On a Friday evening Boney was driving his new car. As his habit he was talking to himself while driving ‘Oh god such a beautiful evening, I wish Jiya would have been here. I should call her’ Even when no one was there in the car he wanted to use and showoff the function of Bluetooth in his car and so he called Jiya.
“Hey honey, how are you doing?”
“I am missing you, what else and mom is making me cook?” Jiya replied with made up said voice
“I know, me too and the weather here is awesome and...” Before Boney could complete Jiya said
“Wait wait wait, switch that stupid Bluetooth of yours and pick up the phone.” Boney picked the phone
and switch it to handset mode and said
“Now is it fine?”
“Yes, but are you driving” Jiya replied with angry voice
“Ahhhhh” Boney didn’t wanted to say yes but it is Jiya
“Pull it to the side first and then talk to me” Boney pulled the car to side and said
“Sorry” Boney said with his made up voice to sound apologizing
“I told you never drive while on phone and after drinking. Anyways so what is the plan for tonight?”
“aaahhh Brito’s” Boney said with hesitation in his voice
“So drunk and drive, what should I do with you Boney.” She said and gave a pause and continued “come on, I am kidding, go have fun your car is insured anyways”
“Oh I got so tensed that how come my cool girlfriend turned into her mother” Boney said to mix into the fun
“What?” Jiya said in loud voice
“Gotta go, I am running late… bye honey, Love you” Boney said and hung up before Jiya reacts on his comment
Brito’s is a new club in the town and we have been planning to go there from long. The moment Boney reached Brito’s he located a place where could be sitting for years to come only if there are good waitresses in that bar. Me and Boney has a theory that post we are in a relationships we can gawk our eyes only on few girls like air hostess, waitress, bar tenders and of course actress if we see them anywhere. At the entry Boney asked for a table for two and when the waitress lead him to the table he said
“Can you please direct a guy name Parag to here, he must be on his way” Boney knew I had a meeting and so I must be running late and after waiting for a while and two-three drinks; he called me up
“Dude, where are you?” he sounded pissed
“I am at the house, what’s up?” I said while confused with the sound of loud music
“What’s up?? I am waiting for you in Barito’s that’s up” He almost was yelling
“Why did you go to Barito’s I thought we were suppose to go together” I was irritated as it was always a plan to go there together for the first time
“You think, anyways wait up I will come back”
“No wait” I kept Boney on hold and asked Priya “Do you wana go to Brito’s?”
“Now” she said while thinking of her dress and I nodded
“Well ya, why not” she said and I told Boney
“We are coming, we will be there in 30 mins.. Hey, go and check out the men’s room” I said in excitement like a girl.
“Hell no, I am not waiting here another minute. I am coming home” Boney said and hung up the phone. Priya almost jumped out from the couch and I nodded in a ‘no’ and told her that Boney is coming home. Boney was home in around 30 minutes and the moment he came in he yelled at me
“I got stood up” and we looked at him as we were not able to understand why the hell Boney will go on a date when he and Jiya are so happy and then he continued “No one in the history got stood up by a friend and you stood me up Mister”
“Who me? When did I stood you up…” I said with confusing voice
“no no no, don’t tell me you are not going to agree to this. In the morning I asked you and you said you wana come” Boney was really angry and I was not able to understand, so I replied
“I don’t’ think so dude, calm down” and Priya as savor came in middle and said
“Walk me through Boney what happened in the morning?”
