Nothing official about 'It'

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It was 4 pm on a busy midweek day, and Vinod was struggling between completing a priority deliverable due in 2 days and a much needed ‘tea break’ impulse being put up by majority of neurons in his mind. With every passing minute more neurons were joining the resistance, and finally Vinod gave up. He looked up over the upper rim of his cubicle to see what Suresh’s doing. Suresh looked deeply absorbed in work and was staring at his laptop screen. Vinod decided not to disturb him and rose to get a quick cup of tea.  “Buddy, look at this” Suresh called out with a little excitement. Vinod instantly got childishly curious listening to excitement in tone. Some back-bench acquired senses instantly told him he is going to look at something interesting. He took two quick leaps and came behind Suresh to peep in to this monitor.  Suresh was looking at some pictures of Sonal with her friends on facebook. “She went to Ooty recently? Wow” Vinod said with a wink, “seems she had a good time, too many sexy babes in one pic and no wonder you were looking so focused.” “You are not seeing the point bro’, if all the babes are in this pic then who took this pic?” Suresh looked up in to Vinod’s eyes as though searching for some reaction.  ‘Good question indeed’ Vinod thought. He took over the mouse to scroll to next pic. “***k?” a confused irritated sound came out instantly. Vinod just managed to keep the decibels levels of the ‘F’ word between him and best friend. Suresh nodded his head with full contempt and a hearty smile after getting the much expected reaction from his friend.

“I need a tea break badly now” Vinod announced. Instantly Suresh (Win + L)ed his laptop and joined his friend for the break. “How did he manage to join them, that ‘half-girl’ idiot?” Suresh started enjoying Vinod’s irritation. Both went to canteen and all along the way Vinod was letting out his surprised + frustrated + agitated + irritated mood reeling at barely audible decibels. Both of them sat on their favorite table at far end of the canteen, from where they can see each and every one in canteen. Though many sit at that place, only few will have ‘vision’ – Suresh calls this table his ‘High Nest’. He read somewhere that Eagles build their nests on the highest possible point on a mountain, which best suit their long and sharp line of sight. Though knowing that the actual reason Eagles build at high point is different, Vinod encouraged Suresh’s idea of calling it ‘High Nest.’

Both brought tea for themselves and settled in their High Nest. Vinod stopped his reeling and said “I thought Sonal was sensible, she proved to be just any other girl.” Suresh seemed agreeing to that, “For sure, all girls seem to have this ‘Thing’ for SRK type guys.” “What’s type??” Vinod put down his tea cup and looked at Suresh. Vinod’s eyes gleamed with some exciting anticipation. Suresh is good at analyzing people and has this funny way of expressing that analysis.  “SRK types Vinod, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai types” Suresh said making some gestures of handshake in air. Vinod nodded his head like his trying to understand as he said “Oh!! is that ……?” Suresh stopped a giggle and said with a wink, “it’s just ‘It’  ... nothing more, nothing less.” A giggle of the same frequency which Suresh stopped started appearing on Vinod’s face, “Hmm  ... SRK types... huh? ... nice way to name‘It’.” “Don’t you think the name for this breed is apt? I mean they will be all over girls always – eat them, drink them, be them” Suresh continued with some ‘Eureka’ excitement as though he is discovering a new concept, rather rediscovering a new concept here. Vinod interrupted  with mild hesitation “Sleep them too?” He somehow could not accept the fact that this idiot could have actually had a ‘chance’ with Sonal. Suresh burst out in to a hearty laugh, “that can never happen buddy, SRK types are rather homely and harmless guys and moreover, Sonal is a real sweet girl, you know that!!” Vinod nodded in acknowledgement, he has a very good impression about Sonal, but yet somewhere he could not understand or accept how a sweet girl like her be friend to such a jack ass.  Suresh tried reassuring Vinod more “These guys, correction rather ‘It’ will just be something like friends, help them in all sorts, and have that rather sugary sides.” Vinod smiled whole heartedly at the correction and added “So the best compliment ‘It’ would have got is cute or sweet!!”

