She was in the middle of a wedding getting bored when she received
her bestfriend’s call. She answered it thinking it was a routine call and it
would spare her from getting bored meeting the relatives she never knew
existed. But the news that he gave left her in shock and pain. Vivek informed
her that her friend anuj died in a bike accident 2 days back and vivek came to
know it now and called her asap. He died on the spot.
Diya was blank…
The smile on the happy faces of the newly wedded couple and
their family members dint affect her anymore. She was lost in her thoughts of
seeing him at the bus stop of satyam college. She was going back home and had
one day noticed him someday suddenly. He was alone and had an expression
somewhere between carelessness and attitude. He was content within himself. Then
she noticed he took the same bus and got down just a stop before hers. Next she
knew she used to see him daily at the bus stop. She kind of started enjoying
her ride from the bus stop to her home looking at him. It wasn’t attraction neither
infactuation, it was just some goodness to her eyes. He was kind of cute in a
different way. After a few weeks she saw a common friend talking to her and to
her luck the friend noticed her standing alone and also introduced the two of
them and then started a new friendship. She did not have any other intention or
feelings except that she enjoyed anuj’s company. They started going home
together and she actually forced him to sit for lectures. Anuj liked her
company too and the sole reason for that was because she was a complete tom
boy. Never behaved like a girl psychologically. He could be himself when with
her. He could abuse normally, smoke to his heart’s content and also they
checked out other girls together in the canteen. Gradually all his male friends
started linking them together but he would only reply that she already likes
someone else… which was the truth. she did like someone else.
All the way back to her home from the wedding she was quite.
She wept herself to sleep thinking about all the time spent
with anuj. She had so much to tell him. He was one of the person who never let
her cry in his company even if the agenda of their meet was that she wanted to
cry. He had a tendency to get out of touch for months at a stretch which
irritated her a lot after she changed college. But she kept meeting him. The 2
things peculiar about anuj were that he was the 1st guys to keep a
lip balm with him and that was the secret to his temptingly pink lips which
diya complimented him many times for and other thing was he would never sit on
a ladies seat in the bus. All her memories of him have only been sweet. He liked
her company and there might have been a possible relation sometime if life had
planned it but for now she missed him badly and wanted to tell him many things.
Her memories of him always had the brightest smile on his
face.
The next day even though she was not allowed to call at his
home. She called spoke to his sister and requested for a picture of his so that
she could always cherish it.
For the world diya and anuj where probably a couple although
they were never really one. Even his sister thought that they were in love when
diya called for a picture. But to diya anuj will always be a friend who always
made her smile and with whom she was herself without any masks on.
Even afters year of his death she still remembers him when
she travels by bus or visits the places they had been together.
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