Those were the best days of my life!!

It was during the tenth study holidays and I was, as usual dissembling my parents by the act of silent reading when I actually was reading Harry Potter and the philosopher’s stone well concealed under my long sized science text book. It was a while before I was brought back to this world. Awoke from the reverie due to a knock on the door, I kept staring blankly around the room trying to find something interesting .After being utterly convinced that there was nothing better to do, I went back to reading Harry Potter.

Just then my best friend, Arjun entered the room and his first remark was obviously “WHEY!” He was evidently deluded by the fact that I was reading my science text book ,when the first exam we had was social science which was just three days away. Then I lowered my science text book to reveal the HP book and grinned broadly and he returned it. So having had a good laugh about it, we began on a serious note and finished six odd pages which was a great deal for us and began discussing other temporal issues (nah! We were just discussing how to get our hands on some screwed up morons ;). So after a lot of talking and planning, we both decided that how much ever we planned, we were never going to implement them and hence started addressing issues such as new movies and songs and others love interests. Having successfully wasted the whole evening rambling on, we decided to call it a day.

The next day Dinesh joined us and he like Arjun was one hell of an entertainer and I know this seems like a real bad cliché , but time jus flew with those two around and before we knew it BAM! social science paper struck us and the blow was pretty bad !! We recovered nevertheless and the guilt din’t last two hours as we were back to form playing gully cricket as soon as we returned home. There was not a dull moment with those two around and the days seem to pass with boisterous practical jokes, incessant card games and obviously limitless hogging. The penchant for studies was taking a crash as all our interests were aligned and thankfully our interests did not involve staring at a book pointlessly all evening.

Food like everywhere else was the common notion here as the nearby bajji shop was seeing a great rise in revenue due to us. The place would recognize us from a mile away and start preparing or else shout through the length of the road “ Thambi iniki bonda leave “
And wait for our signal as to what to prepare next. Arjun will, as a rule, come out with a hundred so called funny one-liners, none of which will be funny and eventually when he does come out with a funny one , nd and me will never acknowledge it. At times he would say the weirdest things in dire need to get the people around him gagging, (Will never forget his theory, water conducts electricity, bottle does’nt, but bottle conducts water) and the look on nd’s face after this … priceless!! And the way we used to shift the mode to studies when we heard someone nearing the door!! chanceless ( dei avan seriyana …. hears the footsteps …theory forward ) . Or the time when we had fights with the neighbours and even if the mistake was on our side, never let down each other and screwed the poor guy till he was on the verge of tears ! We had a flair for such activities, but our little stint had to come to an end like everything else in this world. We did part our ways in high school but come what may nothing will scar the fond memories of the holidays and it can be said (and I’m sure they will agree) that “those were the best days of our lives “.