AneStory

               Most people would decide not to travel, while having fever and vomits and stomach pains, but not Hera. What he did would be termed courageous by most. He first of all parked the bike at a secure place, where it would get as dirty as possible, he parked it right under a tree, where bird droppings were a common ground art, now bike art.

                 After that, he packed everything in two bags, everything included all of the following,    

                 1. Books, all of them.

                 2. Drawing sheets, drawing board, etc

                 3. All dabbas and boxes, empty but unwashed

                 4. And ton of unwashed clothes

and carried them to STD, where he informed Auntie of his plan and got on to a rickshaw, to bus stand. There he got on to a luxury bus, 2 by 2 seater, got window seat, popped a pill and slept. And woke up only when bus stopped for tea time. Normally, people in his position would have stayed away from eating anything, but not Hera, he started with Wada pav, chat and so on. And then vomited everything out!

                  Slept, till next destination arrived. There, he realized, he might be late for the connecting train. Had to drag his bags all the way to railway station. There on 3rd platform was the connecting train, he was on 6th platform and ticket counter was on 1st platform. And, train was going to go, decided to hop onto it, and thought will pay fine if required and ran to get on the train.

                  There, as he reached platform 3, train started to move, he would not have been able to get on the train unless like any romantic movie, whether DDLJ, Jab we Meat etc., some one would like Hera, well there is no time wrong time to dream, and pull him on the train. And thats what happened, a hand from the cargo compartment, which was smelling heavily of fish, came out, Hera took that hand and got on the train. But unlike movie that person was unfortunately male, Hera was being himself, more over he was TC, and Hera stupidly asked "Is there enough time to buy ticket and come back?" Of-course not!

                  However, he did not fine him then and there, he did not have his ticket and fine book with him. So for time being, Hera was saved. The ladies in compartment who were carrying fish helped him get on a bench and sleep. They also advised him to get of train after 2 stations and climb on general boogie, 3 compartments ahead, by then TC would have traversed it, so you can save on fine, by giving the TC a miss. 

                  So as decided, Hera moved into the other compartment, and sat down. And his rest of the journey began and continued without any hindrance.

                  While, Hera was on his way home, his father had sent a parcel along with a family friend, and as obvious, he did not find Hera at the room, so he started searching for Hera, soon a search party of about 20 to 25 people had gathered. Well it was a valid reason, and noble too for Heas' seniors to miss studies. But no one asked Auntie of STD anything except for the sad girl!

                   Running here and there, proper investigation had began, had he left the town, gone to his relatives, all sorts of permutations and combinations were being worked out and if necessary, they had decided to approach police. Heras' parents were packing there backs to make an overnight journey, fearing all sorts of bad things. 

                    Then, bell rang! And Hera came home, what a relief, what followed was well over his head. About 20-25 phone calls were done, about same number of apologies asked, Hera just looked on and then remembered of the girl and said, "Oh! Shits! I forgot to inform her."