Reflections from the pensieve

The story till now
Upon seeing the comments on a friends Facebook relationship status and upon deciphering the possible deeper meanings I decided to unearth the mystery myself. I created a lie and let my friends do the rest. The spark was beginning to turn into a widespread flame and I had absolutely no idea what I was going to end up in.

Here s the next chapter.

friend 3 is still over the moon on my engagement, apparently very inquisitive about my new innings. So she pings me

friend 3: hi hope everything is good at your end. So what plans of Onam.


me: nothing much


friend 3: what nothing much arent you going to your future inlaws house for Onam


ah thank you friend 3 for helping me create another bigger lie so grateful, here you go


me: oh yes I m how did you know? 

friend 3: lo ye bhi koi poochne waali baat hain, its logical man 

who the hell calls this a logic

me: ah yes how did I forget to reason 


friend 3: so when are you declaring the news to all our friends


me: m waiting for my inlaws to give me a green signal, since there are those religious impediments


friend 3: I m dying to tell others, if you dont tell dem soon I ll


me: arre wait wait dont tell others, let me personally tell them, people dont take it nicely when they hear such news from a 3rd party rather than directly, you know relations can be spoiled 


friend 3: but can I tell atleast x, y, z about this engagement


me: no, I ll personally tell them


friend 3: when


me: depends


friend 3: so please let me tell them then, I ll make sure that they dont feel bad


me: no


friend 3: please


me: noooooooo 


friend 3: please please please


me: ok 


friend 3: dont worry I have already told them :) :) 

voilà the lie worked

me: why did you tell them even when I asked you to caution


friend 3: ah that is because I m sooo happy for you I wanted to share with everyone 

Yea right, "happy for me", I would ve rather accepted the real logic (now imagining
me: why did you tell them even when I asked you to caution
friend 3: ah that is because I cant keep anything in my stomach, I have to blurt it out)


friend 3: so your church thing still an impediment


me: somethings cant be helped you see, especially with inter-religious marriages there are bound to be issues and church is very staunch on such issues.


friend 3: oh yes I know 


friend 3: I heard your parents were in Bangalore some time back


me: yes who told you 


friend 3: ofcourse friend 1


me: awesome 
now this awesome was a sarcastic one, one to highlight the communication network between same gender individuals, in appreciation of how a gossip actually builds and how small innocuous developments in life are interpreted to have deeper meanings when they are not at all. Anyways back to the discussion

friend 3: so that is the reason why there were here


me: what reason


friend 3: duhhhhhh, for your engagement man, where's your logic 


me: awesome


now this awesome was a really appreciative one, for creating something out of nothing, I had actually never thought I should have got this angle right, the parents one. How did I miss this? Anyways thanks to friend 3 now even my parents are part of this. Sorry dad, sorry mom. Thank you friend 3 for enlightening me to this insight and now that you have led me to this enlightenment I shall make most of it.


me: yea they came down for engagement


friend 3: so where the snaps


me: madam it takes time to develop it, create an album and courier it, where's your logic (friend 3: style)


friend 3: oh yes :) sorry but do send me one


me: ofcourse yes, you will be the first to get it 
and after a lot of blah blah


friend 3: me going take care, have a great Onam at your fiancée s place


me: thanks, Happy Onam to you too


I was happy that my plan was working perfectly and I knew I had the right person doing the job for me. Would my experiment be a success, would I be able to unearth the true meaning behind my friends' happiness or would I end up like 2012 oblivious to the dangers but sitting on a sure shot disaster, this only time will tell. But for the time being I was enjoying the pseudo relationship status. Thanks friends you have made "a friend in deed is a friend indeed" hold true.

To be continued.........