Vassu...! Please Call Me..! 3

They looked curiously.

“She asks me to kiss her”… said with smile and shy.

They have trembled.

“He looks like sixty years old man. What are these twenty years of eccentricity...are you thinking like that? Age relates to the body, not the soul, the desire may have an end but not for the thought. Every man should have an aim or goal to reach whether it is good or bad. I too have a crazy target, because I have such kind of relationship with her. You don’t know that…!” stopped Srikar.

“If you don’t mind, may we know about you and your friend sir…?” asked Mahesh.

Srikar opened his eyes widely with happiness. In his opinion, whenever he thought of her name his heartbeat increases, but now he has to speak of her, that gives him enrapture.

So he started telling.

“Her name is Vasundhara. I call her with love as ‘Vassu’. She works in a hospital in Tirupathi. I hope she is beautiful… because, who has beautiful heart, looks beautiful. She has beautiful smile also. I am fond of her smile. She used to smile when she called me and cut the phone with the same smile. 

That smile is very attractive…it gives me a pleasant feel. I want the smile for a lifetime at that moment. But…now for that smile … has been waiting for twenty long years” and stopped because he was unable to speak. 

Their inner sense was not to give him trouble but they were intrigued to know about their meeting and what happened next –

“Please tell me your acquaintance with her?” asked Ramesh.

Srikar started speaking after some relaxation.

“I was working as Radio Jockey. I had to answer phone calls in the part of my duty. I used to receive so many calls in a day. One day I received one phone call on my duty. I lifted and said, “Hello, tell me”.

The voice didn’t speak anything and smiled beautifully.

I wanted to hear the smile again but I don’t know the reason.

So this time I said, “Hello…smile again”.

She smiled again beautifully. I thought that the entire state should hear it. I was made to hear without her permission.

I said again, “Which song do you want to ask? Please smile again before going to ask”.

Then…She smiled again continuously with the same beauty.

Immediately I sang “Nee navve chaalu poobanthi…vasanthi”. 

She stopped smiling and mixed anger with beauty asked: “Hello entandi?”

“Nenemina takkuva tinnana…?” Immediately I asked her without faltering ‘do you want to hear that song…?’

“What an eloquent speaker,” they thought.

She gave a half-smile and said ‘not that song’.

‘Half-smile’ they surprisingly looked at Srikar.

She didn’t smile completely. So, I want to hear her full smile… ‘Sirimalle puvvalle navvu’ said melodiously.

‘Thank u, sir. I want that song only. Please play that song…’ asked me with a smile.

The phone ended while I was enjoying the smile.

‘Very interesting sir, next…’ asked Mahesh.

“What is there? She calls me regularly and asks me a song. I play that song. It becomes habituated to hear her smile. Finally, I came to the stage that I can’t live without hearing her smile. I am anxious to hear when she smiles.

Smile is a great gift… everyone can’t smile. Can’t make others smile. Everyone can’t smile beautifully. When I hear smile I feel I am free from all my sufferings”.

 She sent to me a message at the beginning. That was – “SILENT LIPS AVOID MANY PROBLEMS. BUT SMILING LIPS SOLVE SO MANY PROBLEMS”

I felt what she said is literally true when I heard her smile.

So I became mad to hear her smile. I became mad only I hear the smile…then what happens if I see it? I feel that I had to see.

As soon as Srikar said, “So one day I asked her directly” …

“What sir?” Ramesh asked inquisitively.

“No my boys…today my time is over. Tomorrow we will meet here at the same time. We will discuss again. Until then keep in mind…this Srikar…cheerfully…joyfully…enjoy the day” said Srikar with a smile.

Second Day:

Mahesh and Ramesh reached Barrage early morning at 4.30. Srikar arrived after twenty minutes of their waiting. As soon as he comes, he started telling…

“I want to see you once. Can u come to Vijayawada…?” I asked her.

“I will definitely come but what will you do if you see me…?” said with a different smile.

I said without thinking, “I will kiss you”.

Ramesh and Mahesh startled, but Srikar was continuing.

“I think she is also astonished like u…” there was no reply from that side.

‘Hello…Vassu…Vasundhara garu…’ I said.

‘No response. I call again. My call is ended. Immediately I make a call to her…’

“Did she answer?” Ramesh asked anxiously.

“No. She cuts it. I call her again. She cuts. I call her again…” Srikar about to speak.

Ramesh was fully involved in the story and said, “She cuts again”.

“No. She answers me” said Srikar.

Ramesh had repented for his words.

“What sir…I thought you are a good person…Is this the way to speak with a girl…?” asked angrily.

I said, “Don’t get anger…smile beautifully. I will tell one thing”.

She said, “Tell me first”.

‘When I tell you I want to kiss u, you cut my call, but you didn’t even ask me where…when…how…?’ questioned her.

‘It is a great deed… for that, so many questions’, replied angrily.

‘Abba …grates deed or heroic deed. Ask me first’, I said.

“Okay, tell me. Where …when…how…?” asked me.

( What is Srikar answer ? … Next follows )