“Exactly!!” Suresh yelled out, “they will do anything; they just want to live and die in vicinity of a female.” He continued, “They will carry their shopping, book travel tickets, call regularly to find out if lunch/dinner were had on time, and the list continues.” Vinod was enjoying this conversation, though he was unsure if he was enjoying as this conversation was reducing the his irritation or he actually started believing there is an entirely new species of men which he dint realize till date. Suresh concluded, “Trust me buddy, ‘It’ is an entirely new species!! A revolutionary discovery since man was born!! And I should be getting a Nobel for this.” Vinod loves when this best friend is in this kind of flow and appreciatingly patted on his back and said dramatically lifting his half-empty tea cup, “I hearby nominate Sir Suresh for Nobel”

“What’s the party about?” a sweet voice interrupted Suresh’s Nobel Prize Ceremony. It was Sonal and she was looking sweet and simple as usual. Both the guys instantly felt a wave of happiness all over them. Sweet and simple always had some magic on these two. “Kya chal raha hai?” Sonal comfortably sat next to Suresh. Vinod direverted the earlier topic, definitely not a topic before girls, “We saw your Ooty snaps on FB, nice pics!!” “Oh, you saw!!” Sonal screamed mildly with innocent excitement, “the trip was awesome, so cold it was and chilling.” “The snaps are really nice” Suresh joined, “who took them?” he added. Sonal seemed hesitant for a moment and then opened up,”Muthu joined us” and then she leaned forward as though telling a secret, “don’t tell him that I revealed this. He asked us to not to tell anyone.” Suresh laughed out loud “If he dint want to let anyone know he came along with you guys, he really should not have been in the pictures.” “You guys knew he came, then why you asked me?” Sonal put up a ‘you guys are unbelievable’ face. “Told na Sonal, we saw the snaps” Vinod put up an honest answer. “Hmmm …” Sonal gave a pause and said, “that’s ok, anyways I cannot understand you guys, especially Muthu, he is so moody. I don’t even know why he said not to tell anyone and he would not tell me.”

Suresh looked at Vinod, “add this to the ‘It’ list, moody!!” Vinod smiled back mysteriously. Sonal became curious, “what list?” “You won’t understand kiddo!!” Suresh said with a mocking expression. Sonal face turned red, “Don’t call me that, Am not a kiddo and I understand everything!! You tell na Vinod what list?” Vinod hesitated but looking at her innocent face decided to tell her, “We were talking about Muthu just before you joined, and Suresh was listing out charecterstics of guys like Muthu.” “Not guys, call them ‘It’ they are like guys, but not guys” Suresh immediately said. “You guys are so mad, he is a really sweet guy.” Vinod and Suresh looked at each other for a moment and immediately burst out in laughter. Sonal looked at them confused, and got up, “I have meeting now and got to get back to desk. You guys joining?” Having their share of fun and laughter at ‘High Nest’ they too got up.

On way back to desk, Sonal tried explaining them all the excitement of her trip in a couple of sentences. Suddenly Muthu appreared out of nowhere and greeted Sonal swinging his hand in full excitement, “Hi how are you? …” Before he could say further, Suresh said “Hi Muthu, we are here too.” “Guess he dint see we ‘guys’, Vinod added stressing the word guys. “Hi” Muthu said meekly and immediately turned back to Sonal “What happened you look so dull? Dint you have lunch on time?”

Vinod and Suresh again burst out in to uncontrollable laughter without even bothering about anyone being disturbed on floor.  Muthu left immediately without even bothering to look at them, something told him that the laugh was directed at him. Sonal tried stopping them from laughter, “ab kya hua?” Vinod who was now holding his stomach due to pain from that laughter managed to say “another item in the list checked.”

Sonal looked at them with muse, ‘how can these guys laugh so heartily’ and finally said “you are guys are so unbelievable” and started walking back to her desk.