Volente Beach Water Park, 11:00 Hrs
“Yes, what is it?” Pooja asked Jenny.
“It’s Saryu. I love her and it timely seems that I should be able to cease the window of opportunity tonight” Jenny finally disclosed his premeditation to Pooja, “and for it to happen, I need your help”
Although Pooja has got time with her to make a manoeuvre for Mruna, after Jenny made the request, on a cruise control she found herself a licence to Jenny’s and Mruna’s requests out of the blue, “Okay boy, I know what to be done. You get the surprise to her on its feet, I will look into the proceedings and will inform you at the right time” Pooja gave a manly look to Jenny.
As they walked into the room, Pooja voiced out in the midway, “So, it occurs to me that you too want me to stow away the matter at hand from the others, isn’t it?”
“You are too good,” Jenny said followed by a low-five, “but wait… why did you just say also?” Jenny tried to cross-question, “you know what; never mind. Let’s get this done” he said before Pooja answered his dubiosity.
When Jenny and Pooja arrived back into the suite, unlike Mruna Jenny dealt the subject in erelong. In advance of others had any questions to Jenny, he misdirected them to the thread of Mruna’s interest on Spirits. Everyone took it as gospel in the same.
“So, let’s get back for lunch after an hour and then we go out for a ride on the yacht to Starnes Island,” Aryan informed the girls and they nodded their heads to sign yes. Jenny disappeared in a puff of smoke and Aryan followed after taking a gander over Pooja’s countenance.
“You look unrelaxed, have you got any worry?” Aryan asked Jenny.
“Not really,” he replied instantly and he asked, “the poker chips?”
“I’ve got them. It’s in the knapsack” Aryan pointed at the bag lying on the couch inside the suite “so it is that receptionist woman, eh?” he questioned back.
“Woah! Stop you there my friend. No digressions, It’s literally nothing. I’m just famished,” Jenny replied and hotfooted to the cloakroom.
All of them met an hour later for lunch. They indulged consummately in merrymaking. Mightily scoffing, shackling in mirth through and through till they reached the nth degree in jollification that Pooja would remember for whole of her lifetime. Aryan ate Scallop Piccata. It reminded him Shalini’s absence. He wallowed in every ounce of it casting his mind back in time. Jenny’s humor touch added up as a complementary dessert to the luncheon.
“Mruna is a shopaholic,” Jenny said “the guy who’s gonna marry you should be a millionaire”
Mruna appeared skeptical, she casted an eye on Pooja to learn if Jenny’s comment had anything to do with her. In little time she dispelled her dubiety, she said to herself that Jenny might have spurred it out of the moment and to which she replied “Oh yeah I do a lot shopping. Guess what,” Mruna sipped her chicken soup and continued “I shop with my money, I never went around looking on for a helping hand to get the new duds”
“True that, I just realized that you have a credit card,” Jenny mocked Mruna.
“Saryu, do you know something,” Jenny tried his first shot without a trial, “I just read this, a lot can happen over a cup of coffee, why don’t we try it in the evening and see?”
“Oh dear! Forget, it will never happen with me,” Saryu replied.
“Buy why?” Jenny asked in uncertainty.
“I always prefer tea over coffee,” Saryu mocked Jenny and in fact, Mruna had bust a gut as it evened out Jenny’s mock.
They finished the lunch by 13:00 hrs. It nearly took over an hour to reach the harbour. The day travel plan was to go on for a round trip from the harbour to Starnes island by the yacht and then drive back to the hotel by early-mid night.
From the resorts restaurant to the boarding point of the yacht it was full of fun filled roller coaster period of travelling for the group. They reserved a yacht for the sojourn.
The group was all set for the cruise. While other were in recce Aryan was setting up the platform for the poker. Pooja signed Jenny to follow her to the rear end of the yacht. Jenny concurred with her and they both met.
“Jenny, here is how we do it. First, give me your suite keys,” Pooja stretched her hand out.
“Alright, here you go, what’s next.” Jenny handed over the keys to Pooja.
“This is the key to ours,” she handed over it to Jenny and continued “its 15:00 hrs. It would be around 21:30 by the time we reach our resort. Soon after you get down, hurry up and lurk in the balcony; rest is all for you to decide on how you wanted to go”
Jenny showed thumbs up as he lucidly envisaged his discernment and squinched up himself on what he is going to do, “alright, this looks perfect and by the by why do you need the keys?” Jenny asked.
“Mr. Intelligent where should Mruna and I have to stay?” Pooja slapped a comment on Jenny inane question which left him with no other skeptics.
“Oh Sorry! I am vacillating and so pretty much dumbfounded,” He shrugged, “How should I take the lead? Please baby, I am tensed,” Jenny solicited for the first time ever in their comradeship. When you love, you have to be audacious on these ramifications. Not just a tweak but you should be prepared for a drastic revamp Jenny uttered in a low tone while Pooja was digging for more thoughts.
