“Let’s go for a movie this weekend”, he said. You know it Abhi, weekend is the time for me to go back home, I replied acerbically . We’ll go on 2^nd October, I said, just to grapple the situation . But he was adamant on going on Sunday itself, so he started with his regular dose of emotional blackmail – EB as I denote it. He didn’t want to delay it as he was busy on 2^nd. Knowing how docile I am, he knew how to cajole me.  As calculated, I gave up and agreed that I’ll come back before the movie starts and then we can enjoy the movie together. Giving this promise I made my way back to my home town. Soon it was Sunday, the day I had to come back to Delhi. I was supposed to reach the cinema hall by 5 p.m. so I started well in time. Unlike every time, my calculations lay straight and I expected to reach before time. I still had an hour and a half in hand and was just an hour away from my destination. This apparently meant half an hour before time. I was happy and excited, more so because I’ll be able to remove the label of late comer this time. It was 4 p.m. when I decided to SMS Abhi and inform of my record breaking arrival.

I keyed in the message and was about to send it and just then I received an SMS. Voila! It was an SMS from ‘Laughter Tonic’, as displayed in the message header. Yes, ‘Laughter Tonic’ as I lovingly call him – a dose of laughter for me, anywhere, anytime. This is one reason that I cherish this friend of mine. Always in high spirits, a source of inspiration, an avid reader, a motivator, an activist, a visionary, the whole blog will be populated with my words of admiration for him, so I give myself a full stop here. I ardently admire this friend of mine who also has a big account of fan falling in orkut too – outnumbering 60 as far as I remember. Anyways, getting back to the SMS I received. The SMS read – “Hey, let’s cancel the movie program today as I have to go somewhere and reschedule it for 2^nd”. Yes, 2^nd it read!  The day I was asking him to plan for movie but with his entrepreneurial skills he convinced me for 30^th itself. I was galled at this. The witch  in me became a cynosure and so I decided. He will have to bear the wrath of my venom spitting tongue – an SMS as a substitute for the time being. In a fraction of seconds I got the delivery report for the spite I sent to him.  But, this wouldn’t satiate the witch in me. I was baffled till I slept and was still boiling with anger the next morning. A true Leo I am – won’t forgive the one who cheated me.

I never stopped to think as to what made him cancel the program. The only thing pestering me was how can he do this to me? More so because I fought with mom to leave early despite the fact that Dad came back home after a month. Why? Just for an irresponsible friend who informed me just an hour before I was to reach the destination. When he knew that I was coming to Delhi just for the program he made and that I will have to leave at least 2 hours before the movie starts, why couldn’t he inform me in time? Who gave him the right to spoil my Sunday? I couldn’t believe that Abhi, my dearest friend can be so insensitive and so irresponsible. Had he informed me in time, I could have stayed with Dad and didn’t have to take all that rage from Mom.

I was looking for ways to teach him a lesson, but I failed! Failed - may be because the witch in me has slept or may be my angelic conscience has waked. May be the friend in me cannot do worst than sending spiteful SMS. Or may be I am thinking that I have no right to even ask him as to why he did this to me. The other me in me is even asking me a question – is it really an issue to be hyped so much? Am I really being cheated by my dearest friend? I am bemused......