Reunion

It was really a special day, after all we were meeting after 8 years since I finished

my schooling. The school days was the time, when we couldn't spend a single day

without seeing each other. We would go to each other's house for no reason and pass

time! We would prank with our classmates and wouldn’t even get caught. In last 8 years

a single phone call was the only medium to chat for us. Initially, there were lot of

phone calls made by us, which with time started lessening. Of course, everybody is so

busy with one's daily chores. And now, after 8 years, our love and desperation

reached at the top of the graph, and we decided to meet finally. I was excited like

anything.

There are three of them, who were a part of my life. So in all we were a group of four

girls. We are together since standard 5th, though in different divisions. I was

always a B-division-girl. Our places were not so far from each others'. So it made

easy for us to go each others' home for notes, TP etc. The school timings were from

12.30 in afternoon to 5.30 in evening. It was always an easy option to reach school

in 5-10 minutes’ walk. But probably, my friends never tried that one. They used to gather

simultaneously and reach at my place at around 12.05 p.m. Daily they used to come and

find me getting my hair tied up by my mom. Of course, they used to get furious about

this, but they never stopped coming at my door, just to pick me up. We used to get 15

minutes break at around 3.00 o clock. These 15 minutes were the time we used to gossip and

copy notes if any. Again, after 5.30 we used to gather at main gate of the school and

get our homes!

Not to mention, we had joined the private tuitions at same coaching classes. There

too, we used to sit together and learn. Of course learning was quite boring term

then, we actually used to pass comments on the professor's shirt or hairstyle. Yeah

.. we didn’t spare the professors since then. We used to kid with everybody in the

class, and get on their nerves. But nobody could go against us because: we were the

ones to provide them perfect notes, get highest marks in the exams, no matter

whatever the subject may be, We were the most obedient students in our teachers'

eyes. So of course, they had to endure with us.

The days were passing like seconds, and soon we completed our SSC with flying colors.

Me and one from our group shifted to some other places. Everybody chose a different

career path and different place to live. Of course nobody had a choice then, had to

listen to what our parents had to say. The long lasting smell of our friendship was

lessening day by day. My heart used try to reach them by messages and calls. Which of

course didn't work much. Plans of get together were failing because of some or the

other reason. My hopes of reunion were losing.

And finally the day came, my best friend's birthday 24th Sept. I called her for

wishing her on this very lucky day. While chatting, I tried giving her hint, that we

should meet, and she agreed too. That’s it.. calls and messages were at their best and

finally we decided to meet on Sunday morning.

We met, we shopped and we enjoyed it! Bought a nice pair of clothes as a gift to our

friend's 1 year old son. We had lot of gossip. Time was passing at a speed of rocket.

Soon we left for our homes with heavy heart. I got into local train with my face

smiling and my heart singing!