Silence is golden ... no wonder it cost them so much.
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It was an insipid February evening and he was getting restless .. despite the chill outside, it was getting unbearably hot and balmy within the shack - the fire in the shack's fire place had been burning for a little too long. And to top it all off, a splitting headache aggravated by Simmi / Rinni screaming like two Banshee's whoz arses were on fire. He wanted to kick Nilesh for scaring them with that stupid plastic lizard toy of his and absolutely detested the ensuing shrill feminine shrieks that followed. He decided to go out to the shack's balcony ... there was something calming about the Goa air. He stood there .. With his hands on the rail ..Looking out to the sea. Not that it was calling out to him. But some times listening to silence was comforting. Or so he thought.
He swirled the Scotch in his glass and looked up when a lone figure standing dangerously close to the the shoreline caught his eye. This was Goa .. And Fenny and Marijuana was a local speciality. Someone or the other was always drunk or high around this place. He would have dismissed the silhoutte of being yet another piss drunk charlatan but it was too still to belong to someone under the influence of any form of intoxication ! He didn't know what it was but there was something about the lone figure that drew him. He jumped the rails of the balcony and landed on the sand below with a soft thud. His feet left a trail of deep imprints as he made his way towards the shore.
Her hair flew in the eastern wind and her bare hands and shoulder were covered in goose pimples from the biting cold of February night but she did not look like she was aware. She just ... Stared ahead ... Into the depths of the night .. Beyond the fuzzy lines of the horizon where sky met sea. She couldn't breathe ... Knowing he was in there .. She had to escape confinement of the four walls of the Shack ...
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TO BE CONTINUED . May be. I dunno . This is something I had written during the Goa special episodes. Didn't post it then ... but had to get it out of my system ... so yeah
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