The 16 year old Boyfriend

The Overexcited, Overconfident and Underage Love

The age, when we want everything despite of the fact that we can’t handle anything. The age, when we have all our life ahead but still we are restless and impatient. The age, when we certainly don’t have anything to do, but still we are the busiest people in the family. The age, when by looking over the past four weeks, we decide our next 40 years with a person. We follow “Love at first site” as a chorus.

The story is about a " 16 year old Boyfriend ", who had his first kiss on his 16^th birthday as a birthday gift from his girlfriend. Few were speculating if the girl tricked the guy (as usual) and wrapped his birthday just with a kiss in order to save money, while others were confident that they were deeply in love with each other and may soon update their Facebook relationship status. But our 'nutcracker'!  Was he even bothered, he was on cloud nine, he took a world tour in 20 seconds, The journey started from India and ended up in Russia via America. Hailing from a lower middle class family, the boy somehow managed to give a birthday party as he was saving his pocket money from past 3 months and the struggle finally payed off. 

A fortnight old relationship, took off smoothly. Sharing lunch boxes with each other, bringing each other’s favorite dish, those innocent and unnecessary smiles and those supporting friends who use to manage everything else, so that there is no disruption in the blooming relationship. Soon the series of holding hands, personnel talks, quality time etc. started. Soon everyone in the school bus was aware about the couple, indeed they were very 'supportive', last seat on the right corner was always reserved for the couple, similar was the scenario of the classroom. Soon the Chemistry and the Hindi teacher, using their valuable 30 years old experience came to know about their relationship and the first thing they did on entering inside the class, was to separate them. 

Time passed on, after a few weeks the routine got older. Now our 'nutcracker' wanted to do special things for his princess, so as to make her feel special. He always made sure that she is happy, things like, spending his daily 10 rupee note (which his mother used to give him to have something from the canteen) to buy a pastry for her, being extra protective so that no one could touch her or even look at her, for that matter, inside or outside the school. Taking the long route on his way back to home from tuitions, in order to drop her safely near her place. After all that tiring day, he used to wake up at night, till 12 or 1, using cellphone inside the blanket, to greet Goodnight and have a lovely good night kiss. All the laws of optics, talking about an eye’s minimum range were consistently proven to be wrong, every night !

As the days passed, few promises and future plans were exchanged between the ambitious lovers. But you need capital to plan future! The few ways used by our 16 year old, to manage money, are as follows. The Boy used to bring household items like, Flour. It used to be about 10 rupees per kg and suddenly jumped up to 15 rupees per kg. Same textbooks were bought repeatedly over every week, poor parents were not much educated to look into his son’s textbooks to find out why he asks money to buy the same book every other week. Tuition fees also suddenly jumped from 1000 rupees to 1500 rupees. He made sure that his darling’s mobile always had balance, still she used to give him a miscall and a request to call back. The school canteen bills increased, as now she wasn’t alone to have pastry, her friends used to accompany her, but the boy obviously couldn’t refuse, because to keep your girlfriend happy you have to keep her friends happy. Grades were going down, number of friends were going down, the number of family get togethers were going down, as he didn’t have time for anyone else.

The 16 year old boyfriend, was sustaining a relationship with a vision of marrying her! The vision was never a problem, it’s good to be visionary and ambitious, but fulfilling her needs by keeping himself hungry, by lying to his parents, stealing money, compromising with his grades and losing some true friends was a problem.

Her birthday was approaching, our 'nutcracker' was again up to something big, " poor ambitious lad ". He borrowed money from his friends increased the tuition fees, and the cost of some other household items and could manage a few bucks. He planned a surprise birthday party for her, invited all her friends and bought a teddy bear of his own size as a birthday gift. During the party, some high born friends of hers, started complaining about the arrangements. The lighting wasn’t good for the few, few were not comfortable with the color of the flowers used in decoration, few thought the DJ wasn’t good, few complained about the tablecloth. Few of them even complained about his hairstyle, few said, " you look tired, cheer up it’s your girlfriend's birthday ". With a smile on his face and an indefinite attempt to say something, he walked away. Nobody gave a thought that he was the one who was planning all this, it's pretty much obvious if he looks a bit restless.

The girl was busy dancing with his childhood friend, who came into a Honda city with an Iphone in his hands. The boy approached her and asked her to cut the cake, although she wasn’t willing but she agreed after looking at his tired face. She complained, "why are you not wearing any party clothes?", he said, " but you gifted me this T-shirt ", to which the girl replied, " does that implies that you will wear it everywhere ". After cutting the cake she selected a corner with some 'selected friends', she went high on wine and started dancing. The boys near her were touching her inadequately, he tried to oppose and pushed a few of them away. Soon they were in a fight, the two gangs, The careless high born ones and The stupid, ambitious ones were affectionately fighting with each other. But why ?

Soon police took them away, when the boy became conscious he witnessed himself into a police station, with patches of blood on his T-shirt and a broken nose and his parents pleading to the inspector to spare their child and their son is innocent.

He went to school after 10 days, her dear princess and darling even refused to recognize him, she completely ignored him. His friends, few wounded, sympathized him. He tried several times to start a conversation, said sorry, tried to give her new gifts, buy her pastries, but all was useless.

10 years from then, Now the guy is in a MNC, earning 2 lakh rupees per month. Sitting on the terrace at night, having cold coffee, smiling on his deeds, he recalls everything, What happened to all those promises they once made? Why he used to say that he can't live without her, provided he is still alive and happy even after 10 years of all that? What happened to those future plans of marrying her? The intimate moments that he spent with her, he will be spending all those again with someone else. Why his girlfriend’s friends noticed the flowers and the lighting and why not the teddy bear and her favorite cake? Why they didn’t notice how happy she was about being with all her friends again? Why the girl didn’t ever asked him that, how did he manage all those, pastries, gifts and parties as he wasn’t earning and his father was a government clerk earning just 30,000 rupees per month? Why the girl was so much flattered on that friend of hers with an I phone? Despite he wasn’t the one who earned it, He was also enjoying his father’s money. Lots and Lots of questions, but nobody to answer. He looks up to the sky, thanking God, Friends, and Parents, finished up his coffee and went downstairs to work.

The age Sixteen and our 16 year old boyfriend both were ' Overexcited, Overconfident and Underage '. With an unidentified victim, the story ends here.

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