summertym summarised!!

Id written this thing last summer actually…so it’s a good deal condescending and mean at places…n immature...bt guess its honest…just felt it shud be here…
Here goes….



It was the fourth day that week that I had got up in a pool of sweat thanks to the continuous power cuts. To add to the discomfort, my brother had opened the windows and drawn the curtains to tempt in an elusive breeze so that I could sleep in peace. It was done I suppose with good intentions. But considering that the sun was on my face and the breeze was a loo, I overlooked his generosity and started the morning with a fiery row with my sibling. Further arguments followed in the breakfast table over who's turn it was to butter the toast and the next thing I know everyone was screaming at everyone else.
One week of summer vacation, one week of being cooped up at home with each other had clearly tired us of our company .
Desperate to get away from here I decided that I would indeed go to the physics class that I had decided to bunk earlier hell even the prospect of a test was better than this‼. So off I went to Jadavpur, thoroughly unprepared for a test that S.B Sir had warned us was to be of high difficulty level.
‘’Oooh sir‼! IIT level??’’..had been the unanimous reaction from the muggers. Dork solidarity I had mumbled!
I scored accordingly.True,I didn't get minus 2 like some people, but I didn't get the highest of 114 or anything close to that either.
I wasn't too disappointed or anything. Obviously. But when the marks were being called out the brilliant (only academically, mind you) girls at the front started sniggering at my score. Now these people I feel are really dim. 130 IQs all of them I bet. I mean, come on, what kind of a teenager is part of a "Wannabe Engineers" community in Orkut? So usually I pity them.
But this was too much!
What had I to do but point out that most of them had whiskers and had to memorize conversations in order to seem even remotely human to the public. That got the glares and the laughter I had intended it to get. Still I guess it was a mean thing to do and God punished me by keeping me standing in the sun for half an hour before I got my bus.
He always remembers the punishments..never the prizes. Did mum ever have a sibling that she d lost when she went to Kumbhmela as a kid? This could be him!
But then I wondered. .. where was I going back? Home? You mean that place where the worst tempered people live? No way I decided. I had allowed them to boss me enough to last me a lifetime in the last few days. But not today .
Today I was going to have some fun.I was not going back home so early.
I called up a friend who had a few days earlier tried to set me up on a blind date with his friend.Was the guy still interested? Could he make it to CityCentre? Now?
Various degrees of joblessness. He was and he could.
I should have taken the eagerness as a sign of desperation. But the fool that I am...
So we met at CC and having bought ourselves some Tropical Sno (Emmagod…25 bucks for one cup of snow?) sat down on the steps.
Here I had a good look of him. He somewhat resembled a mouse with big ears and a squeaky voice.I was just wondering if he'd be scared if I said "Meaow" when he said in this supremely imperious voice,
"Tell me about yourself."
I blah blahed on for a while thinking if this was a job interview. Once I had shut up there was a silence. It was after a few seconds that I realized I was expected to ask back the same questions.
I did.
"What to say? When-Im-good-Im-good-when-Im-bad-Im-better "he said. Or did he actually recite it?
"That sounds interesting".(Could you have been more cliched?)
"I think we shall be good friends."
"I feel the same" (You?and I?LOL)
"Arent you glad we met?"
I tried to smile but bared my fangs in the deal instead. He wasnt scared.
And thus went the conversation, interspersed with painfully awkward gaps. I wasnt being too helpful really! The heat, the lethargy and the lack of motives overpowered me.
Slowly the steps began to fill up with couples looking abstract with happiness. And here I was stuck with Jerry mouse. My only source of a rather vindictive pleasure was when now and then a model looking girl walked down the steps through the crowd making the male part gawk and the female sulk and make their evening as bad as mine in the fights that ensued.
But then this really gorgeous girl walked past in a white chifffon dress. God she was so thin !! The Dark Desire in my hand grew tasteless and I threw it away.regretted it moments later.
Maybe Jerry wouldn’t have been too shocked at his date rummaging the bin. Rats do that.
I turned to back to him with a sigh, wishing that I would get anorexia now and wishing he would say goodbye. But he was goin on and on about this particularly prickly bangla band. Personally I think their drummer sounds like a dhobi with his washing..but who listened??
I was just considering going down for an icecream and not coming back when I struck a better idea.
There was this strange lady coming up the steps.
"Mom", I jumped, “Sorry. I gotta go. She’ll kill me if she sees me here"
A hasty goodbye and I scampered down the steps. A free chicken!
"Hey when do we meet again?" he shouted
"Can’t you guess?" and I was away.
I returned home mentally abusing my friend all the way for setting me up with this guy. Then the rickshaw demanded 50 bucks. Total rip-off. But I was too frustrated to care really.
Back home the AC had started working again. It had cooled people down, it seemed because as I sank into the bed after my long long looong day, bro came up with a bowl of fruits. Maybe he needs money, I guessed as I took a mouthful.
I gasped.
"Three hundred", bro said softly.
‘Middle pocket. Third chain.’’ I handed him the tote and dug in.
This was so much better than the fun I had been searching for all day out in the scorching sun. And these had been on the topshelf of the refrigerator all this while.
The blesssing of summer……Mangoes.
Nirvana.