A sharp pain along the side of my ribs forced me back into reality. Still half asleep I managed to open those dry eyes and found a pair of craft scissors lying near me on the bed.

How dare it break my state of dreams ! and how did it get here?  Then I saw a roll of brown tape and remembered that this must be from last night when I was patching up an envelope which had become torn at the edges.

I sat up and hit the button on my phone; it lit up and said Monday. Oh god damn it, why a Monday ? I sat up cursing the heavens and glanced up at 'her' half of the bed. Instead of her I found these :
1) Two books by Robert Galbraith
2) A diary, a laptop and a hard drive stacked neatly one atop the other.
3) Stapler
4) Torn corner from a pack of Lays potato chips
5) Pamphlet from a nearby food store which read free home delivery in bold
6) Many ATM receipts
7) Half eaten pack of biscuits which was all soggy because of the moisture from the rain a few days back.
8) and a jungle of wires from 3 kinds of chargers, a headphone, a wired mouse and a set of 2.1 speaker system

I was just about to decide what do do with all this rubbish when suddenly the phone rang and brought a smile to my face. Its was her !

Her: Hey you
Me : Morning

Her: Did you just wake up, its 9.30 !
Me: As usual

Her: You never learn
Me: I gotta reach office, cant miss a single day; gotta save all that vacation time for when I come.

Her: Yeah I know. When its time and you do come ; bring along that book we chose together without fail.
Me: Yep, got it right here next me me on the bed. Call you after lunch. Bye

I picked it up from among other items and it made me smile because the baby's face on the 'baby record book' is kinda cute !

True story.

Place : Pune