The bench..

Farhan, Jay, Raghav and Ranveer were sitting in his room, watching Friends on the computer. It was the final year of engineering and neither of them had gone to college that day. Farhan, Jay and Ranveer were in the same engineering branch in college and Raghav was from differnet branch. It was around 4pm and Farhan said he was hungry, he looked out of the window and the shop outside hadnt opened and he mumbled to himself "eggs and bread have to wait for another half n hour more...damn it"...and they all got back to watching Friends...

As the episode was about to finish, it was nearing 4.30 and the shop was about to open, Jay said to Farhan, "arre Farhan miyan, hang on...have patience..it will open up..then you can hog on all you want"..Raghav and Ranveer were laughing at the sight of Farhan struggling to control his hunger...

At 4.45 the sound of the shop shutters opening came like music to Farhan, it was like Bitter sweet symphony to his ears and he dashed out of the room to buy some eggs and bread...Raghav, Jay and Ranveer all went hysterical at his speed of running out...5 minutes later Farhan came back running in and shouted.."Ranveer..that first year girl..is coming..arre the same girl...the sardarni...you have a crush on", Ranveer retorts back.."oye i dont have any crush on her...just that she is kinda cute"...and then Jay jumps in.."Ranveer dont lie...we know you have a crush on her"...and Ranveer keeps denying it...

"You should go talk to her"..say Farhan, "she will take 5 minutes to get here...go and talk to her..she is walking back to her flat alone...".

"Yes Ranveer go dude, go..be a man...go talk to her"..jump in Raghav and Jay in a chorus...Ranveer was now cornered with nothing else to do but to go out and talk to her..."Damn it, why does this happen to me...what will i talk to her about...i will end up making a fool out of myself".

"Arre nothing will happen...just go and talk to her"...says Farhan. "You are a big flirt, Farhan...I am not...it is not that easy for me to go and just talk to some girl out there"..."You will learn my boy..just go" and Ranveer is kicked out of the room..on to the street...

Ranveer sees her walking toward the room..and he starts walking towards her..Farhan, Jay and Raghav are hiding behind the curtain of the window outside Ranveer's room and looking at the scene that is going to develop. Ranveer and the girl meet exactly outside Ranveer's room where there is a stone bench on the street, "Hi, how are you, i am Ranveer, we are in the same college". The girl taken aback replies " Oh hi, I am Simran(as if Ranveer didnt know) ".

Ranveer(with all the thoughts going on in his head) blurts.."So you are in first year right?", Simran just nods. " I am in final year IT". "Ok", says Simran. Ranveer(thinking to himself what should i say next)..."So are you liking the college?".."Yes it is fine, anyways i have to go my roommate must be waiting", says Simran. " Oh ok..no probs...see ya around" says Ranveer and they both walk off...

Once she is out of sight, Ranveer runs back to the room to see all his 3 friends going hysterical, laughing their guts out , Farhan had even forgotten about his hunger...and then Ranveer also started laughing...They all laughed for the next 10minutes..lost in the moment of foolishness and how stupid and funny things can be...

"Boy, you have made me proud" says Farhan, "Ya Ya... I knw you jerk...you guys had fun at my expense"..says Ranveer..."lol..we are going to remember this incident by that very bench, man..this is where you went out and spoke to that girl" says Farhan..." lol..you all are such assholes" says Ranveer and they all start laughing...

(the names of the characters have been changed)