"Didi five rupees only."
As I scrounge my pocket for the only five rupee coin I have, I watch them walking towards the kadai.*
I wouldn't call them my closest friends, let alone best buddies.
They're two people in my friend zone who come with no emotional entanglement, no long facebook chat messages, no erratic phone calls at 12 in the night post depression.
They probably wont stay after the completion of the four years in college and even if they do, our pragmatic relationship will not be touched.
We sit down on the pavement together, all three of us looking at the noisy girls smoking across the road.
The crowd is chaotic as though they were on their way to a U2 concert and got lost midway.
I find it almost funny that the three of us sit there in silence amidst them and let out a giggle.
Lost in their thought, the other two don't notice and I don't mention. I let my mind wander off to search for topics to write my research essay on.
Fifteen minutes pass and the crowd seems to have dissipated to a tiny number.
Suddenly, all of us look at each other and realize the same thing.
"Wow, we forgot to speak at all today."
"Yeah let's go back to class. I was thinking I'll do my research essay on Bose. I can't find anything on that alien topic."
I don't remember the rest of the day as distinctly but that day I decided that these two came a step closer in the friend zone and had graduated from being just beer buddies to maybe, better beer buddies.
Theory #58: How to tell the exact moment someone graduates in your friend zone from being a mere buddy to a mere buddy +1. (Constants g=9.8 m/s^2)
The day awkward silences stop being awkward.
P.S: Meet Sheep. He's here to stay and stay happy at that.
*Kadai: Tiny roadside cart shop that sells chai and bun omlettes for students dealing with bankruptcy.
As I scrounge my pocket for the only five rupee coin I have, I watch them walking towards the kadai.*
I wouldn't call them my closest friends, let alone best buddies.
They're two people in my friend zone who come with no emotional entanglement, no long facebook chat messages, no erratic phone calls at 12 in the night post depression.
They probably wont stay after the completion of the four years in college and even if they do, our pragmatic relationship will not be touched.
We sit down on the pavement together, all three of us looking at the noisy girls smoking across the road.
The crowd is chaotic as though they were on their way to a U2 concert and got lost midway.
I find it almost funny that the three of us sit there in silence amidst them and let out a giggle.
Lost in their thought, the other two don't notice and I don't mention. I let my mind wander off to search for topics to write my research essay on.
Fifteen minutes pass and the crowd seems to have dissipated to a tiny number.
Suddenly, all of us look at each other and realize the same thing.
"Wow, we forgot to speak at all today."
"Yeah let's go back to class. I was thinking I'll do my research essay on Bose. I can't find anything on that alien topic."
I don't remember the rest of the day as distinctly but that day I decided that these two came a step closer in the friend zone and had graduated from being just beer buddies to maybe, better beer buddies.
Theory #58: How to tell the exact moment someone graduates in your friend zone from being a mere buddy to a mere buddy +1. (Constants g=9.8 m/s^2)
The day awkward silences stop being awkward.
P.S: Meet Sheep. He's here to stay and stay happy at that.
*Kadai: Tiny roadside cart shop that sells chai and bun omlettes for students dealing with bankruptcy.
3 comments:
I LOVE!!!:)
"When awkward silences are not awkward anymore."
Simply love that line.
And I like sheep. :)
Someone once told me that your best friends are those who you are most comfortable with in absolute silence
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