EYES

“I am living a lie”

“Don’t you dare say it, Michael”

“But it’s the truth, Yasmeen”

“You are fucking idiot”

“Shut the fuck up, Charles”

“Tell me again what happened” said Charles

“So, here was I standing at the front of mall waiting for her, but she didn’t come and I waited for an hour and when I called her and asked she said ‘I am on my way’ said Michael.

“So what’s the matter in it, she got late, people get late, why are you making it such a big deal” said Yasmeen.

“Because I know she was lying”

“How the hell do you know that?”

“I saw her at the café Latte, on my way home from the mall”

“Ohh! Now that’s a lie”

“But it doesn’t matter, she might be coming late”

“Yeah, that could be true”

“I am not a kid, you both think I really care if I saw her there, no, I am worried because she was sitting with Alex”

“Alex who?” asked Yasmeen.

“Wait a minute! That Alex”

“You mean Alex Thorton, the Ice hockey team champion” said Charles.

“Yeah, that Buffoon”

“What are you guys talking about?” asked Yasmeen.

“You don’t know him Yas, he is from our college, he used to be star of our Ice Hockey team”.

“So, what’s wrong with him meeting her?”

“How do we make you understand, he is not a nice person and he was her boyfriend at college”

“Ohh, so she was meeting her Ex”

“Yeah”

“Now I see the problem, but that doesn’t mean she is cheating on you”

“It’s been four years since we left college and we are together, she never did that before”

“Maybe she was coming to meet you and they bumped into each other” said Charles.

“But why was she drinking Coffee with him”

“Seriously! Seriously! You boys taking everything so literally, she was just stopped for Coffee with an old friend that’s it, nothing else”.

“They were at a date, that too while she was supposed to come to meet me” said Michael.

“Maybe she is cheating with you; after all he is pretty handsome”

“You were supposed to be on my side Charles”

“I am just saying dude, she was a crush of all college girls, even of some boys”

“You guys are making it a big deal, I am telling you she was just meeting with an old friend”

“But why did she lied to me”

“Maybe she was worried that you might do, exactly what you are doing now” said Yas.

“She should have told me the truth, I would have understood it”

“Like you are doing now, right?”

“I am just worried, four years, four fucking years and now she lost interest in me”

“I am sure because you lost your job, everybody wants a safe future”

“But I got a new job”

“You do?” said both.

“Yeah, that too with good package, that what I was going to tell her at our meeting”.

“That’s good, congratulations man!”

“Fuck! Your congrats, I have big issues now”

“But you should be happy”

“I am not”

“Clearly I can see that” said Charles.

“You should be happy, I am telling you, its nothing”

“What should I do now?”

“Listen! Call her and tell her to meet us here”

“I am not going to do that”

“Do it you moron” said Yas.

“Yeah do it” said Charles.

“Okay, Okay I am doing, don’t be so rude”

“Hello, Christine, where are you?”

“Hey, I sorry, very sorry I couldn’t come, I got into some trouble”

“But where are you now?”

“With my friends”

“Which one?”

“I am with Angela, what happened, why are you asking questions like that”

“No.. nothing, I just wanted to meet you, can you come home”

“When?”

“Now”

“Now!!!, I can’t, I will come in an hour”

“But..”

“Okay by we are going somewhere, I’ll call you later”

“See, she cut the call”

“Maybe she is really at her friend’s”

“She is not, I am telling you”

“How do you know?”

“She is definitely cheating on me”

“Yeah, now even I am satisfied with that statement” said Charles.

“Don’t listen to him, Michael; he has no idea what he is saying”

“Of course, I know”

“What do you know; you are as single as moon in sky”

“That’s not the matter, I am telling you Michael, she is cheating”

“It’s fine if she doesn’t want to continue this relationship, I will break it”

“Are you out of your mind?” said Yas.

“You should not do that” said Charles.

“What!!!, but you were saying…”

“Yeah I know she is cheating but why breakup with her, she is a very pretty girl, and its not that you are going to get another girl at the next stop”

“So, what are you saying?”

“I am saying, keep her while find another girl and when you got a stable relationship, leave her, simple”

“Are you fucking crazy, Charles?”

“You are saying I should keep her as a backup”

“Yeah”

“No, I can’t do that man, I love her, I really love her, I cannot stay with her and betray her”

“But she betrayed you”

“Doesn’t matter, I can’t do that with her”

“So what are you thinking?”

“I will meet her one last time and will tell her, this is not working”

“So, you are not going to confront her”

“I can’t my friend, I can’t, I cannot see her humiliated in front of me”

“But you should confront her”

“So what will you say then, I mean the reason” said Yasmeen.

“I will take the blame on me, and will tell her I like someone else”

“I am telling you, you are doing, so wrong, you should at least wait for her, to hear her side”

“It’s your decision man, I mean think again, you should keep her”

“Yes, you should keep her but permanent not to betray her, she is a good girl, right girl for you”

The bell rang…

“Who is it?”

“I don’t know”

“Was anyone coming?”

“I don’t think so, no.. nobody”

“Open the gate and we will know, you idiots” said Yas.

“You go, you open”

“You lazy ass, okay”

“Surprise!!!!!!!!!”

“What… what are you doing here Christine?”

“You called me remember?”

“But you said…”

“I lied; I was planning a surprise party for you”

“But what for”

“You got new job right?”

“Yeah but how do you know?”

“You remember Alex from college”

“Yeah I do, what about him”

“He met me, when I was coming to meet you and he told me that”

“How does he know?”

“He works at your new company and saw you coming out of there and asked them about you, so they told him, you got the job, and by chance we bumped into each other and he told me”

“So, that’s why you didn’t come”

“Yes”

“See I was telling you, idiot” said Yas.

“What…?” said Christine

“Nothing… nothing” and he signaled her to shut up.

“So, what are you guys doing here?”

“Nothing we were just talking, ohhh you brought cake”

“Yeah, what a celebration without cake”

“What would I have done without you?”

“Nothing, you probably would have died of sex scarcity” and they all laughed.