9 WISHES by hima (best time to read books txt) 📕

other side of the pool.It's actually hut.It used to be my doll house, where jyo and i used to play back when we were kids.Don't you know better to imagine? when you know the size of my home.So,it's not a doll house that can fit only two eight year children,we can rather call it as a guest house with only one room.

Doll's were piled at the corner and room is cleaned and some extra furniture is placed, as i have instructed them to do.Oh!do i have to tell them everything My pictures of childhood were hung across, the round walls.Right from the age 1 to 13 every pic is here.Even jyo's pictures were there too when we were playing in the pool and riding the toy horse.The one's where jyo and me are completely covered with paint and holding two sheets of our own sketches.Everyone is staring at the pictures.

"Hm!let's get down to work."i said cutting their attention from the pictures.

We practiced an hour.Rahul is really good with drums,jyo was as usual good with her piano,karan is really amazing with bass, i haven't expected it.arun was using raj's guitar.Raj was playing lead guitar,two girls for vocal and two boys for vocal.And i'm gonna be the lead singer along with raj.Each one of them took leave, after having the snacks that i ordered for them.karan winked me goodbye and borrowed my lab notes ,before leaving.Raj and rahul are in deep conversation.

"So,you aren't gonna spill the beans?"jyo said.

"What?"i said and remembered what she was talking about.

"No one's gonna back up you."she said eying raj.
Raj slided beside me and took my hands into his in a casual way.I jerked away from him.Jyo started laughing.
"Ash,seriously, don't you think, i know that,"she said eying me n raj.
"Finally you found your mr.perfect."jyo said smiling.
"And you found your miss.perfect,"rahul added.


12

"Hey,"karan said sliding in beside me.

"hi,"

"Do you write often?"he asked tentatively.

"I'm sorry."

"Do you write often poems?"

"Yeah,"

"You are really good you know.I always thought that you have a passionate heart, behind those curtains of stubbornness."he added.

"Oh!thanks."

Was he really telling the truth or just flattering me like all the boys do.I looked into his deep blue eyes, they are filled with honesty.

"Your doll house hasn't changed a bit from the past."he whispered.

"pardon,"

"It is same as the way it was a few years back,not much change for except that your dolls are put aside, but your teddy is gone.I remember you, always clutching that teddy dearly. Though you have lots of toys you never put that teddy aside."

How did he know about my teddy?Who is he?I'm sure no one has ever visited my home before ,let alone my doll house.It was a private place for me and jyo.i was wondering about the possibilities of seeing him before?

"I thought i would never see you but when i saw you here with me in the same college.I went mad with happy.I never had such a good friend like you in all my life time."he continued.

I was really trying hard to remember when suddenly picture of a boy holding a dog hovered into my mind.

"teddy,"i shrieked with happiness.

Each of our classmates were busy doing their lab experiments,they hardly noticed anything.

"You remember my name?"he asked suddenly his face lit up.

"Of course,you idiot. How can i ever forget you?"i said.

"I thought ,you would think i am playing a prank ,if i revealed myself to you and worst of all ,you wouldn't even remember me, which i couldn't even bare to think of but when i saw our photo hanging on the wall, i thought, i should give it a try."he explained.

"Really,you are...."

"I'm sorry.I didn't know that you would remember me since that was long time ago and very short span together."

"Short but sweet."

That's when our lab assistant gave us the evil eye, so we let the conversation drop.Though i'm bursting to talk with him.

"Don't tell jyo, we will give her a surprise."i said to karan.

I waited patiently, until the practice session is over and everyone left.Karan is still lingering behind.

"Jyo,do you remember this guy i showed the picture (where me and jyo are patting a dog and fair skinned boy is catching the collar of the dog.)"

"Of course,i remember teddy well, he is really a good addition to our team, but, why do you ask about him, all of a sudden?"

I smiled and called teddy in a loud voice, then karan walked towards us all smiling.Jyo was staring at me.I winked at her.

Karan is our manager's son.He used to come to my house whenever it's holiday.Karan's mom expired giving birth to him.When mom knew about this, she asked our manager to bring the kid home whenever there is a holiday, so he wouldn't be all alone in home since he was of the same age, we became friends pretty fast.He used to have a dog then, snoopy that dog was the first real pet i had(Though technically it is karan's).

Everything went well.Until one day when snoopy ruined a party that was held in my home and since then karan's father hasn't brought karan or the dog back home.I always missed him so much.

I told jyo every minute detail of the conversation, we had in the lab session.She was happy that at last we found our long last friend.

"Why didn't you come back?"jyo demanded.

