GOA-VIII (The Last Part)

(I asked Era to write the last blog so that you can hear her side of the story, what she felt. This blog is written by Era)

Ab aage…

We did not talk at all during the entire bus journey from the beach to the resort .Kanav confessed that he loved me, something I was waiting to hear from the last three days or maybe from a really long time. I was not sure. I was reluctant about my feelings , I did not say anything. In reality I should have been really happy but deep down I was really confused and sad maybe fearing what would happen now. So during the entire journey these thoughts kept on haunting me.

Finally we reached the resort and got back to our rooms to get ready for that day’s party, something we always did at night. It kind of became a fixed schedule.I entered the room , got laid on the bed and closed my eyes . I and shina were alone in the room, both looking at each other with awe about what happened at the beach as she had already seen me and Kanav holding hands and had an idea of what was going on. I told her how utterly confused I was about my feelings. She calmed me down, asked me to listen to what my heart says and not think too much and assured me that there was nothing to worry about as everything would be fine.

After overcoming all this I finally got dressed and met everyone downstairs.Kanav,Navdeep and Zen were sitting along the pool side having dinner. It was our last dinner at Wispering Palms. I was in no mood to have dinner as there were many more things yet to get digested , did not feel hungry at all. I just came and sat with everyone.Nobody talked much , were just enjoying their food, listening to the wonderful music. Things were changing, between me and Kanav and I think between Shina and Zen too. The question was that would everything end on a positive note?!

Keeping our thoughts to ourselves, we headed towards LPK, LOVE, PASSION ,KARMA , one of the best discs in Goa. It was me ,Shina, Kanav, Zen, Navdeep,Sanskriti and Harman. Kanav went to call a cab while Sanskriti was awfully intrigued by the fact that who was dating whom in our group.She started linking everyone with the other one. When Kanav came to us to tell us that there was no cab around, OUT OF NOWHERE , and to everybody’s surprise she asked Kanav, “DO YOU LOVE ERA DI?” . Everybody was shocked as no one told her what was going on between us and she had no idea about it. Just to clear my side I told Kanav I did not tell her anything. Kanav just smiled and feeling embarrassed left from there saying that he would give another try to find the cab. It was weird yet a funny moment.

We finally found a cab and some of us went to LPK in the cab while Kanav and Harman reached there by activa they had rented. On our way to LPK Sanskriti entertained us telling us all her experiences of the past three days . She was the only one who talked for those 15-20 minutes. Also she kept calling Navz and Zen “BHAIYA” while they kept on pleading her not to call them that .We were amused. So after all this entertainment we reached LPK where we met Harman and Kanav. Love Passion Karma was one of the most amazing places we all had ever seen.It was not just a normal disc. In fact , there was a long path, followed by a dining area along the sea side and in front the disc. The treat for the boys was that the drinks were free there. So as soon as we entered the disc, Zen and Kanav rushed towards the bar whereas me , Shina, Sanskriti and Navz were all excited to dance to the bollywood songs which was something unexpexted in a disc in Goa. We can say that the bollywood songs just doubled our energy. Later, the guys also joined us. But Zen was sitting in the corner with his drink , he seemed a little upset. We stayed inside the disc for about an hour , had a lot of fun as we knew it was our last day in Goa so we wanted to make full out of it. So after an hour , we came outside and sat on the stairs which were heading towards the dining area along the sea side. Kanav came, sat beside me and held my hand. We were spending the most amazing time together. Suddenly , we don’t know what happened to Navz . He took Kanav’s glass of beer and finished it in a few seconds. This was happening for the first time as Navz had never had alcohol before. We all applauded him for gulping it in in just one go. Then Shina also got excited and tasted Zen’s whiskey. The excitement got infectious and I tasted the whiskey too. I and shina found it yuck. But it was all worth it.

