It was the summer of 2004. Rohit was in the final year of his graduation. He was studying in an evening college & was working in ICICI Bank as a Credit Card sales executive. His life was simple, but sumwhere & sumhow, it was complicated too. Like every 2nd youngster going through this age group. He had a limited circle of friends & while living in a PG near his college, by the name of outing, he just use to go to the super market for daily groceries & laundry to get his clothes ironed. Everything was going okayish, till one fine day he came across a girl named “Pallavi”.
Rohit was attracted towards Pallavi, she was in the same college pursuing her graduation in different stream. Her way of talking, her attire, her smile, name anything about her & he used to be lost in his own imaginations. He came to know from his sources that, she was working in Club Mahindra Holidays, as a Back Office Executive. She was living in girl’s hostel & was stick to her 9 to 6 schedule. Sumhow, Rohit managed her cell number & started sending her Good Morning & Good Night messages. In the starting 3 – 4 days there was no reply. Then on a Sunday morning his mobile beeped. It was a message of Pallavi.
“who is this ?”.
Rohit was thinking, what to reply. In the mean time day passed & he got a call from her in the evening. He didn’t pick. After dinner he sent a message,
“Hi Pallavi, this is Rohit from final year B.Com. (same college as yours). I am a sales executive in a private bank.”
“Rohit ?!?! Do I know you by any chance ?”
“Well, no, not yet. But I was thinking if we can come to know each other ?”
No reply after that. Next day, they were having there 1st final exam. A week passed without any message & call. After the last exam, there college was finished & Rohit was thinking to call / meet her. But Pallavi was out of town. He forgot that she was in different stream & her exams were finished 2 days before.
Some days passed & one evening Rohit was just checking his phone book & saw Pallavi’s number. He messaged her a simple “Hi!”.
“Heyllo!”
“How are you Pallavi ? I was waiting for your reply that day, but you didn’t reply. I thought to meet you on the last exam, but your exams were over before mine.”
“& I was waiting for your message, how do you expect a girl to reply on such a message ? you could have sent one more message after that, or would have called me instead”
Rohit called, “Heyllo”
“Heyllo”, a very sweet voice responded on the other side.
“Hi Pallavi, how are you ?”
“How many times you will ask the same question ? you asked the same thing in your message too.” She laughed, “by the way, I am fine, hows you ?”
Rohit was on the cloud 9, “you didn’t reply in the message, that’s why I asked again. By the way, I am fine too.”
“So tell me, what do you want ?”
Rohit was not expecting this question, he was confused. “I, I Love You Pallavi”
“WHAT ?!?!?!?!?!”
“Hey listen, please don’t hang the phone, actually I don’t know how to make stories & all. I am just being myself & coming to the point”
“See Rohit, you cannot judge anyone with few text messages & one phone call”
“You have seen me, infact you know me”
“Excuse me ? When ? Where ? How ?”
“I am the person, who use to come to your boss for his Credit Card problems. If you remember, we had a cup of tea together in your office only.”
“umm.. Rohit Malhotra ? from ICICI Bank ?”
“Yes! Its me.”
“ooOOOooooOOo, hey how did you get my number ?”
“Please don’t ask me that, I don’t want anyone to be beaten up by you.”
She laughed, “don’t worry, I wont screw him / her.”
They had a talk for one hour approx on that day.
& the series of calls & messages started. By the starting of winter 2004, they were good friends. Yeah I mean it “JUST GOOD FRIENDS”.
(Disclaimer: Any name, place or event in the story does not have any relation with anyone living or dead. Anything like that is purely coincidental.)
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this is believable so far, waiting for the next chapter
it will come soon, wait & watch this space.
Hmmm. Nice. Real. Waiting for d next installment so keep it coming.
thanxx.
it will be on soon.
lol dude …
rohit and pallavi ?!
i mean wtf ?
pick another name , not mine
haha, btw im impressed, keep them coming, you can publish them later on..
‘The Different Phases of Life’ by Manpreet Bedi !
ROFL, saale apne naam pe taqleef hui ? pallavi ke naam pe nahin ?
Read the disclaimer at the end dude.
(Disclaimer: Any name, place or event in the story does not have any relation with anyone living or dead. Anything like that is purely coincidental.)
Frankly, i didnt find any other suitable names, rather than these two.
Dono naam pe takleef hai . . Rohit and pallavi doesnt gel well :p
dude,i still have that #badmashi irc logs.
publish karoon kya ?
Nicely written waiting for the next chapter
thanxx bro.
will be up soon.
Man! This is so so sweet. When is he next chapter coming? Please make it as fast as possible. Very well written
Nice starting and good topic..looking forward to your nest chapter. hope its turns to be different and interesting write up of love!:-)
Kahaani main abhi twist aayega, not very soon, but aayega.
*unexpected twist*
Good..very near to reality. But what next..i am waitin : )
“the always friends” phase is hard for sure.. lets c wht happens next.. Nicely put
i like the thought process…. you have held my attention..and sure waiting for your next …
writing is like a stream … let it flow ….. please do not stop it ….
good luck
Nwaz
Nice giong buddy… Nice starting…
Waise yeh problem pehle se hai ya phir abhi abhi stock market mein loss khake aayi hai?
Will be watching all your posts to see the “unexpected turn”… Waise I know it
lol, iss problem ka stock market se koi connection nahin hai bhai.
you can check my previous blog for my old creations.
& by the way, you just know the 1% of the said “UnexpectedTwist”
& that also will come in 3rd or 4th chapter.
so till then enjoy.
Guys, I’m available @varun_mahajan on twitter.
P.S. To know the “unexpected twist….”
2nd P.S. for Manpreet : Pls let this post publish
Nicely begun.. though a little suggestion, avoid words like sumhow and sumwhere and write the whole thing.. helps in keeping the focus correct and keeps sms lingo away..
And I hope there is a twist in the tale somewhere..
Cheers!
twitter.com/Tantanoo
Really beautiful……waiting for the following chapters.
that is really sweeet!! very well started
so wat next???
m waiting:)
nice..quite realistic!!
Nice one.. got time to read it now.. but waitin for next part..
Keep writing
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it was nice …seems that Rohit is doing time pass with Pallavi…in chapter1 …..but question is will pallavi be his time pass for life time?LOL…..for that answer i have to read..its next chapters….gud going dude!….Thumps up!
a very good read i must say…the part II has come as well…i just need to find some time out to go thru it as well… great job…keep it up….
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