Vibhor Singh

Romance

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Vibhor Singh

Romance

Dream

Dream

5 mins
174


Arav started listening to Ritviz that day. The sleep crept in. As he reached the REM phase of his sleep, he found himself in a school that was similar to one he studied in his childhood. He was on the playground playing football. There was a training pushup structure kind of thing there. He tried that but it had a slant elevation so when a person tries to do a pushup, one plank rocks and the other one is kept fixed. Well, he tried that and he was unsuccessful in doing so. Then he brought out one goal/bull's eye kind of platform where you have to shoot the ball at the bull's eye. He did that and was pretty good in that. After that he found himself playing table tennis, his favourite game. But it was played by two more players - a boy and a girl. The boy was a novice but the girl was a pro. What spin she did do to the ball with the paddle. He started playing with her. The girl won as assumed by him.


In the third part, he was in a plaza kind of place. He was there with her mom to the dentist. Her mom was scolding the receptionist for holding her for quite some time. Arav was feeling thirsty. He went to a water cooler and quenched his thirst. As he was finishing his glass, he saw a man at the back door smoking his hand-rolled cigarettes minding his own business, listening to songs or what he don't know (the man had put headphones on). He was something else. His looks, his body although he was just a few inches taller than him, he appeared much taller. He had a bag that looked as classy as himself as if the bag was liking his company.


Arav made his move as he wanted to talk with him. Let us name him Mr X. And Arav didn't know what was whether it was some kind of attraction or what but his heart ached to talk with X. Arav went to him and as he turned, Arav was like flat - flat on his looks. X said hi; Arav replied hey. Arav asked what he was smoking. X told it was Goldflake. His dark lips made him look sexier. But what came to X's mind as he asked whether Arav was single. Arav replied in negation. X asked whether he was interested in one; Arav told whether he was asking for himself or for some other person. X replied for himself. Arav was very happy and felt kind of in the seventh heaven. X invited him to watch a movie. They went to the cinema. Arav didn't know what came to his mind that he was walking with a total stranger. But he felt something and decided to trust it. You know you feel an emotion in certain situations and you accept it as it is and decide to trust it. He went as he felt that unknown. At the cinema, he met X's mom. She was with her friend. They bought four tokens which can be redeemed for different movies. The tokens passed through a machine where it produced two tickets for thrillers and two for a biopic. The elders decided to go for a biopic and the remaining went for the thriller. The cinema halls were named C-101, C-102 and follows. X and Arav searched for their hall - C-107. When they inside, it was a premiere show. Various personalities were seated and the hall was full. X went to the second row where he met Rohan Joshi, David Fincher and Arav's favourite, Tanmay Bhat. Arav was in the fourth row.


He stopped and was mustering the courage for meeting those figures. He was anxious but then he gave in and went to the second row but all of a sudden the figures weren't there as if they had vanished. And he then looked for X but he was also not there. The anxiety again found its way into Arav's heart. He started panicking and frantically looked everywhere. X wasn't in the hall it seemed to him. He felt sad and really hopeless. That is one of his cons as he loses hope very easily. But then he came to the conclusion to watch the movie as he thought that it might be that X had gone to the loo. He started watching the movie. The movie had a good start. There were zombies and black magic involved and it was really gripping for him. He lost track of time and watched till halftime. Then he remembered oh shit, he really forgot X; but in his defence X was a stranger so he thought of letting him go but then he felt of going to his mom. And guess who he found - Mr X. He was at the gate, again found smoking. Arav came and hugged him as if his long lost companion has been found. I know you found it conflicting that one moment Arav didn't care for X and watching some random movie and the other moment he was hugging the handsome stranger. But I think this is what infatuation is.


X asked whether Arav can kiss him. Arav replied that they would be beaten up; it was India and they were in public and PDA(Public Display of Affection) was illegal. Arav and X exchanged contacts and X then told that he found Arav was a freelance web dev from his social media. Arav also revealed that he searched about X in the cinema hall and found X was an SDE-I in an MNC. X started his bike and asked Arav about their next date. Arav told him he would tell him after. When you are wondering so, the answer is also searched by Arav.


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