A Girl From London : Episode - 6

Motorsports Academy, Calcutta, this is one of those places where Sidharth spends more time, every weekend he visits the academy and practices his racing skills, as usual, Sidharth went to academy and was in a practice session with his co racers after a 50 laps race Siddarth went to his coach for feedback and guidance. ”Hey Sidharth, come in!” “I wanted to talk about the enrolment procedure for Grand race.” “Yes, Sidharth I was about to discuss this with you, I have observed your practice performances and yes you are eligible for the enrolment.” “Thanks, coach!” “But, there are some issues that you need to sort out first.” “And what are those?” asked Sidharth with confusion. “In your performance footage analysis I have seen that, during hard turns, you are inclining more than required,” “But I can control the incline perfectly,” “In this track, Yes, but in some tracks, it will be not a manageable task, for an instance, the first qualifier of the grand race will be held in Kara Motor Speedway, Coimbatore, and it has more than 14 banking turns and just imagine if you lose control because of your incline, your race is over then and there itself!!” “Ok, I’ll look into that, do you have any suggestions to improve the incline?” “Yes for a week straight, I need you to work on your inclines completely.” “A week!? I have office Coach, I can only practice on weekends!” “You know this race is crucial Sidharth, and this is your golden ticket into racing, if you make any mistake this Grand race can put a full stop to your racing career, trust me training only on the weekends will not benefit you.” “I know Coach, but I can't resign the job either!” “I know Siddarth, but this is your opportunity, you have the potential to become the best racer, but the final decision is up to you.” “Ok, I’ll figure out a way.” “And one more thing, your bike needs to be modified for the grand race.” “Yes, I’ll look into that as well! see you, tomorrow Coach” Sidharth left the Academy and switched on his mobile and called Kaira. “Hello, Kaira!” “Hey Sid, so are you done with the racing?” “Yes, just now, as soon as I came out of the academy, I called you.” “The thing is Vaibhav and Amoditha are waiting for us, to join them, I am at dance school, come here” “Yes, I’ll come and pick you up in 15 minutes.” Sidharth picked Kaira from her school, after a ride in traffic they finally reached the pub where Vaibhav was waiting for them, Sidharth was so tired as soon as he went inside the pub he crashed on the recliner. “Dude are you ok?” asked Vaibhav. “First of all this traffic sucks and second I need a Whiskey on rocks!!” “Are you sure, you’ll need to drive back home on that bike?” said Kaira. “Don’t worry if he gets high I’ll drop you guys” reassured Vaibhav. “And by the way, the drinks are upon me today!” “Why Sid?” and all of them were looking towards Sidharth with anticipation. “Because I had passed all the requirements to participate in Grand race, 2020!!” “That’s Awesome dude!!” said Vibhav and everyone celebrated to Sidharth. “There are some things which I need to work on, but the race will be in December.” “Well this call’s for a toast, for the racer!!” shouted Vaibhav. “TO THE RACER!!” shouted Kaira and Amoditha. They all celebrated and were done for the night, Vaibhav dropped Kaira and Amoditha home and they were heading to Sidharth’s house. Sid was fiddling his mobile and opened Diya’s Account on Instagram and he could see Vaibhav in the mutual friend's list. “Dude, do you know anybody named Diya Chakraborty?” “Yes, now what’s with her?” “Well, yesterday she liked all my pictures on Instagram.” “Ok, that’s good!” “If she is your friend why didn’t I meet her before?” asked Sidharth. Vaibhav turned towards Sidharth and gave him a void expression. “Come on dude are you going to stare at my face like that or are you even going to tell me?” “She was a roommate of Amoditha.” “Ok, even if she is a friend of Amoditha, why didn’t I meet her?” asked Sidharth. “She came here from London for studies 12 months back and she stayed in Amoditha’s room and dude do you even remember your condition 12 months back?” “I was fine!” said Sidharth rolling his eyes. “No, you were broken and you shut yourself from people, you used to go for long rides on your god damn bike without any contact for days and even I nor Kaira would know where you are and now you are asking why didn’t you meet her? She came for the Durga pooja but you came late before you guys could even meet she left and during Visarjan you went to see Arnav.” “Ok, so she is the London girl Amoditha talks about?” “Yes, and a very nice girl.“ “And stunning,” said Sidharth. “Looks like someone like’s her?” “Yes, I mean no, come on dude, she is just your friend and she is stunning that’s it!” “Ok, so are you going to text her?” asked Vaibhav. “No, I don’t think so but, I’ll like all of her pictures.” “Well, here we are, it’s your stop buddy and one more thing text her dude!” “If you say so, goodnight dude!” Siddhartha went into his room and sat looking at the account of Diya, There was something fascinating or familiar about her, at first he tried to ignore her, but eventually, he ended up staring at her pictures for hours, maybe it was her eyes that were so fascinating that even a guy who’s heart is broken and running from himself found a wave of calm looking in those deep black lavishing eyes, they were deep enough for anyone to get lost in those pretty damn eyes. Finally, Siddharth decided to break the silence and liked all of her pictures and sent her a message “Hello”. Siddarth was a man of speed but for the first time in his life even an hour waiting for her reply seemed fine for him, he was confused and excited at the same time, he played some video games, but all of his concentration was onto his mobile around 2 in the night he finally opened his phone which vibrated and it was Diya “Hey Hello!”. “I think we haven’t met but we know each other.” “Yes, actually I have seen you on Durga pooja,” said Diya. “Is it, but Vaibhav said you left before we could meet!” “Yes, it’s actually when we were on our way to pooja I saw you on your bike, the black shirt, the cigarette it was you right?” “Well, black shirt and cigarette that sounds like me for sure!” “Yes, and I saw you at pooja with your friend Kaira too.” “So you know Kaira as well?” “I met her at Visarjan and you are the only person I haven’t met.“ “Well, that’s my bad luck maybe.” “Maybe or maybe not.” Even though it was their first conversation they both were comfortable with each other, they both were so distracted in talking and knowing about each other that they lost track of time, it has been hours but they were talking like long lost friends who met after ages, within a short time they got to know about each other's personalities. “Maybe I think it’s time for you to sleep,” said Diya. “I only sleep for 3 hours, so I have some more time to play or to do anything else,” “What would you do with all that time?” asked Diya out of enthusiasm. “I would play games and mostly I listen to some songs and the night flies by.” “From next time, if you are not able to sleep besides songs you can text me!” “I would love to text you,” said Sidharth. “For now good night Sidharth.” “Good night Diya and by the way you can call me Sid.” “Ok Good night Sid.” After so many months Sidharth was feeling a little better, every night used to be a battle for Siddarth, but today it was different he was able to sleep peacefully with a smile on his face.