Landing the job

I was watching the first day first show of yet another much awaited Bollywood film that that I am sure will be a hit. I love films. They fulfil my simple formula of “when in doubt, get away from reality”. Accompanying me was my best friend and love interest of the last 5 years – Aryan. I adore him with all my heart and soul. I can do anything for him and as corny as that sounds – I mean it.

I met Aryan when I was 17, we hit it off instantly and even though I don’t admit this to too many people, I was the reason for his breakup. His girlfriend was a good friend of mine and trust me, I am not the kind who would steal a friend’s boyfriend but Aryan and I were friends before she came into the picture. I loved Aryan before he fell in love with her. They had a strange sort of relationship, he was extremely vocal about how he felt and she was extremely shy almost coming across as being uninterested sometimes. I spent many evenings listening to Aryan’s love problems, playing agony aunt to him and his girlfriend even though I was falling more and more in love with him every moment. Just so happened that one day, I was at my secret hideout – “the terrace” – the place where I went every time I felt low about life. Aryan knew about it. As I stood by the railing, looking at the darkness and fighting feelings of jealousy knowing that Aryan loved someone else, he came up right behind me and scared the hell out of me. We walked hand in hand to the water tank, sat there together in silence and I rested my head on his shoulder while he put his arm around mine. Somehow, without intending to, we ended up kissing! What followed were many days of more kisses on the terrace, at the ice cream parlour, at the club, at his place and along with the pleasure, feelings of tremendous guilt hit both of us – him for betraying the girl he claimed to love and me for betraying a friend. Eventually the burden of guilt became too heavy to carry and we decided to come clean with his girlfriend. Her name is Neha by the way. Needless to say, what followed was a whole lot of mess and in gist – Neha broke up with him. Aryan was shattered. He truly loved her – that’s what he believed at that time anyway. We lived in different cities for the last 2 years but now we are together in Delhi with me doing my internship and him studying in engineering college. Even today I am madly in love with him.

Anyhow, we got out of the movie hall and I called back the number from which I had 13 missed calls. It was the number of NNI – News Network India – the latest English news channel in the offing. They wanted me to come and collect my offer letter. I got my first job. Yippee!

Aryan and I drove across the city, to collect the letter and later celebrated with a Chinese lunch. My joining date is 3 months away. In the meantime, I have an internship to finish at another news channel and 2 months to just enjoy my life. On the priority list is weight loss!