" Yo dude how am I looking?", Kshitij asked Ansh in a hurry.
"Dog!", Ansh laughed
"That's called Stud, pervert!", Kshitij made a comeback.
Ansh nodded.
"You know what, today I am going on a date with Shalini, thank god I am extra, lol! You were right son!!!! She is intrested in me" Kshitij said adjusting his collar. " Btw What are your plans, Anshu???" he grinned.
"None, my call on would fall tommorrow and that too with two more people!", Ansh sighed.
Kshitiz was sort of astonished that Ansh didn't reacted to either 'son' nor 'Anshu'( name given to girls).
"Hey, dude everything okay?" Kshitiz asked
"Yeah!! just work" Ansh confirmed. "... anyways enjoy your accidental date!!!"
"Yo!! bro", Kshitiz left.
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Ansh then laid down following all the day's work of making of the map and everything so that, they could start trecking the enemies forces that have inflintrated into their lands.
Kshitiz was an intelligence officer in army, while Ansh was an infantry officer, Kshitiz had a major role in confirming the locations and faces while Ansh had to protect Kshitiz and also assist him. Around midnight, when Ansh completed his work of map creation and sending all the information to logistics, he sort of became worried about Kshitiz, so he called him
"Hello, Panther(army nickname for kshitiz) where are you?", Ansh asked.
"At the hill top, Gladiator (army nickname for Ansh), you sleep, I will come late, this Shalini man!!! She is so awesome personally, and not arrogant, we are going to be here only, sort of a camp site, damn she is looking so hot man, I will definetaly make her my wifey one day. Don't know why these stupid people are around, otherwise I would have done that today only."
Ansh laughed," You have already made 3 wives sorry wifeys, this is 4th one"
"No man!! This time I am serious." Kshitiz said. "ok listen!! my wife is calling me!!! so I am going, yo! "
Ansh hung up the call.
"... would make her my wifey"
And then he started thinking about the same.
Into the past
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".....baby!!!! I am going to be your wife one day!!!! so obviously I can wait for you. Thank god, now its just one week of wait left!!", shivi continued on one of the late night calls they used to have. " And now when I have waited for like two years, so this week would be like the feather on the cap"
"You coming in my piping ceremony", Ansh asked her.
"You want me there?"
"Yeah!!! only if you could make it."
"Well, no I can't.", shivi said abruptly.
"Bored with me babe"
"Hmm, bored with that 'cadet' part of yours"
"Well, that would be taken care of in a week, my lady"
They laughed. Ansh knew, that Shivi would for sure come, and Shivi knew that he knows, but still a faint attempt to surprise him.
But surprisingly, Shivi didn't turned up, that too on one of the most important days of his life, the day when all of his gruelling training had reaped a reward, Ansh longed Shivi's company. "...must have missed the flight", he explained to himself.
After the day long celebration, Ansh was surprised, not even a single call or message from Shivi's side, no apologies.
This happened for the first time in two years, that Shivi backed off from her words. If there was even a slightest of problem in making it to the few meetings they had, she always told Ansh in advance, but this time, she wasn't just there.
Naturally, Ansh was upset, and thought that perhaps she doesn't wants to face him that time. So he also didn't talked, just texted her, 'dumped me babe, its okay, atleast you should have congratulated me!" and tired as he was, he dozed off.
Next day, he checked the phone for any texts, no reply, he then called, texted her on every social platform but NO REPLY.
Days turned into weeks, weeks into months, alongwith, Ansh's desperation into frustation and finally into anger. After countless efforts of contacting her for two months, he blocked her from everywhere, except his heart.
He then joined the training for special forces, a three months of living hell.
Got through those three months, through his dedication and somewhere due to his anger too.
Slept with girls, around but still somewhere he wanted to do that all with Shivi, but instead ending up with some one else.
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Ansh just stood up, with all the anger that he still had in him. "Gonna be my wife, and then left me for that mf batchmate doctor. I was suffering while she erased me!!! Why shivi, why, what went wrong, and not a single explanation about it ".
At that moment of time, Ansh just wanted to go to Shivi and ask her about all that. But then he started calming himself, all in vain.
So he went out to the basketball ground, locking the room carefully, diverting his energy.
Not knowing, that the biggest surprise of life was awaiting to open there before him.