While we were sitting outside the disc, we could hear the  songs being played inside the disc. So this song ‘’ Main tera hero” from Desi boys got played and as drunk as Kanav was he started questioning me and these are his words,” Tera Hero kaun hai?” and that too in front of the other three . I thought to myself, not again , no more questions as I was still not ready to confront anything. I stood there numb, had nothing to say meanwhile Navz, Zen and Shina wanted to make full out of this situation which they thought was funny and supported Kanav by saying , “Haan haan bata kaun ha?i” ! I just turned his question down In a funny way but he was stuck up on the same thing for the next ten minutes and it those four VS me . While I and Kanav were standing beside the railing , unknowingly the tip of his cigarette touched my arm. He felt really bad that he hurt me with the cigarette and got annoyed with himself and left from there. When he left I told everybody to just shut up and stop teasing me. After a couple of minutes , even we all left and expected to meet him outside but he wasn’t there. We kept on looking for him for another five minutes when someone finally told us that he was helping a drunk guy from our college to reach the cab. Maybe it was the payback time . Remember how he got drunk on the first day and the guys from the college helped him get back to his room? So he and Zen accompanied that guy to the resort while me, Shina and Navz followed them in another cab.We reached the resort at around 2:00 am in the morning.After everything got settled down , five of us decided to go and relax in the guys’ room. As we were 6-7 steps away from our room Kanav held my hand, gently pulled me towards  him and we hugged. This was our first hug,though we had been best friends for more than a year . It was a magical moment.

We went back to the room , ordered some sandwiches , French fries and coke and decided to go to the beach in an hour. Kanav was still a little drunk and being drunk automatically makes him romantic. I told him I wanted to go to my room so that I could change but he kept on asking me not to leave him. That was really cute. But finally I convinced him that I would be back in five minutes so he said a yes with a sigh. We got changed into our comfortable pyjamas and T-shirts and went to the beach. Finally , it was the confrontation time and the arrival of the moment I was fearing since evening. Kanav asked me about my feelings, whether I was in love with him or not. I told him to let it go and not talk about it. But he said that it was important for us to be clear of what was happening. We both were too reluctant to get into a relationship because of that in built fear that what if it did not work out. Also, we were too different from each other, too too different. We discussed about everything from 3:oo a.m. to 6:00 a.m in the morning but still did not find a midway when finally Kanav told me that we should get together. By that time he was sure that with what we had for each other, things could never go wrong. But this was a life changing thing and I did not want to rush into it so I asked him that we would decide things only after getting back to Chandigarh.  After all the discussion we went to the balcony, sat on the bench in each other’s arms feeling completed .

After 15-20 minutes I woke up Shina and we went to our room and slept for a couple of hours. We had to leave our rooms by 1:00 p.m to go to the station from where we had to go back to Chandigarh. We woke up at 10:00 a.m. , packed our bags and went down to the guys’room. None of us wanted to leave the room but around 1:00 p.m . the housekeeper requested us to leave. We had lunch and left the resort. We were leaving behind so many memories and leaving Whispering Palms was one of the most difficult things we had to do. I and Kanav sat together in the bus, Zen was with Shina and sadly Navz and Lakshya found peace with each other. The journey from the resort to the station was beautiful as I and Kanav realised we were taking so much back from that place. I realised how awesome we were together and how beautiful everything was between us. This was the time I stopped thinking and finally told him I loved him too. We were , finally, after a long wait of more than a year together. The only thing common between us was that we were madly in love with each other.

It has been 8 months that we have been back from Goa but there is not one day we do not talk about our experiences there. It was a new beginning, of our love , of the friendship of five of us. The most extraordinarily amazing experience of our lives…….

GOA-VII

Ab aage…

So after getting fooled by the police and Zen getting drunk, the  next day we woke up around 11 am, had breakfast and everyone was in the room chatting, making plans. We were supposed to go to Calangute beach in the evening with the whole college for water sports. All of us gathered around 5 pm near the resort’s entrance, the bus was already waiting for us. Met everyone from the college whom we didn’t meet in the past 2-3 days as everyone was exploring Goa in their own way. We reached Calangute in 30 minutes. My hard cash got over, so I, Lakshya and Era went on to find an ATM . Zen, Navs and Shina went with everyone else to the beach and we were supposed to meet them at the entrance of  the beach, they didn’t have phone with them. So when we guys got the cash, we started searching for Zen, Navs and Shina but couldn’t find them.

