Khwab Jo.

To Ahana Datta, for all your freaky dreams.

Song : Illusion and Dream by Poets of the Fall.

For the millionth time that day, he pressed a random key on his QWERTY phone so that the light would glow and he'd be able to see the time. It was 3:47 AM. He wanted to sleep. It'd been 5 hours since he'd been wracking his brains with T-shaped Accounts and Balance Sheets. The Mind wanted to rest. But then again, he had to study, exams were around.

I'll get a 6 hour sleep and wake up at 10, he thought. He set the Alarm on his fancy phone. Of course, waking up to your own alarm is the last thing people would trust themselves with.

So, he messaged his friend, Ganesh :

"Wake me up at 10, if you're up at 10."

And then he wished his girlfriend Good Night, plugged in his earphones, heard Illusion and Dream and finally slept like a baby.

*

He rubbed his eyes. Opened one of them and saw a tall figure standing.

The figure yelled, "Tell me the relation between peace and freedom! Now!"

"With silence comes peace, with peace comes freedom, with freedom comes silence," he said and went back to sleep.

Sometime later, he woke up again and checked his phone.

"4 New Text Messages"

He checked them. 3 forwards from some random person. Why would people send ridiculous fowards in the morning, he thought.

The last text read :

"Sorry, couldn't wake you up, woke up myself at 10:47. Just saw text."

It was from Gannu. He didn't bother. He didn't really expect Ganesh to wake him up, anyway. He fell asleep again.

Some more time later, he finally woke up, with sleep still hovering under his eyes. He saw that his phone still had unread text messages. He checked them. MBA-Universe and what not.

Just then, his phone vibrated.

"Gannu :) calling"

H : Kaminey kahi ke.

G : Kyun?!

H : Uthaya nahi na tune

G : Utha toh raha hoon. Get up chal, sissy.

H : Uth raha hoon

G : Acha bye, I have to sleep. (sleepy tone)

H : Khud soo le, saale. Bye (funny tone)

He then returned to his Inbox.

He looked for Ganesh's earlier message. He kept scrolling down. He went past the MBA ones, the forwarded ones and then he found the Good Night Ones. He was puzzled. He checked the other folders. No where.

Confused, he locked his phone and got out of his bed to do the morning things. He turned around and then like always, punched a random key on his phone to check the time.

9:47 AM.