The fair and lovely boy

I wont name u...because u feel i am always out to malign your character -whatever is left of it :). But i have to write about u. This blog MUST have a post on u. I somehow feel this is the right time to write about u. Until now u meant a lot to me, but suddenly i have realised that you might not after all remain my meilleur ami . Your new found love is a cause of concern comrade. More on this concern later. Lets have a back ground first. So how did i meet this darker than night guy? In college. Post grad to be precise. He was this very unassuming shy boyish guy with a ready smile. His spects made him look geeky. He became great friends with one of my roomies (nothing on that will be mentioned in this space)...and soon we all (including my other roomies) became thick friends. Thick. really thick. We spent days living in his house (he was a day scholar). He struck a chord with all my roomies...if he took out one for shopping on his bike, he was quick to go out with another to the temple (this temple story ...i came to know of it only recently). He was always willing to do stuff for us..make us happy....i never understood what made him such a 'good boy'! (Only later did i know that his innocent puppy like face is very very deceptive!)whatever said and done, he truly was (is) a gem....back in those days when we had no money, this chap made us feel like family. We've lunched and dined at his place a million times when we were broke. We've used his room and internet for free to chat with our distant boyfriends. We've recuperated in his place when we fell severly sick. We used his dad's car for all our excapedes and borrowed his pyjamaas and shorts.

But then we cant live in bliss land forever.....our jobs beckoned, friends parted, hugs-tears-smiles...all was done with. This was 5 years back. (Shit was it that long??)

Until this day we continue to hold strong. We have come a long way. This guy stood by me in some very disturbing times and funnily was never by me in my happiest of moments (he never turned up for my wedding). Today he told me that he was almost falling in love. That brought back some not-so-old memories of my blacker than black friend....nope those memories also cant go public.
But heres wishing him the best wih his new found love.

Ah! about the fair and lovely bit...he aint anymore the blacker than black boy...i can now recognise him in the darkest of nights....afterall he's the only man ive known who uses(d) fair and lovely. (a-aa...mard hoke ladkiyon wala fairness cream..cha..:) )

Good night dude!