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Flood Of Clothes
"Part 2"

On the other side Maya comes to pick Anny. They arrive at the event by 9a.m .
The event starts with seminar and ends with the results of the assignment.
When the teams name is announced Manav jumps from the chair and starts dancing. He never expected their team to him.
Manav and Preet had their biggest contribution to win the competition. They receive the trophy 🏆 and whole team demands for a party which Manav and Preet could not refuse and they go for it.
Maya sees that Anny is little low. She could understand her mood just by looking at her because she was Anny's bestie since 5 years . They both were like soul sisters. So Maya asks her the reason then Anny explains the whole story to her.

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"JOURNEY OF US"
Chapter 5, "Drinking??"

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Flood of clothes
"Part 1"

6:30.a.m
Just after the sunrise Manav's room had flood of clothes. Manav was sitting on a sofa ,worried and thinking about what to wear.
He finally chose his lucky white shirt and black denim ,his brand new red tape shoes and Casio watch with made him look Mr. Perfect like never before.
When looked at mirror he thought,"Why am I so curious to meet Anny? She isn't Miss Universe!"
Later Manav goes to pick Preet for the event. On there way back he talks about the coffee date today.
Preet asks, "What are you going to gift her? Like it won't look good if you go empty handed ."
Manav thought for a while and thought it would be best to gift a novel. He stops near a shop, buys a novel and gets it wrapped.

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"MY ENCOUNTER WITH AN UNKNOWN"

CHAPTER 5

My friend Pritak belong to a Gujarati-family and he was of my age. On the contrary, I belong to a North-Indian-family. We both were far away from our native land , we were in the "Land of Intellectuals", sweetest part of India, "Bengal". I didn't knew Gujarati neither he could understand Bhojpuri. Hindi was our friendship-language and we were trying to learn Bangla (language of Bengal) from our Bangla-speaking friends.
Friendship just happens among those who have common interests irrespective of caste, creed , religion, etc.. , our friendship was one such example. We used to play and study together.
‎One thing that was quite uncommon and attractive about Pritak was he used to carry rectangular-aluminium-bag-set with him which he used to bring at private-tution. I had not seen anyone carrying books and copies in aluminium-bag-set so I always wanted to have a bag-set like him.

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Chapter 5
And the alarm stroke, I got up but dad wasn't there. Usually I am the one waking him up. I started cooking for brunch. Sundays usually weren't holiday for us but that day I wanted to take a day off. As I opened the back door to put some clothes, I saw something nostalgic. My dad woke up early & he was exercising. He was wearing his black joggers with white sweatshirt and a headband. He had trimmed his beard after a long long time. He was jogging and all the aunties were looking at him with their eyes wide open. As if they were hitting on him. I was shocked & happy at the same time. He came back home and gave me a glance. I asked him about his super transformation and he said it is the new me baby. He asked me to change and meet him near the orchards. I changed and reached there, he had cleaned the our basketball court where we use to play when I was small. I enjoyed the whole day. He shared his heart out and told me everything. I thought maybe this was the time I could ask him more about my mom and their separation. He ignored the questions at first and tried to divert my mind but this time I wasn't 13 to look at the butterfly and forget my mom.

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Chapter 5
Rekha's classes after marriage
When Rekha was married, her mother-in-law encouraged her to study about plants, about flowers, about domestic animals, about animals , about farming, about gardening, etc because no one in her family was educated but eventually, everyone had great knowledge about plants, natural medicines, domestic animals, farming, gardening, flowers, etc. Eventually Rekha became happier and happier. Rekha gained rich knowledge about plants, about flowers, about domestic animals, about gardening and slowly she became one of the experts in them. She studied these lessons with great interest and curiosity. This curiosity encouraged her even more to learn. Eventually because of her hard work, she became the most educated person in the whole village.

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#MyDiaries
~Illusion
#Chapter5: The Unsaid

Holding those papers, standing on the road, I somehow managed to get back to my senses. That vendor was still looking towards me with open eyes as if he was the owner of a jewellery shop and I was a thief. With the help of 'Gandhi Ji' I inquired about the girl from him.

Her name is Pooja. She is an independent women, working as a journalist for "The Journal" despite facing all odds from her family being a commissioner's daughter in law. Her husband is a politician and will soon be fighting a state election. And the vendor also said in hush tone about the accusation on her husband, so he married Pooja, to get his image clean.

Sometimes destiny plays a vital role, few hours later to this incident, I received a call from "The Journal" and was asked to visit their office. I was told that I can continue with my book practice simultaneously and work for their "Open Pen" column as well.

A month ago, I denied their offer, but this time to keep a surveillance on Pooja, I accepted the offer.

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Chapter 5
She got suspicious about him as he was a techno savvy. She began to look for a imaginary chip that he might have fixed. But when she didn't find any thing like that she thought about a spy camera but all thoughts in vain. She was clueless... She finally asked him. He said that it was her breath that gave minute details to him about her movements. She was flattered by his talks. The conversation went on and on. Finally both realised it was late and should hang up. On her bed recalling the day she was in deep sleep. Alarm stroke to wish her morning. She was quickly ready as she didn't want to miss her college. To her surprise he was on his bike on the public square ready to drop her to college. Her morning got fresh with his wet look, his Davidoff cool water scent checked shirt with nehru collar, light blue denim and to top it all an elaichi (cardamom) in his mouth. Her morning spirits had become even more higher after the ride. He dropped her at the college and tempted her whether she really wanted to go to college or wanted to spend time with him. His playful smile was tempting. But she was worried about her practicals and vivas so refused to go out.

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Chapter 5

//My Universe//

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