Geriatrix (To us!)

Drippy cielings inadvertently make me dreamy, sleepy and to the extent of miniscule water droplets that fall at the thankfully expected speed of two drops a minute; wet. Like this morning i found myself standing next to Abhay
(feeling up a tree. Him. Not me.) on the first day of TTDSVD (Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanamas Shri Venkateshwara College). Neetika wasn't far behind and looked almost other-wordly in her two pig tails. (Right, I just hope she never reads this, it shall forever
blight my insatiable capacity to exaggerate.) But I distinctly remember that they were pig tails!
Though my typing speed needs much to blot from a certain someone and Ms. Mizfit, I might just be caught in the middle of writing this highly inaccurate account of 'apna,' (and I shall never hear the
end of this, singger) Venky. So your seventeen and its your first day at College. The reader
must excuse me for zipping the mass pleasing details of sophomore deleria and fresher
muddlement (read ragging).

This is way better. Delhi University, reknowned for the diverse fauna that
inhabit the various crevices, garden hedges, humour-deprived passages asperesed with
everything but the traditional nomenclature of 'lovers lane,' is still home. Right. Fast Forward.
There he is again. Abhay feeling up the tree. He was the only one who was left un-ragged.
Not for any particular reason. He was just too busy feeling up the tree while the rest of us
were reduced to chicken racing, eunuch impersonations and birth control measures. So while
the four of us (Neetika, Vrinda, Pallavi and yours audaciously) were signing the air with our
rear-ends, Abhay was well, feeling up the tree. I have got to stop saying that. Episodic memory.
It's killer. Did I just say that?

FF. Neetika playing with her pig-tails. It isn't fair, while the rest of us have now started to
succumb to the blight of old age and have reconciled to the same. Neetika no longer has pigtails.
She got her hair re-bonded. Not to the forget the transition from 'fabindia' to 'prada,'
So she was the third man just as someone suggested the utter brilliance of defining frandly
relations in 'dil chahta hai' style. Not that she liked being acosted thus, but she never really had a choice. One of us was a tree toucher, the other a specky chap who could never be convinced to be less enamoured with his newly developed musculature (which has disappeared now sadly,
laugh O entrail of a chameleon, laugh!) and the third had a pig- tail. The others were for some strange reason, normal.

FF. 'Kents,' 'Satya Niketan': Deep etheral voice: 'We must communicate with the environment.' What the hell are three 'into each other' peeps supposed to make of that? We did communicate actually and it didn't turn out to be that bad. And with a sudden urge to end all this (read account of abhay, neetika and I); everytime I think of the only relationships that have not been, shaky, it has to be these. And like most good things which have this feral animosity towards being constructive and generally burgeoning, these would round off to a quarter of a mile (which is around seven on a scale of ten, bloody good really).