“Where the hell were you guys?”
Santosh yelled at me as I entered his study room followed by Suthi.
“Traffic jam” I said grinning at
him.
“What traffic jam in this town?” he
asked.
“What question is that? There was
traffic jam and we got stuck in it” Suthi snarled back at Santosh.
“That’s what I am asking you geniuses.
What kind of traffic jam was there in this town and where was that, that got
you both exactly half an hour late? Leave alone traffic jam, even if there was
full traffic on the way to my home, you guys should have reached thirty minutes
back” Santosh said, now a bit angrily to Suthi.
“Dude! So what? We got late now.
Why are you getting angry for that?” I asked taking my seat on his bed.
“Rascals, in two days we have our
Semester Exams and I am waiting for you guys sitting tensed here and you both
come happily thirty minutes late and ask me why angry? I am tensed like hell!”
Santosh said, still standing and looking at both of us who had already seated
ourselves comfortably on his bed.
“Even we are tensed. That’s why
we have come here to read. Now don’t waste time standing like that. Let’s start
studying” Suthi said pushing a chair at him.
“Shut up. You came late and now
are telling me not to waste time?” Santosh yelled at him.
“Okay. Calm down. We agree we
came late. But you should have studied in that half hour. Who told you to sit
here looking out of this window waiting for us as though we were your
girlfriend?” I asked, spreading my legs making myself a bit more comfortable.
“Yes exactly. You could have
utilized those precious 1800 seconds and studied more without our disturbance”
Suthi said.
I wondered why and more importantly how in the
hell he did that fast conversion of minutes to seconds and took a moment to
check if his conversion was correct; surprisingly it was!
“Its waste arguing with you guys.
I did study those thirty minutes and dint waste them” Santosh said.
“Then why are you moaning?” I
asked.
“Who is moaning? I just asked why
late? I wanted to know the reason that got you both late here else I have no
complaints about you both coming late. It’s absolutely fine at whatever time
you come”
“Then tell that you want to know
where were we that got us a bit late here”
“That was my first question dude”
Santosh replied and I could notice a hint of impatience in his tone.
“Both of you please stop talking.
I am here to study not to while away my time” Suthi said.
“Yes, just forget what I asked. Let’s
start studying” Santosh said, calmed down a bit.
I checked my watch and saw the
time was already 7:45 PM. Quickly I opened one of the scariest books I had ever
seen in my life – Signals and Systems.
I could have sat the whole night all alone in a remote house full of spider
webs and creepy noises and could complete a horror book with my heart skipping
few beats at moments; but my heart stopped beating even in broad daylight
amidst the whole town whenever I opened this text book.
“Man who invented this subject” I
whined.
“Seriously dude, whatever page I
am opening I see blank pages coz all the pages seem same to me and none of the
word makes sense” Suthi said.
“I have been reading since noon
and have completed only ten pages yet. That too has not made its way in my
brain” Santosh continued.
“Okay as decided lets divide the
chapters among ourselves and start studying seriously” Suthi said sitting
straight.
“If we get that serious we would
need ambulance” I said smiling.
“You and your disgusting PJ”
Suthi hit back.
“What’s the abbreviation of PJ?”
Santosh asked.
“Parallel Joke” I said.
“No it’s actually Pantophobia
Joke” Suthi said.
“Now what the hell is
Pantophobia? A phobia of pants?” Santosh asked.
Finally after a long discussion
on PJs and Pantophobia; when we came to a conclusion that neither PJ meant what
we had said nor Pantophobia meant fear of pants; it was already 8:20 PM. We
decided to be serious and opened that dreadful book again and turned pages to
get to the chapters we had decided to read.
“Dude, this is cheating. You both
gave me the toughest chapter to read. I cannot read this. Not even a single
line is getting into my head” Suthi yelled disgustingly as I saw the time and
it was already 8:22 PM. Good God, he had atleast put his head down for two complete
minutes.
“Just read whatever you want to
read except for the chapter that we are reading” I said.
“But those two are the easiest
ones” he said.
“Okay then you take mine. I will
check some other chapter” Santosh said.
Again a pact was made and with
the exchanged chapters we bent down our heads staring at the book, again.
I had hardly read the first page
of the chapter that I was reading and had hardly understood three words of it
when I felt my throat dry up and coughed. Looking up I checked for the water
bottle beside the desktop and saw it was empty.
“Dude, please get me some water”
I asked Santosh as I coughed few more times.
“I told you that Chat was already
spicy but you insisted on getting more chat masala to be added” Suthi said.
“You guys had chat on the way? That’s
what your traffic jam was! Shameless!” Santosh said.
“Yes that’s where we got late.
Now what? Get me water quickly” I said.
“You could have called me also. I
would have joined you both” Santosh said.
“It was not planned. We just saw
it on our way and couldn’t control” I replied.
“Whatever. You both are traitors!”
Santosh said and walked out of the room.
While he was out, Suthi got up
from the bed and went over to the desktop and switched it on. It was on
hibernate and once switched on completely, the NFS folder came up. Quickly
clicking on it without waiting another second he started a game of NFS. He was
just in his final lap when Santosh entered the room and looked at the desktop
screen with his eyes wide open.
“Does he know that we have
Signals and Systems exam in just 2 days?” Santosh said looking at me as I took
the bottle of water from his hands.
“That’s what I told him but he
says one game will refresh his mind and then he can concentrate” I said after
gulping down some water quickly.
“It’s already 9 PM” Santosh said
looking at the wall clock that hung right above the desktop.
“Oh man! We already wasted two hours” I said and slapped on the back of Suthi which hit him a little more hard
than I had expected and in turn his fingers slipped from the keys and he almost
lost the match that he was about to win.
“Rascal you spoiled my match” he
said turning me.
“Haha if you lost don’t blame him”
Santosh said taking the water bottle from hand and drinking water from it.
“I was about to win. Don’t challenge
me” Suthi replied.
“Okay, now I am challenging you.
Come on let’s play and check who wins” Santosh said.
“You guys don’t want to read?” I
asked.
“You just keep quiet, you never
won this game and are afraid of playing it” Suthi said.
“Yes, you can keep reading while
we will play one-one game” Santosh added.
“What the hell! I will also play
now and will see who wins” I said, folding the book and pushing it aside.
We started a NFS series with
Suthi playing first followed by Santosh and then me. After a lot of hassle and confusion
and cries and yells the NFS challenge completed.
“Now you agree you are not champ?”
Santosh asked Suthi who was just giving out few excuses on why he couldn’t top
among us.
Again finally, when we looked at
the wall clock it was 9:40 PM.
“Its already time. Now what shall
we do?” Suthi asked.
“What will we do? We can’t study
everything in another twenty minutes. Let’s go home and study” I said.
“Yes right. We know we spend up
the time like this when we meet for group studies but still we meet up” he
said.
“Right, we never get serious”
Santosh added.
“That’s good guys, because if we get
serious we will have to call ambulance” I said with a grin.
“Stop your useless PJ” Suthi said
as Santosh threw the pen he was holding at me.
The rest few minutes went in
discussing about another PJ that was cracked few days back in college and then
discussing about planning a film after the exams.
Again finally, when we were out
of Santosh’s home ready to depart I looked at my watch; it was 10:15 PM and the
group studies had ended…
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Vishal…
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