Flashbacks: A Year To Remember (Part VI): How I Met Aneesha

It was around October, just before the Puja vacations that one day I met Aneesha. We just went to college to take a last glimpse of college building before about a fortnight of holidays. The hostel go-ers went to their homes and the air was free of tension of the usual studies and the newly born Autumn air blew lightly and refreshed us with more and more sense of holiday coming. I was in high spirits coz I was about to have the best Puja vacations of my Calcutta life, and the first one with my friends. We were all together and Aditi was a little angry over me and Arka for some reason and was sulking somewhere around library, when a girl named Debopama introduced us to Aneesha.

Aneesha looked like a girl anyone going in the street or meeting her for the first time would mistake her to be a fourth grader. She had little eyes, little ears, little other parts like every fourth grader had, shoulder length hair, and wearing a baby top and like fourth graders, wore her first pair of jeans with a back-pack which looked too heavy for her.

We roamed a while in college while Pratip picked up books from the library, and Aneesha accompanied us till I asked her to add me in Orkut and she bade goodbye to us all and parted in the front gates of the library. But this was not just yet.

Later that night, Aneesha did add me on orkut and we were online together that time. She had some cute Anime as display picture, like all girls do. We talked for a while like the first talks every newly met strangers usually have, and we exchanged phone numbers over Google Talk too.

The real fun started next morning, when Aneesha and I were online again. We were having the same lifeless conversation when Arka buzzed me on chat. I told Arka that Aneesha might be getting bored by me coz her replies were the usual, and they came in late and we didn’t have anything new to talk about. So, Arka decided to spice things up a little bit. He told Aneesha from his side of chat that, Samik’s Orkut and Google Talk account are sometimes used by his elder brother just for fun and to spy on Samik. And the game kicked off.

I should have seen her face but I can very nicely imagine that it was drained of all the blood she had, coz she had quite a decent conversation, however boring, and exchange of phone numbers, and she was scared like hell. When Arka told me this, I started forcing her to talk like “Hey, what happened, why aren’t you replying” etc... and she was all silent and won’t even return any of my chats or texts. After sometime she went offline maybe thought of never coming online ever for security reasons.

Arka and I had a laugh over it the whole afternoon till we both decided her to feed her the truth. After all it was just meant to spice up the boring talk, and then we both texted her which she returned that night with a lot of life threating threats like “WILL KILL YOU BOTH” ... Arka and I laughed more on this becoz we are both nearly six feet tall and she was a fourth grader. She did finally hit Arka and me when the college reopened after the vacations and I mistakenly reminded her of hitting us.

Meeting with Aneesha was this fun, and we came to have more and more fun later on. On Aneesha I REALLY need to write this – It was just a few weeks we have known Aneesha, we were walking a road behind the college which lead to the old school, when a cow was coming towards us. She was leading the way previously when suddenly she cowared (probably coz the size of the cow was much much more than her own size) and ran to hide behind us. Suddenly I shouted – “Aneesha is hiding from Aneesha.” Now, at first Aneesha didn’t get the statement but Arka did, and laughed out loud, and after five minutes or so, when Aneesha finally came to realise what it was and she chased Arka and me down the street all the way till she was out of breath (trust me, she has a lot of breath). This "Cow = Aneesha" thing went on for many days including a text session between Aneesha and me.

Aneesha came to become one of us in the time to come, and she is still sticking. Its good to have a baby girl around us who is as much innocent as a baby just a few month’s old. And this was all how it started, How I Met Aneesha...

Yet To Come: How I met Pritam... Stay Tuned...

To Be Continued...