29. Love obituary - Avneet

Avneet was the closest friend Sehej had and the two were always together. Avneet had studied at Carmel Convent before getting into engineering and I tell you she was a delight. It was so probable that a person starting for Sehej might end up falling in love with Avneet and the one starting for Avneet might end up falling in love with Sehej. Avneet too was very beautiful; both of them were so very beautiful, Avneet was a bit shorter than her friend but still quite tall and looked totally dazzling in black colour. It was surprising to find two equally beautiful flowers sticking together; there appeared never any competition among them as if each was unaware of her own beauty. Given a chance I would have been happy to fall in love with any one of them without any prejudice but frankly my heart went out for Sehej a little more because she was quieter of the two. Avneet had these beautiful deer like eyes, so deep that I feared I would get hypnotised if I ever look into them for more than a second. The two were always together and Avneet was most of the time engrossed in her GRE books. Had I been in her branch I might have been inspired to take up GRE but the fact for now was that I didn’t want to do master’s in metallurgy, I didn’t like the subjects didn’t want to read them any more than that was necessary, for four damn years.

During the lunch time the two would sit down on the stairs of their department and have lunch from their boxes. I wished I could be friends with them and I once even tried; it was a disaster… Avneet threatened me on the very day I tried getting close and friendly with them,“Next time you do such a thing I will take you to the chairman” she said the final words, I turned away and fled. So now I had one more reason why I would prefer falling for Sehej than Avneet. The damn girl just ruined my chance. She chould have helped one sincere lover to find his love instead she led Sehej to come and threaten me with ‘going to the chairman’ threat. I just wondered how the chairman would have handled this one especially after we managed to get a lease on last two occasions, one when we were caught swimming at midnight in the college pool and once for Tazzy’s bhashan at CII. I was feeling tempted to say to her, ‘who to humare friend hain’. Ha ha…