//Brigades
It had just stopped raining ,it never had smelt like that before, it was a cocktail of smell of
dust and leaves.....Opening his dazzled eyes of all the glistening around, he could see the sidewalks on either side of the road buzzing with hurried on-goers. When all his senses were captured in a single direction.Just out of the music store holding a serendipity album in her hand, he is looking at her when she asks,
"What are you staring at?"
"I was staring at......."
"So, you were staring!.... no, you are still staring, now how can you stare at someone in a crowded
place Like this"Quickly inspecting her look,"what were you staring at anyways....everything is rightly placed(With a pleading low voice)"
"Staring!, no I was admiring your.....", "Why am I saying all these, and what has staring got to do with a crowded place", "wait! why are you even talking to me?"
"Hey, just answer my question,.....now, what were you admiring at?"
(scratching his beard)"Aaah!"
(Irritated she replies)"Do u need a dictionary?"
(By now, they had caught a sizable attention from work exempt employees of surrounding stores and some aimless wanderers.)
(Seeing that the crowd had freed up since they started talking, he was marking an imaginary escape route between people and sidewalk and roads)
"No, I cant say What I was staring at...Why do u want to know anyways, you look good"
"Oh, what are we bonding now!"
"I don't mind!"
"You won't answer like this, come with me"
"Where to?"
"The police station"
(He could hear his heart beat)
"Don't even think about running, U don't want me shouting"
"That kind of attention, No"(Still thinking of dramatic ways rather filmy ways of escaping)
"Before going to the police station, I need to have some food, lets go to On The Edge"
"No, I'm going no where, How can u do this to a stranger, I'm leaving..... weirdo"
(Started moving ....when she did)
(A not so... but still loud)"Hey"
(He stopped moving and came back)
"Are you really going to do this!"
"You shouldn't have called me that word... and yes, With pleasure.."
(Making a pleading face)"Come on, don't do this, I was having a nice day, until......., I'm ..."
"Lets make a deal, sit me through until I finish my food, If...If I find a good man in you I'll, let you go,... without shouting..."
(For the first time, with a happy face)
"Thats it!"
"Thats all you get..., then its a deal."
(Hoping things would turn around his way, started walking towards the restaurant)
"Now what Kind of a Woman are you, you want me to eat food knowing the fact that you will be escorting me to a police station and file a complaint against me for god knows what!"
"Who said that you will be eating...You should be a gentleman, not many people while talking to me use the word woman "
(Thinking of easing his way away from her with a gentlemanly behavior)
"Hmmm, people do that often, you should believe in what you believe, and I think you are a wonderful woman"
"No amount of sugarcoating is going to get you any food"
"You know, I made a mistake, you are such a stubborn girl, didn't know I would change my decision this soon"
"Oh! the you are still a girl opinion, huh, I have that changing affect on many people"
//The MGs(On The Edge)
(She talked with the suited person and pointed to the direction of our table and started ordering)
"One pan fried noodles"
(Waiter)"Sir what would you like"
(Looked at her and said nothing)
(with a mild smile suggesting some pity)"One more of what I ordered"
(And the waiter left. Volunteering to break the silence, reshaping her face for some serious thought)
"You know what will happen if there are about 100 men and one woman on a small island trapped for ...like ever...stop laughing and tell something"
(He started to laugh the moment she said 100 men and one woman. Gathering his focus which was wandering in to countless thoughts)
"Aaah!"(scratching beard)
"Oh! you are scratching again"
"So!"
(with a sad tone)"I think you will not answer....again"
"No, I was forming my sentences, I don't want to be misinterpreted you know"
"No I didn't, now when you have let me know, will u continue, or will you still.....stop scratching, you are making me feel to jump out of my skin"
(Controlling his instincts)
"what will happen!, hmmm, out of 100 men, 9 will be gay, in the remaining,
91 will be divided in to 50 guys who know what they want but don't know what to do,
20 guys will be people who know what they want, and they also know what to do, but, don't want to do anything for that their asses are too heavily filled,
20 guys will be people who knows and does everything, and the last one is a loner...
while there are 4 gay couples the one last remaining wants to be with someone so has an affair with all of them, and one day every other homo knows about this and they kill each other.
20 people who don't want to do anything joins the 50 guys who don't know what to do and are drinking tender juice and out of no where one comes up with a brilliant idea to prepare an alcoholic beverage.
Of the remaining 20, 10 are busy fishing and 10 are planning to build a ship to get out of this island. Hearing this the 70 guys who don't want to do anything kill the 10 guys who want to build a ship. Mean while guys who are breathing, 70 are flirting and the remaining are too shy to talk.
One day when the beverage is prepared one of the 10 guys who does and know everything poisons it and 60 of them die as the remaining don't drink and are eating fish; mean while another of the 10 who knows and does everything had poisoned fish so all the remaining die.
So only the female who is resting in her hut and the loner is alive...... Well what happens next, you can use your imagination!!!"
(Listening to him with her mouth slightly opened and smiling and laughing)
"Ha huh that was one hell of a story there, No, tell what will happen think practically"
"Certainly their will be casualties, one or two will win her heart or she may...........hey practical is boring"
"If there were 100 women and one man what would have happened, No I will answer this, We would have killed the guy the day we landed on the island and would have partied for the rest of our lives"
"Oow! now thats not real, believe me polygamy is still legal in many countries and religions"
"Whatever I would have killed that guy, if I were in that island"
(Mean while she was checking her mobile and made a quick call)
(They didn't talk, and he forgot why he was there and was enjoying his pan fried noodles)
(Out of the corner of the hallway came in a neatly uniformed police officer making his way towards their table, the very sight made him feel his heart in his mouth)
(Standing and sweating)
"Why?, I thought we were having a good time here and I was about to answer what I was staring at"
(Waiter had placed the bill on the table and she was checking and the officer just arrived at the table)
(Raising her forehead and smiling with a hint of victory)
"Really, were you!, Anna, we will go now"
Anna: "Won't you introduce him to me"
She:"He!, just met at the music store, was in the same college senior!!!"
(Was leaving towards the exit and she stopped and said)
(With a sheepish smile)"Hey look at the bill You have to pay it"
(And she disappeared)
He was left with the biggest sigh of relief he had in his life...Took some moments to recall how routinely he was enjoying his brigade walk and the events that turned around and landed him there.
(The waiter passed by and remained him of the bill)
To his surprise when he opened the bill he saw a note
" Sorry! for ...you know, what, : ) "
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Her Phone is beeping
HE: You know, its weird, but I enjoyed my time with you
SHE:Oh, its the staring guy, you never answered my question
HE:It was serendipity...
SHE:The album...Why, what was there in that
HE:I love that album so much
SHE:Wait a minute...I put it in my bag as soon as I came out, but u were still staring...Liar, I now know what you were staring at...but I want it to hear it from you
HE:No, I can't say that.......