20-30 minutes passed away and we still couldn’t find them and I was very irritated as water sports were going to end in next hour as it was getting dark. Finally, we found them and we rushed towards the parasailing ticket booth and I stood in the line and got tickets. We were the last batch to get the tickets. Everyone put on their life jackets and I didn’t feel like wearing one as I knew swimming but it was compulsory. We sat in the motor boat and we were ready to go. We were supposed to go in the middle of the sea and then start the parasailing. It was a beautiful ride, jumping through the waves and on the other side Era was feeling nauseous, so I sat besides her and asked her not see the water and to close her eyes. We reached in the middle of the sea and Zen was the first one to go, he got harnessed and the operator pulled the lever and in no time he was up in the sky. Zen is a guy who doesn’t get excited about things much. We were more excited than him to see him up in the sky. Next was my turn, when I reached up in the sky, I could see the whole Goa from there and cherished the view. Era and Shina went up together as they were too scared to go alone.

One by one everyone did parasailing and we came back to the beach again enjoying the boat ride. Once we reached the beach Era’s condition got worse and she walked up to the side of the beach and puked. All of us took a walk and it was getting dark, so we sat down on the beach. Lakshya was building mud castles, Navs was enjoying alone in the water, Zen and Shina went for a walk.

I and Era were lying on the beach and watching the sky, no one talked. After sometime, I dragged myself near her without her noticing and we started talking about something very random. Lying there besides her I felt something, butterflies in my stomach, our hands were very close to each others and I started caressing my hand on her hand, this continued for sometime, after gaining a lot of confidence I held her hand. Meri literally fatt gayi thi! No response for 10 seconds, I thought I should take my hand back. As I was about to lift my hand, she tightened it. I can never, in my entire life, explain that feeling. Only I and Era can understand ‘it’ (I am still getting chills in my entire body while writing this). No one spoke for the next 2-3 minutes and then out of nowhere I heard “I love you” and I realized that was ME who said that. Era didn’t reply and we lay there holding hands for some time. That was one of the best moments of my life, lying there with Era under the sky, holding her hand and listening to the sound of waves. It was the feeling of contentment.

Shina and Zen returned and it was time for us to leave the beach. I and Era kept holding hands as we were leaving the beach even when talking to a teacher. I just didn’t want to leave her hand or leave her at that time. I was talking to the teacher but my full concentration was on her. After a while, we left the beach and arrived the Calangute market , saw street food and rushed towards the stalls and ate shit load of Vadha Paus and Gol Gappe, till our belly was about to burst. On the way back to the bus Zen and I bought the Batman pyjamas.

Era was not talking the whole time and I sensed that there was something wrong and I asked her If there was something wrong. But she didn’t utter a word. She was still shocked from what happened at the beach. We boarded the bus, Era and I sat separately but Shina asked me to sit with her as Era was not feeling well. I think she did that on purpose as everyone noticed we were holding hands and that something was going on. I sat with her and she kept her head on my shoulder. I tried my best not to move my shoulder during the whole journey so as she didn’t pick her head from my shoulder. We both were quiet during the entire journey from the beach to the resort.

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GOA-VI

Ab aage…

Finally, after getting lost for 3-4 times and experiencing the strangest things we reached the parking of Curlies and sighed. The distance of Curlies from its parking was of around 400 meters and a very uneven muddy path. There was no light, we switched on our phones for some visibility. Era was wearing heels so I held her hand and we walked pass through the muddy path and eventually reached Curlies. It was just so beautiful in front of the sea, with full moon and peace all around. We sat on the first floor on the mats and ordered hookah, something to eat and I again was stuck with fresh lime soda. We were sitting by the window and enjoying the breath taking view. We talked about the horrifying drive and how we had to be attentive while going back. I saw a room there, as we were leaving the place. An empty room with almost no light and loud trance music, all the stoned people were grooving to the music.

The ride back to resort was much more difficult than reaching Curlies as Shina’s phone died and we were on our own.  It took us almost an hour to get out of the that place. As we entered the city, we saw a police check post, I was driving the car and I was confident as I had my license with me. The police officer stopped us, and asked for the license, I showed him the license and he asked if the car was mine. I told him we were tourists and we hired the car. He checked if I was drunk with the machine, I passed that test. Zen was drunk, so he began saying “Sir he is not drunk, I am! I am!”

