I remember the date well: 5 March 2010. I was in Delhi and about
to reach Ruby’s home. I had been very excited all morning as I
was going to see our gang of five after three years. After our
engineering, this was the first time when all of us – Lucky, Ruby,
Happy, Sandeep, and I – was going to be together. During our first
year in the hostel, Ruby and I were in different rooms on the
fourth floor of the Block-A building. Being on the same floor, we
were acquaintances but I never wanted to interact with her. I didn’t
think her to be ‘a good girl’ because of his fondness for fights and
the red on his mark sheet. But, unfortunately, I was late in getting
back to the hostel at the beginning of the second year and almost
all the rooms were already allotted by then. I was not left with any
choice other than becoming Ruby’s roommate. And because life is
weird, things changed dramatically and, soon. We became the best
of buddies. The day our reunion was scheduled, she had been
working with TCS for two years and was enjoying his onsite
project in London. Ruby was blessed with a height of 5’7”, a good physique and stunning looks. She was brilliant, but because of her
crazy nature, no one used to talk to her in college. She always had
a plan to fix every problem. She was so self-Confident and she
never found any fault in her. For me surviving without her in
Engineering College was though. And Lucky, Happy, and Sandeep
they were roommates since the first year in college. They turned
into best buddies in the first year itself. They already had a good
understanding of them. Happy was the same as his name sounds
life A very happy and innocent person. He was the tallest among
us. Sandeep was like a big bang theory, so difficult to understand.
He was too disciplined and always kept himself prepared for all
the assignments and in exams. And Lucky was a Standup
Comedian, he always keeps around him laughing. And Lucky was
always happy, because of the hot girls near him. Sandeep, or
Sannu as we called him, is short-statured, fair, and healthy. The
reason I use the word ‘healthy’ is because he will kill me if I use
the proper word-‘fat’-for him. He was the first among boys hostel
to get a Mac-book in the hostel and his machine was home to
countless computer games. This was the very reason Happy and
Lucky wanted to be friends with him. Sannu was quite studious.
He had even cracked the Maths Olympiad in his school days and
was always boasting about it. His native place was Jaipur but, at
the time of this reunion, he was working with Ocwen in
Bangalore. Lucky has been baptized ‘Krishna’ by Sannu. Because
of the girls around him. Lucky was so Lucky in everything. We all
became friends in the second year. I and Ruby was in the same
class, Sandeep was in IT section and Lucky and Happy was in
Electrical branch. We meet each other in the nearest bar, where
Lucky was puking and Sandeep and Happy were making him
stable. Ruby helped him with giving some tissues and lemon to him. Somehow we managed to make him stable. Later, Lucky
made all of the laughs with his jokes. We made fun of happy for
his low capacity.
The only mysterious thing about Sandeep was that he used to go somewhere on his bicycle, every Sunday. He never told us where he went. Whenever we tried to follow him, somehow he would know and would digress from his path to shake us off Even today, none of us knows anything about it. Our bold became strong each day and in the third year, we all turned into best friends.
We all were going to meet each other after three years. We all
decided to meet in Delhi. So, I decided to go and meet Ruby first.
And I directly went to Ruby house first. Ruby was coming from
Europe that day. So, I thought to surprise with my presence in her
house. I knocked on the door and Ruby’s mom opened the door.
She loved me more than she loved Ruby for her I was her second
daughter and she was so sweet. Because Ruby’s mom thinks that I’m so sincere daughter and my parents are too lucky to have. She started crying seeing me and she hugged me tightly. She made me comfortable in the house and also prepared my favorite snacks. Ruby was about to arrive and I was waiting for the doorbell to ring. After having snacks and talking to aunty 2 hours passed and Ruby still didn’t arrive. Aunty went into the kitchen back for making dinner. I started playing games on my phone. And the
doorbell rings. Aunty runs towards the door and opens the door.
Ruby was in front of her eyes. Her heart gets melted and she
started crying again. Ruby hugged her mom and when she saw me
she was in total shock. She started screaming for not telling her
that I was here. She was so happy to see me. We hugged each
other and talked for a while. Ruby went into the room and
changed her clothes. And dinner was also arranged on the dining table. The food was so appetizing. We went back to Ruby’s room.
Talking about our Past and Present. About those not-so-good-
looking girls in college. About our experiences abroad and many
other things.
And we were so excited about meeting Lucky, Sannu, Happy.