Oh!! So, you mean even if I was totally unaware about the issue; I should have tried to resolve the same? You idiot. Mr. Kapoor was also not knowing the reason for it. Now, can you tell me what was the reason? Why suddenly Shraddha don’t want this relationship?” Dad started being hyper in his voice.
“It’s useless to discuss right now, dad. Please try to understand. My efforts to convince her are still on. And I know, I will convince her anyhow. Right now, she must be angry so don’t want to talk to me. Let her be chilled. I want some time. Then, everything will be OK.” I said in calm voice.
Dad came close to me, pet my shoulder and said, “OK. Take your time but remember, I want Shraddha be back into our family. She is really a nice girl.”
“Trust me, dad.” I said.
All 3 girls closed the doors for me, as none was ready to talk with me. So, I had three doors to knock now. At least, I wanted to clear any confusion and keep friendship with them alive. But my first target was to convince Shraddha, as she was official love of my life and family was involved too. I tried to contact Shraddha continuously for three days; but she never showed interest in talking with me. Finally, I reached Shraddha’s home to talk with her without any prior consent from her. I talked with Shraddha in front of all her family members. She told reason for her decision to discontinue this relationship in the presence of all.
“Shraddha, please try to understand why I met those two girls. You even don’t know why I wanted to meet them. You don’t know the fact and just on the base of misunderstanding, you are taking this decision.” I said after she finished telling reason.
“OK, Arjun. I admit that I had a misunderstanding. Then tell us what’s the fact. Do you have courage to say what did you do with Prachi or how crazy you were for Anushka? If yes, then tell the fact. We all are present to hear you.” Shraddha said. And hearing this, I was shocked. Shraddha continued then, “I got to know everything, Arjun. Better you don’t encourage me to speak more.”
“Just a minute.. can I say something?” Mr. Ram Kapoor interrupted.
“Shraddha, whatever the problem is; but you both please discuss in isolation. These are your personal issues and there’s no meaning of discussing everything in here. Better you go out somewhere or in your room, discuss the issues, take a decision and then let us know whatever you both decide. We will accept your decision.” Mr. Kapoor said.
“No Dad, I don’t want to discuss anything with him. I am sorry.” Saying this Shraddha stood up to head towards her room with wet eyes.
“I am sorry and thank you all for the time we spent together.” Saying this, I also stood up to leave her home.
“Arjun” Mr. Kapoor called me, when I reached at the door. He continued, “See, even we got to know what exactly was the issue today. But we are not kind of parents who force their decisions on their children. Shraddha told me about her decision. We asked her for a reason but also accepted her decision. I wish that problems between you both gets sorted. I wish you best of luck. Take care.” Mr. Kapoor pet my shoulder. First door closed forever now.
I cried a lot after returning home. I committed to my dad to bring Shraddha back into family, but I failed. Above all, I was surprised to know how Shraddha knew about my relationship with Prachi and Anushka. Perhaps, all three girls were in touch with one another after Picasa Mall havoc and that’s how Shraddha knew about my past. Whatever, but it was useless to think more about Shraddha now. It was time to convince Prachi and Anushka. For that, I tried to contact both. Meanwhile, I could contact Anushka.
She attended my call one fine day, after my frequent efforts. “I thought you loved me only, before Shraddha came into your life. But, you had one more girl in your life before me even. Arjun, how can you think about 3 girls in your life and want to have affair with all? And still you want me to be back in your life? It’s not at all possible. In my life, I loved you only. I didn’t even think about any other guy yet. You know very well how possessive I am. I even felt jealous when I heard about your engagement. But, now I got to know about one more girl. I can’t tolerate all this. I can’t trust you anymore now. I am sorry but, after knowing the fact; it’s not possible for me.” That’s what Anushka replied. I tried very hard. Even I committed her that I won’t repeat this mistake. But then she put condition that, “You won’t remain in touch with those bitches. Not even as a friend. If you agree, then I don’t mind.” But for that, I was not ready. I straightaway disagreed on this condition. She lost trust in me totally. Lastly, I offered her to remain in touch as a friend, for which also she denied. Till that day, I was thinking Anushka was an open-minded girl and not possessive; but I was wrong. She didn’t agree for friendship even. So, second door was also closed now.
