Pages From Her Diary

The concert day…. for  Adi it was the most important day of his life . A gamut of feelings swept past him – excitement, nervousness – as he geared up for the event.  Too many things at stake,  I can’t let myself down, I can’t let the people close to me who stood by me to see this day, down - Adi’s mind was filled with these thoughts . “ Hey, Rockstar, all set ?  Am waiting to see your performance and that sexy smile of yours on the stage . My Adi is gonna rock “ Neha’s message made him smile .    “Yeah, the smile will be there , only for you, Be there ”  . he replied . It was a star-studded magical evening. This is going to the highlight of Adi’s musical career. All top 5 finalists were there in all their glory. As the performances started one after the other, Neha’s heartbeats went faster as she heard Adi’s name being announced.  She saw Adi walking up to the center stage, spotlights on him. He looked awesome, his silky hair fal...

"Nehaaaaaaaaaa"   ... heard my roomie, Mira, yelling my name early morning .  Half asleep, jumped off the bed only to find her failed attempt to fix  a leaking tap! Damn, cold water touching my feet and I knew we were standing in pool of water spread all over the floor. Rushed to find the mops, cursed the house owner to whom we had complained many a time to fix the leaked tap. His standard response always would be  "don’t worry, kal tak done"  -  Huh ! PG mai rehne k side effects ! Swirling the mop on the floor, thoughts ran freely to the usual idiom " Month hi kharab chal raha hai saala"  - tashan with boss on the appraisals, scrapping with the house owner, and most importantly the visits to that CCD with a hope to catch a glimpse of Him !  Am not a great coffee lover, yet found myself walking up to the shop many a times en route home. Queues sometimes small, at times  took a longer. My eyes wandered to spot him among the crowd. There we...