500 Miles For One Kiss...(3)

Tsewang

"Norbu, do you know her?" I appealed him

I wait patiently as my heart beat softly on my chest but my mind keeps running like a mad elephant. I just wish something positive from his mouth rather than some bullshit. I really wish he could say “here is her cell number” “she wanna be friend with you” “she saw you charming and funny”. For the few minutes he didn’t opened his mouth, without a word he scraped his head and turn back, walk briskly toward kitchen. Dirty though start evaporate from my mind and my heart start beating fast and faster. “Is she his girlfriend?” “Is he still upset with me?” “Is she gone abroad?” I knew, some dust yet not settled down between someone. Might be between us or might be between them. I couldn’t figure out which one.

He was not the same Norbu as I know him before, he had a fairy skin but now smoky skin, rough face with strange eyes expression, neither I can read nor I can judged easily, his silky hair turn into long dread lock, it perfectly match his skin. He still speaks softly and slowly with firmly and confidently. He was a boy with magic mind….creative……imaginative…..originative…..inventive….exam carefully before he does anything. We used to call him “Albert Einstein” not because he looks alive because of his knowledge in mathematic. He was illustrious in mathematic in entire school. Since he came from low profile background beside he was the first child of the parent. He dropped out school by the mid of +2.

I remember those black and white moments, when we were in high school, there was a girl called Lhadon whom he love affectionally. He used to tell me “I won’t marry until or unless she was the one” one day our headmaster was off to meeting to India and asked Norbu to look after his house for the time being. At the time, I was keeper of guest house and office, mean I don’t need to sleep in hostel, I was accompanying by KN (Karma Norbu). It was Norbu’s idea to drink as we are about to graduated from high school, we agreed willingly and stick to his planned.

That very night, Norbu and Sonam bunked hostel and brought enough drink to make our-self drunk. Before we started we fried the beef, played You’re beautiful by Bryan Adams and Loney by Akon and listed goes on…...there were eight of my class-mate including me.

All I remember is…..we shake our foot with those beautiful songs….watched some porn movies. I saw Tashi puking and Norbu was quivering with the song so deeply that his eyes were closed. Most of them were drinking and gossiping about girls. The room was filled with smoke and bottles everywhere, I light the cigarette, grabbed a beer, went upstairs to the roof. Neither moon nor twinkling stars are above my head….black sheet has covered almost entire surface. I dial to Tsering Dolma and we exchange a short conversation.

I don’t know whose idea it might be but somehow we fly toward girls hostel around at 2:0 am, checking out some girls who were making name and fame including Lhadon.  Norbu said something bit seriously…..I couldn’t catch his words…..all I hear is bla bla bla….Sonam told me, I was laughing at him like a mad man. I was told that I was after Lhadon like cat chasing for mouse. I don’t exactly remembered what I did with her…..might be I kissed her…that’s not a big deal…it’s like kissing to the corpse…..neither she knows nor does she feel.

Since that rough and bumpy night, I become rotten egg in his eyes, he start building a dam and give me peculiar looks whenever we met. Truly speaking, I accepted it as my fault and beside I hardly spend much time, thinking on such matter…..I know his habit and character…If anything bother him, he acted strangely, neither he exchanged conversation nor share smile. He stayed quietly all alone for long time.

 “She is Tsering Dolma’s cousin” after a long wait, he said in a very low voice with grief face.

WILL BE CONTINUE..........