There was a time when we were together all the time during college days, myself and my friend were great with each other, we used to share all our life with each other, sometime fighting on small small things and sometimes caring for each other. Those were wonderful days of life. One day we had a clash of opinion over a matter and we stopped talking to each other, and following this series of things happened that we never got chance to speak to each other because of some misunderstanding, though we never said bad to each other, but never got chance to say good also. Whenever we tried to talk to each other it had happened all bad, later with time we got mixed up with other friends and time passed on. Many times i thought to talk to this friend but i never got the perfect chance.
Finally college ended up and we all moved on to our paths. Now years after we are working into company for earning for self, we both were aware of the fact that we are in same city, but being afraid of others reaction we never tried to talk to each other. The priorities in life were changed, but a feeling of missing each other existed in some corner of heart.
One fine day i get sms from this friend with same attitude saying that i am angry with you, and i was like waiting for something from his side, i also replied to sms with same manner as i did when we were very new in the college. Yes, our friendship had started over sms in the college days. then some more text messages from his side and more replies from my side, next day morning i started day with a "good morning" text to him, but i didn't get any reply.. now at this point of time i was worried to loose him again, i immediately wrote up a big email to him saying him to forget all old things and lets continue as friends, but i haven't got any response to that email also. finally at night i got sms reply and we had long time chatting over sms.
Days passed on with sending sms to each other, finally i called him but he rejected with a sms saying i am still angry with you, i remained calm thinking similar things has happened in college days also, whenever i approached him he was into some other thing and whenever he tried, (rarely :) ) i was into some other situation so i tried back after some more days this time talked for hours finishing balance of our prepaid mobiles. It was good to talk to each other after a long time. I offered him to have lunch or dinner on some weekend, but again i got no good response.
I eat once on every thursday. Last thursday i had planned to prepare rajma for the dinner, whole day we were sending sms to each other and i returned back to my house at about six in evening, now i started asking him to join me for dinner after some no he finally showed some signs to be interest in meeting. Now i also started giving some more offers as a sales executives does all time, I offered him to take on a bike ride, though i knew he likes rajma i tried to bribe by making special dish kheer for him. now he was close to say yes and i was losing my patients out of hunger, in between i got a call from some other friend and i didn't get chance to reply for his sms. He took this time delay as if i am angry and not replying. After i finished talking to my other friend i had 3 messages first one was normal second one was "u there?" and the final one saying bye almost, i called back him and explained that i got a call, same time i convinced him that similar time mismatch has happened many times and we missed lots of things in past, i again said better not leave this chance of having dinner together and reply i got was "come outside office i will join .."
The very first thing i did is switched off my mobile, i don't wanted to let him call me back saying "no" for this dinner and i zoomed to his office on my friend's bike who stays quiet near to my house. After reaching his office i confirmed that i am outside his office. He came out of office with a nice smile and we came back to my house, i never felt that we were meeting after years, i prepared rajma and rice for both, he had picked up fruit juice from office for me. and i had a chocolate in my fridge for him.
Talking about the time passed since we met last time, we shared some major things that has occurred and i found we were always aware of what is happening in each other's life. Though it was not a long time to tell many stories but was enough to share all major things of our life. and the dinner was over. It was to find my friend back. I dropped him back to his house with a hope to meet him again sometime.
