May’ 2002,
Austin, Travis County, Texas.
By hook or by crook, he felt that he managed to do well in his final-term. All he had to was to wait for couple of weeks to see his margin of error in his hope. It had been a while since he heard from any of those guys, Jenny, Mruna, Pooja, and Saryu. In fact he was intentionally away from their reach for undisclosed why and wherefores.
Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! The doorbell rang.
Aryan opened the door to find the sidekick, “What’s up dude? Have heard that you left the city yesterday. Where have you been without talking the talk to us?” Jenny asked smelling something fishy with his behavior for the past few months.
“Oh yeah! I had a couple of errands and I had to go out of the station on behalf of dad, you know, its family and stuff.”
“Oh, I believe you”, Jenny said in a husky voice. Then arrived the three roses.
“ dear, it’s Sunday, we should be hang out. it’s been a long while since we went anywhere, especially after Aryan’s changeover”, Mruna said looking at a painting on the wall in his bedroom, displacing her hands on to her waist at a leisurely pace. Saryu intervened, “Aryan, for the last few days I’ve been watching over, you are getting too busy with your phone, I’ve never seen a sassy lad like you using a phone for such long hours”, she was inkling at something. Aryan saw the light about but he didn’t get his head around whether the other three had got the drift out of those words.“Yeah Saryu, I completely stand by with you, I was about to ask the same question to him.Guess what, Lately, I found Mruna getting busier too” Jenny said excitingly. Aryan didn’t know what to speak, “Just shut the heck up,” he said and left the place to have a bath.
“Mruna, Is there anything you’d wanna tell me?” Saryu asked scoffing.
Mruna, her long curly hair parted in the middle of forehead plunged unto her shoulders. The arched eyebrows trailed down to meet at the nasion. Her lower lip vermillion border resembles the typical bow. Her burnished complexion adds the needed voluptuousness complementing her diamond shaped physiognomy.
“No why don’t you guys shut up? We are blabbering for a long time now. You see the girl, reading a romantic book is right there sitting very quiet, look at Pooja, the culprit” Mruna tried to amend Jenny’s assertion.
“Oh gosh, what have I done? I have nothing to hide from you. Nada, not a sausage” She called at the top of her voice on a serious note.
Jenny intervened, “Ok girls, I Gotcha. The real woman is the one who is actually asking you all the questions”, he said laughing out loud and pointing towards Saryu. Unanticipated, Saryu became impatient and started a pillow fight with Jenny, yelling out, “No way …” she finally ceased the fight with a note, “I have nothing to say, I don’t share any second thought with him, you know me, don’t you.”
All of them were puzzled with each other’s answers and could not figure out the state of matter that was going on with Aryan. Three of them gave a look-see over the entire room to find any means of evidence that would prove their surmise. It has already been over thirty minutes since Aryan left the spot yet their odds weren’t favoring them. Abruptly, Aryan arrived in his room. “Seems like you guys are in serious search of something, anything I can help you with?” he asked ruffling his wet hair.
“Nothing, we were just playing, you get ready, and we should leave in ten minutes,” Pooja said in a pleasing tone.
“Cool, get the car from the loft, take the car keys, they are hanging over on the key-hanger. I will be there in no time and you girls, make an exit, I should change my trouser,” he mandated.
“You Wanna drive Jenny?” Aryan thought out in advance and asked. He liked my car.
“I guess I am actually in the drive mode,” He said fastening his seat belt.
Jenny was a good at driving, they drove onto a national highway and the best part of the ride was they rode at a rate of 140 mph.
“When we ride at such a greater speed, the tires dramatically increases the car’s grip and handling response on both and wet and dry roads. That’s what is offering a high performance. Providing effective traction and making the drive a fun and smooth ride” Aryan evaluated the features of the car to Jenny
“Whoa! Aryan, why don’t we start all over again? Don’t you feel something? You know what I mean?” Jenny said.
Aryan guessed it right that Jenny would ask him about the race, “You are actually driving with an intent to wake up the racing boy in me who I once was. Such a clever arse” Aryan replied,“No Jenny! I won’t”.
“Dude, are you nuts?” Jenny Said as Aryan barred his optimism, “You once said that you love races.”
“Oh, common. I never said that I love races. I only said, I like cars and challenges, you cannot paraphrase this to your comfort”.
“Jenny, you better keep driving cautiously. We want us to go back home safely,” Pooja cut in.
“Shut up,” Jenny said and others laughed out.
“Where we want to go after the movie?” Pooja asked excitingly.
“Will talk after the movie”, Aryan said shutting the door of her excitement. Stumped by Aryan comment she put her bottom lips crushing them in between her angel-white teeth “god! How cute she is”, Aryan shirked out in his mind.