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. Wishes started flowing on social media sites and more friends who had no idea about what was happening too started wishing me through mails and online. Meanwhile friend 3 was over the moon on my engagement plans and was spreading the good news as a true BBC correspondent. I was happy that things were going my way or were they.........????
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. Wishes started flowing on social media sites and more friends who had no idea about what was happening too started wishing me through mails and online. Meanwhile friend 3 was over the moon on my engagement plans and was spreading the good news as a true BBC correspondent. I was happy that things were going my way or were they.........????
Happy with my ongoing conquests into people's so called joy over others relationships I was enjoying life which was as usual in its usual flow. My friends at office were inquisitive about my latest research which was indeed quite strange for all. So speaks my good friend and a great advisor, who was aware of my bluff.
Advisor friend: buddy u ll land up in deep S@#$t
me: with what
Advisor friend: with whatever you are doing
me: u mean the fake engagement
Advisor friend: yes
me: I know man but this s epic, I call it the epic bluff (I stated with a wide flashed grin)
Advisor friend: hmmm thats what I m trying to warn you, dont call it a bluff before your over excited friend friend 3, tell her that your engagement is off
I took that as an offence and made a wry face
me: common man, this bluff s like a diamond and you want me to call it off, I want to see their faces once I call this a bluff. Superb it would be.
Advisor friend: yea but dont you think you stand a good chance of getting that face on yourselves in case everything gets topsy turvy
me: nay my plan is foolproof, dont have a loophole in that, and BTW this lady I have already spoofed before
Advisor friend: you mean you have already bluffed her and yet she believes in your second bluff and that too without any evidences
me: yes sir (and I tried to give my advisor friend a piece of my own advice)
so after readjusting my collar like all people who are in their moment of success, I took a deep breath and started off
me: the point is you cant bluff a person two times in a row that too in a space of a few months
Advisor friend: and???
me: so you need to device a plan, a foolproof plan
Advisor friend: so how was yours done
Braving on my achievement that my Advisor friend was indeed taking advice from me I continued
me: mine simple, I routed the bluff through another person whom I knew had a weak stomach
Advisor friend: weak stomach?
me: arre baba weak stomach bole to cant keep secrets
Advisor friend: ok continue continue
me: cant you see here it is, the perfect formula to bluff an already bluffed person twice in a space of few months, you never reach the same person twice, you divert your bluff via a third person
Advisor friend: you will get into trouble bro, I m warning you
me: nay I have full faith in my plan
So giving a deaf ear to my Advisor friend's advice I carried on with my usual life, but one day something happened for which I and only I was responsible. The following sequence of events came as a self created earthquake which shattered every dream house that I had built over the years (in time you shall understand what dream houses I m talking about). you can prevent a fool from breaking into your foolproof plan but you cant help prevent a fool from creating a intelligentproof plan.
So it goes on a particular Tuesday, date 10th September (dates are something I dont remember whatever happens, but this date was the worst omen day, I cant forget this day for sure). I got a call from home, what surprised me a bit was that I got a call in the afternoon from home. They never call me while I m at office and especially on a Tuesday, we follow routines, twice a week I have to call them, Sunday or Wednesday were the scheduled mandatory call days, start of the week and end of the week, process based you see, unless its very urgent. I picked up the call fearing the worst and the worst did I witness that day. Below are the snippets of that call, the call that would just leave my beautiful world upturned.
me: hello
family: what the hell is going on there
For a moment I was taken aback from what I heard, so I reiterated, I knew the flood gates were about to open, but was trying to be innocent as the government people when the floods arrive.
me: sorry
family: we are asking you what the hell is going on there
The fact dawned on me that I was certainly under a huge deluge and the only respite from this was death
me: what happened
family: you tell me
me: what did I do
family: (in malayalam) eda eda nee ngyangale ella naadil naatu aa elle
for the readers ease I shall translate this into English though I cant guarantee if all the words would be correctly represented as they are in the above dialogue for known fears
here it goes
family: you are putting us to shame before the entire community
I couldnt think of anything else but my previous dialogue
me: what did I do
family: we have heard that you got engaged
I WAS STUMPED, to the extent I could see the wickets being broken into pieces (virtually i mean)
me: nooooooooooooooo
family: your friend told us
I was STUNNED I was taken aback, my foolproof plan had indeed been cracked as told by my Advisor friend. But how in the earth did this friend tell my parents; my home tele number had been changed so no chances of him/her getting the new number, they are not into technology nor was the place I live in, internet was still a deficient item, emails were limited to single words in newspapers. Could a friend been to home, but there was none who was at my native, all had migrated along with me during graduation to some corners along with their families and I was the only forsaken among the entire lot still cooling my heels there. So how did my plan fail. I questioned them and what I present now is dramatic representation of the sequence of events that happened on that fateful day.
To be continued
