The Smile

I just remembered a real life incident after reading Alpha baby's latest post. This happened when I was in my third year of enggi...I was known to belong to the "TE" class. The order being "FE", "SE", "TE", "BE". Anyway, we had a small Mata ka temple up the only hill in the village called Lone-Tech (the local name being Lon Tekdi). The temple had been recently renovated and they cut up the hill to build these huge stairs going up to it. The bottom of the stairs became like our favourite hang-out place as we could ogle at all the women going up and down...yes, even paan-spitting village belles (wot to do...we were desperate).

Anyway, one beautiful evening, 5 of us TE guys sat at our usual place to begin the evening ritual. One FE guy passed by us and I just scowled at him making him run faster to mother Kali (our group had quite a rep). But the poor guy was caught by a group of 3 to 4 SE girls further up the stairs ...and one of them, was pretty vocal.

Khadoos Girl: Oye!
FE Kid: Yes..........?
Khadoos: Kyun bey, idhar ghoor ghoor ke kya dekh raha tha??!!? Bhagwan ki puja karne aaya hai ya ladkiyon pe line maarne??
FE Kid: (realizing they were seniors and getting nervous and lowering his eyes...) sorry ma'am...galtee ho gayee.
Khadoos: (turning around to face her hommies and exclaiming...) saala he is admitting!!! i to was just pulling his leg....
Khadoos: (turning around and suddenly assuming an even more menacing pose...)...sun munne...yeh baat yaad rakh...aage se koi bhee senior ladkee dikhee...aur teri nazar agar tere joote se thodi bhee upar huyee....to achaa nahin ho ga. samjha?!?...samjha?!?...abey samjha ki nahin!!??!! ...zor se bol..!
FE Kid: (nervously shivering and trying to burrow his chin into his neck....)...sss..ssoo...ssoorry ma'am...so sorry...nahin hho ga...aage se....
Khadoos: Chal ....ab apna manhoos chehra yahan se lekar nikal ja....chal bhaag!!
FE Kid: (about turn and bolt!...down the stairs towards us....)

Now we were really tough raggers during our time....but this was horrendous!! Humaari aankh ke saamne ...that girl just ripped apart this poor guy....one of our kind! And seniors ka kuch lihaaz nahin! We were offended...male ego bursting on its seam...I called out to the FE guy while he was rolling and tumbling down the stairs in an attempt to escape from the clutches of this daiyan...

Me: Abey ruk!!!
FE Kid: (...still tumbling as he looked up and let out a gasp!)
Me: ...idhar aa!...
FE Kid: (...screeeching to a mid-stair halt and balancing himself with his arms circling wide....)
FE Kid: ...(..still balancing but facing me now..)...er..Y.Y.Yesss s.s..s.ir?
Me: shhhh...relax...no need to fear me...i heard all that the bitch said to u...we are going to set her straight...do one thing...go back up and tell her that i want to meet her...NOW....and then go and complete ur darshan in the temple...
FE Kid: (blankly looking at me as if i had poked him in the ass...and for a minute i thought i was talking to a penguin...)
Me: Hullo...kya hua? Abey na-mard...jaa ke abhi usko neeche bula!!! GO!!! NOW!!!
FE Kid: (...bolting back up the stairs and panting as he conveyed my message to Khadoos...)

I saw Khadoos looking in my direction...turning around to converse in whispers with her friends...and turning back to issue a crisp verbal command to the Kid which saw him rocketing up towards the temple! She then started climbing down nimbly towards our group with her head gracefully lowered.

As she came closer...I noticed that she wasn't all that bad looking...in fact...under other circumstances...i would have actually called her cute. As she approached closer...I sat down on the short wall lining the stairs with my buds standing around me...acting tough and looking like we meant business. They also kept uttering these useless one-liners...like .."we'll show her"..."wot does she think"..."show her her auks (short for aukaad)"..."bloody SE"...disturbing. I told them to shut up as she approached.

Cute Khadoos: (facing me...)..Yes sir?..(...looking straight into my eyes...)..did u call for me?
Me: (...thinking ...Holy Mother of Jesus Christ!!! u've got some dishy eyes on u girl!!...:))..er...hmm...yes...er...yes...i did...er..WE..did...
Me: (desperately looking around for some support from my hommies...but all i saw were a bunch of bloody zombic idiots ...glaring at her with their eyes wide open and mouths agape with shock!!!...she was pretty...)
Cute Khadoos: Yes?...(...dark innocent eyes imploring...looking straight at me..)
Me:...(fumbling for right words...any words...she was too pretty...)..er...yes...yes...i ..er ...WE ...overhead ur conversation with that FE kid ....and...and we just wanted to point out that its not right....i mean...yes...u can rag...its right to rag...but...(looking around for help once more but changing my mind quickly after seeing my dumbos begin drooling...)...but...er...u shouldn't be so rude....u know...i mean ...when we rag our juniors...we are gentle...u know...hehehe (nervous laugh...)...u really scared the ...u know...out of the little kid...er...
Cute Khadoos: (...listning intently...and giving a ...) *shy beautiful smile* ...(..uff!!!..)
All of us: (...going WHOA!!!...what a smile!!! )
Cute Khadoos: ...sorry sir...i'll try to be gentle next time...*shy beautiful smile*
All of us: (...WHOA WHOA WHOA!!!...)
Me: (...recovering hazily...)...er..ok..that was all...we just wanted to convey this...hehehe (nervous laughter)...ok then..happy ..er...ragging...see u..sometimes....around here...somewhere...tata...ok...
Cute Khadoos: (..looking at each and every one of us and smiling and thanking...)...Bye...

Needless to say...we felt collectively moronic after the entire episode and as for the FE kid...I didn't see him anywhere at all after that incident. God rest his poor soul.