(3)
At the airport looking for the Cab
After long time!
He: (pretty loud as if he is talking to group of public) Guys, this treat is from me! I’m going to teach you for next year and a half! I will be in India for one and half year! I am happy; I hope you will enjoy my company!
She: (while getting into cab) you actually said this? I mean in this way you announced about YOUR recruitment in front of your student! And those guys applauded so happily that you’re gonna be their teacher for a year?
He: yaah! I know! As if I’m sure about their liking for me! I just realized it now! Everyone can’t be happy the way you became after I told you this!
She: Please! I knew it since last week about it and I am still without my treat! Huh?
He: tell me what do you want? (She gives a cold gaze) I mean … a movie or a trip or just foodie treat?
She: chuck it! I’m not a kid to ask u for a treat!
He: oh! You will only give a treat to your friends for this, won’t you? (Again her cold gaze) ok, I guess it is too much obsession of mine about me!
She: yes, yes it is! (He smiles and mischievously rubs into her hair) So what has Reema decided? Is she staying here wither your son?
He: No, she has a job and she does not like this place, I mean, India! My son will go with her, he has school with his friends.
She: fair enough!
He: I will stay at my colleague’s lodge at Delhi! And will come for weekend twice in a month to meet my brother and his family!
She: (sarcastically) so you will go to Pune for weekend – in that slow city?
He: yaah! Ha-ha… (With smile of confession) you know …. I am just saying this!
She: Yaaaayyyiiiuuupppp!
He: you know, I can’t manage with them! Especially when your ex is there!
She: (with furious face) he was not my Ex! And if you…
He: so what was he? I mean what was that?
She: I don’t know! It was one of the stories that I skipped! I know I did not end it properly but still!
He: no, you did- you finish the problem- you solved it! Why do you always feel that you can’t solve the issues or can’t handle the situations? The way you handle them, it makes me feel relax and empty and I feel to move forward. You are like a morning for me! Always new!
She: (looking innocently with smile) thank you! You do not lie to me!
He: I don’t lie at least with you!
She: I don’t bother about such things!
He: sometimes you sound like ‘Beyond Normal!’
She: I hope u don’t mean that I’m abnormal?
He: it’s something like supernatural!
She: eww…weird!
He: weird! Right! (Silently sitting in the cab)
(She is getting down from the cab!)
She: you’ll be alone in India!
He: No, I am not alone!
She: liar, u told me just now!
He: No, I didn’t! But I am not alone here, that’s for sure! (And she gets the point)
She: (with mixed feeling) Bye!
He: See you!
(She stands still, looking at the cab going away from her eyes. She is thinking something deep. The unwanted feeling makes her unstable and anxious!)
