Me n My Madness – V

It was Riya! She almost saved his life… with wet eyes she stared at my madness and they walked out of the lab hand-in-hand! Oops that was a heart breaking moment for so many guys! Riya walking out with lab attendant… the news was too good to be a secret ;)

Later in the night I met Riya at the tuition and consoled her. We all went to watch the movie ‘dil to pagal hai’… me n my madness, Riya and her attendant! They were like me n my madness… neighbors and child-hood friends.

We had walked out of the movie midway and were waiting outside as we sat down to smoke! Riya’s love story had affected my madness more than me.

‘You know, she’s going around just to get good marks in the lab!’ she concluded.
‘Come on, they are child-hood friends…’
‘No, Riya is a liar!’ yet another conclusion.
‘Anyways, he’s atleast earning his bread! I don’t even have that. Will she ever marry me!?’
‘Oh God! You still love her? Even after knowing all these? You must be crazy… you’ve gone nuts… you are a mad!’
The last conclusion was indeed conclusive… my madness tagged me mad!

I didn’t know if I loved Riya but I was attracted. I didn’t know if I wanted to marry her but I enjoyed the imagination of being married to her… I was only 17 and thought that’s precisely the right time for marriage! Our great grand fathers married in their teens! Why not us!

As we waited for Riya and her man, my madness didn’t stop talking and I didn’t stop imagining…

As I sit inside on the rosy bed alone waiting for her to come, she’s pushed inside by her friends… with a glass of milk she walks in a rainbow colored sari… she slips on me and the milk rains as shower getting us both wet… with eyes glued to mine and trembling eyebrows she poses a sorry… I help her stop blinking by cleansing the droplet of milk on her eyebrows by a warm breath… she comes close to show her gratitude… comes more close… more close… close!

‘The gates are closing …. Let’s go out!’ my madness screamed in my ears!
‘But where are they?’
‘They might have gone already. Let’s go now!’

Why do pleasant dreams get bangings in the end! I didn’t know… I still don’t know. But when my madness is around, nothing can go right. She’s always at the right and I’m mostly the one who’s left…

To be continued…