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NOV 27 -
The vacation was on. I was always busy using Facebook when the holidays first began but as the days passed, I began getting bored. All my friends had gone to the country and vacations but I, I was in front of my PC the entire day. No friends online, no one to chat with.
One day, as I checked my notifications: “You have been tagged in a photo by Gerard”.
I was curious to see what this stranger has tagged me in. I didn’t know him so I wrote the only word “THANX” on his comment box.
Hours passed but I was still stuck on Face book doing nothing but checking my profile again and again.
Suddenly a message popped out, it was Gerard.
“Hi!!!” he said
“Hi!!” I answered him back.
“Did you have your lunch?” he asked.
“Yes”, I said. “Wat abt u?” I questioned him, just for the formality.
“nah...i juz woke up...”
“lazy” I said to him
The conversation began and we chatted nearly for two hours.
“Before, I was not very comfortable with strangers and now I can chat with them for hours...improved a lot”, I said to myself.
We started meeting everyday on Facebook chat. Unlike other guys, he shared everything with me. The friendship then was not only limited to Facebook chat. We had exchanged our cell phone numbers as well.
We used to talk all night. Whenever he had problems with his girl friend he used to talk to me. I always tried my best to make him feel better, and I used to share everything with him, literally everything. I was very comfortable with him. I didn’t know the reason; maybe it was because I didn’t have to face him so it was easier for me to share things with him. Whatever the reasons might be but I found him completely different.
Once I had a huge crush on a guy. It was obvious that I told him about this too. He had promised to search for that guy for me. He was more like a best friend as I was very flexible with him. One day he called me when it was nearly mid-night.
“I made a mistake.” he said.
“What is it??”
“I kissed her.”
“Whom??”I was curious
“One of my friends.”
“How could you do that? How could you even think about betraying Tisa (his girl friend)???
“I don’t know...it just happened...but she started it first and I could not control myself”
“All guys are the same...I misjudged you...you are an ass hole”, I was disappointed.
“What should I do now??”
“Just leave it.”
“Should I say it to Tisa??”
“No.”
I said it because I was afraid that they would break up. I had never met or talked with Tisa but I knew that she loved Gerard a lot. She was like a girl next door, “Sensitive Tisa” and “Jolly Gerard” were a great match for each other.
“I will kill the one who comes between you and Tisa...I promise”, I used to mention it to him time and again. He always made fun of it. I myself used to laugh at my silly, stupid filmy dialogues.
We had never met each other but he knew everything about me and I knew everything about him. My other friends knew me as fun loving, humorous, and always happy “anna” but he had seen the sensitive side of “anna” as well, of which my other friends were unknown about.
Like always one night I was listening to songs. My cell phone vibrated.
“1 message received.”
It was Gerard.
“does luv alwazz mean true luv??I dnt think Tisa is mah true luv”
I was shocked to see this kind of message from him.
“no.luv alwazz doesn’t mean true luv,bt y r u askin dis???r u thinkin abt breakin up wid Tisa???’
I replied back. But he didn’t reply until the next morning.
“no,i wnt brk up wid her coz she luvs me bt i dnt think i luv her”
I smiled as I found innocence in his message.
“haha...of course u luv her idiot...othawise y wud u care 4 her...whom do u feel lyk hugin whn u r completely alne??4 whom can u even leave ur cricket match n tennis match??n who is alwazz by ur syd??of course Tisa rite??..stp thinkin abt these stupid stuffs.valentine’s day is cumin soon so...wat r u goin 2 do 4 Tisa dis tym??”
Morning turned into day and day into night but I got no reply.
“wats goin on wid u??u had neva bhaved dis strange??n y r u nt replyin mah msges??”
I sent him a message.
“i got ans of mah ques..i m in luv,true luv and yea i do fel lyk hugin som1 whn i m completely alone,yea i can leave mah matches 4 som1 n yea dere is som1 who is alwaz by mah syd n comforts me wid her words bt its nt Tisa its som1 else..n dis Feb. i m gonna brk up wid Tisa”
He replied and I was completely out of my mind when I read his message. I started guessing who the girl was?? I was pretty much sure that she was the one whom he had kissed last time, still I messaged him.
“Who is it??”
I looked my cell phone again and again because I was very curious to know who the girl was. My cell phone vibrated and my wait was over.
“Its Anna”, the message said, I was quiet sure that he was fooling me. Therefore I messaged him again.
“Ha-ha...wat a jok...common stp foolin me and tell me her name....i m damn curious”
“her name is anna n i m damn serious...i luv u...i had neva felt lyk dis b4...u r da gal i alwaz wantd...i luv u more than anything..”
I was really confused and didn’t know what my reply should be...so I just ignored the message and tried to get some sleep.
Gerard was a nice guy but I didn’t feel anything for him like he felt for me. So I thought I should just ignore the matter and shouldn’t react on it and then everything will be fine.
But just the opposite happened. Gerard called me and said that he broke up with Tisa. I was not only surprised but also very upset because I liked them together.
He called me the next night and said that he loved me and asked if I could be his girl friend. I switched off my phone because I didn’t
have any answer. I wanted to share all those things with someone but I didn’t have any friends with whom I shared my problems. He was the only friend with whom I shared my problems but then this time he himself was the problem.
“I will kill the one who comes between you and Tisa, I promise.” this sentence was haunting me. It was coming to my mind time and again. I was the one who came between them and I had promised him...I smiled. I exactly knew what I had to do. Got to keep the promise...
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Posted on: 2011-11-27 08:36
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