short story
4th May 2006
She was feeling lost.
But is being lost, a solution? No, it was not.
And my good for nothing friend is just being useless at present.
"Are you listening?"
I turned to look in her direction; I have not heard a single word.
"I knew it, what am I? An idiot or something like that"
I could not understand why she was nagging, it is me who has lost my mobile and she is behaving as if I have intentionally thrown her mobile phone.
"Now, just get up and we are going to the police station to lodge an FIR"
I did not feel like going anywhere, I just wanted to sit and meditate as to how and when I dropped my jaan, my cell phone.
"You have that IMEI number, they will want it"
Yes may be then my jaan could be tracked back to me.
"Now a day's it's easy to find the phones if you have the IMEI number, they even track back the phone however far off it may be taken"
But will I get it back as I have lost it, before I get it how many people would have used t, how many people would have touched its screen, how many people would have looked in to my video library and documents file.
"Fast you lazy ass, come"
I followed her silently; after all I needed to have the FIR copy, if I wanted the same sim number.
The following events happened mechanically, the police did not ask much, they everyday got hundreds of such cases, the cop gave us the form and we filled and signed it, she asked for my email ID and told me not to come again, if they will find the mobile set, they will inform us.
So it was done.
Then we went to the service providers office, gave the FIR copy, he asked us to come back the next day and he assured I will get the same number.
Soon my mother gifted me a new cell phone a better one of course, but I did not feel any enthusiasm.
My lost set was my jaan, I had hundreds of photographs, many videos and quite many songs. My Nokia 6600 was my jaan. It was like a pet. It was my first mobile, and was with me since last 2 years. I feel empty without it.
4th May 2012
Years have passed since that day; today was the sixth lost anniversary of my jaan. The police could not track it back.
Since then I have changed many mobiles, but I felt no attachment with any of the sets. I now know that they are just usable items, not pets. I very frequently change my sets now.
When I got admission in the architecture college my brother gifted that set to me. At that time very few students had mobiles. I boosted my set and took a lot of pictures and videos with it. I never wrote contact numbers on the diary but directly fed them on my cell.
And with my mobile lost I have also lost those numbers. And among those numbers was the number of my first crush. The man I fell for, he was a final year student then, and I was like stupefied when I first met him and it was his aura that made me like architecture more.
2005-06
I still remember him, he had come to stay with our neighbors' as a paying guest, he was there for a 6 months training. I liked him and he too showed interest in me. I used to go to his place and ask him some stupid doubts and sometimes graphics and sometimes structures. He smiled at me and patiently solved them.
2nd May 2006
Once I went to his place, he was all alone, I sat there again blabbering
"chup bilkul chup"
I was shocked to hear his voice and what followed next almost paralyzed me.
He kept his index finger on my lips, and God it was heaven.
I stared blankly at him.
He slowly withdrew his finger
"I know why you come here so often"
I was embarrassed; I looked everywhere but at him
"You think you have fallen for me"
I did not know what to say
"I too think I have fallen for you"
If I was shocked earlier, I was dead now.
"But you see this is not the right time to think on these lines"
I could not utter a single word
"I don't believe in all this stuff, all I know is I like you and someday I may want to marry you"
Was he proposing me? Or was he confessing his feelings?
"Now is not the time, I am going back in two days, I know your house and someday I will come to ask your hand"
I just nodded, my cheeks were burning and I were feeling very shy
"Here take my number and my address and if you all ever change your house just inform me, I still don't have a mail ID I will tell you as soon as I get one"
I hurriedly fed the information in jaan.
"Now please go, before I do something unpardonable"
I nodded and moved to the door as I was about to close it, I
turned back, his eyes were full of desire, I don't know what happened I ran to
him and he hugged me. We were soon lost in the bliss of our very first kiss.
girls I have lost my mobile, so this idea popped in my mind... my life without my Nokia is lost...
can you guess the characters in the story๐?
SHRUTI๐
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part 3 page 7
part 4 page 8
PART 8 PAGE 31
PART 9 PAGE 33
PART 14 Page 78
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