To contact Prachi, I took help of Sushant. Finally, I could meet Prachi. We met at remote heritage location in outskirt of city. She was in front of me. I smiled. She smiled. She came close to me. I moved little towards her. Almost the same situation was being created as was during Sushant’s wedding. She was now quite close to me. I closed my eyes and leaned to kiss her but suddenly my cheeks started paining. For while, I didn’t understand what has happened but then I realized that was tight slap by Prachi. I never had idea that there is so much power in Prachi’s beautiful arms.
“This is not for what you did with me; but for what you did with we 3 girls. Do you ever realize that you broke three hearts? Did I ever mention that I want to marry you? You were happily engaged with Shraddha, then why you thought about marrying me or Anushka? It was my mistake too that I kept relationship with you even after knowing about your engagement. I don’t know what was going on in my mind that time. But I don’t want to repeat this mistake. I am sorry. Having relationship with a committed man always hurts.” Prachi said.
“But now I am single. I am no longer committed. Shraddha broke relationship with me. And Anushka was just my crush during college life. I never had any relationship with Anushka. And she also has stopped talking with me now.” I said in little sad voice.
“And I was just a lust for you. You enjoyed with me and it’s done. Right?” Prachi said angrily.
“It’s not like that, Prachi. Please try to understand. We are friends since childhood. You know me very well and that too more than what Shraddha and Anushka do. Right now, I am quite optimistic that at least you won’t break friendship with me. I am totally alone now. I need you, Prachi.. please!!” I literally besought.
Prachi became speechless. Her anger cooled down. But perhaps she had no words.
“Remember those days of our school, when we used to spend almost all time together. Then, all of a sudden; my one mistake made you a stranger to me. I used to see you daily, but I could never talk to you. You perhaps don’t have any idea that how much I missed you during those 10 years. Then, you came back into my life. We came close to each other once again. And now, you are thinking to go away again. Instead of that, what’s wrong if we come close again. We both are single and we like each other too. Even our parents know each other very well, so they are also not going to oppose. So, why can’t we marry?” I continued
Hearing this, Prachi’s facial expressions started changing. On one hand, she was sad while she was also trying to smile. When I looked at her, even I got confused whether she was happy or sad to hear this.
“I would be happy to marry you, if I would have been single now.” She said.
“What? What do you mean?” I asked in exclamation.
“The fact is I am no longer single now. And this is also true that I hidden this fact from you till now.” She replied.
Now, my facial expressions started changing. And I had no words to speak. So, she continued, “I did engagement two months back. His name is Ranbir Kapoor.”
“WTF!! Again, one more Kapoor” I spoke in mind. Then I asked Prachi, “So, why you didn’t inform me till now? What was there to hide in this?”
“Everything happened in such a hurry. I couldn’t inform anybody at that time. Even Sushant doesn’t know about this. I thought you to give you surprise by informing when we meet. But when we first met after my engagement, that mall havoc happened. So, I couldn’t.” She replied.
“What was the hurry for getting engaged? Couldn’t you wait for 2 more months?” I asked.
“At that time, how could I know that Shraddha will do break-up with you?” She said.
“Oh my god!! Why do all these happen to me?” I said in disappointment.
“Can I say something?” She asked.
“Yes, please.” I replied.
“We three girls met once after that mall havoc to know what kind of relationship you had with us. They shared everything but I didn’t share everything. Shraddha and Anushka became negative about you after having known about your full story. But, I didn’t. In my eyes, you did nothing wrong. You were nice guy and you are still. But, I am sorry. I can’t do anything for you.” She said. Hearing this, I thought for a while.
“Can you do one thing?” I asked her.
“What?” She asked back.
“It’s just two months now. Make any excuse but do breakup with Ranbir. Then, we will marry.” I said.
“I can’t. Ranbir loves me lot. I can’t hurt him.” She said.
“But do you love Ranbir that much?” I asked.
She was speechless. I went close to her, placed my hands on her shoulder and said, “Be honest with yourself. It’s a question of your life. Haven’t you watched Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara? This is your only life. And decision is upto you.”
“It’s tough, Arjun. Still, I would think over it. But, I can’t say anything as of now.” She replied.