The police officer said that the car’s number plate should be yellow. I tried to explain him that it’s not a cab, it’s a car which we hired from a guy. He told us that even the hired cars should have yellow number plates, he accused me of stealing the car. I was shocked. He asked me to call the guy from whom I hired the car, I called him but the guy didn’t respond. He threatened me that he would have to take me to the police station and I would have to spend the night there for verification. I had no idea what to do. I asked him if I could pay for the mistake in other way. First he didn’t agree but later I convinced him. I went to get my wallet but as I had two bills of hundred but in no time Zen took a five hundred rupee bill from his wallet and gave it to the officer. Facepalm! Later we got to know through a waiter that you don’t need a yellow number plate for a hired car and we realized that police officer fooled us! Zen got so furious he started abusing him and cried that he gave him five hundred rupees. It was hilarious.

On the way back to the resort we picked up a bottle of whiskey for the night. Finally, we reached our resort’s parking , parked the car and headed towards the beach. It was around 3, we were lying on the beach when Harman came to the beach with a girl. We guys had never met her, she was our junior in the college, Sanskriti. As we were lying, it started to rain slowly, we were still there as we thought the rain would stop in some time. But, in no time it started raining heavily and we headed towards a small stable like place. I ran towards it and Era was walking slowly because I think she was not wearing any footwear, so I went back towards her and accompanied her. 

We waited for the rain to stop, but it didn’t, so we ran towards the resort in the rain itself . It looked funny. There was an open restaurant, especially for candle light dinners near the pool side, we sat there. Zen had already started drinking the whiskey and it was showing its effect. Zen took off his tee so as to relax. He was drinking a lot, so we asked him to stop and took the bottle away from him. He was drinking Signature and repeatedly asked us to return Teacher’s. The way he spoke was hilarious. He asked if anyone wanted to throw his phone in the pool. And out of nowhere Sanskriti asked that who was the guy who got drunk last night and whom people were carrying, again the awkward moment for me. Zen was sitting besides Shina and held her hand thinking that no one would notice. For the next ten minutes they kept holding hands. Zen again told us about the Nimbu incident which happened last night, when he went to take lemons for me and returned with nothing. He laughed after every line. After a while, Zen started to tease and started to make fun of Lakshya but Lakshya took it sportingly as he knew Zen was drunk. Though everyone was giggling and having a good time. We recorded all this on the phone.

It was around 5 am in the morning and Zen was going a little out of control, so we decided to take him to his room. I went to find the lemons and Harman supported Zen to walk him till the room. I made him drink the lemonade and he slept. Everyone decided to sleep and girls went to their rooms and boys to theirs but somewhere deep down I didn’t want to sleep and spend some time with everyone or maybe just Era.

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GOA-V

Ab aage….

After  facing all the embarrassment, we reached the resort’s dinning area, and were having food sitting on our favorite corner round table and then Navs arrived with his plate which looked like a multi-storey building with 3-4 vegetables on one side, rice adjusted right in the corner and ice-cream floating on the dal. A sight to watch. While having breakfast I didn’t raise my head so as to avoid an eye contact with anyone out of embarrassment.

Later, we played pool , clicked some photos near the poolside, Era and Shina posing in the most weird ways. Our fags got over so I asked Era to come along with me to the market to get it. We started looking for the fags from outside the resort and in the quest we reached a kilometer away from the resort, eventually found out that we could get it from right outside the resort. Era and I didn’t talk much maybe because of the last night. On the way Era even bought the typical Goan hat for herself and I bought a tee, ‘Goa’ printed on it for my little cousin. Everyone was sitting in the boys’ room watching India VS Australia , we joined them too. In that match Rohit Sharma scored an amazing century after struggling with his form for the past two years. That was a moment to watch and India won!

It was evening and we decided to go to the famous Goa fort shown in ‘Dil Chahta Hai’. I asked a guy for renting a car, he asked me to come with him and took me to a really shady place as others were waiting outside the resort for me. He showed me a Wagon R and then my eyes got attracted to an open jeep, really fascinating but it was out of the budget, so agreed on renting the Wagon R. Showed him my driving license and paid him for a day. I drove the car back to the resort and picked up everyone and switched on the GPS on the phone. We learned that the fort was in some other city and was a little far away. Still we planned to go but after ten minutes, we got lost and couldn’t go according to the GPS and agreed upon to go to Calangute beach.