***Morning Start***
Parag was watching morning Yoga on TV and eating oats and I was all ready to leave for office and that’s when I asked him
“Dude” He didn’t respond and so I said again and louder “Dude”
“Ya” he said while not movies his eyes even for a inch from the TV
“Jiya went to her mom’s today, do you wana check out the new pub, what’s its name?” I was trying to collect the name and he replied
“Brito’s”
“Yes, what say, just you and I. Just like old times” and then he nodded and I said “ok, so I would reach at around 7 after office. C ya… have fun” and I left
***Morning end***
“That’s not right” I said and looked at Boney and then to Priya
“Why did you try a conversation while he was watching Yoga, he don’t miss any move of those girls and everyone know it” Priya said
“That’s not right either and anyways this is what happened.” I said to clarify that I am not a pervert who watches yoga for girls and continued “When you asked me to go to Brito’s I nodded and then you went to the kitchen and I said, I got plans with Priya tonight. We are going to watch some stupid documentary movie of her friend”
“Stupid?? if you must know Ritu has been awarded” Priya cleared the blames on her friend and gave me look
“Whatever… I never went to kitchen, I left for office.” Boney said
“I guess I must be looking at the TV so I didn’t realize. I am sorry dude, I am fine if you wana go now” I made my apologies but Boney was still not convinced so he kept his argument going
“Then why did you nodded up and down, thrice. Which clearly means a yes.”
“No I didn’t I made an 8, thrice. Which clearly means, well it’s never clear but as I said, I am sorry dude” I said and realized it was my bad
“It’s easy for you to say, you don’t know what happened”
“What, why is this big deal man?” I replied as I was not able to understand.
“Oh really do you know what happened at the pub. When you didn’t turn up for a while I was all depressed and I tried your phone sometime and it was not reachable. The waitress, no no the hot waitress came to me with a drink on house and said in a low voice ‘I am sorry your boyfriend stood you up sir, here a drink on the house for you’ what do you expect me to do than” Boney didn’t even finish his sentence and Priya and I busted in laughter
“Why would she think that?” Priya asked while laughing
“I don’t know, I may have ordered cosmopolitan” Boney said with a shameful voice
“Dudeeeee… I know we like it but you need to pick the right time. Take a sip from your girl friend’s cosmo, never order by yourself” I said while controlling my laugh
“Anyways lets go back and we will clarify that you are not… you are not gay” Priya said and fell on the couch to hold herself from laughing louder
“Well that’s not it?” Boney said and Priya looked at me with curious funny eyes
“While my way back home Cops caught me for drunk and drive”
“No ways, how, you just had one drink isn’t it” I said and he replied
“I ordered 2 cosmos and when this waitress gave me another one I… I didn’t wanted to waste it and so I bottom’s up it and came out. I just came out from parking and they were right on that corner of the roas, as if waiting for me to come out. I had to pay 1500 bucks fine” Oh I had no patience left and I fell down while laughing. Priya was laughing too and so Boney also caught the fever and started to laugh. After sometime when all of us calm down we decided to go back to see if Brito’s could be the place. Well as it turned out it was loud and just drinks. We can’t talk much and can’t afford it all the time, so we decided that this is not the place for us to hangout and went back to Cheery’s coffee house.
***
Friendship is about laughing at friend when they are said and enjoying it without feeling guilty. Friendship is about getting pulled by your friends when you are down already but at the end friendship is about holding hands even when people think you are being gay J
Chapter 3: Chemistry with her Bro
I was just coming back from my office and the moment I opened the room Boney was on the couch watching TV as always.
“Hey man, what’s up” He said the moment I saw him
“It was a busy day man” I replied while putting my bag in my room
“Come out, I made some pancakes for ya” he said when I was going in the washroom
“Oh that’s nice, let drop some before eat some” I said while looking at him and winked
“So, do you want a beer?” Boney asked. I don’t know why he is still talking to me when I am in the bathroom
“Ahhh, let me come out” I replied
“That’s cool, I will come be back man, wait up” He said and I heard the door opening and closing, I guess he must have gone out. The whole situation was weird. Anyways I freshened up and came out to watch TV. In another 5 min Boney came with beers in his hand.
“What’s up with beers man?” I asked while looking at packet.
“We were out of beers and so I thought you might wana drink, so I went to buy some” Boney said and went to the kitchen to get the Pancakes and Beer.
“Dude, I can smell something fishy, spell the truth buddy boy...” I said, as I knew there is some favor that he wants from me. I was just curious how big it would be that he got the costliest beer.
