It is love...... brother

This story is of my friend Saras. Now guys I have told you that he is kind of a playboy. Often, he skips dinner with us because he is out with some girl. You would think that he would have made girlfriends by now .....several of them. We also thought he would have been in love atleast once . But, this was not so. However, that fact changed towards the end of the second year. Guys, I'll narrate to you how my friend fell in love for the first time.

It was the middle of the second semester of the second year. Usually, our entire gang of 10 go to dinner together. But, one one night, Saras refused to come. So we went by ourselves to get some dinner. Now guys, dinner typically lasts 15 minutes for me. I eat quite fast. So does everyone else except our dear friend Anil. He usually fills his entire plate with food and sits for about 40 minutes eating it. Its not that he eats a lot. Karan and Saras have the appetite even greater. What makes Anil so late is that he kind of plays with his food while he eats. What is mean is, he'll take a spoon and dip it in dal. Then, he will run the spoon in circles for 4-5 turns slowly. After that, he will fill only half the spoon with dal and slowly sip it. So our entire task of dinner, which includes walking to the mess and coming back, takes about an hour.

Now on this particular day, the same routine followed and when we came back, we saw that Saras's room was locked. First we ignored it thinking he must have gone somewhere. That night, he returned at 11 pm. When we asked where he was, he told us he had some work. This would have been the end of it, but we started to notice that this was becoming a routine. Atleast 3-4 days a week, he would do this and always come back at the same time. We all started to think something was up. Obviously we thought it was some girl he was trying to woo. But the unusual part was that he always tells us if he is doing that. But on this occasion, he told us nothing. Even on repeated queries, the guy kept saying that he had some  work.

In about 2 weeks we all lost our patience. So we decided to tail him. He waited infront of the mess and kept a watch at the hostel gate. He came out about 15 minutes after we left our rooms. He then started to walk towards the girls hostel. The girls hostel in our campus is on the opposite side of the boys hostels. Its a 10 minute walk across the hockey field. They also have a mess there which is smaller that our mess and also serves much better food than ours. Seriously guys, the food in our mess sucks. Its surprising given that when same cooks make food in night canteen, its quite delicious.

So, we followed Saras to the girls hostel. There, to no one's surprise, he met a girl. This girl was thin, fair, had a nice figure and dressed quite stylishly. So, to sum it up, she was out of Saras's league. Now you see, when i say playboy, i mean he talks to a lot of girls and probably knows all the girls on campus, including the research scholars. But to this day, none if us have seen him in a relationship.

Then went in the mess and we all went in too. It was a different mess than the one in which we were registered so we had to pay and eat. Now you see, we thought we were like those cools spies in the movies, stealthy and smart. However, as it turns out, we looked like idiots. This fact was pointed out to me buy a friend who was in the same mess and saw us that day. Saras and his special lady friend talked and ate for about and hour and then went out of the mess. We stayed at the table without looking suspicious of weird thanks to Anil, who ate his dinner with the same ritual he always does.

I, Karan, Tarak and Sarvesh quickly followed Saras and his friend while others finished dinner and joined with us later. We saw them walk towards the back of the campus to a lane we call couple's lane. This place is quite aptly named. Its a dark path with trees on both sides, a footpath that is rarely used and has dim lighting. Because of these factors, couple hang out there a lot.

While we were curious to know what would happen, with few of us coming out with weird ideas, we decided it would be creepy if 9 guys go there stalking a couple. So, we went to our rooms and waited for Saras. He showed up at 11pm and we all ganged up on him. We informed him of what we did. He was quite pissed at first obviously, but then calmed down and told us that he was in love with this girl and wanted them to be a couple before telling us. We all cheered and teased him for a few days.

But about a week later, he told us that she had said to him that she likes him like a brother. Now guys, no boy wants to hear this from a girl he loves. And obviously it was hurtful to my friend. And so, the most appropriate thing to do was to console him and say that it would be better and that the next girl who would come would be nicer and would love him. But you see, we aren't appropriate people at all and neither do we have andy manners. So what did we do? We laughed hard. Infact, Sarvesh laughed so hard he ended up falling from the chair he was sitting on. And then, we laughed on that .

The amazing part is, it actually helped our friend. He started to laugh too. And then we made fun of few other things.

 

What was in that cake ???

This story only involves only Tarak and Kartik. These two had gone to Mumbai for internship. Now these two are really an odd duo. Kartik is spiritual and would never smoke or drink. However, Tarak is completely opposite. When he wakes up, it feels as if he has an hangover, His eyes remain only half open, his posture slouchy and he gives the vibe of a guy who has never been sober his entire life.

Now these two had gotten internship in the same company. The company's name was Silph Security Solution. The company offers meal coupons worth a hundred and fifty rupees a day that can be availed in three cafeterias located nearby. The working days are Monday to Saturday. The hours were flexible to them as long as they met the deadline. I am, however not going to go into detail about their project.

This incident occurred one day before the deadline day. Kartik and Tarak had been staying in a rented flat. It wasn't very big, just one bedroom, kitchen and hall. As I mentioned Tarak frequently gets drunk, and so, one day, he brought home a packet of ready to make chocolate cake. The decision was taken that the cake will be make that night itself but some of it will be saved for partying the end of the project. Kartik and Tarak together started to make the cake. During that time, Kartik swears he only left Tarak alone with the cake mixture just once when he had gone to pee. In that very moment, stretching no more than 2 minutes, Tarak made a cake that gave us a story we shall all remember for the rest of our lives.

When the baking was done, they ate only about 1/4th of the cake that night and then went to sleep.

Next day, Kartik left late as he had overslept. Tarak had already gone ahead. It seemed a good idea to Kartik to take the cake with him to office to share with the supervisor and two other members of the team. The two members included two other boys from a college in Mumbai itself.

The day went pretty normal.They gave their final presentation and submitted the project. During the lunch hour, when Tarak had gone to wash his hands, Kartik produced the box of cake. Happily, all the team members along with the supervisor devoured most of the box before Tarak came out. On comprehending what had happened, his stoned looking face went pale. Only he knew that the cake contained something very inappropriate for the office environment.........

His shock was easily noticed but he refused to tell the reason when asked the reason of the sudden reaction. I think others would have probably thought that he didn't want to share the cake or something else. He sat down and the conversation continued. He ate only one piece of the cake. Immediately, there was no reaction. However, the catastrophe began about an hour later.  Everyone, including the supervisor began to feel dizzy and funny. They cracked weird and inappropriate jokes. One of the guys even recorded the entire incident on his cellphone...... well he thought it was a phone. According to Tarak, he was using a whiteboard duster as a video recorder.

The next day, Kartik and the other two guys realized what had happened. You see guys, Tarak had put some weed in the cake.... He wanted to get Kartik stoned. However, his planned had backfired . Now, the biggest anxiety was what was the supervisor going to do. He was to give marks to them for the project, but knowing what they had done, he probably wasn't going to give all that great marks.

They thought of calling and asking him but none of the four had the will to do it. Afterall, it had been an extremely inappropriate incident.

So, they spent the time till results came in great trepidation. I think Tarak would have reduced his anxiety emptying a few bottles of alcohol......

But, the result, when came, was a great surprise to my friends . All of them had gotten full marks.
Now , its impossible to deduce what exactly passed in the mind of the supervisor when he gave them their marks of whether he was still stoned when he entered their marks, but as long as they got good marks, that question didn't have a lot of importance.