I used to love train journeys, they are always fun when you are travelling in a group. This time though, I was travelling alone. The three day journey to my homeland has always been memorable. I was looking around the platform, hoping to find any familiar faces. Till my last journey, I used to look around for girls, checking the reservation list for girls around my seat was the first job. Gone were those days. I am committed now. I have a girl in my life for the past one and half year and I am very happy with her. Since then, I never even tried to have a slightest glance at any girl. I felt it was also a form of cheating on her. She was in Guwahati already, and we have plans to meet, go for movies and a long list, before I go to my hometown. All these thoughts came to my mind. I was never bothered to check on the reservation list this time. Found my seat and sat down, waiting for the journey to begin. Just then a guy came and stopped, I had a glance, a funky looking guy with piercing and tattoos. He was on my opposite seat. I never used to talk with these kinda guys; moreover my gf hated these kinda guys which made me hate them even more. So, I ignored him, trying to go through one of the magazines which I had brought for my company. The journey began, and gradually but unknowingly, I started to interact with the guy. A bong guy from Guwahati, which somehow made me closer to him, as my Gf was bong too. We talked of our lives and love stories. I found his gf was equally committed to him like my gf. He got innumerous calls from his gf, which made me feel jealous. But somehow I felt connected to him, which made me happy. I thought my magazines would give me company, but his company made the journey shorter. Two days passed by, the next morning we are supposed to reach home, I was having goose bumps on my skin; at last I am reaching and meeting her. So many plans for so long for this big day. He asked me to show my gf’s picture. I didn't have any laptop or a Smartphone, so I couldn’t. But I promised him that me and my gf will definitely meet him in Guwahati. He replied “My laptop is deep inside the baggage bro, but will take it out and show you our pictures tomorrow morning. I smiled. We both were eager to see each other’s girlfriends as we have heard and told so much of our love stories. Next morning he woke me up, "Bro, we have reached Nalbari" and passed me a cup of tea. He was already doing something in his laptop. He called me " Bro, check out my latest Birthday pictures, she had got a pretty cake for me. Isn't she cute?” I came down from the bunker bed, stood beside him and looked at the picture. I rubbed my eyes again.
I was shell shocked, as if somebody had forced me to jump from an aeroplane. The plastic cup dropped down from my hand. He kept staring at me. I silently walked away; I really needed a breath of fresh air.
(This is a work of fiction, any resemblance is purely coincidental)
