On 13^th morn­ing at around 6’o’ clock the bus came we loaded our lug­gage every­body had come except for Dhruv. It was a sur­prise for Khushi we all had planned.

Khushi was sad and sit­ting in the bus. Dhruv came slowly out of Khushi’s view. He came from behind and cov­ered Khushi’s eyes.

“Who is it Khushi?” I asked her.

“May be Ajay.”

“Who?” Dhruv let go his hand and came in front of her.

“Oh its you, I thought it was him.”

“Who’s he?”

“My first boyfriend.”

“What?” Dhruv could not con­trol his anger.

“I was just jok­ing.” Khushi said laugh­ing.” I caught you by sur­prise didn’t I.”

“I won’t talk to you.” Dhruv said. Khushi hugged him. That was the end of the fight.

Every­body got into the bus. Diya and I sat together so did, Khushi and Dhruv and the hot new pair of Sahil and Riya.

The bus took off. In the begin­ning there was shout­ing and hoot­ing. Then we played antak­shari for some time. Then there was a lot of leg pulling going on. Sahil and Riya were the main attrac­tion for it. We were enjoy­ing our­selves. After some time every­body got tired and we just sat. Diya and I sat together and were talking.

“Raj isn’t it lovely.”

“Yes, I wish this jour­ney will never end. And the time remains still.”

“I wish that too.”

“How is the new pair.”

“Enjoy­ing every moment. Try­ing to make the few moments they have as mem­o­rable and sweet as possible.”

“Yes I also never for­get the things you say.”

“Yes these are the moments we live on.”

“Raj what if we don’t get mar­ried. Or if I Die.”

“Don’t talk like that noth­ing will hap­pen to you. Absolutely noth­ing.” I said with anger and went to a cor­ner. She came and sat next to me put her head on my shoulder.

“Raj I am sorry.”

“Never ever say some­thing like that again.”

“I promise I won’t” I had tears in my eyes. I wiped them off.” If any­thing hap­pens to you then…..”

“Then.”

“I will also die.”

“I told I am sorry.” She hugged me.

“Well, I am feel­ing hungry”

“Me too.”

“Lets ask oth­ers.” I asked.” So guys feel­ing hungry.”

“Yes” every­body echoed. We stopped the bus at a road­side mid­way restaurant.

We refreshed our­selves. Boy it was tir­ing. After hav­ing lunch we moved again. Now every­body was eager to hear how Rajeev and Ritu Bhabhi had met. We all gath­ered around them.

“Well we were in school. May be in the 12^th grade. Your Bhabhi had come to stay in our build­ing. We used to meet every­day. Then at a friends party I pro­posed to her. At first she said no. Then after send­ing her a lot of flow­ers and let­ters did she say yes. It was dur­ing this that you all had helped. I owe it to you peo­ple.” We all felt proud of our­selves.” Then like many Hindi film there was oppo­si­tion from her par­ents but later they too agreed. We had a happy wed­ding.” Bhabhi held his hand. She was beautiful.

Then one by one, we all told our story. First it was my turn. Then it was Khushi and Dhruv. Then Sahil and Riya. We all told our story. While talk­ing we didn’t realise how quickly time had passed and that we were about to reach Puri. It was around 9 pm. It had been so wonderful.

The resort was so nice it had a swim­ming pool. Ten­nis court , health club, a library. a beach was attached to it. We had booked Cot­tages. Each cot­tage had four rooms. Very nicely dec­o­rated. We all occu­pied our rooms. Rajeev and Ritu went to their room. Rohit and myself took one room. Karan and Deepak the other. Dhruv and Manav the next in our block. Sahil and Aakash the next.

The girls were in a sep­a­rate cot­tage. Diya and Nisha took one. Riya and Puja the other. Sak­shi, Khushi and Muskan were in the other. We had our din­ner then we went for a walk on the beach.

It was a beau­ti­ful moon­lit night. Sahil and Riya walked away from the group. The rest were walk­ing in a group. Diya and I decided to sit at the beach. Rohit and Nisha also Sat with us. We found a spot then Diya sat and I kept my head on Diya’s lap. Diya moved her hand in my hair. Aha it felt so lovely. Rohit and Nisha giggled.

“Why are you both gig­gling.” I said.

“Don’t worry your turn would also come then you would know how roman­tic it is.” Diya said. They couldn’t stop gig­gling. Then I looked at Nisha and said.

“Nisha didn’t you have a boyfriend.” I asked.

“No. Never.”

“A girl like you never got a pro­posal. You must be kid­ding us.”

“Yes I did but none inter­ested me.”

“What kind of a guy you want?” Rohit asked.

“Well he should be smart, good look­ing, intel­li­gent, above all caring.”

“Well I fit the descrip­tion very well.” I said jokingly.

“Yeah but what to do you are already booked.”

“Yeah too bad.” I said.” Well I can leave Diya if you want.” Diya hit me. “Just kidding.”

“Rohit how is your dream girl?” Diya asked.

“Noth­ing special.”

“But you must have got a girl in mind.” Diya asked again.

“Well I just want sim­plic­ity in the girl. She should be down to earth, lov­ing and caring.”

“Well hope you get her soon.” Nisha said.

“Yes we hope too.” Diya said.

“Well guys when you both find your love we all will go together. It will be fun.” I added.

“Sure.” Rohit said.

Diya and myself left as we were tired. Rohit and Nisha sat for some more time.

“Nisha aren’t they a lovely pair.”

“Yes they are. Raj is so sweet I haven’t seen many peo­ple who care for oth­ers as he does.”

“Yes although he is a bit jovial he is very car­ing and nice at heart.”

“I wish I find some­one as car­ing as he is.”

“You will.”

“Rohit didn’t you ever had a girlfriend.”

“Yes. You are there.”

“No I meant some­one special.”

“No.”

“Hid­ing something.”

“No why should I.”

“Yes you are.”

“Well actu­ally I had a friend in class 10 her name was Tina. I had a crush on her. Then when we reached 11^th she left school to join another. Then we never met.”

“You didn’t say any­thing to her.”

“No, I was a bit scared. Besides she loved some­body else.”

“Well I am sorry.”

“No why should you be. It hap­pens, not every­body get the per­son they love.”

“You still love her don’t you,”

“No not really. But yes I remem­ber her occa­sion­ally. As I told she was just a crush.”

“So there is scope for some­one else.”

“Yes there is.”

“Any­body right now.”

“No. just search­ing for one.”

“Lets go every­body has left.” Nisha said.

“Okay.”

Rohit came. He told me what they were talk­ing about.

“She is a nice girl.” Rohit said.

“Yes. She is.” I said putting the lights off.” Are you in love with her Rohit.”

“What rub­bish.”

“No seri­ously are you.”

“No. She is a nice girl. A good friend that’s it.”

“Well I am telling you. You won’t realise and you would be in love.”

“Good­night Raj.”

“Good­night.”