Chapter 49: chapter 49

Shilpi – If you want to meet me, then come to my bank in Mansa. I will see you there and you can see me too. Aman – Okay, bank is also okay. Shilpi – No, bank is also not okay. Cancel it. Aman – Then where will we meet? Shilpi – You come to the bus stand of Mansa. I will see you there. Aman – Okay, done. When? Shilpi – Tomorrow in the evening at five p.m. Aman – Done. I will be there. I will call you on this very number. Shilpi – Okay. Nice talking to you. See you tomorrow. Aman – Same here. Bye bye. Take care. The next evening, exactly at five p.m., I stood at Mansa Bus stand and started waiting for her. I thought, “Let’s see how Shilpi looks in reality. In her profile picture, she was a bit heavy but her face looked beautiful.”Ten minutes passed. “Maybe she is late.” Twenty minutes passed. Thirty minutes passed. She didn’t come! “She is half an hour late! I should call her now.” I took out my phone and called her. I heard the ringing tone from the other side but nobody picked up my phone. “What! Why is she not picking up my phone? Perhaps, she is busy somewhere. That’s why she has neither come nor picking up my phone. Let’s wait for some more time.”Ten minutes passed, twenty minutes passed, thirty minutes passed. I looked at the time. The time was 6 p.m. by now. I thought, “It has been one hour. She has neither come not even called me back. I should text her. Yes, it’s a good idea.”I texted her, “Shilpi as we decided to meet at Mansa bus stand. I have been waiting for you here since five p.m. Please come and if you can’t come then please let me know. We will meet on some other day.” I copied the same message and also sent her on her whats app number. After about ten minutes, I checked if she had checked my whats app message or not. The message had been delivered on her number but she had not read yet. I checked simple text message inbox of my mobile phone, there was no reply at all! “Oh shit! She is not responding. I guess she has changed her mind.” Anyhow, I decided to wait for some more time. I looked at the time. The time was now 7 p.m.! “She made a fool of me! She is not going to come! Damn it! If you don’t want to meet me then why did you ask me to come to Mansa? You wasted my whole day! Aman, let’s go back. It's useless to stay here.” I kicked my bike and came back home disappointed.My mom noticed my disappointment at once. She asked me, “What happened? Why are you looking so upset?”I said with a straight face, “Nothing mom. My day was very hectic.”My mom – What about your meeting with your friend? I thought, “Oh, I lied to my mom that I was going to meet my friend as I could not say the reality. I was feeling shy. Now, I have to concoct another lie.”Aman – Meeting went well. Actually, he has come up with a new business idea. His business idea was so complicated that it exhausted all of us. I and my all friends got hell bored! Hehe! That’s all happened in our meeting. My mom – Your friend is stupid like you. Don’t know what you kids are doing! Some are making stupid business ideas, (sarcastically) and some are trying to find a girl for marriage on the internet. Aman – Mom! Now, please don’t start again!My mom – I didn’t start anything. It’s only you who is doing strange things that no one has ever done in our family. Aman – Uff! Mom, I can’t quarrel with you. Now, you are trying to pick up a quarrel but I am really sorry! I don’t have any energy left to fight with you. My mom - I am not trying to pick up a fight with you. You are trying to pick up a fight with me! You are doing stupid things and making me angry! I thought, “It’s useless to say anything to my mom. Whatever logic, I may put forth, however polite I would try to say now, nothing is going to work. It’s better to get inside any room and latch the door from inside.”I quickly went to my room slamming the door behind me and latched it. Having experienced calmness for a couple of seconds, I heaved a sigh of relief.The Next MorningI opened my eyes. The first thought that hit my brain was “Aman, despite you have a government job, your market value is zero! Initially, you thought that you are a government teacher, non-drinker, non-drinker there would be a huge rush of girls for marrying you and it would be you who has to choose one among them but the reality is just opposite to it. No normal good-looking girl wants to marry you! You are zero Aman, you are zero!”I said to myself, “What kind of thoughts are running in my mind early in the morning? Is this that we call a depression? Am I falling into sort of depression? Or have I become a patient of depression? Hey, Aman. Hold on! What the hell are you thinking today? You are a young boy of twenty-five. You can’t be a depression patient right now!”“But why a normal good-looking girl doesn’t want to marry me? Why normal girls’ parents are not even replying to my messages? The reality of 2022 is very cruel. Who are talking to me? Girls those who are divorcee, not even doing good jobs and girls who are not good looking. Even a bad looking girl doing a government job has not replied to me yet!”“And see my profile. My profile lacks in nothing. I have a government job, I have my own home, my reputation is great. I live in a small family. I am well-educated. Everything is perfect! But then why am I not getting a good match? Am I doing any mistake somewhere? Uff! Aman, don’t think much. Just focus on what you have to do. Open Shaadikamaal app and start messaging to girls.” I opened shaadikamaal app and kept on sending messages to girls until I reached my limit again. (It will be so nice of you, if you leave at least a single word comment 🌺❇️🌹🌺❇️)