“Alright!,” She pinched her fingers in the air and said, “Go get your hands on her feet and impetrate to love you,” Pooja gave it a burl to let her soul cavort for a minute with the hoax on him but then she ceased immediately tumbling to that Jenny’s being serious about his ask. Ruffling his hair, she gracefully poured in suggestions.
“Great, I will be on it,” Jenny said in a delirium and left the spot.
Pooja signed Mruna asking to see her at the rear end, the place where she guided Jenny. Mruna arrived in no time as much excited as Jenny. After all both of them were running in the same phase of life at that present.
“Your requested private hour is at the delivery miss,” Pooja galvanized and fired the imagination of Mruna, “The keys to Aryan’s room” and she made the same plan, the one she briefed Jenny, intelligible to Mruna. Bingo! Kill two birds with one stone. One plan works out for both the excited one sided lovers, as of now She appreciated herself for the way she chipped in dispensing the proposition. Unlike Jenny, there were no other questions from Mruna. She kept her patience alive and prepared herself for the show. They both headed back to their seats.
They sat down at the table for the Poker game. Aryan was sitting opposite to Jenny and with Saryu on his right, Pooja and Mruna on his left respectively.
Sitting with his legs crossed, ankle-on-knee, “So maidens, get ready to bow down to the prince of poker,” Jenny said buoying up his hands in the air with his chin up.
Saryu looked at Jenny, “Aha! We will better bow down to the king who is at the poles apart” and she gesticulated with her brows at Aryan.
Jenny scoffed and said, “Texas Hold’em it is,” he shuffled the cards and floated two cards each.
Pre-flop Round:
Saryu plays small blind – $20, Aryan – big blind – $40, Pooja, Mruna, Jenny – called.
Saryu tried to bluff, she called $40 and raised $50. “Pot size is now $90,” Jenny voiced out.
Flop Round:
Aryan called $90. Pooja, Mruna and Jenny called. Pot size was still $90, “and let the three community cards show their faces,” Pooja drew the cards and fixed up the deck.
The game continued for over an hour. The cool breeze hitting you all over in the middle of the river; I am sitting comfortably on top of the yacht, playing my favourite game, drinking my favourite wine. I am much excited than any time before, I am loving it. Pooja was lost in her own thoughts.
They finally reached the hotel at 21:00 hrs as per the itinerary. Mruna tread like a scalded cat towards Aryan’s room. Pooja sagaciously changed her mind and asked Jenny to walk along with her in to their room so that Mruna shouldn’t have to raise any question about Jenny sneaking into their dig. Into the bargain, Pooja sent Saryu and Aryan to order dinner. Jenny was deployed in Saryu’s room while Pooja stealthily left the suite soon after she acknowledged that Mruna set herself in the Aryan’s room. By the time Aryan and Saryu had arrived both the one-sided psyched up lovers were hot to trot.
Aryan bid bye to Saryu and entered his room. He was knocked sideways on spotting Mruna lying in the bed, “Oh sorry! Never mind” he said as he thought he might have intruded into the girl’s suite.
“Aryan, you belong here,” Mruna hollered as she took a heed on Aryan egressing, “this is your room. She made it plain”
“So why am I seeing you here,” he asked with a bleach look in a perplexed voice.
Mruna unbuttoned her parka jacket, “Because you are going to meet the unexpected,” she said in Dionysia tone.
“Uh-huh, what’s up? Are you gonna go naked?” he asked playing it in his way.
“Not so fast dude,” Mruna ascended from the bed and cropped up moving towards Aryan, “It is something… something I can’t tell you but at the same time I can’t let my heart recede on the business anymore, I’d like to let it talk to you today and you’ll lend me your ears,” She said.
“What gentleman, what for are you here?” Saryu asked Jenny after finding him in her room.
“Nothing much, I just sneaked in looking for something intangible,” Jenny replied flexing minute by minute yet moving heaven and earth to hold onto his nerves.
“Oh darling, what is it?” Aryan asked while Mruna moved closer and closer as the seconds rolled on.
“Something intangible? What?” Saryu questioned back Jenny to which he replied, “I have to talk to you, tell you something about ….” he paused and took a deep breathe.
Mruna gently raised head to line up her eyes with Aryan’s at an obtuse contact angle, “I am in love with you; will you be my beau?” She asked.
Jenny hesitated to continue but he presided over to accrue enough courage and spouted, “… Saryu, do you love me?” Jenny asked with all the hope, “I would feel ashamed if I do perpetuate any further. I have told you how I felt for you, how I look at you, how I am when you are with me. I have been doing that since a long time now. I believe that it wouldn’t have been reached thus far if it was not you who subtly encouraged my undivided attention at you. I stand here right now with the revelations on my feelings for you, it is your choice to either invite me or let me go. What you’d like to say?”
“Tell me Aryan,” Mruna asked. She kept asking repeatedly until she heard him speak an answer to her proffer, “tell me what it is, I will be positive about anything you say”
“But Jenny,” Saryu was stuck in her tracks. She was on the blink impuissant to articulate her standpoint on the proposal. She said “but Jenny…” for one more time, “but Jenny… Jenny…” she kept saying the appellation.
