Music : Rock Da Party – Bombay Rockers
Mood: Amazing!!!
Quote: Ah Love! Could you and I with Him conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,
Would not we shatter it to bits–and then
Re-mold it nearer to the Heart’s Desire!

Conversation with Ember

[11:49 pm. My Cell Phone Rings with that special tone. The soundtrack of the series “Indiana Jones”. I already know it’s his call before picking the phone up and looking at the screen of my cell to see his name flashing. I let it flash for some seconds, trying to control the sudden smile it has given me. In the whole day today, he had called me twice including this. That’s definitely too much for the person who works 9am to 10pm everyday and has genuinely hectic schedules. I take the call and he starts speaking…]

He: hi… [Eh! I still hate this “Hi…” of his after all these years. I mean…it sounds so formal, like as if he doesn’t have anything else to say, to begin the conversation…]
Me: Yes, Bolo. [Pretending to be calm]
He: kaise ho aap? How do you feel, how is the pain?
Me: well, how do I sound?
He: You sound much better than the one I talked to in evening.
Me: [laughs] Yeah Yeah! It was still I.
He: [laughs a little] are you sure?
Me: [laughs more] Probably, I guess.
He: [stops the laugh, and becomes serious] Okay, so you must be in bad mood at evening, you did not talk to me well.
Me: [a little guilty] yeah… Was in kind of bad mood… [Stops for a breather…] Tell me something, have you ever been in this condition, like where you’ve been stuck to bed, for months, and the only times you’ve gone out of your room is to just go to hospital??
He: [with a smile probably] Not actually. Not for this long, anyway.
Me: [curious] how long then?
He: [with a bigger smile, I guess] for a few hours.
Me: [confused!] eh?
He: Haan… there is a crazy girl who used to tie me down and make me ‘stuck to bed’ literally for a few hours, I guess you know that.
Me: [laughs out loud. Oh! He is a mockery devil at times, but I’m no less.] “Used to”???
He: [laughs back] yes, she is not able to do that anymore. You see, she is having a bed rest cause she went through an accident.
Me: [a tad bit raged being outsmarted by his response] yeah yeah!! Let her get back to normal and then you shall see what she would do.
He: [teasingly] yeah, we shall see.
Me: [laughs, listens to papers rustle in his background] btw, where are you now at this late hour, still at office?
He: umm… Yes! Just finishing up here, […more rustling of papers] need to rush home, it’s very late.
Me: [sighs] Okay. Go on.
He: [speaks after a moment of silence] but before we say bye, I want to do something.
Me: [smile is back on my face] you want to do WHAT?
He: [smiles] Mmmm…. I want to pull you close to me…
Me: [with a hint of naughtiness] and…?
He: [laughs slight] … and…. I want to bite your neck and then run off before you could take revenge for that.
Me: [laughs loud] … yeah, right! Abhi chalo niklo office se. Ghar jana hai ke nahi!
He: [laughs along] ok baba… Jaisa aap kahen! Good night.
Me: [still smiling] bye and goodnight.

[He disconnects. I lay down on bed, still clutching my cell in palm with a smile on my face, slowly whispering to my self] Oh, this night is definitely going to be very good, indeed!

Ektz. Cheers!!!