friends forever

I kinda knew what was coming my way when I entered the café to meet my friend Ryan. It was 6 in the evening and let me tell you the café at this time is often crowded with mostly office crowd. I donno why but it’s often like that, the café owner mints a fortune everyday in the evenings. Ok anyways, now let’s not eye the business of the cafe… let’s get back to the entrance …entrance! Yeah I was there only na... hmm… so I entered and started looking for him … it was slightly easer than climbing Everest but I managed

“Hey!” I exclaimed as I approached his table...

“Hey buddy hi” Ryan said, we shook hands and as I sat down, I noticed Ryan’s face ...he seemed like he had been crying all evening… “It’s all over man! Its all over between me and Sam”, Ryan said with tears in his eyes, sipping his cold coffee. “She dumped me!!!! Can you believe it???? I loved her so much and she did this to me!!!! Now what do I do without her???? Why did this have to happen to me???” he kept asking me between continuous sobs!

She must have found someone better than you I thought, giving myself a satanic smile, but at the same time I was feeling sorry for him …

“Oh common dude! Your smart, good looking, witty you’ll find someone soon” I said sympathetically. “Just chillax ok… and forget about her” I added

“Forget about her!! are u kidding me? I loved her more than my life for gods sake! You don’t think we came this far, for nothing, do you?” he asked me indignantly as I ordered a cold coffee for myself!

Meet my friend Ryan Andrade, we were together in college, played soccer together for the college team, hanged out with a common gang of friends… bunked classes together and watched a lot of movies…had lots of fun at parties and night outs, etc! Even after college our gang often keeps meeting up. So basically we knew almost everything about each other. He’s basically a nice guy, a little emotional types…

Now the Sam he is talking about is Samantha Frank …only daughter of a rich businessman; she worked with Ryan in the same company, they were seeing each other since six months, and recently she had started accompanying him to all the parties and get-togethers… Initially I always thought there was something strange about this Frank chick but I never mentioned it to Ryan … I had nothing against this girl, mind you. I mean she was indeed nice, gentle, caring, someone just right for Ryan…so it didn’t really matter whether I told him what I felt or not! Anyways that’s about their bio-data.

Last night it so happened…One of Ryan’s friends threw the Great Wall of China on Ryan’s head by telling him: - he had seen some guy kissing Sam at a night club two days ago. A disbelieving Ryan went on to ask Sam about it, more than certain that she’d deny and laugh it off, but unfortunately, she admitted to cheating on him. !!! That was it!!! Poor Ryan’s heart broke into thousand pieces and he called me to the café to tell me his sorrowful story!

“Your coffee sir” my coffee had arrived; and that’s when I came back to the present again …only to realize Ryan was still mumbling something, ……“Why me? I mean, we were so good together……., we had such beautiful plans….,” I was seriously getting bored now! “Hey did to see that girl on the counter?” I said pointing out to a beautiful girl in a pretty purple dress … trying to divert his mind. ..

“hmmmmmmm” we both said simultaneously gazing at her. “But how could she do that??” Ryan asked may be still staring at her -I donno if he was looking at her or no. cz I was no longer looking at him… “Well may be no one is taking her order, that’s why she’s gone to the counter herself”… I said hoping that was the right reason..

“oh shit no! I am talking about Sam! How could she do this to me?”

“huh? Who? …oh!! Hmmm… yeah I know…” I muttered, looking him now…

“You know I am certain the new guy is better looking than me and that jerk is definitely after her money” Ryan angrily exclaimed! I was surprised to hear that we were both thinking along the same lines. About the money, that is.

“Come on, yaar! She doesn’t deserve someone like you. She has just proved that. Chalo, lets grab something to eat. Get up!” I urged him. Frankly I was sick of hearing the same old lines for the past one hour.

“No, you carry on. I’m not hungry. I just want to die,” he said, tears welling up in his eyes, again. Then as an afterthought he added, “What would I do without a friend like you? I would have really killed myself if it weren’t for you. Thanx for being there man… I really appreciate this, thanx a lot”

“Now stop with the compliments, I’m not half as nice as you are,” I said distractedly. My cell was buzzing in my pocket. “I’ll be right with you. Just need to get to the window; network issues.”

My cell was flashing a bright blue. I picked it up and whispered, “hi love, I am at the café with Ryan. For the past one and half hour, he’s been getting on my last spare nerve, guessing exactly why you must have cheated on him!”

P.S: All the characters in this are fictitious. Resemblance to any person living or dead is purely coincidental…

inspired from Whiny the Moo's - Tales of a Cheater