Up on Request from Pramod.. Dedicated to the same and venkat, my best friends from IIITA.
It all started with a phone call from Venkat sayin that we r gonna have a blast at pune, next weekend. Trusting my old mate, I prepared for the party at pune. The journey began at 7 PM on the 8th of August.Plan for us was to meet at NIMS hyd and then mark our presence in the s3 [Correct me Venkat] couch of Mumbai Exp at Nampally, Hyd. We, three guys, should come from three different places in Hyderabad and meet at NIMS. It began to pour heavily just 15 minutes before I started from my Cousin’s home. I can’t miss the train, so, me and my cousin left the home to experience a great adventure, it was to drive on the road, filled with water upto Knee-Length. What a great skill my cousin had at driving !! Simply awesome, a true Hyderabadi.
Finally, I reached the common Point within 15 min, the NIMS. I was drenched quite well under the heavy pourin of the Hyderabadi skies. I thought atleast I saved my bag from getting soaked, how optimistic of me !! , its not a Waterproof, you can guess what have had happened with all my clothes 
. Well, I was the first to reach, surprisingly. I waited for around 15 min, there was no sign of my friends. I called Venkat, he wasn’t taking the call. Then I called Pramod, he said, he started just a moment ago.
I was waiting in front of a Pawn shop [a small Kiosk], then this guy came suddenly from no where and started talking about selling his mobile phone to the kiosk owner, reasoning that if he carried it outside, it might get soaked and spoil. I thought, " What the hell !! ". There was 20 min of bargaining and finally the kiosk owner asked for its charger and the guy said that he had lost it on the way. Hmm, then it was clear that he had stolen that phone some moments ago and he wanted to sell it asap. This business is a lucrative one in Hyd. Anyway it was nothing, then I started to get calls from both of my friends saying that they are at that place, this place, blah, blah.
It was like as if we were soldiers behind the enemy lines and were trying to rendevous to plan a mission or something.. The conversation was something like.,
Me:: Where are you ?? Over.
V:: Am at central, over.
Me:: How long would you take to reach here ? Over
V:: 10 Min Over and out.
P:: Where are you ?? Over.
Me:: Am at the rendevous point. Over
P:: Good, Ill be there in 2 Min. Over and out.
Lol.
Our mobiles became our walkie-talkies. After 20 min of enquires and stuff, Venkat came to rescue me from that aweful Pawn shop. I have to walk 50 mtrs around, to get to the auto and I got drenched again. After 15 months, we met again. It was nostalgic. Hmm, anyway there was some lady sitting beside him, I never saw her before. Then there was this sign language went between him and me about this lady and I understood that he has to help her and there was no other choice for him.
We picked up Pramod next and as expected, he was irritated to see that, that lady has occupied his place. Like a never ending telugu soap, a new trouble has showed up to the already existing one, this time it was traffic jam. There was like absolutely no movement in the traffic. Just a tip, never enter the Ameerpet to Khairatabad road, when its raining. It took us around 80 min to travel 3kms. Thank god, we got so many things to discuss and we completely forgot about the traffic-jam, except for that lady, who was so worried about whether she could reach a local station or not. How ironic !! we were feeling no tension, even though, we need to catch a inter-state train, there was like 15 min and we have to travel around 5kms more.
Suddenly, there was a call for Venkat from his home. He was shocked and feeling nervous, I don’t know why and when he replied to his mom that he was going to Pramods to have dinner, I realised that he never told his parents that he was leaving for pune that week end. Anyway, we crossed a signal, thats it, theres no more traffic on the road, like the roads in an abondened city. We dropped off that lady at a local MMTS station.
Finally, we reached the station just in time to make it to the train. We boarded the train and simultaneously my parents called to enquire whether I made it to the station in time or not. They were like 250kms away but it was like they are in hyd and knowing what was happening at that very moment. Thanks to TV9 news channel.
We changed our clothes, I found some dry clothes, but, rest of the bag, novel, all got wet. We babbled about all the gossips like, how one of my friends got broke up, and how one of them became devdas, our future, our friend’s futures and all. We took a hell lot of time to try to catch up with 15 month’s events and ofcourse, we couldn’t in the end. Next morning when I woke up, I saw venkat writing an alogirthm for his company… What a geek, I thought. We reached Pune at 9AM.
We had a great time in Pune on saturday but, on sunday it was all raining again. We paid our adious to all our pune friends and thanked the hosts for holding sucha great party and left for train station to catch a train to get back to Hyderabad. When we reached that station we found something ……….
Our bad luck haunted us again, the adventure didn’t end but just began …..
To Be Continued ….