Ravings of a Nomadic Mind

some times ... life just shits on so bad and you still have no choice to take it and laugh. or have to, but still if there werent these love it or hate it times life wont be worth living would it.
hey so here's another story, as promised,

It was five in the evening but it was still hot, but he liked cycling in the summer heat in the fickle shadow of the Neem and the Peeple trees down the busy market streets, well school had just got over and the school had arranged special classes for the childern of St. Paul's School and St. Patrick's School to get special discounted lessons in BASICS, LOTUS, WordStar and other latest computer tech. he cycled to JCS and went to register him self. he met his tutor and sat in class the same batch contained other from his class and a few from Pats(Patrick's)then Melody entered the class she was the prettiest girl he had ever seen she was slim, almost frail extremely so and wore this light blue sun dress that fell to just above her knees. she was pale and she had this shy smile for every one, she sat next to Rashi, a friend of His cousin Julie. Sunny, Rashi, and Melody were assigned to the same batch and assigned one system. they worked on there system during LAB hours and then went their separate ways. The next day they sat together as it was the logical thing to do, well he told them it was the logical thing to do.

On the fifth day Sunny came out of class earlier and let air out of his Street Cat's front wheel, when Rashi and Julie came out he told them to go ahead as he had a puncture and will ahve to get it repaired. he walked in the other direction with Melody and he said "Hi" and she replied with one of her "drives-me-crazy-and up-the-wall" shy smiles and then they walked on in silence out side her home 1 Km away they said good bye and went their own way with him looking for a cycle pump for air.

They learned as a group, played computer games, and made numeric pyramids in BASIC and then the summer ended. it was time to go back to school, the boys and girls headed their separate ways. Sunny took back memories of his first crush in his first teen year and thats how life went on for the next four years, every summer they would meet with different batch mates but they would end up in the same batch some how year after year. since they knew each other they made the same team every summer, while the third partner kept changing, learn different and newer computer programs and then they would go their separate ways many would become inseparable friends but some how Sunny never got the courage to ask for her Phone No.

The first day of high school Sunny was running full tilt so that he didn't miss class. he reached the class door just as Mrs. Davids was closing the doors and he bustled in to see melody sitting in the front row, later when the class was arranged according to their height, sunny ended up in the seat next to melody. they picked up where they had left more than two years ago. the same banter and friendly tricks and ease. but this time they flirted too she would flush bright red when Sunny teased her or flirted with her. they had the same tuitions, and since St. Patrick's and St. Paul's had combined classes for 11th and 12th standard they were in the same classes they made many more friends on the way and then Ashish told Sunny that he liked Melody and then the three of them became good friend, this went on for two years until it was time to pick schools, Melody opted for engineering, Sunny for Media Studies, and Ashish for Medicine in an out of state collage. they went their separate ways again. this time there was a difference Sunny had her no. but never called her cause her conservative parents wouldnt have like him calling her.

Over the next four years they met at random, inter-collage meets and fests, petrol pumps at mutual friends homes, they were always together for such short time that conversation never went beyond how are you these days? then they were always with someone and the time never seemed right then in their fourth year they lost touch with each other completely.

Sunny went on to do his MBA and Corporate law honors from a prestigious University and in his second year he went to intern at RKS-BBDO the prestigious Advertising firm in Bombay. One of his close friend from school was doing his MBA from NITIE Powai and they wen to a party at IIT Bombay next door from NITIE. It was summers so those that were staying in the hostels were those who were interning in Mumbai or had come from other places and were using the rooms for the two months, every one was relaxing and dancing and letting their hair down, Sunny stood in a corner and looked on as his friend danced with an attractive girl then he drifted towards the balcony and their he found Melody standing and looking out over the city lights. they swapped stories and filled holes in their career paths, she was doing her Mtech. from IIT and was interning their in Mumbai had another year to go. they met every weekend and when the internships ended they stayed in touch over orkut, phone and emails for the next one year. when she came back to her home town, he told her the way he felt about her then one day over coffee at Cafe Coffee Day. how he had felt for her from the first day he had seen her, told her that she was his first crush, that summer they were back, it was like all the intervening years had never happened, then she went to Cornell to get her PhD. they faithfully called each other at least once a month and stayed together over 13000 miles from each other.

But as things happen they broke up during the Christmas of that year because the relationship was straining their studies, life went back to normal or sort off with them emailing each other from time to time, both Sunny and Melody didn't want to give up tier friendship and worked it some how.

two years passed then Sunny heard his phone ring one day early morning, it was a weekend and he didn't want to get up, but when it wouldn't stop ringing he picked it up, it was Melody and she had called him to tell him that she was getting married, two months later as he sat in the church aisle ad saw her walking down, all he could see was the frail geeky girl, in the blue summer dress. and he was happy and in love