Next morning, Raj woke up with an awesome feeling. He felt happy and buoyant. He made himself some tea and was reminded of the previous day's coffee with Trisha. Oh, those were happy moments. After all those smiles and 'signals' (as Raj thought) from her, Raj was already in love and longing for a call from her. Lots of times that morning, he felt like picking up his phone and calling her or watsapping her, but restrained himself from doing it. She would start thinking that he's a stalker and that would creep her out forever.
Instead he started checking her fb profile. Unfortunately but obviously, it was locked. She must have received plenty of attention, he thought and that just put him off a bit. As the day progressed, he returned to his original - before - the - meeting - with - Trisha mood. He looked at her card, saved her number in his mobile. Then he clicked on her watsapp profile photo and found the picture of a flower there. What the fuck.....that's typical, he thought angrily - why hide such a beautiful face?
And as the day loomed on, no call came from WesIT or from Trisha or even from that hook nosed idiot who had taken his technical interview. And although, he knew that no company will ever call a candidate to tell him about his appointment / rejection on the very next day, that didnt stop him from being angry at them in his mind. He realised in the evening that he was behaving exactly like a guy in love - mixed emotions, angry at people for nothing and imagining situations which cannot be logically true.
As the week progressed, he thought a lot about Trisha, her smiles, the intentions behind it and the signals that she had given him - or those which he had imagined atleast. It was like a video tape running in his mind in which there were a lot of cupid's arrows criss crossing and angels singing and heart shaped red balloons flying here and there. In the video appeared Trisha - beautiful in her blue saree - running towards him and saying....Oh Raj, I love you sooooooooo much and kissing him full on the mouth, her silky hair falling over his face and the fragrance of her perfume hanging in the air. He ran the video in his mind over and over again and tried to 'analyze' all her smiles and signals.
3 days after the interview, when he was having this wonderful day dream again, his cell phone rang. His ringtone was the cackling laughter sound. The one that 'Circuit' has in munnabhai movie. He was startled and his dream was brutally broken by this evil laughter - as if the mobile phone had it against his sorry ass also - he thought.
The mobile slipped from his hands, he caught it again and picked up the phone to realise that the caller had already hung up. He thought it must be from the company. Eager and hopeful that the company mightve called, he dialled the number again.
It connected. "Hello....Hello....who is this please? I got a call from this number" spoke Raj
"Hello Mr. Raj?"
"Yes, tell me, who is this please?" Raj asked impatiently.
"Yes, Im from ISSPS bank. Are you looking for a personal loan?" the person asked.
"Oh.....just fuck off man" replied Raj.
He turned on the TV and tuned to the music channel.
Zindagi ki yahi reet hai....haar ke baad hi jeet hai....thode aasu hai ....thodi hasi.....aaj gam hai toh kal hai khushi.....
He felt better listening to this song.......and slept soundly. Sometimes, hope is the only inspiration that you have :).
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