Episode 12: The Curious Case Of Pranav Kulshreshtha!

So he went to the seat where Pranav was sitting but while he was going there Abbas warned him not to as Pranav was not talking to anybody.

But as the author had said just like a bad habit the thought of the two missing people though negated by Namrata and Sameer’s appearance which had resurfaced again when Sameer mentioned seeing Uday had caught Nikhar’s mind in a whirlwind. So instead of asking things like what happened to you etc etc, Nikhar asked Pranav,”Hey…Body! Umm…Did you by any chance see Uday on the deck below?”

“Pagla gaya hai kya?” asked Pranav in sheer frustration.

“But what then took you so long down there?” asked Nikhar.

“I was carried away by a beautiful woman. I thought when we met our eyes there was something about her. So I approached her, she was wearing sunglasses and an aqua-blue dress which was quite revealing… and I used the line, You can remove your sunglasses…because I think a pretty face will definitely have pretty eyes… And then she removed those glasses…”

“And then?” asked Nikhar.

Pranav was about to say something when he saw the excitement on Nikhar’s face so he folded his words and said, “Nothing! It’s just… that I saw something which I shouldn’t have.”

In the mean term Shray who had overheard this pulled Nikhar close to him and said, “Chill dude! I have searched the deck below. Uday wasn’t there. And that lady was hot! But Body wasn’t there then. He was over the railings of the boat watching the sea. So, nothing spectacular has happened. Now stop fucking with your head.”

So, like a little kid who walks in disappointment after being promised of a large ice-cream but then not getting it, Nikhar walked back to his seat and as he sat Ketaki came there to flaunt her new sunglasses.

“Hey…look at this! Looks nice naa?” spoke Ketaki in excitement showing her newly bought sunglasses to Nikhar.

“Hmm…aren’t they too big for your face!?” asked Nikhar covering his dislike in a polite question.

“Yeah.. I mean they are… a little bit. But they are the in-thing and anyways I’m gonna use it for a month or two.” said Ketaki.

“Huh? I don’t understand this. Why would you use such a costly thing for a month only?” asked Nikhar.

“Arrey… I bought it from a local bazaar in Andheri… I bought them for 100 bucks.” Said Ketaki. Thus, revelation of the amount let Nikhar pour out his outburst, “Then…It’s much safer to say that I HATE YOUR SUNGLASSES, and your face looks even tinier in it.”

That…pissed Ketaki off! And thus, she joined the girls behind…while Nikhar sat with the khujlikhor-Hardik who was singing some old melodies...which in-turn pissed Nikhar! So he flashed a grin to Hardik, took out his earphones and listened to THE SWAGGA BY GORILLAZ…woo! (Music plays and in the mean-term the singer shouts Woo! Woo! Woo!) the song changes to RHINOSTONE EYES BY GORILLAZ (where the singer speaks about scary gargoyles on the towers!) And so on went the creepy songs in his playlist as finally they reached the Auto rickshaw-stand which was the final stop to a small bus journey.

Shubhankit lead the group getting off the bus followed closely by Vaibhav-Babba and rest of the others. It was a big circular Auto-rickshaw stand with Maharashtrian drivers sitting inside their rickshaws and listening to radio blabber some Marathi songs. Meanwhile, Shray Desai gathered everybody as Abbas addressed the 24 people. “Okay folks! What we as in I, Arpit, Shubhankit and Nikhar have planned is to go to a private beach-Kashid which is just a few minutes away from here…there we’ll get to do adventure sports. And yeah it’s a white sand beach so we’ll love it there, what say?”

“What? Wait a minute! We’re here for Alibag trip and we are not going to Alibag?” asked Satya from the group, which Nikhar thought was a valid question.

“Hehe.. Actually we aren’t going to Alibag. Anyways the Alibag beach is a little dirty, while that Kashid-beach is quite nice.” Said Abbas.

“Have you seen that beach before?” asked Vaibhav.

“No. Onkar has. Onkar says it’s better than Alibag beach.” Abbas said.

“Perfect!” said Satya sarcastically.