Black Friday

I just had an adventure yesterday and i thought Ill share it with the world....
Here's how it goes

It all started last Friday and the whole experience wasn't what I'd like to call 'a very happy birthday experience. I had recently finished 20 years of my 'happy,beautiful,chaotic' life.I thought I'll give a small party to my friends or should i say they threatened to wring my neck if i chose to spend my birthday sitting at home watching T.V.(Whichever you like).Anyways i decided to hold the party at Toons,a pub here in Pune.So me and my 4 friends went there.As soon as we reached there we found a nice long empty table just waiting to be occupied by great people like us.We ordered a pitcher of beer and started throwing smiley faces at each other.
[Smiley faces are thrown when the whole group knows they're going to get very drunk and happy]
After 5 minutes we got our pitcher.We had a toast...no wait..the bastards told they'll give me a toast and they never did.....o@$%&*$s...So after 6 pitchers down 3 of us realize one thing.We're all drunk.Who knew putting green chilly in your beer gets you high like Zeus on a cloud...So we're sitting there enjoying the moment,savoring the effect the alcohol had on our minds...One of my friends,Bimal chose not to drink.Someone had to remain sane right?So hes sitting there watching us make complete fools out of ourselves sipping his poison slowly while all of us were humming to the tune of an old Jimmy Page song that was playing there....They did play some crazy music that day.From Retro to Classical rock to heavy metal....Alcohol and music.Really brings out the best in us.Then suddenly out of the blue one of the phones started ringing and the person who had bought that particular phone was Mr.Ajinkya Naik...We call him Ajinkya 'the frog' Naik.Some may speculate that we call him so because he looks like one or because he makes that croaking sound often...(Oh how we hate that sound)..but we don't call him by that name because of either reasons.We call him that because we like to torment him..Buhahahahahahhahahahahaaha.
He picks up the phone and goes..Hello....yeah...yeah...oh....yeah...yeah...oh OK..
We knew it ...it was his sister who came all the way from Mumbai to Pune to see his little brother..Cute ain't it?
Hah you wish...She is to us what fire is to gasoline.My friend Ajinkya tells me there is an after party at the hotel where she is staying. A smile broadens over my face.Woo hoo more beer...After paying the guy we set out towards his sister's hotel.We start singing in our friend's car all the way to her flat.If i remember correctly we were singing Godsmack. We reached her flat at about 12:30 in the morning.All of us are happily drunk,signing nursery rhymes.But to our horror the lift wasn't working..We pressed the 4 th floor button but the lift didn't move.I thought to myself "Is it the alcohol?"To my relief the bellboy came and told us its not working...So we had to climb all of the four floors.Felt like climbing Mount K2...Never did that before but I'm pretty sure i would have felt the same way climbing K2 as i felt climbing the 4 floors drunk.Either ways i would have thought to myself " WHY??? "
So we finally reached there and she was there with her friend.

I started speaking rubbish as usual...I think i covered a vast area of information that night..From Shakespeare to rock to astrophysics. Anyways back to the story

Her friend poured me a drink only to find out that i poured the same drink into the glass of my other friend,Romil who poured it back to first guy.Ahhahahahahaha we had a lot of fun that night.But then all good things must come to an end right?
At about 1:30 this guy(whose name i shall not disclose) started slapping my friend so we thought "yeah this guy is gone".So we carried him to the bed and told him to go to sleep.Amazingly this guy follows our advice.He goes immediately to sleep.We all went back to the living room and had a merry old time....At about 1:00 all of us left her place and went home.The bed never looked more inviting to me before.As soon as i saw it i dropped dead succumbing to the eternal chains of sleep.

NEXT MORNING-I woke at about 8:00 in the morning.I still felt the sour taste of alcohol in my mouth,my throat dry and my stomach empty....I went to the living room and switched on the T.V.Time flew by...All of a sudden it was 11:30 and the same phone which rang yesterday night started ringing.Ajinkya picked up the phone and went "Hallo....yeah...oh...huh..what the %$^# ?"
In two shakes of a cat's tail he got ready all dressed up like he had somewhere to go and that too urgently.I went up to him and asked him "Whats up dude,where you goin?"
Him..."Dude we're f#%@d
Me-"And how exactly are we f#%@d?"
Him-"You know the guy we saw yesterday with my sister,well he's not waking up"
Me-"Aummm...ok....Not WAKING UP..."
Him-"He's snoring and all"
Me-"Whew!!!!"
Him-"..But he's unconscious,he is not waking up"
Me-"ohhhhh"

We went to the hospital to see him.He was in the emergency ward.The doctors told us that this chap might get in to a comatose.This of course didn't go down well the girls in our group.One girl got hysterical.The other just got all freaky.This particular girl was my friend's sister.Remember the whole fire, gasoline equation? Afternoon came and the whole situation got worse.The doctors started screaming at us"You youngsters think it's all about chilling,hanging out.You don't realize the consequences"
I was like "What the hell?...We don't even know him.We got him to the bloody hospital and this is how you respond?"
I mean come on man we're the good guys.Tell us good things like "You did a good thing bringing him here" not "you bastards don't know shit about life blah blah."Under such circumstances we already were a little tense and we don't need anyone making it worse for us...Evening comes and suddenly we receive good news...He started responding a little.He got up,removed the oxygen mask wrapped around his mouth but fell right back into sleep soon.A sense of relief came over us.But it went away pretty fast as i had to call his father and tell him the news. He said he'll reach pune by midnight.
After 2 hours we received more good news.The old chap had gotten up.My friend's sister went into the I.C.U to see him.On seeing her he started shouting "Why did you bring me to a hospital?You're a @##$% ^&%$,you and your brother mixed something in my drink,I'm gonna @#%$ up your life"
It became obvious to us that this guy got to know that his dad is coming and that he knew everything so this chap here was trying to pin the blame on us.That's when we really got serious.I mean who knows what if this guy had drugs the night before,he would test positive for drugs and we'll land in a very unhappy place called prison.We also got angry.We saved his life and here he is pinning the entire blame on us"
I said to my friend Ajinkya"Let him get up back again on his two feet,We'll punch right back into a coma"After many more torturous minutes and long hours the clock struck midnight.Half of his family were there with us,they were quite reasonable.We told them all that happened.They believed us cause they knew that the chap lying in the I.C.U had a history of getting into trouble.
His father reached, spoke to his son, came out and then talked to us.We told him we're sorry for all that happened...But inside i was thinking to myself"Damn...this guy is really a piece of work"(not the old man but his son)he almost got us in jail for no reason."

Thank god his family was mature and sensible....Today i think back at it and i realize the seriousness of the whole thing."We have to reflect on what happened to know what may."

That day was a horrible day for us which shall be marked in black for the rest of our lives.It had all the elements of a good story....Trust,betrayal,mystery,lies,deceit,confusion,frustration....All in all one fucked up day......And do i regret going through all this..

Of course not...If you never sink how will you ever know the importance of staying afloat?