a nuance of nonsense

I was lying wide awake on my bed, the radium alarm clock beside my bed was showing 2 a.m. The room was dark but I could see the ceiling fan's rapidly rotating shadows in the light of the quarter moon shining high through the only window. For no reason, I closed my eyes and strained my ears but all I could hear is the ticking of the clock and distant buzz of insects in the tress beside my room window. I tried to sleep but I failed.

It was the spring semester of 2006, the second year of my under graduation.I was an on campus student, so i lived in the collage dorms. Midterms were done and the holi holidays began. Many of my friends left for home to celebrate the festival of spring, which i believe lost its resplendence of naturality to harmful artificial colours. I preferred to stay in the hostel thinking that i could save off travelling money. Two days after the holidays began, i found my self as the only human left in my whole wing. And so my story frame happened on the third day early morning. Though it was middle of spring, that day remained a little chilled owing to a cloud cover the early evening.

Coming back to the story.......I woke up slowly and opened my door. A stream of white fluorescent light flooded into my eyes and when i turned back to shield my eyes,I noticed the twilight room behind my back turned into an black hole. I walked along the slated corridor fenced with yellow steel locked doors on its either side. Our common restrooms are at the other end of this short passage which some how seemed never ending due to my slow pace. A mildly cool breeze blew from the balcony in the middle way. Now,if i remember,it used to be this balcony where i used to stare for hours at the green grass or bickering squirrels or if the luck is on, a slithering Snake!!.Shivering a little I went on.

I entered the restroom and suddenly there appeared a dark girl in front of me. She had dark eyes sunken deep in their sockets and a bulging pot belly.Her hair was unkempt and she wore yellow pyjamas. I was taken aback for a second as i believed in the denial of human presence at this time of the season and that too at this time of the hour. I saw that the girl in front me was surprised too. We quickly adjusted our faces back to 'ah!-is -it you' state as i realized that the girl standing before me is a gud friend of mine in fact i have know her all my life. She is one of those peculiar kids with bizarre interests which most people find it freaking strange. I walked past her faced with a silly smile which she returned back with a similar one after all it was my own reflection.

When i returned to my dark room i felt a slight tingle down my neck. At first I thought of as a sign to a foreboding danger later I laughed at the silly me and headed straight to bed after shutting the door behind my back and so the light. I moved under my blanket and suddenly felt a warm soft furry pillow near my leg. For a moment i felt so nice and in next moment i jumped out the bed. A creature rose to face me and two radium eyes gleamed in darkness. I shrieked a little and my BP rose.It was a CAT!!. I immediately switched on the lights and I saw this cute creamy yellow coloured cat,which until recently had been hoovering around our dorm past 3 days. I shooed it weakly though it shook its head warily it didn't not move from the blanket. It stared at me for sometime and curled back as if it was its own bed. For some reason I dropped the idea of bringing my shuttle bat to chase it away. I felt a strange sense of similarity in both of us, a feeling, of being lonely in this big world. I switched of the lights and went to sleep on my roommate's bed, ginning.

I curled in the cat's direction and kept watching it the twilight with half closed eyes.I kept thinking stuff like the cat might actually feigning sleep till i sleep so it can later browse the net on my desktop top for various rats or it might watch a Tom and Jerry show in YouTube or the cat was actually 'puss in boots' etc etc.. and so many strange blurring furry thoughts kept moving through my minds eye and when i woke up the cat was gone.

my roomie's story

'You know what Rachel did today'.....the phrase with which my roomie,Anna, always starts her bedtime conversations with me.
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My old roommate left me and the ol room saying nothing. So I shifted to a new room,just before the commencement of my final yr. I was single and the school management said that they will find me a new roommate soon. I never thought 'soon' meant the very next day as the next day after a sleepy morning lecture I came back to my room to collect the materials of the following lab. As I approached the door I found the lock open and I immediately realized that 'soon' came . I entered the room in a bit caution and I found this beautiful girl standing near the window. Her name is Anna. She been here from far east.

