Flashback Part V - The Finale

"Hey, he'll come for my treat today! The same place as we discussed in the plan"

"Beep. Message recorded. To replay press 1, to.." CLICK.

She had delivered the message. The three sisters were more than ready for the plan! Her next phone call was to me to confirm the timings of her treat.

Somewhere else another call was made:
"Hey, you confirm the seat bookings with the restaurant manager, your role is verryyyy crucial!"

"I have done it!"


So that is how the plan was made. I had no idea why such an elaborate plan was made for me! What really was the mystery? Why was this plan made? I was sure now that my friend was involved and I was imagining how the girls had proceeded with the plan. But wait a minute, where am I, as far as I remember last I had fainted. And to think of it, I was going to my office, it was a Friday, Thursday I had my previous accident, and it was only Wednesday when my diabolical friend had given her treat! Aah, that means I hadn't lost my mind or...

I had already fainted so many times in the last two days that nothing could shock me more. I was lying on my bed and the Television was on and I had just noticed it. The weather news was coming...

"There is chances of slight rains on Wednesday, thunderstorms expected on Thursday, and heavy rains surely on Friday..."

This time I did faint again!

PS: The complete title of this part was supposed to be "The Finale is it?"

Flashback - Part IV - Normalcy

Yes everything was back to normal! I wasn't getting any more flashbacks...

The girl who had brought in my highlighter explained how I had fainted while driving my bike and had survived with minor cuts. She was the one who was driving the car who had flashed the light, so she had responsibly taken me to the hospital and had even left me at my home. And I had forgotten all this!

That is how the highlighter, which had fallen off my bag had reacher her. Anyways she confessed that she was unable to talk to me yesterday as I was unconcious, and so had come to ask me how I was feeling. I thanked her for whatever she had done and explained her that it was probably because of lack of sleep since a few days that led to me fainting on the bike.

But I wasn't still sure who my mystery girls were and out of a spontaneous reaction I asked,
"Whose dress is this?"

"Pardon me, its mine!"

"Oh, because I had seen a girl wearing the same dress yesterday, I fainted after seeing her."

"Hmm there are other pieces also of the same dress!"

Anyways, I thanked her once again and started off towards my office....

When I had fainted the previous night, I fell off the bike on the grass on the side. It did hurt a lot at that time, but it wasn't serious. I had seen three girls coming out of the car and I could now see clearly who they were. All the three girls who had worn the blue dress. At that time also they were wearing the same dress!...

And while I was consumed by my thoughts I fainted again on my bike....

Flashback - Part III - On the other side of the Road

Now I remember, what had happened the previous night when I was coming back to home. I had seen a familiar face on the other side of the road and while I was trying to remember who she was, a sudden glare of light made me realise that I was on the road. Even though I was unable to pinpoint who she was, I was curious to find out. Unluckily or luckily, the U-turn was a kilometre ahead. I instantly put the bike on full throttle and in a flash was on the other side of the road. But when I reached the place where my mystery girl was earlier, she was not there. Ah, I was really tired and wanted to go back home, but suddenly a little ahead I saw the same blue dress which she was wearing. Yes, she was climbing a taxi, and wasting no time I had put the motrobike engines into motion....

The day I had gone for my friend's birthday dinner, I had seen a very pretty girl on the table opposite to ours. I was only able to see her profile and her very pretty blue coloured dress. After I was done with my meal, I had gotten a feeling that I know her from somewhere. I had asked my friend that time that if she remembered her....

Before I could reach the taxi, I remembered that the girl on the road was wearing the same dress as the girl at the restaurant the other day. But I was unable to come to the conclusion that if she was the same girl. In the meantime, she had gone ahead in the taxi. As the thought of who she was continuously troubling me, I decided to follow her taxi. I could't believe it that the taxi was running very fast, and it was difficult for me to keep the pursuit going. I tried my level best and finally when I saw I had wasted enough of the petrol, I decided to return back...

