It all started with a fight and a walk. I still remember it like yesterday.
few years back.. one busy day..
My parents are the best ! Ofcourse to me. They never had restrictions or rules on my way of life but my brother he is one idiot.
I just completed my work shift and came to my home. As usual my mom was busy with dinner preparations. If you see her in the kitchen believe me she will make you feel like she is cooking in a crockery show or the famous MasterChef. And my dad is busy with his news channels and making sure he doesn't even miss a single thing thats happening in the world. Some times I feel like he doesn't work for the bank but instead he gives an exam daily on what happened in the world yesterday. With all this drama happening all around me I remember what an hectic day it was at office. All I wanted now was my bed and a little bit of sleep. I head to my room hoping I could relax a bit before dinner and open the door.
There waits my amazing yet so irritating brother for me. As soon as I step foot in my room he asks me how did I reach home and if it was Alex who dropped me.
Alex is my best friend from childhood. We went to the same school, college and now to the same office. Actually I'm thankful that we work for the same organization because he is my stress buster and my go to guy when in trouble. But oddly my brother Ashish doesn't like hum and this interrogation is a daily episode for us. I never understand what's Ashish problem is with Alex but today after all work and meetings from the office I'm not in a mood to take this sh*t. So I asked him to leave my room but he won't listen and kept questioning. Before I could know we were shouting on top of our voice and he attracted our parents.
Now, we are sitting side by side and taking a behavioural class from my mother. Aghhh! It was same old thing I keep hearing from our bro-sis first fight. Ashish got pissed and went into his room by slamming my door and mom followed him to give him some more of her extended class.
Before I could close my eyes for few minutes, my phone beeps and I see a text from Riya asking if I could meet her at our point. Riya is my other childhood friend and also my cousin. Our families live a lane apart and we meet almost every weekend and for festivals. I don't know how but she always finds a guy who she thinks is the one but breaks her heart and then pours her heart me at night and goes bak to find other man. I change into my casuals and sneak out of my window. Yes, I sneaked out. You might be thinking why can't I use my main entrance. Here is the problem, even though we don't have rules on the way we live but we have schedule in the house laid and followed strictly by the home minister aka my mom.
I take my scooty and drive to our meeting spot. It's a walking park nearby and we know the watchman there so he would let us in not matter the time. I wait there for her to come but she doesn't. I call her and I come to know that she is not coming because she has patched up with whom so ever she broke up and was so sorry that she couldn't inform me. I know you might be thinking, this should have pissed me off right. But no! Because this is not the first time nad I got habituated to her and actually like this me time in the nature. So I sit there sometime going through my digital novel for sometime.
Once I decided that me time was enough I try to go home but my scooty does wants to. So I ask the watchman to take care of it and informed him that I will come pick it up in the morning. I start walking back to the house. It hardly takes 20 mins by walk to reach. As I cross the park, I feel like someone is following me and I turn back to find out it's a dog. Did I forget to mention that I am afraid no terrified of dogs?? Anyway I start walking faster so the dog now out of terror I start running and I bump into a pole or so I thought and now I'm on ground.
I hear a voice hissing the dog away and now the voice has eyes and it's looking at me. He offer me help to get up and I take it. He is tall and nicely build. His voice has a commanding quality and also it's kind of terrifying. As he was standing against the light I couldn't get much of his face but I guessed he must be good looking given his outfit by the way who wears a suit in the middle of night and walk on roads??
He asked me if I was okay and did I hurt myself and I was numb.
Why the hell I'm not able to answer. I'm trying to but a I could do is nod.
"Do want me to drop you anywhere" he asks
I nod side to side.
He stares at me a moment and starts using some gestures with his hands. I don't understand anything and for moment I thought he is signalling someone.
I looked around and saw no one.
"There is no one. I'm signalling no one. I though you are deaf so using the sign language" he said
I couldn't understand what to say and how the hell does he know what am I thinking. I just walked away and before that all I could say was 'Ahh.. Ahh... Ah.. I'm.. not deaf... Thanks... for.... help...'.