"Oh my God!" "What? What is it?" The girl grabbed onto her friend's wrist and her eyes went round. She forced them both to a stop and pulled out a magazine from her backpack and flashed it in front of her friend's face. "Yeah. Buddhadev Sen Gupta...So? Why are you getting excited about a magazine you bought ten minutes back?" She turned him to face the other side and pointed, "Because he's sitting right there in front of us!" I sighed. The beard and all black outfit were clearly not a good enough cover-up. I adjusted to sit more comfortably on the sofa in the hotel lobby. The teenagers neared me with a polite hesitation and the girl mumbled, "Excuse me, sir?" I looked up and said, "Hi..." She broke into an even bigger grin and gushed, "Oh my God! I knew it was you! This is the best day ever! I am so excited! I love you! I mean...uh...I love you as...a fan!" She turned red in the face and her friend took o...
~THIRTY~ The first time her phone rang with Rishi's name on the screen, she could only stare at it blankly for the whole of the forty two seconds that it rang for. What does he want NOW? Hasn't he wreaked enough havoc in my life already? She had never felt any emotion this intense before. It was vile and venomous and very, very taxing mentally and brought her thinking about the way Vedant had questioned her on the same the previous night. "Meera I've been hanging out with the guy for a while now and I think it's safe to say he really means no harm. He misses you, you know." He'd started, when their open discussions had started to flow. She had stared at him agape, surprised at how much he noticed as he'd continued, "Okay, I get that he kicked you out of his room MOST unceremoniously in front of his friends that day. But that hardly justifies your anger for him Meera. There's something more to it, isn't it?" When Meera ha...
// “Whoever says luxury is your best friend, never owned a dog.” I still remember the day when I brought him home. A shiny cute little Golden Retriever puppy. I raised him from feeding cerelac to chicken chunks, fetching the ball to his early morning walks. It is never like I have so much absence around me, I cremated my wife 10 years ago. Both my sons are married now and they are busy expanding my business. Their wives are a bit more social so their shopping, kitty and clubbing never goes out of fashion. Grandchildren are strictly advised to stay away from me, so any of my preachings shouldn’t spoil them. To cut a long story short they hate me. I’m just a 64 year-good-for-nothing old man for them, who is spoiling their privacy with his dog in a 2-acre luxurious house (which is actually made by me). But actually nowadays, I hardly care about these tantrums as long as I have him. I named him Shadow after his merry-go-round world around me. He is actually like my shadow. He wakes wi...
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