Lemon Chai and Melody

This is not an ordinary story, it’s the beautiful equation of sour and chocolate. Lemon chai is the Indian recipe of feel-good and melody has proven to be a question mark all the time. Okay let’s not drag into the details of melody and lemon and introduce you to the two main protagonist of our story. Shreya is a very intelligent girl of class 9. She is beautiful and talented. She loves painting and singing. She is the topper and one of the elite students of the school. Everyone likes her including me. Then we have Abhimanyu, who has just got admission in this school. Since he is new so nobody has noticed him yet. He looks athletic by the way. I will call him Abhi for the story purpose.

“Good morning, my name is Abhimanyu. I am new to this class. My parents are in government services so that made to change my school 5 times in my life”. Abhi was confident and he spoke well. Seems like Mr Pathak was impressed by him. The morning was amazing for him until Mr Pathak announced a surprise test although he mentioned specifically that Abhi can skip the test as he was new. But Abhi gave the test. Shreya was the queen of this class from last 10 years, she was topper until Abhi banged the test with 100% proficiency. So Abhi was not only confident he was intelligent too. Shreya was perplexed, she starred him for couple of minutes. He was looking amazing according to Shreya’s mind. Being the narrator of story, I must say it’s class 9 so Shreya should stop seeing him like that.

Let’s fast forward the story. I think,years passed. Abhi has proved himself. He just got the captaincy of school cricket team, that’s cool. He topped all exams of his class. He cleared the state level competition in Mathematics. He danced at the annual day. He came, he saw and he conquered. Shreya did like him in the beginning but now she hated him. She stopped talking to anyone. She was not more favorite of the class. Abhi was the lone king of the class. So there was this mid term where Shreya actually beat Abhi. She became happy. She gave treat to her two friends. Shreya banged Abhi for the first time he got into the class. It was amazing for her. But wait, Abhi was smiling, he was happy. It was like nothing serious happened to him. So seeing Abhi’s smile Shreya got confused and angry. In anger she went to Abhi and said,’ Hey mister, you got second, you don’t have to smile.’ Abhi replied, ‘see I just found some silly mistakes in the paper and that made me smile’. She said,’ you are such an idiot. You just don’t know anything.’ He replied,’ My friends say this all the time. It nothing new. You eat melody’. He gave one melody to her. She replied,’ hnn melody my feet’. She threw that in the dustbin. That was terrible from Shreya. But seeing that, Abhi started laughing.

From that day, Shreya and Abhi at least started talking to each other. Shreya realized that Abhi was too good when he, the idiot started waiting for her in the library. In class 11, Shreya and Abhi both stood first but that meant nothing then. They developed interest for each other. In class 12, they fall in love. Taking that into account, Shreya got 94% in class 12 and Abhi got 85%. Abhi had wasted whole 12 thing for Shreya but they accepted that together. That was amazing and something called oh my god true love. Abhi got selected for NDA so he joined there and Shreya got herself into an engineering college. It’s so boring now. It looks like they will settle first and then get marry. But wait, it was distant now so bit tough for them. When Abhi came home after eight months, Shreya was not there for him. Shreya said she was busy in her projects. Abhi got disturbed. He got angry on her. He said her or I should say ordered her to come to him as soon as possible. Was Shreya hiding something from him. Any way Shreya called him and said,’ See Abhi you are amazing. You the best person on the whole world. You have taken care for me. But now its tough for me to manage these things. I am tired managing these things by my own. I want a break from you.’ But why. Abhi was sad for the first time in my story. He was confused. He was broken. He did everything for her. He wanted her but she broke away. Shreya was also in tears. She was crying. But wait I can see some other boy in her mind.” No, Shreya no Abhi is the one. Don’t cheat. You are such an idiot.” Abhi was my hero. He was tired. He locked himself for whole day. He was strong but that had broken him badly. Few days went by, he had to rejoin the NDA. He had now no interest in doing the things which he loved the most. He had drank more than seven cup lemon chai since morning. But this was not working. He went to bathroom where his legs slipped and he got severe injury on his cerebrum. He was admitted. He fought very strongly. After two weeks, Shreya got a call from her friend that Abhi was no more. She was devasted. She could not stop crying. She threw her wedding card and rushed to Abhi. Abhi did call her but that was when he needed her. She saw Abhi with loads of tear in her eyes and melody in her hands. Abhi was lying there with the same smile he had on that day.

Taking inspiration from Bhaiya,

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