Having said this, she hugged me. I hugged her back.
Finally, one door was open yet. But, it was not preferable to fully rely on that. Because when girl says she will think over anything; you should assume that answer would be NO in most cases. Still, I waited for Prachi’s final answer till almost two weeks. Yet, she didn’t give clear answer. I lost hope finally. I was now totally frustrated. All doors seemed close for me. But when all doors closed, one door remains still open; that’s God.
Perhaps, first time in my life; I went to a temple. Neither exams nor job frustration never drew me to temple; but this frustration forced me. Lord Krishna’s idol was in front of me. I held the bell over my head, and I thought to deliver a dialogue like Big B; but looking at people around me, I dropped an idea.
“You had 16000 affairs. Still, you didn’t have any problem. And I had so much havoc for just 3? No doubt, you are God but still this is not fair. I wanted to choose one out of 3 options; but instead I left with none out of 3. I became totally alone. Prachi is ready; so at least spare her for me. Please favor me something.” I besought with wet eyes.
Suddenly, a rose flower placed on idol’s fluet fell down. This is the favorite scene of any Bollywood filmmaker. I never believed this kind of miracle may happen in real life, but it happened to me today. Fall of flower means Lord listened to your prayer. This was the sign that God blessed me and something good must going to happen with me. My face turned happy. I rushed to idol and picked up the flower. “Thank you, God.” Saying this, I turned back to main entry. As soon as I turned; I saw Priyanka Chopra coming towards idol.
Priyanka used to be hottest girl in our college. Today, first time I saw her in Salwar-Kameez. Having Pooja Thali in her hand, she was coming towards idol. My eyes went wide. Suddenly, something went wrong in my stomach; and I farted loud. As such some Thulluwale Babaji already quoted that, “Loud fart doesn’t stink”; yet I didn’t want to take any risk. I didn’t want Priyanka to get an idea as to the stink was result of my fart. So, I hide myself behind a pillar. From there, I kept on noticing Priyanka. As soon as, she reached near the place where I farted; she stopped for a second and placed her hand on nose. She then reached near idol and completed formalities for worship. While she was busy with worship; I looked behind to confirm that nobody saw me noticing a girl from behind the pillar. But to my surprise, I saw Babaji having ash spreaded all over his body standing behind me. I screamed because of shock. Baba’s body structure and six-pack abs was almost like Shahrukh Khan in the movie Om Shanti Om. Baba smiled at me. I also smiled back. He then lifted his two arms straight and right leg little, like what “Kekda” used to do in the movie Hello Brother. I didn’t have any idea as to what he was planning to do. Perhaps he was planning to do Lungi Dance with me. I kept silent. Suddenly, he bent little from his hips and farted loud. “Oh shit” words came out of my mouth while placing hands on my nose.
“Bachcha, always remember; thus padam gandhatam, bhad padam na gandhatam.. ” Babaji chanted loud.
“OK.. Babaji..” I replied.
Babaji then left me immediately. As soon as Babaji left, I looked at idol and I found there was no Priyanka.
“Oh my God! Because of Babaji, I won’t be able to contact Priyanka today.” Thinking this, I rushed towards entry. I saw Priyanka heading towards parking. I ran to follow her. She was playing with tuft of her hair while walking towards parking. She reached to her car. While she was about to sit into car, suddenly a golden earring from left ear fell on ground. I saw it but she perhaps didn’t notice. I shouted but Priyanka didn’t listen. Chauffeur drew the car and earring remained on ground. I picked up that earing. I had earring in one hand and rose flower in another hand. Situation was favoring that, I should chase the car to hand over earring and rose both. Without thinking much, I drew my bike to chase her car.
After Lust, Crush and Love; will Priyanka be my life-partner finally? Or will Prachi be back into my life? God’s signal was for whom? Priyanka or Prachi? Even I don’t know. Right now, the chase is ONNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Disclaimer : All the characters, character names, brand names, events and incidents mentioned are truly a work of fiction and/or for humoristic purpose only. The intention here is not to hurt any religious, personal or national sentiments. Any resemblance to person(s) /subject(s) is done with humorous intent, and not to defame, hurt or tarnish the image of the person(s) / subject(s).]
