Hemanth and Tejaswini

Friends, this is gonna be my second post of bloody fools in my life series. The first one being the "silent, the stupid and the superb"

"You go and give this box to the aunt in the third house from ours, they are newcomers in our neighborhood", mom told me.

I don't remember how old I am then. May be around 8 or 9.

"She says they are newbies and when the heck she became friends with them and what the hell is this box thing!" I thought to myself.

"Mom! why do you always send me, send bobby(my young brother) now, please!", I said in rather convincing tone.

Who is she?

She know how to manage me. "There are two kids in the house approximately of your age", she gave a simple reply, dats it.

"Wow!! Let me go check them, then i can decide whether to play with them or not," with this thought in my mind I told her," Ok Mom! give me that box,"

I used the door bell and a small kid opened the door.

Wait, he is not a small kid, he is of my age.

I was invited inside and I handled the box to him. He went inside and brought back his mom.

There she is, one of the best person who has great influence on us (me and bro). She talked for sometime but I am not listening anything. I am observing that guy(the kid) and huge mental thought processing happening whether to be friends with him or not.

Aunt went inside to care of some work and I was left with the kid. He introduced himself as Hemanth. I discovered that he is one class below me and is in a different school.

Do you know how to play chess? hemanth asked me.

No, I replied.

mmm okay, i have chess pawns but i don't have the board, do you have one?

No, is my reply again. Infact there is one in my house but I dont know, i never thought about it before.

hmm, looks like you don't how to play it. You know it's very interesting, I would teach you.

Ok, I said. I am not good with words in my childhood, I would talk very very less till I am comfortable with a person.

Hemanth drew some lines on the floor of his house. Here we go! lets start playing it.

He categorized things into different sects and taught me different moves. Being an active mental processor I grasped it easily.

Suddenly i remembered that it's lunch time.

I said goodbye and reached home. I told dad that i just learnt chess. He opened a wooden board and taught me some more.

I took the chess board to Hemanth next day and we started playing. On the same day I was introduced to Hemanth's sister Teja and I introduced my brother to them.

A gang formed!!

Everyday as soon we return from school we would meet in hemanth's house do home work together and play together. Weekends are all play and play. Aunt would teach us few slokas, songs and tell us stories. She is a very patient lady and would always be telling us some good things and making us laugh. Many times its a competition amongst us that who would learn a particular song faster.

One of the best memories is "many times Brother and I would have dinner in Hemanth's home. Aunt would mix the rice, curry in a single plate and feed us all; at the same time tells u many things/stories." I think our mothers' figured it out that we are eating properly only when we are fed together.

I am the eldest (in terms of class, actually Hemanth and I are of same age) of the gang and any game we play I would make sure that I was the winner. Such an ambitious kid I was! I was also sort of gang leader solving any disputes among the gang members.

Hemanth, Teja, My Brother and I, ahh! what gang it is!!

Those were the best days in my life!! If I am not mistaken those were the best days in our lives!!

I still remember the day they moved into a different place. I was in sixth class and was very very sad and for the first time in my life I felt I was loosing something.

People I have to tell you something, I dont keep in touch with people once they move out of my life. It's due to some reason not me. I know it's not a good thing, but i am like that.

So, i rarely met them after that. But we always exchanged new year and birthday cards.

Now we are busy with our lives.

Hemanth has completed his Btech
Teja studying Btech in Bits Goa
My brother studying MBBS
Gopi writing this blog (and yeah also job in Deloitte...:P)

But we are always the best pals and the good old stupid kids who like only playing and playing!


PS:

I dont like when people come to me and ask whether the characters and the stories in my blog are real or fictitious.

Dear Friends, all the stories are true and all characters are alive and names are accurate. Whenever i copy some information from any source I always mention in my Post.

And for your information, you can find Hemanth and Teja in my blog followers.