We reached Calangute, sat in a nice shack and ordered some delicious food AND ordered liquor too but I couldn’t as I had promised Shina I wouldn’t drink that day and give myself a break as what happened last night. I kept myself to fresh lime soda. After an hour, we went for a walk on the beach and later we sat down and everyone started building castles with sand. I displayed my talent with building mammary glands with mud. After some time we headed back to the resort and got ready for some partying!

Harman told us about a beach party on Baga beach. GPS made a big fool of us and we were lost once again. We planned to go to Curlies which is one of the most famous places in Goa, a huge shack. We started our journey trusting the GPS yet again . It was around 11 pm and we had to cross through a road which was surrounded by forests . It was so dark, we had no idea where we were and where we were heading. Shina’s was the only phone that had GPS but its battery was gonna die any moment. It was a small road where only two cars could fit at a time. We reached in the middle of the forest and the strangest things started happening, 4-5 times some animals crossed our path and as we approached further we saw an old lady in a pink sari crossing the road, Navs was sitting next to me and he screamed on the top of his voice and scared the shit out of everyone.

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GOA- IV

Ab aage…

I sat on the bed and asked Era and Shina “What happened? Did I do something wrong? I don’t remember a single thing. The only thing I remember is gulping down Lakshya’s drink.” Both of them were continuously laughing at me and were not telling me a single thing. Then finally, Era started talking and told me that (All these are their words, this is what they told me) after I drank Lakshya’s drink, I sat on the seat for some time and I drifted towards sideways and was about to fall off the chair when Navs caught me. Everyone didn’t take me seriously and thought I would be okay in sometime. Then we again went inside the disc and danced for a while. I came close to Era and told her how much I cared for her. After a while, we came out of the club and I shouted ‘Puke free since 1993’ and puked a fountain all over the outer lounge of the club. Navs and Era made me sit and kept holding me. Zen was also drunk and  got confused between a 500 rupee note and a ticket and kept asking Shina the difference. And shina kept on explaining him.

I got so wasted that I could not even walk, so Navs and Zen made me sit and went to call a cab. Navs, Zen and some other guy in the club held me and took me towards the cab and everyone in the club was staring at me. Lakshya decided to stay back. I reached near the cab after a lot of efforts and I puked again and some of it  splashed onto Navs and Era. The cab driver warned everyone that If I puked in the cab, we’ll have to pay 500/- extra. After this everyone got worried and realized how worse my situation had become. They made me sit besides the window, keeping my head outside the window so that I don’t puke in the cab. On our way back to the resort, I kept on telling them that  how much I loved them and kept on abusing Harsh for not coming to Goa with us.

We reached the resort and Navs and Zen tried to pick me up but failed to do so and had to take help of  two Afgani guys from our college who came to my rescue. At this point of time four people were picking me up and taking me to my room through the resort’s central area and the whole college witnessed that embarrassing moment. When we reached the corridor, they lost their balance and I fell on the floor. Era and Shina found it very amusing and giggled but Navs gave them his serious look. I was lying in the middle of the corridor for about 10 minutes as the guys were too tired to pick me up again. Meanwhile Zen and one of the Afgani guys went to the resort’s restaurant to get some lemons to make me feel better. When Zen came he had nothing in the bowl, he was so drunk that while running towards us with four lemons in the bowl he dropped all of them on the way. Everyone went crazy laughing at this.

Finally they picked me up and dropped me on the bed. Vishal was already in the room and he got petrified when he saw me in that state and left the room and returned the next morning. Zen, Era, Shina and Navs sat there for 15-20 minutes to see if I had slept and then left for the beach. They stayed their for a couple of hours and then came back to the resort, went to their rooms and slept.

When I heard the story from both Era and Shina I got so embarrassed, I kept on apologizing for the last night and they laughed like maniacs. After a while, when I crossed the resort’s swimming pool to get some breakfast, at least 15 people asked me whether I was okay and this felt so awkward.

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