Best Friends!

My best friend was in a relationship with a guy I never liked or maybe say never wanted her to be with him..!Somehow I felt he is not the right person for her.

I still remember the night she called me up saying, "I had a break up yaar! I hate that guy like hell, he isn't even bothered of what I say and feel..............." And she continued speaking and I was hearing her proving to be a good listener!

After completing her talk I asked, "Do you want him back or sab khatam?"

"Yaar dekh, mujhe usse koi problem nahi hai, actually kisise problem nahi hai bas yeh hai ki jo karna hai kare but jo cheez mujhe galat lage mereko batake na kare!"

"Abe oye, agar woh galat kar raha hai and tujhe nahi bata raha to there is no point being with him anymore..! Jab tereko kuch samjhega tab na tere saath share karega and tab na tereko true partner milega..."

"Yeah, you are right but what should I do now? I mean we just had a row and i literally bombarded over him for that idiot bitch whom he brought home from college on his bike! And yeh kiya toh bhi jap nahi hai usko again the next day he did the same.."

"How do you know this?" I asked

"There are many people who tell me much more things than this and everybody sees everything! And agreed he didnt say anything to me but he shudnt have brought her when he knows that she affects me and it'll create a problem when I come to know about it!"

"Well, he actually did a wrong thing and what I suggest is sit together and sort it out! Tell him that he did a wrong thing and he has to accept it! See I'm nobody to speak to him about you both! It is you whom I can talk to and save from falling in a pit!"

"I know you never will want any wrong for me..! Okay, I am coming over to your place; will talk there..!" She announced.

"Okay, come soon", and I hang the phone.

It wa around 11:00 pm in the night when she rung the bell and I opened to welcome her teary eyes! I knew she was in a dilemma and I had to help her solve this as soon as possible and bring her out of it somehow; make her smile again!

After being with this guy for around three years, I must say she had changed a lot! A gurl who was a tomboy now is a gurl who actually behaves like a gurl! Short hair and tennis shoes was what she always preferred and now its long hair and flip flops..! I had seen her change through all these years. I never got to experience any of it all but seeing her I decided i ain't falling in!

I bought her a big tub of choclate ice-cream from the fridge and some chips with a dip.. And I could see her face lit up seeing them! She put a spoonful of ice-cream in her mouth and asked me, "What should I do now?"

"Relax for now and stop thinking about him! you are with me now and when we are together we define insanity.." I smiled looking in her dull eyes and she returned a fake one!

I went to my studio and brought out some color bottles and canvas attched to the isle.                      

"Chal kuch naya banate hain!"

"Yes, I'll use blue and you?" She asked with excitement

"Mmmmm, how about green?" I replied aking.

"Ah, I knew it..! But go for yellow..! We can make green mixing both.. ;)"

"Hmmm, kool!"

And she dipped the flat brush in water and then in the color bottle and stroked something on the canvas; I looked at what she was doing and she turns towards me...

"Its your turns now.."

"yeah! Let me put it this way!" I say and use my turn to make some strokes around!

She laughs and says, "this is going to be a mad work from you and me.. ;) Hehe"

And I giggled and feel happy inside to make the atmosphere light! She was happy to do this and I was satisfied for making her happy..! After all she is the one who's been with me through all ups and downs..!

We continued turn by turn and there in the end, a big blank canvas turns into a beautiful painitng with just two colors of two idiot soul friends!

It was fun making this happen and it was fun to finish off the chips and the dip and by the time we finished she had already forgotten about her problems thats what I had tought..!

It was around 2:00 am now and I asked her to sleep as we had colleges to attend next day!

She simply looked down and then up again and said,

"You have always been my true friend in all means! Thank you..!"

Today that girl is happily married to a person who loves her and respects her to the core and is soon expecting a baby! The best part is she overcame that guy and moved on and it was that night, that painitng we made which helped her not me! She took it away with her to the US and  walled it in her main room.

Its been five years she left India but still we talk regularly and with same depth of friendship which we shared long back! Sometimes I feel, friends are true angels sent by god and its upto us to keep them or let them walk away! I never did allow her to walk away nor did she and the destiny like always will keep us holding.. :)