Chapter 1
"Wake up!!!", My mom shouted from the aligning room. At 9:30 a.m. on the hot summer day of June I woke up with a startle. I hated when my dreams were incomplete and sad. I was having one such dream that I walked lonesome on the sandy beach looking far away into the horizon.
It was soon going to be results time in a few hours and my friends and I were on conference call waiting for comapny secretary results to be announced at 3 pm. UV as we called her was an outgoing and happy go lucky kind of a friend always being the highest peak in any social circle. Her nature stark opposite from her conservative household. Her real name was Ulfat Vajid (UV).
The second monkey in the jungle was Namya Dave (ND). She was the sensitive yet mentally the strongest one. Her hardwork was so admirable when i saw her handling her father's medical situation without any hint of weakness. Of course we two stood by her when she needed strong shoulders to cry upon but her determination was one of a kind.
Third monkey was me. Kavi Tyagi. I was a career woman who was lost in the turmoils of life both on personal and professional levels. I was a lawyer who loved the law but disgraced the working culture surrounding it. Not something i would invest my entire life into. My ex was brilliant in his field of numbers and took the numericals on my weighing scale as tool to disrespect my sardined body. I could hear UV and ND telling me the thousandth time "You deserve better, much better! Good thing you decided to end things." But i knew deep within that he has cultivated a seed of insecurity for my body in my mind and i let him.
Anyway keeping all negative thoughts under the carpets of mind i was waiting for the clock to strick 3 so we three monkeys could sucede with out plan of 5 years. It was in junior college when we three decided to go to Goa once we achived our career goals. Goa in India is like a youth gen's hangout. The one place where no yound indian would go with parents family. There are the seas, beaches, churches,watersports, booze, late nights and handsome hot foreigners. It was a perfectly safe escape for us. Most of our bucket list items would be ticked there.
Final three minutes before the site would display our results. UV and ND were gushing prayers on call and i was screaming from within to just clear so i could take a break from life and think things through in my vacay. Two minutes.... One minute.. 30 seconds....and ...
UVand I exhaled in much excitement that we cleared the national level exam but heard a sigh of sadness from ND. We were heartbroken that we will have to wait another 6 months until she gives the exams again to clear it and post which we shall go for the trip. UV and i started to console ND. She was quiet and her silence was killing us. In the next five minutes she finally said, "Guys, i CLEARED!!!!" and started laughing after cracking her worst prank on us.
