I could make out that something is wrong the moment I picked the receiver, asked her if everything was alright.. A yes, was all she said, but I could feel the discomfort in her voice.. I didn't felt like pressing her too hard [don't subject people to what I wont like to face myself], so as we talked about stuffs I did, I was still wondering what was behind her sadness..
I asked her what all she did and for a first time she didn't give me a minute to minute detail of things she did!! She is very descriptive, even more than I seem here.. May be its a quality I picked from her, like she picked a few from me..[:)]
As she said nothing in a very monotonous and low voice, I knew something was bothering her.. I asked again, is everything alright?? She was saying a yes again, while I could hear her voice quiver.. I knew there was something, but I wasn't sure what it was.. I wasn't interested in making wild guesses this time.. Most of the time I say something and would shout "Touch wood" the very next moment.. I have these strange coincidences where all the foul things I say come true.. A God's gift!! I don't think it is!!
So, as I refrained self from being too pessimistic and making wild guesses, I asked her and getting a contradictory reply made me wonder what it is!! As I almost believed whatever she said, I was ready to put down the phone and go back to catch up with the TV show I was watching!!
A few hours later, all tired and exhausted I hit the bed.. Putting the phone on silent is almost a religion now, so doing it was some kind of satisfaction..
My sister saw a blinking mobile, thinking it was hers, she got up from the bed just to discover it was mine.. Handed over the phone to me to lie down again.. As I saw the number flashing on the screen, I almost remembered what I felt when I talked to her.. That she was upset and not in a mood to talk about it..
I answered the phone, wore my slippers and quickly slipped out of my room to sit in other room and talk to her for hours.. We don't let anyone attend calls in the bedroom as it disrupts other's sleep.. As I walked down the lobby to the other room, I was asking her if she was fine and what was the thing troubling her..
As she started with my favourite line, I knew she was feeling too low and was too sentimental and emotional at the moment.. BTW, my favourite line is "Nikki, You know something.. You are really very very nice.." [I know this sounds like a too pompous, but I love it when someone says it].. So as she sobbed and I agreed to her line, [she doesn't like it when I don't agree with the fact that I am too good!![;)]] I was trying to make her to come to the point..
Well, her good friends were parting ways.. And now since that was a relation she helped build and nurtured with great effort, I knew the pain she felt.. The news of their break up was a shock to me too.. I met them and they looked fine, in fact great together and I just couldn't find a reason to think it was called for.. I didn't see it coming [with my level of negativity regarding relations, I can say, I can see it coming, I can predict it.. But in their case, even I didn't feel it was something I would hear..].. As I tried to reconfirm what I heard, I wondered what could possibly have gone wrong!!
As in the Enrique's song, 'Love, you never know the minute it ends suddenly'.. I wonder if it was the final destination of the various high school and college relationships.. Its always difficult to see it coming.. The 'Break up', it just comes out of nowhere and strikes you hard and even before you could know, the beautiful world you created is gone.. Swept by a wind, washed by a tide, it just leaves a few devastated people behind, a broken man/woman and lots of tears.. Though not many guys moan it like girls do!!
I didn't see a guy crying, while we girls, I don't understand why we get so attached to someone that we feel broken when they leave.. Whatever it be, the hormones or our lack of strength [that's what people call] but after a days of shedding tears day and night, we emerge stronger.. We are able to face the situation and learn to move on..
I wish my friend's friend too gets that strength and my friend too gets over this shock of their break up!! While I try to relearn a lesson learnt by heart, that such relations are not meant to last!! That they are the first trees to fall, when the wind is strong!!
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