Anti-Story : Part Four

Author's Irritating Note: Finally, I agree with those *pundits* out here, who say the word *Love* is of utmost importance in the Sulekha blog-space. I'm a little slow to catch up things. However, now that I know I was wrong, I'm taking *proactive* steps to make it right. That explains, why the title has been displaced by the sub-title. Let's see if *this* works

Another One!: More acute observers will notice that I've shifted from One, Two ... to roman numerals. Let's see if that works, too!

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Part IV: Thank God It's Not A Love Story

Have you ever chased a car because you thought you saw a glimpse of a beautiful young woman sitting in it -- chased frantically, forgetting where you're going, forgetting the traffic, and everything -- just to get another glimpse of that beauty; and you finally catch up with the car, and peek in, just to see a pony tailed guy picking his nose? No? Then you don't really know the meaning of the phrase -give up ho gaya (pronounced - ghyoop ho gaya).

This give up is otherwise an un-describe-able state. Kunal would have known it exactly, though (okay, I had promised that Kunal has already played his part, but then that's if we go in a linear manner... flashbacks are always allowed, right?). It's because, after writing poems after poems (on cheap crumpled papers ...), and always putting them in notebooks that belonged to Hritisha, what did he get back? Nothing! Unless, of course, you want to count the same (albeit little less crumpled -- owing to the time they'd spend inside a notebook) pieces of papers, which were invariably found pinned on the Students' Notice Board. Kunal's poetry was thus a public property -- and a testimony to a true (blind) love.

Now slightly more sensible people will ask, why wouldn't he stop doing that! Well, if he were slightly more sensible, why would he fall in love with Hritisha in the first place?

On the other hand some would ask, why was Abhishek going around with Hritisha, just because he bumped into her? I mean, isn't that crazy, too? It is, but then, there was a method behind that madness. After his only plan having failed to hit the target (literally!), Abhishek did some introspection. Now, this is very rare in guys. For most guys, introspection is something similar to, "how would that female look if ... " (why take chances with censorship? especially if they ever make a TV serial out of this, I don't want it to be banned!). But Abhishek was somewhat different. Introspect, he could, and did! He even did some honest soul-searching and something called principle centric crisis evaluation.


The result? He came up with another plan. He didn't want to take chances with Hritisha saying anything bad about him to Rachana. And now that Hritisha was making passes at him, it was unwise (according to him) to just ignore her. The trick was to keep her believing that he's actually in love with her, and then to get closer to Rachana, through her -- a stupid plan, that was working surprisingly well, till the day when Hritisha decided to dump him. Obviously, he was very unhappy, since he wasn't yet so close to Rachana, that he could take it up from there. Besides, he had never covered for this situation, as he thought Hritisha was in love with him.

This crazy plan was destined to fail, if it weren't for the sibling rivalry between Rachana and Hritisha. Rachana suddenly developed an interest in Abhishek, although, she knew she couldn't possibly let Hritisha know that, as she knew Hritisha was surely going to create a bad image of her in Abhishek's mind, if she ever got a slight hint. Abhishek on the other hand believed that he wasn't making enough inroads!

Now, you'd think Rachana would be very happy when Hritisha dumped Abhishek for whatever reasons -- because now she could get Abhishek? Wrong again, how could she want someone that her sister had discarded? Wouldn't she feel inferior to her for the rest of her life? So there, she decided to forget Abhishek all together.

How, you're asking, is this remotely related to the other story? That, my friends, is the agenda for the finale. I just gotta stop now.

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Postscript: Don't forget to read the next and the last part of the series. It's scheduled to be online Thursday 4:30 PM, IST. And, yes, I'm a great fan of Microsoft AFA plans are concerned.

Yet Another Postscript: Some guys have been asking me why have I put this (as they call it) cr@p in *CREATIVE* category. I've been trying to get Sulekha-bloggers to think about different categories (like, say CR@P), that we could ask Sulekha to provide. Unfortunately, that attempt was futile. Well, such is life...

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