Now something about Anna first.
She is new to the coll and so, horribly home sick.She is one hell of a puritan and annoyingly punctual. She is a soft speaker and total humanitarian.She is from a different batch and had their campus at a different place so i never saw her sleeping in a lecture hall. She had afternoon and evening sessions and I had morning and afternoon sessions. The only I can talk to her is during nights. One thing I noticed about her is that she does behave arrogant sometimes and keeps using my things with out permission starting from my bucket to clothes.

This blog isn't about her but about her friend,Rachel, who is in the same class as that of her.It is a list of the conversations we had about Rachel almost every night.
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Rachel,as Anna says, as one of the extravagantly eye catching person not only from her looks but also from her confidence in speech full of believable lies.She loved fooling people and laugh behind their backs. Anna always wondered why such a person of her capability haven't joined in politics yet.

Day one,
I remember Anna saying that Rachel dragged her away to the lecture hall, which is supposedly to start an hour later, just after a day of their commencement of new academic year.

Day two,
'u know what!!......Rachel complained to the professor about his own bad teaching skills in front of the half-sleeping class'.

Day three,
Rachel smooched a guy,who is going out with Clare.

Day four,
'She declared herself as the head of their team and made rest of the others do the assignment and when they failed to do it in time she went and complained to the professor saying that her team consisted nothing but lazy bums who doesn't want to cooperate with their hard-working leader'.

Day five,
She made the TA give her full credits for a partially right answer.

By weekend, she is the institution among my friends Lisa, Emma and Sharone as I tell them about Rachel during lunch hours. Lisa is being Rachel when she bunked her lab but made me mark her attendance. Sharone did a Rachel when she copied quizz questions right in front of the professor;even me,I was being Rachel When I copied the code and modified it to look like a genuine self made one. We made a resolved to meet this Rachel this weekend. So I asked my roomie if she could invite this friend of hers to a small gathering party in the college canteen.
But she replied that Rachel's house is in the next town and she already left for it as it was a weekend.Though we were disappointed we all longed to meet her.

Days passed and our conversations of Rachel became more complicated and less frequent as Anna is busy with hectic group projects and came home at late hours. But I remember her saying some times that Rachel dumped two guys as she found out that were noobs.
'She made a boy to get almost expelled from the collage', Anna told me during a night. 'Why ?' I enquired. 'He made some comment about her and she complained to the disciplinary committee and made the guy to write a legal paper document making him liable for future harassment'.

During the third week Anna came to room randomly and said that she had an exam tomorrow and she is having a group study at their friends house. But she came home in the early hours and I noticed with my sleepy eyes that she was exhausted and she had some faint makeup all over her face. That evening I asked Anna about her exam. She said she managed well as she studied all the night and added that Rachel had been partying till dawn.

After this incident,we rarely talked and during the fifth week, Anna left the room for a new one in a new dorm far from ours with a girl named Clare who was in the same year as hers. Lisa moved to stay with me.

After a few days I noticed that two of my tops and a sweat shirt missing from my closet. Anna's campus had this big library.So I thought I cud get two birds from a single trip. So I called Anna and arranged a meeting in her campus at five at the stundet union building.

I got at her campus a little early so I went to the student records room to have a look at Rachel since I longed to see the face of the most rumored girl of campus. I asked the help desk person to search for a girl named Rachel studying in the same class as Anna. But to my wonder no results turned up. I made him search in other courses but a girl named 'Rachel willow' haven't showed up in the database. Bewildered,I left the room and headed to the lobby where I met Clare, whom Anna is presently living with.

I exchanged a smile and said 'Howz Anna doin now a days?'Her face suddenly dropped ,' How she be not doing well, she is so popular after all'. Those words from Clare had a sarcastic ring to them so din't push them far and I asked about Rachel. 'Who is Rachel?' she replied back in surprise. Confused I quoted some of the conversations to her I heard from Anna. She laughed and said "Anna was the girl who smooched my guy".