Finally, after long hours of hard work; I slumped to the bed. I was still getting weird butterflies in my stomach. I don’t know it is same person or not but as I decided, I should give my last try to find him. Some how I cuddled myself back to sleep.
The Next Day…..
I was ready to play Sherlock Holmes. I was done with my research part and now it is time for investigating part. I got done with my morning routine. All I had in my brain was to search him. I grabbed the oat meal from the dorm’s mess and returned to my “Mission Mystery decoded”. Hey, wait a minute which one is better? ” Mission Jai Patel” or ” Mission Mystery Decoded”….
Uuuughhh so meeee…(laughter)!!
I fired my lappy back to life and started checking for college server. Believe me, they have no sense of safety; they use so outdated versions of safety software and they generate software engineers here(note the sarcasm).
I mean, even a person with a little knowledge of hacking will get into their server. Within few minutes, I was in student database. Though I was near to find him here; but I had only 10 minutes for sneak peak otherwise they would get my IP address and I will be in records for being an intruder. I know that they won’t even bother checking any complaint given by the software; because there were already 16 and none of them was checked. I was safe any how but why to risk? You never know what trouble will bring your career crashing down. What? I am very career oriented, though I don’t seem like one…
I set my smart watch on alarm for 10 minutes
I searched for Jai Patel in search tab and within a minute, I had a few results on my screen. It was available with admission information and few previous information. There were almost 10 results. I gulped hard before clicking on it.
The information for the first few results was upsetting. Because their names were Jai Patel, but they belonged to different cities and some belonged to different states.
Some how, all the results were unsatisfactory. None of them shared even a small piece of my history. I checked my watch and I had only one minute left to shut this crap! I immediately discarded that webpages.
After few seconds I realized; that I should have checked their father’s name as well. Maybe, the network name would be registered on their parents name. I repeated all those steps again and this time to my utter dismay, the results were unsatisfactory…..
I was a little disheartened, but I tried to call him. But the response was same as the previous one. I was hurt, I felt like crying, I felt humiliation. I was still thinking that how can he leave me hanging? the worse part here is, How can I let him go without seeing his face? I was mourning over my stupidity then something strike in my brain. I can still have clues or even reveal his identity somehow, if I called someone from my school….
Believe me, I am sure nobody will recognize me, I was so busy with myself that I forgot that the world outside my aspirations also exist.
I am sure, that I am that because…. my best friend Lina; would kill me on the phone itself. SHIT! I am so scared, but I have too. I searched my contacts on my phone and here she is “Linuuu”, I miss her any how…. I will better as well….
As she was my closest friend, She would surely know about this guy. She would be my eye witness, because I hardly remember us staying apart. Yeah! we were the best girlfriends….
I was still scared; I was wishing that she didn’t change her number. After few rings, she picked up my call.
Me: Hello, uhmm…. is it Lina Mehra..?
Lina: Yes, Maya, it’s me… I thought you forgot about me, I missed you!
Me: I miss you too linuuu…
After our usual greeting and whereabouts, I jumped to main conclusion and the information I got was worth it….
Believe me, how 3 hours went? was still a mystery to me, it’s the specialty of our friendship, time flies by so easily… with her….
So, here we can say that we all should have best friends with best benefits.