“No big deal, you are my bro and a bro never says no” Boney said and looked at one of his pictures hanging on the wall with Jiya. I looked at the picture and said
“Is it something with Jiya? “ I said while looking at Jiya’s innocent face in that picture with the devil
“Ya, kinda” Boney said and gave me the plate with pancakes.
“Come on, come to the point man” I said with irritation
“No big deal, no.. no big… I mean Jiya was telling me that her Brother has some work in the town and he is coming tomorrow morning and you know how she always wanted me to get along with him…” before Boney said another word I busted
“Which one, don’t tell me it’s the old monk” I said and looked at him and by his look I knew it is Old Monk
“Yes, Old Monk and it is worst. Jiya wants him to stay with us so that I could get some chance to win him” Boney said and there was a silence of not less than 5 Mins.
“What the hell you were doing by wasting your time in cooking and what about the beers, why do you have to get beers knowing he will come tomorrow.” I said it in one line without taking breath.
“You are right, we should get to work” Boney said and got up. We had no time; we had to clear all the bottles and every photo of Boney and Jiya, all the movies CD which we love and magazines. We cleaned up for 3 hours straight and then we were so tired and were sitting on the couch and Boney was cleaning his laptop’s cookies and histories so that her brother can’t track the porn websites of Boney’s.
Jiya’s brother Jaiprakash or rather known as Jay is a big guy with big money and even bigger principles. He is an orthodontist and also an orthodox. He loves Jiya like his own daughter and he would be the one who would have to approve Boney at the end as her father would have full faith in Jay. It so happened few years back that Jay came and was staying in a hotel and we had no clue what kind of person he is. It was bad when we met him in his hotel.
***First meet with Jay Start***
We knocked at his room door and he opened the door. From the first look he was looking smart and a nice person but when I saw Jiya sitting in a corner doing nothing, we knew there is something wrong with this guy. So to act cool as he must be 2-3 years older me to us Boney said
“So, how was your trip man?”
“It was fine. Some of the guys may be of your age were sitting next to me and they were drunk I just had a little thing with them but after that it was all fine” he said as if he must have kicked some ass. I was going through the bar menu, and the moment story started I threw it back at the table.
“Phhuuu, what people? There is no class left in first class, isn’t it?” Boney said and looked at me. I looked at him while thinking ‘what the hell are you saying man’
“I would kill the people who drinks” he said and Boney looked at Jiya. Jiya was sitting quiet and calm as a nice little sister. And then he came close to Boney, I mean really really close and said “You don’t drink do you?” as a reflex Boney said
“No, no no… sir, never and neither Parag and nor Jiya” I looked at him and I could see he was panicking.
“Good for you” he said and turned back towards Jiya gave a look to her as if he was confirming about Boney’s statement.
***First meet with Jay End***
With that interaction and more what we heard from Jiya we have understood that it would not be easy for Boney to convince him. Anyways post the cleaning in house Boney got up and went around doing a last check.
“Dude, what about these beers what I got just now” Boney said when he saw the beers he got me in the fridge.
“I don’t know, you thought you can get me beers and I would be fine with that Old Monk living in our house with us” I replied
“Yahan!!! Good that you got ready without it” Boney said and he continued “Should I through them?” Boney said thinking that he knows how to convince me
“No, have you learned nothing from me. It’s just 3 beers each, let’s finish them and go to bed” I replied with a funny voice. It was 10 in the night already and so we started the play station and started to drink. It was around 12 by the time we finished our drinks and game.
Next morning I could hear Boney’s phone ringing from the other room, I gave him some time to pick it up for two reasons. First he is a lazy guy and second I never know if his phone is ringing or if he is snoring as they both sound the same. After 2 rings I was about to get up and just then my phone started to ring, it was Jiya
“Hey, good morning” I said and looked the watch, it was 7:30
“Ya whatever ask Boney to get up, my brother’s flight is about to land.” She replied and I said nothing and hung up the call
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