I panicked....my friend caught my hand and reassured me that someone had just screamed "happy holi" nothing to worry about..but my heart was beating so loud that i could barely hear her...i begged her saying we should go back..but she said we've been brave enough to have come this far and we should go ahead with it....just then my friend screamed out to us from her terrace asking us to come upstairs...we went there..she was in a room on the terrace which we later came to know was her brother's,my other friend was also there with her...she had not yet started playing holi coz she was waiting for all of to arrive..we are a gang of 6 girls and so far only 4 of us had arrived..so all of us sat waiting in that room for the remainig two to arrive...to avoid confusion-so far prathibha,vasavi,sandhya and myself were there in the room..prathibha was the one who had called me in the morning...we waited for about half an hour then we started getting bored..at this point prathibha lost her patience and said we should start playing,we agreed..
At first we didn't know what to do coz none of us had played holi in a long time..the last time i played holi was when i was in my 6th std and all i remember is running away from my friends whose sole intention was to get me drenched...the first few minutes were very awkward...all we did was get some dry colours on our faces that too in a very docile manner...then we started getting bored again...it was then i decided that i wont let my holi be such a demure & bland affair...so i secretly got a bottle of water from the room and spalshed all the water on my friend vasavi catching her completely offguard....it was then all our holi spirits got unleashed...we started playing like mad, all of us were drenched and horribly pink..just then we came to know that one of friends shweta was on her way upstairs...then just as how a leopard stalks its prey and then leaps on it...we decided to do something similar,cashing in on element of surprise, all of us simply pounced on her when she came up,in a matter of seconds her face had b'come completely unrecognisible...just then the little kids in the apartment came up to ply holi too...all of them looking simply adorable...infact we had so much fun that we completely lost track of time...i was a favourite with the kids,all of them were after me,jumping to reach my face to apply colour,i gave in most of the time(something i'll repent later on)
Then at last the 6 th member arrived,she already drenched and purple!she was late b'coz she was playing holi with her family but she was given the same treatment as shweta..infact worse..we ended breaking her specs while "attacking"her..We played on n on for hours the music (courtesy the PC in her brother's room)was amazing..i even played her brother's drums! must say i wasn't that bad...we simply let ourselves go and jumped and danced for hours....
Then atlast we decided to stop,we were famished,vasavi left immediately as her father came to pick her up..5 of us decided to go to prathibha's place to take some well deserved rest and ofcourse to eat! Everybody in prathibha's family except her brothers play holi(how ironic)when we entered the house,her brother simply vanished when he saw us...i thought we had scared him as we were looking terrible...but later we found out that he was hiding from his friends as they threatenend to break eggs n tomatoes on his head(good enough reason to hide forever!)We had some delicious biryani and then bid farewell to everyone and finally were on our way home....myself and sandhya found an auto with difficulty and quickly got in....
Now the entire TROUBLE begins......
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