P.S: Quotes unquoted...
Day 1: May 27th 2012.
MiB or MI? When Men-In-Black seemed like Mission Impossible.
When I thought I'll set right a li'l big mess with MIB-3, and make an exit from Manipal (and from among them...) for the time-being.
~0730 Hrs : A walk down to Udupi and from there, towards Malpe for no reason.
~1130 Hrs : Walk back from Malpe unable to enjoy myself. It was here that I'd decided. The li'l big mess ought to be set right. Phone rings...
'Hello!'
'Hi, free?'
'errmm, we're not in town right now... ad-hoc plans.' (and I learn that the plans are MIB-3...)
'Oh! fine. Enjoy.'
~1630 Hrs : Back to Udupi to blow up ten grands, and nobody knows why or what it was. The loneliness and the "good-bad" argument in my head have driven me insane. A moment's decision was all it was... maybe it was a thought of dying out of exhaustion on the way that made me do it...
~1730 Hrs : Still not all right, and my plans to leave early next morning are seeming to vanish into thin air. Phone rings again...
'Dude, what time do you think you'll be back?'
'Not sure., but surely not before 9.'
Damn! shouts my head, and another split moment decision... plans of leaving postponed by another day. And in the meanwhile, a few pending jobs *though unimportant, could be completed.
~2030, I get an SMS... 'Hey, won't have to stay here anymore and again.'
~2130 : 'Hey, just got down at TC. catch up after a few min for dinner..." and I message back saying "okay...'
finally, about an hour later, I just get enough time to meet up and say 'Congrats, and hope you had good fun. Thought I'll be leaving tomorrow morning. Your treat shall be pending. Hope to see ya again...'
'Yeah. How about treat at KC? Breakfast on me.'
'Maybe... okay.'
The conscious lie about leaving next day morning isn't leaving me comfortable. So I SMS again 'I'll be staying back the next day for some last minute work. Treat need not be at breakfast... take your time at waking up... need not wake up all so early to bid farewell...'
'Okies...' I get a reply, and that was the last one.
Day 2... next time...
