Mirrors and Me

This story is a continuation from here.

6:15 PM, 22 Mar’08

” What I’ve got you’ve got to give it to your mamma, What I’ve got you’ve got to give it to your pappa……. Give it away! Give it away! Give it away, now!”, RHCP is screaming out of my speakers at full volume to the ire of my brother. I cant hear a thing because the rock sound completely made me deaf to all other sounds. Suddenly, my bro slamed the door open and screamed ” Your phone is ringing!”.

Rakesh, over phone “arey! We are at the gate of your apartment. Viswa, Dinesh, Jeethu and I. Come down!”. I raced down with my cell still in my hand, joined them and started chatting. Viswa, surreptitiously came from my back and in an instant, my cheeks and neck are powdery. Dinesh , jeethu, rakesh joined the party to spoil my hair,too. Finally, they all screamed “Happy Holi bava!”. I throwed a wry smile because thats the only thing I can do in that situation. Rakesh started the conversation saying that jeethu started it all by coming to their gym and colouring their faces. I asked “Whats the fking color you had on my face!”. Dinesh answered with a smile ” Its pink! “. I raced up the stairs, cleaned up my face and got down to head towards srinivas house.

6:45 PM, 22 Mar’08

Srinivas greeted us with a big smile, “Hi all!” and pointing towards me “I asked this ass to come to beach, this morning, to celebrate holi. Ahh! I enjoyed like hell.” leaves a sigh and finishes “Just now, I has a long bath and am fresh now!”. But, we are completely in another mood. ‘We are here to make you dirty, again’ screamed our evil brains, inside us. As, he came near me, I throwed a fist full of color on his face and others joined the routine. “Theja! you are a fking asshole! I called, in the morning, and you said – take lite! and now …shit!”. I sported a big grin unabashedly showing all my teeth. After settling down a bit “Ok! lets go to Rahul’s house!” said Rakesh with a wink. “Yea! lets go” answered Srinu and I. But Dinesh and viswanath has other plans for us.

Suddenly an egg splashed on my head! Before I could turn back and realise who made my hair stink, there’s jeethu and srinivas already messed up with the stuff which we generally use to make an omlette . Immediately, rakesh went into srinivas’ house and came out with 2 eggs. Its revenge time . I splashed one on the neck of dinesh and rakesh took care of viswanath. I went inside and cleaned up myself. But srinivas has one egg in his pocket and is slowly approaching me. I thought “This ass is up against me!”. So, I cried “Ass ! no more gimmicks. I know you ve an egg in your pants!”. The moment i said it, viswa just squeezed that egg in the pants( say pockets) of srinivas to make him more messy . Srinivas cried “You are a fking asshole! Why are so afraid ? I am not after you!”. I just replied “How the fk I can know that you are not after me when you are coming towards me with an egg up your pants? “. Everybody burst into a laughter and we headed towards rahul’s house only after jeethu emptied a bucket full of water over viswa.

7:30 PM, 22 Mar’08

I grabbed Viswa’s cell, entered Rahul’s number and hit the dail button. We are under this dark shade of a tree before his apartment. Dinesh and I started some conversation with him. In a minute, he’s down with us. This time, its srinivas, who took the initiative. He came towards rahul’s back and done the ritual of egg spalshing . Before Rahul could realise what really happened, his face is coloured by all of us. “You! You! You know that you belong to my fking project batch and I am your leader! You are finished! I will tell the project guide and he’ll rip ur ass off!” pointing towards srinivas. Srinivas, merrily laughing and was trying to reply. Finally he managed “Come on! It holi time” with a smirk on his face. Rahul derisively replied “Fk it!”

Now, we need more people, no just faces. Call it bakras. Viswa called Pavan and acted wonderfully. He convinced him to join us, at rahul’s house. Dinesh and Viswa are busy mixing colors with the egg yolk. Dinesh used some creative (or say stupid  , as Rahul puts it ) technique to pour colors into the egg yolk with out breaking it….waah! They are just about to finish it, Pavan entered and brought srikanth along with him! “Anyone is welcome here! More the faces, better the fun” we thought. Pavan managed to brake his kinetic, just before my parked splendor where viswa placed the egg. I thought “Oh! This guy would ve seen that! shit..a bit late” . But to my relief, pavan didnt notice anything and infact said ” Why are your faces like that?”. Pointing towards srinivas head , he added “Is that crow’s shit?”. We laughed “Its that very same shit, you are having on your face, now” after splashing the special color yolk egg on his face . Srikanth got one, too.

..to be continued!