Aryan lay his eyeballs off of her loosing focus and dropping the upper eyelids. He appeared withdrawn with a frown physiognomy. He volte-faced and plonked still for a minute. He suspired heavily and turned back grabbing her waist close to his body, Mruna could feel the puff of air. He locked his eyes with hers and said, “Darlene, I love you. Okay? But pardon, don’t mistake it for that love you want me to give you”
He was deeply skeptical whether if he had made any sense to her and he enquired, “Did I make it clear?” He took off himself from holding her waist and ensconced on the bed and continued, “I love you like I love Jenny but I can’t make love to you like I make it to my wife, when or if I get married. I would never ever look at you that way”
“What do you mean?” She exclaimed in her disappointment, “Don’t I look good as your girlfriend? What’s wrong with me?”
“Darling, again, it has nothing to do with your physique,” He took the edge off and he signed her to sit by his side but Mruna brushed it away, “It is just that I don’t have feelings for you. I felt you as my friend, like a true friend and not an inch more than that,” he made himself unambiguous to her.
“Alright. So you whacked it up, end of story”, She said and started walking to the exit of the room, “I am sorry, I have expected more of you in my life”, she unlocked the doorknob, “how naïve I was, I shouldn’t have been,” she pulled the door open, turned back to look at him, “let’s just forget what happened these twenty minutes in our lives and let it perish right here, between us” She said and left the room shutting the door.
Mad as a hatter. It will evanesce after a little while. Take care Darlene. Aryan smiled.
“I understand Saryu,” Jenny said in an utterly low voice clearly conveying his loss of the last hope, “I understand, I don’t want to trouble you anymore”, Jenny said and started walking away from her before she uttered her answer.
“Jenny,” Saryu call stopped him at the exit of the door, “I am no good in elocution and to let open my love? Oops! Helpless. I am still stuck at figuring out to give words to my love and to tell you that I want to be yours”
Jenny looked back and couldn’t give credence to what Saryu had said. In a prompt and eagerness, he expeditiously approached her for a hug but he stopped momentarily standing an inch away from her, “I am having a special moment with you. I am gonna hug you, this time, as my lover,” he said and paused anticipating to glean over his memory lane to construct few more sentences to manifest his love but as he failed, “I have nothing more to say, just hug me” he said and hugged her airtight.
Knock on the door…
Jenny was in the swoon and heard not a thing, Saryu came to sentience and wellied Jenny’s foot, “One of those girls might have come,” she said, “there is a knock on the door.” Jenny was brought back into the present by her. He instantly flumped himself on the couch while Saryu left to open the door.
“Jenny, you are here?” Mruna sounded mysterious with his presence, Thank Pooja! I am happy that you are here. Otherwise, oh god… Mruna said to herself.
“Couple were busy in my room,” he voiced out. Jenny never knew of Mruna’s presence in his room as Pooja build a mammoth fortress between one another and yet the mocking was so accidentally coincidental that drove Mruna on tenterhooks, “So you know, I had to drop by here” Jenny finished.
Mruna blinked her eyes and brooded over her withheld perception. She simmered down and without an inkling of fret on her face she retired from the room and walked straight into the portico. Neither Jenny nor Saryu cared to ask Mruna if anything was wrong. They both indulged in staring at each other; reading each other minds and talking with their eyes, up until to the point in time where Pooja interjected their locked eyes. After a little contemplation, Pooja sensed that Saryu has fallen for Jenny. “Hello lovers, wake up,” Pooja said pinching her fingers in the thin air, “its dinner time,” She sounded out loud.
Saryu was baffled after hearing to Pooja calling them lovers, “What? How do you know?” Saryu questioned, “Were you peeping through the keyhole? Cheater” Jenny stepped up on the go and unravelled the setup of Pooja.
“You are a freak,” said Saryu, “Where is Mruna, did you guys see her?” Pooja asked, raising a doubt in Saryu and Jenny’s heads. An intelligent Pooja evened out the thoughts by saying, “She said she would be gone out to look at the pool”
“Oh yeah, she’s resting there in the portico”, Said Saryu pointing at Mruna who was standing still leaning on the side wall in the balcony with both her hands on the support rods.
“You may wanna get back to your business, if you know what I mean,” Pooja knocked over the romantic aroma to make them remain back in the room so that she could learn on how Mruna’s manifestation of her love had panned out.
“What’s it babes?” She asked approaching Mruna, “Did he sweep you off of your feet?” She solicited for answers.
“Probably a banana peel would have done the job,” Mruna recovered herself by then. Pooja perceived the upshot in the one liner from Mruna, “Babes, few things are just not for us” She consoled her. “True that. Let’s get drunk first” Mruna cheered her up. “I love you for this,” Pooja hugged her and they proceeded in pursuit of getting high.
Power and Pelf 