Transition from silly fights over Dairy Milk to boys to marriage…….
A dairy milk slab
peeked out from the front pocket of the white school shirt and I kept on
staring at it like it would just pop out from her pocket and land straight in my
mouth!!!! She took it out and neatly tore the wrapping. With a glance in my
direction and a sweet smile she peeled away the golden foil too and without
wasting a single moment she broke the pieces and put it in her mouth one by
one. Alas! she ate it all and I was left gaping at her like a kid lost in the
woods.
This was the moment
when I decided I had to be friends with her, after all she got dairy milk to
school everyday! Soon it was final exams of third standard and she got the seat
next to me. I helped her with most of the questions and from there onwards the seed
of our life-long friendship was sown.
Sakshi shared her
dairy milk everyday with me and we chit chatted whenever we got the opportunity
in bus, playground, between classes, restroom, corridors etc. Silly girlie
talks, calling names to the teachers and dreaming of becoming the most popular
girl in school – all this and more were our hot topics of discussions. We got
nail paints to school and applied it on our toe nails when the classes were
boring! We giggled and made fun of girls with oiled hair. Ahh the best incident
of Junior school I remember was when we both started a rumour that the skeleton
in the Science Lab was real and that skeleton got alive at night and roamed
around the school!! And this news spread like wild fire in the entire batch and
the classes were full of terrified girls holding hands and shrieking and
crying! Most of them were scared to visit the rest room alone. Soon our
Teachers got the wisp of this rumour and there was an emergency meeting in the
Assembly Hall where the Headmistress scolded everyone and said all this was
utter nonsensical rumours. The teachers wanted to know who started this rumour
but they never found out the true source. We both heaved a sigh of relief!
Senior school journey
was equally fun-filled and laced with jaw-dropping and awe inspiring incidents.
Our being a girl’s school, we all used to be starved to lay our eyes on Boys.
Whenever there was any guy in the school campus for some club meetings, inter
school competitions etc., our entire group used to loiter around in their vicinity
for some reason or the other. Ahh those snide remarks and incidents of bursting
out in helpless fits of giggles without any rhyme or reason are so close to my
heart. We both flirted with the same guy named Abhishek and he used to claim being
in love with both of us!! What fun we had on his expense without him realising that
we knew about his lie. Then after a couple of weeks, we both decided to embarrass
him about his hopeless two-timing skills. I added my friend on conference while
talking to him and she kept silent. In midst of the long intimate conversation
between me and Abhishek, Sakshi exclaimed “Ohh!!Really so you are in love with
her”!! He went mum and then quickly hanged up the phone. He could never face us
again!
We went to the same
college and carried dove soap bars, face wipes, lipsticks, liners, nail paints
and what not. The rest room was our favourite place to wash our face with dove
on one side and feel the difference just like the models in TV Advertisement!
Then came the make-up session where we applied glosses and lip paints and
pouted in front of the mirrors! If I bought the new shade of nail paint, Sakshi
would buy the lip gloss and we shared it between us. Innumerable times we were
caught for sprucing up and preening ourselves in the classrooms and were asked
to Get out of the Class.
Time flew by and we
got married in different cities and now we hardly get time to talk to each
other. But once in while that we do, it seems as if we can pick the
conversation from where we left weeks ago and start off like there was no time
gap in between.
Its soo true that we can’t
choose our family and relatives but can choose our friends. But sometimes I
feel we both were destined to be friends and did not really choose each other….
This article has been
written as an entry to the Indiblogger Contest : Dove Guessing game with my
friend.
https://twitter.com/search?q=#DoveFaceTest
