Prologue
“Shit..damn luggage”, I gasped as I rushed into that moving bogie after moving my last bag off the platform.
A little later, I was there, standing at the open gate of that bogie, feeling the harsh wind over my tired face. Day had been quite tiring for me; night just added a hell lot more to it.
I was finally leaving Aligarh, and Aligarh Muslim University; my Alma Mater. I hated it when my friends didn’t come to see me off; they had promised they would! At least one guy among them, Meesum, my best friend, had promised that he would come to see me off. I needed him also because of the huge luggage I had with me.
“Fuck you all”, I groaned. “I will never come back here again”, I promised to myself, after a deep pause.
My course was complete here now; Diploma in Computer Engineering. And despite the fact that I had made into the waiting list of BCA entrance exams, the day bought me bad moments of rejection.It was not only this rejection that had hurt me. I had probably lost my love too, forever. No, she wasn’t dead.
She was there at the counseling center, for counseling of her brother. She saw me, I gazed at her.
She was in her car, alone, waiting for her Dad to come back. I was standing outside, just before her car, staring at her, waiting for her to take the decision of stepping out and move towards me.None of us moved. We were still while the time passed by.
Results were announced by now. I had been rejected.
The sight of car was lost now, and only thing I was staring onto was the emptiness before my eyes; for my life, and my career.
I had to return back to room, to pack up for the final departure from this city. Waiting for a call or message from her was a waste; this was what I had been doing past one month. No one cared about me and so did she. The only person who had called then was my dad, only to make my day worse.
As the train moved into the darkness of the outskirts of city, I felt the same for my life and career. I had no idea about the rest of my life. All I knew was that I was going home now; to my place, Lucknow.
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