"Papa said, that it was all my fault that the party ruined ,so he wouldn't let me come back.He thought bringing me back is risking his job."

"Anyway i moved to a residential, shortly after that."karan added.

"What happened to the dog?"i asked.

"I had to leave him at home since the residential wouldn't allow a pet.One day it broke free from the home and met with an accident."he sighed.

Tears swelled up in my eyes.Teddy gently squeezed my hands.I blinked back the tears.That dog was an adorable creature. I always wished that i had a dog like that.

"How is your papa.He left the job without a word. I always thought of asking him about you."i said.

"He established a small business when he inherited the property of our grandparents.He is doing well now."he said.

Raj and rahul were busy discussing.karan took leave of us.Rahul said he need to finish an assignment so jyo left early.

We sat in the garden holding hands.

"You said, you had some wishes that are not fulfilled.What are they?"he asked.

"Oh!they are funny just ignore it."

He looked intently and smiled.

"May be some other time.I really have some work to do."i said.

Snoopy was running through the traffic bewildered.It is trying to get to the other side, when suddenly a motor bike hits it hard and run's over it.It was lying in the bloodshed, howling with pain and then after a few second's the body falls limp.I shrieked with horror.Raj came running into my room.The memory was still fresh in my mind.I was sobbing uncontrollably.

"Snoopy is dead."i mumbled the words over and over.

Raj hushed me and sat beside me.I calmed down when reality turned on me.I dozed into sleep sometime after that when i woke up raj was beside me and his hands were over my shoulders.

It's a good thing that only nana used to stay inside the house while all other workers stayed in the quarters at the back of the house.If they were to see raj and me like this it would be really bad.

13

Miss dixit must be really mad.How can she conduct a test without even announcing us earlier.I did attempt only 3 questions if it weren't for her sudden test i could have written all the five questions.Everyone seemed to agree with me since none of us did well in the exam.

I have lots of work to do.I need to ask jyo and teddy to assist me in organizing the inter college competition and i have to announce and collect the participant's list.I asked teddy to come over to my place earlier today. Our practise sessions for today is cancelled as some members of the band have other works to do.

While raj and rahul were busy preparing their test we sat together and designed posters for advertising about the competition.We put an hour's work on the poster.

"hey,"raj sounded tired.

Rahul was staggering at the back.

I ordered some snacks and drinks for us.Everyone seemed to be lost in their own thoughts.

"hey.let's play a game."teddy said trying to cheer us all.

"Which game?"i asked.

The game is not as simple as it sounded.We need to sit in a circle and one of us will rotate a bottle when it stops the person who is facing the mouth of the bottle will be asked a question by the person who is facing the other end of the bottle.I thought it simple but when the game started it was really hard you will see it for yourself when i explain what happened.

First time when it's rotated jyo asked rahul to prove her how much rahul likes her.Rahul was silent for a second.How can he show his feelings jyo was really mad.Teddy is snickering beside me.I elbowed him.He frowned and remained silent.Rahul walked towards jyo and embraced her and kissed her on the cheek and whispered something in her ears and kissed her gently on the cheeks her cheeks turned bright red.

"Hey,what did you say?"i asked wondering what caused jyo to blush so much.

"There is no rule that says that i should speak aloud what my partner asks for?"he said.

I started to protest but remembered that might be something awkward to tell in front of us all so i let it drop.Next was even more embarassing because it was about me n raj.

"Raj,If a situation comes that you need to save the life of only one person who would that be me or ash and remember the person you save lives and the other.."rahul trailed off.

Raj looked for a sec and most of all teddy is observing raj intently.

"I would save you."he said looking at rahul.

"Don't lie to me.I know you can't leave without ash."rahul said.

"That's the reason why i will save you."he added.

"I don't get it."rahul said.

"See if i save ash,she can never stand seeing jyo gloomy and that would make ash unhappy.If i save you..,"he added,"i will follow her anywhere even to the death.I can't live without her."

I LOVE HIM SO MUCH.............my thoughts screamed.My heart ached to hug hi and kiss him but i can't do it in front of all.

This time it's my turn to be asked.Raj whispered something to rahul and he smiled.Something is up.

"Ash,tell me your wishes?"rahul asked.

"Not that one."i said.

"The rule remember you need to answer the question you are asked."he said.

"Okay,i'll tell you but you shouldn't laugh." i said.

The first one is bike ride that i told you earlier.

The second one is waterfall.

The third is a ball.

The fourth is a pet dog like snoopy.(here i turned to give a wink to teddy.)

The fifth is a charitable trust where truly needy one's will be helped for medical reasons.

The sixth is to built an ashram for the old people.

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