The restaurant Odyssey- Part 2

Conversations started.....Taking off from motleyed topic of a boy being born in the place called sabinakuka in albama's town verincuoh(Don't try searching for it in Google...U won't get it...It is not yet discovered....A News reporter just discovered it, and published the article..He is due to lay claims to be the next columbus)to a man who had 12 wives.

Being jealous, my frnds ate more than their share of the sandwich, which left me with a little lesser than a starved stomach. I was looking here n there, when I saw the most beautiful sight of my life. Yes, U perverted minds, u guessed it right, She WAS a girl, and unlike most which I have ever seen in my life. She had just entered the cafe with a visibly famished frnd of hers, who was nothing but a skeleton draped in vestiges of flesh. But our eyes barely left the legendary beauty to have noticed the existence of that near "homo-sapiens sapien" frnd of hers.

It sometimes made me wonder abt the selective eyesight which we males have. We are all adroit at seperating fact from fiction, sifting good from bad, and discerning wow from Yuck instantaneously. Maybe we have inherited this all after months of evolution. Watever be the case, my eyes were still pinned upon that resplendent female, which my frnds had somehow not noticed yet. Maybe my share of sandwich kept in the plate, attracted them more than that female. Their eyes looked so innocent and devoid of any malaise, that I continued to gorge on my eye-candy.

Again, I was surprised with the rapid transition in the eyes of my frnds. The eyes which initially had an innocent look of a small tiger cub, were now transfigured into the ravenous look of a wolf, in search of its prey.Apparently my sandwich had vanished into thin air. They did'nt hafto search long. My eyes guided them,(and I hated that....) and a cried emerged from their mouths, that resembled that of a nomad, who had been traversing the desert for 200 years, and has just had the sight of an oasis. It was just the decency of the place, that stopped one of them from whistling, other from howling and Swami from approaching her. Still we all oogled endlessly.

She was a beautiful female ! Maybe 21-22. Long black hairs(wow..I love black hairs). A svelte hourglass figure. Her eyes were doe shaped, and conspicuously blue. Very fair. Arnd 5'10. She wore an orange top and a strinking blue Levis jeans, on heels arnd 2 inch high. Her face would have given a serious threat to Mrs Chopra (naah..Not priyanka Chopra...The MRS Chopra living near my house, whom we considered a benchmark for any such activity: Sometimes I doubted weather my frnds really came to visit me, or to have a glance of Mrs. Chopra; I find that very ridiculous.She is a nice lady who gives me a lotta goodies to eat...So I am naturally perturbed).

It wud have been a dream to get just a smile from her. Anything more, a word maybe, would have been a 100%bonus, with equity, on my dreams. A sentence....too much...Cud'nt imagine that. that goes faaaaar beyond....!!
She looked towards us...N my heart cried out....Yes, its ME..!! YES, it was ME who U had seen while U were in that boring Economics class.....It was ME who tried to run U down with my car(that I do not have a car is a different matter). I just wanted her to recognise me and talk to me...Even if she th8 I was a serial killer or a filthy billionaire, it did'nt matter, till she thought abt me !!

But her gaze moved sideways....J
ust one thing interested me ! She came with a girl, not a boy.Maybe SINGLE?? Naah.....BF wud be out of station for sure. If such a girl has no BF, shame on the Indian Youth. But what to do....???Naah, nothin to be done !!Just see her, n then forget her, like a dream..Like I have always done!

Amber was well aware of my intentions. All of them knew that for that matter, coz they had all stoped oogling long bak, and I was the only one still in the hopeless pursuit.
As I turned to them...All started laughing !!
"Love at first sight..eh loverboy !"
I said.."Naah...Not my type"
All of them started laughing...Then came the resounding chorus "Angoor khatte hain"
I was startled.
Challenge?? To me??? How dare they..?? The male ego started bellowing inside me...

"What R U ppl talkin abt? I can talk to that girl if I want to ! But I don't feel like doing that at present.Make no bones abt it !"was all that I could muster.
"Look whoz talking !"said Swami, who had stopped oogling the girl on every table, and had been responsible for finsihing most of the sandwich...the most handsome amongst us all!
"U can't dare to talk that girl efor a minute even if U took 1700 births", he continued in same breath, which oozed of mocking!"

So U challenging me, U Moron !!" I retorted, so as not to sound too timid, neither too arrogant.What if my pretense of attitude was blown off, n they throw up a challenge??

"Ya, I am" came the reply.
"We are !!! U R not worth a dime ! Just shut up n sit in here"said Amber n Amit together.
The male Ego had bellowed to full swing.
My cover had been blown up, and I could only just accept n shut up, or try the inevitable.
One which no man has ever dared before.....talkin to an unknown girl !!

" Okay, then....BET??"I said...At my last attempt to fight out of situation so that I can still avoid the in-evitable. But it was all sensed through my eyes: my fear.

"How much?? U still are'nt worth a dime" said Swami.
"100 bucks"
"Condition?"
" U talk to her for 2 minutes...Get her to smile...Introduce us....N that's it. I won't expect more from some1 like U"
"Agreed !!"

Swami hunched back on the chair, as though he had just had his prey. All were smiling.While I was walking for her table, I sensed a wicked fear enveloping me.The sort of that which would envelop a lamb if it volunteers for slaughter.
I had been the lamb. The geenie in the bottle trick was coming back to haunt me.I had been packed in the bottle...And no way seemed out, except trodding the road ahead, that led to the orange top n Blue jeans !!