Coming to the present, I was still unable to remember where my highlighter was. Even after numerous flashbacks of memory which I got, none of them led to any conclusion. Suddenly, the bell rang and as I opened the door I saw the same blue dress in front of my eyes. And to my horror, the girl was neither of the two girls which I had seen wearing this dress. Even before I could react she handed me my highlighter and said, I guess this is yours...

When I had given up hope of following the girl on the previous night, I had come to the same spot when I had seen the girl on the other side of the road. Before going back home, I had stopped for a one last look. Then I could see a flash of light....

Oh, I remembered who this girl was, and flashes of memory came to me that the flash of light had come two times on the previous night...

Flashback - Part II - The Highlighter

As I sat down on my bed thinking where the hell can the highlighter be, a sudden thought came to my mind, my room's walls were never blue....

As on the day when I was searching for my highlighter on my desk, I had come across a piece of paper. It was a bill, the name mentioned on it was illegible. I was horrified to see it was of Rs. 1000 and when I observed closely it was billed in my name. On top of it there was a stamp mentioning paid on it!! Oh god, when did I pay for this and what was it that I paid for? Suddenly I checked my bank account and it showed an ATM withdrawl of Rs. 1000 for the previous night....

The night previous to the one when I was searching for my highlighter was fun, it was one of my friend's birthday and we had a nice sumptuous meal at a little-towards-expensive-side restaurant and when my friend asked me that if I had some cash, as she was short by some, I was horrified to see that my wallet was empty. Although another friend completed the sum, I went straight to the ATM and filled my wallet by Rs. 1000.

Ahh, that is why I took out the thousand bucks! I checked my wallet and found the thousand bucks intact. But then I realised why was my wallet empty the last night?....

On the previous evening when I was working on my desk, my friend had called and confirmed our treat and she had asked me to pick her at 8. I had looked at watch and watch showed 6pm. Then I was reading a technical document and I was highlighting the important points when I got another call. A person with a bill for me was waiting downstairs at the reception. Ah yes that was the painting bill. I had emptied my pocket in front of him and had paid him off and had brought the bill receipt with me. When I had reached my desk, my colleague had asked me to go to the rooftop for some fresh air. I had hurriedly put the bill under the documents I was reading, and then I remembered my highlighter had fallen off and I had thought I would pick it up later....

With this realisation I had seen under my desk, and there it was, my highlighter! I had picked it up and had flipped it inside my bag. When I was on my bike, going towards my house, I had seen a familiar face on the other side of the road...

Coming back to the morning when I was startled by my wall colours, I remembered, that I had gotten my walls painted, and I had never realised the new colour as I used to come back to the house late at night, and would go out early. Some things are so blatantly in front of us the one doesn't notice it. That explains the wall, but yesterday night I had found the highlighter, but it wasn't there today....

Flashback - Part I

As I was waking up this morning, I saw that I wasn't able to find my slippers, which are generally placed besides my bed. In a state of major laziness I began to search for them. I generally work in a serial order in the morning, I wouldn't be able to do anything else until and unless I find my slippers :(.

Last night as I was leaving for home, I had collected all my things on the desk and put them in my drawer. I always take the highlighter from my table in the end and keep it in my bag, but yesterday it was missing. As the serial order thing still works, I wasn't able to take the next step, ie. to go home, for quite a long time :(.

A few days ago on a Sunday, my roomate had asked me if he could borrow my slippers to go to the local market nearby. I absent-mindedly had agreed to it...

Yesterday morning, my roomate went for his official trip. We both came out of our house at the same time, I went to the office and he headed towards the airport....

Coming back to today when I was searching for the slippers, I was trying to remember how they looked like and I suddenly had a flash: my slippers were white in colour, then why the hell was I searching for the blue ones?

On the Sunday, when my roomate had returned from the local market, he had informed me that he had by mistake broken my slippers, and he had told me that I could use his for the time being...

Ahh, that is it, I was wearing my roomate's slippers for some time now, and as he had gone away for the trip, he had taken them along. I thus struck the slippers finding "to do" off my mental list and headed for my daily chores. When I was leaving for my office, all dressed up, I had a last check of my bag and to my horror I found my highlighter was missing....