My Dates with Priyanka
'Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life', that's how facebook welcomed me. I started chatting with with a friend who was on cloud 81, after going on a movie date with the hottest gal of the college.
'What?!', was my only reaction, have all girls gone crazy, gone blind or just desperate; and if desperate why not me!
This bugger instead of focusing on the girl was seeing SRK do a split personality. I would have taken a microscope, a telescope just to be keep seeing that girls' ahem ahem! Anyways so just to keep this person happy, I put a 'What are you doing now?' as 'Sourabh wants to see Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. :)'.
Lies.
Late evening Shruti calls me up, she and her 10 other friends are going to see the movie tomorrow, and she wants me to come. 'Are any hot chicks coming?', I wanted to ask that but in the name of decency I asked 'Who all are coming?'.
'None you know of, you want to come?'
'Hmmm, tickets?'
'Two extra.'
'OK fine, Ill be there'
'1030, Swathi! Don be late'
1035! 5 minutes late. Missed the trailers. I reached to learnt that am the earliest. Shruti drops 10 minutes later. She had call me an quarter hour early. The rest of the crowd had still to turn up. For me, an engineering student, a semi nerd, catching movie this early was itself an experience. Its just pirated stuff for us. A few more people drop by, hot chicks but with hulky brawny bodyguards cum boyfriends around them. No chance of flirting! The last to arrive was Priyanka.
She hugs Shruti for 7 minutes 26 seconds. She sees me and I noticed she looked frail, dressed in casual black and blue with electric red shoes (or whatever they were) she gave a stork false impression of the famine our country has been going through for years! She turns towards me.
'You should be Sourabh'.
'Yes, I am and your Priyanka'. We'd been friends online, and apparently she realised me through my photos.
'Oh, I am'.
'How have you been?'
'Pretty good. I have exams tomorrow but SRK is more important.'
'Hehe Chalo, lets go catch him.' and I led the way in.
Shruti was busy with Ram, her 99% bodyguard and 1% boyfriend, and all the others were also in similar couples, expect for Priyanka and me. So, well, I was on a movie date of sorts. We entered Swathi threatre and Mr. SRK sang songs pleading us to go slow in love. Priyanka was sitting next to me, and my heart started dancing, the butterflies in my stomach just found a whole new passage to get some more nectar in, and the blood had on overdose of Chyawanprash which put them on a race with Michael Schumacher. My hands were clutching on to seats bar, shivering. I was anxious.
Baba Ramdev said, 'In the times of anxiety, do Pranayam!'. Should I do pranayama here? I would sound stupid. No way I am screwing up a date. SRK again did his romantic dialogues. A few girls swooned. Now, how do I break the ice with this chick?
'You like Shahrukh?'
'MVAH! to him'.
'Oh, I thought that was for me.' She gave a very girly giggle.
'You like Anushka?', and has she said that her hands, more like an involuntary action, caught my shoulders. I glare at her hands and she pulls them back. My stomach flipped thrice, I counted.
'Hey look, he is wearing my shirt', I popped.
'Oh please, he looks way better than you.'
'You have a nice sense of humour!'. She hits me in the stomach.
"THE INTERVAL"
The couples decided to just sit with each other and not barge out. The stags decided to move out meaning Priyanka and me move out. I go to the loo, my hands still shivering.
'You want anything?'
'Coffee?'
'I'll get for you'.
'And you want?'. A girl was gonna get me something. Whoa!
'Ill also have coffee'.
'Oh get for yourself'.
I just screwed up. She was not gonna get anything for me. Now I got the coffee (Rs 40/- for one cup) and gave a cup to Priyanka thinking if I should have a done a by-2. We sat together and she clutches the cup in both the hands and makes a quivering noise sipping it. It somehow felt very nice. My hands stop shivering.
The movie resumed. We dint interact for sometime and let SRK cast a spell on my date.
'Are you alright?', I broke the calmness.
'No!'
'No?'
'I mean I don't no. I never like Shahrukh doing sad scenes'. I wanted to laugh.
'If you want we can go out.' I said trying not to laugh.
'No, I'll miss him then.' Hypocrite!
The movie had a happy ending. Priyanka and I came out of the hall. The couples also to my surprise moved out. We stood in the lobby for sometime, deciding what to do next. Everyone unanimously insisted on going to this new swanky club. I obviously wanted to spend time with Priyanka but not clubbing. I just dint feel right in a club. It was alien to me. Priyanka was now in her group of girls so calling her out would be difficult. There I was, on a split. A decision and I would have chance to talk with Priyanka, talk with her, get her number and probably spend the rest of the day with her. Or another decision, and I would be a loser heading back home. In the split of a second, I decided not to club. LOSER.
Now, I lost Priyanka. However thanks, to the online world I could catch up with Priyanka, and flattered her enough to ask her to come around with me. She refused thrice (Your a flirt!) and later we went to a Coffee Shop and increased thier revenue by Rs. 400. Yes, she paid half the bill much to relief.
