An open book... oops!


Have you ever read someone's personal diary? I have....

Last night just as a friend and i were going somewhere, i noticed her car had some 20 plastic balls in them. Curious, i questioned her about it.. and she said it was for some aerobics competition in college and their exercise moves were done with the balls (stop thinking pervert here) ....

She went on to tell me how they had a similar drill in grade 8 in school and just as she mentioned a particular red skirt (not underwear, SKIRT), both of us remembered how, when we were in school, we committed a grave sin; reading someone else's diary.

When you are in your teens, especially if you are a girl, parents tend to get mighty snoopy. I remember the days my dad used to watch me like a hawk. It lead to the revelation of many things... like how i used to 'study' with a novel under my physics/chemistry text book, my loo breaks that were actually phone breaks that lasted an hour or two.. how 'going to tuition' meant going sight seeing, street by street (believe me.. i have chased a frnd who chased a boy down three streets only to be bitten by his dog.. not me.. her), how 'combined study' meant everything but studying and 'night study' meant me lying face flat on the book, fast asleep at 11 p.m ( i notice it is midnight as i write this).. how 'meeting a friend' without mentioning her name meant i was meeting a guy... 'will be back in 2 hrs' meant it would take me 4 hrs or more... yes, i have educated my dad a whole lot... now he's an expert at it...

Similarly, one of my friends then had entrusted me with her personal diary, coz her mother was snooping around and this girl had writing alot of 'personal' stuff in it... And it sat there in front of my eyes.. the forbidden fruit.. many a time my hand would reach out to touch it but i always kept my promise of not reading it.

All this determination went for a toss when one day the friend i met last night came home. We were completely bored and had nothing to do. We couldn't think of anything to talk about. And we were looking at that diary... our pupils were dilating and we didn't blink so long that our eyes were literally watering..

"What if..."

"We shouldn't"

"Have you touched..."

"No, not yet"

"Do you want to?"

"Tempting as hell"

"Shall we?"

"Should we?"

"Just one peek"

"You think that's possible?"

"Just one peek.. c'mon.. not like she hasn't told us anything right.."

"Yeah.. still you know her.. you think we should?"

"I think we could"

"Ready?"

"1...2....3...Go!"

And we lunged for it... hungry 'wolves' (note the point here :P ) devouring their meal. We read page by page and would you believe it? Our mouth dropped open half way through...

We traveled two years of her life.. written graphically page by page (one of which i recently found when i was cleaning my room!) , and realized how different people weigh different things. There were instances that we had just brushed off, that had been very important to her... little things that we did or didn't do that had impacted her life.... love stories we didn't know of... and there was also certain amount of stuff written about us :P ... stuff that was not very appreciative ... we assumed she didn't understand us and didn't know us that well....

We gulped it all down in one swallow, hungry for more. We had entered secret territory and we planned to indirectly jab her with words from her diary later on. She wouldn't know that we'd read it of course and she wouldn't understand the significance behind our taunts. We were excited....until we came to one particular page... that said...

"Will you stop reading it already?"

The book seemed to snap shut by itself. Both of us went pink and we looked at each other; embarrassed. Our friend knew us very well after all.

She had mentioned the red drill skirt in one of those pages and last night both of us knew what the other was thinking.

"You think...?"

"What do you think?"

"Maybe we should have..."

"Does she know?"

"I don't think so..."

"Should we?"

"I think we should"

"Ready?"

"1...2..3...Go!"


P.S: She is yet to talk to the both of us :) hehehe

Statutory Warning: Reading a friend's diary is harmful to your health and is highly addictive (harmful when she finds out about it and kicks you in the gut, that is)

Issued in public interest...

27 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nice post :) Had a hearty laugh...

Anonymous said...

Btw first time here from Vidya blog. :) Expect a regular reader from now on ;)

Abhishek Behera said...

you sinner!

brilliant narration! amazing - you churn such good posts from everyday stuff.

and ya, lol over 'night study'. my approach was a bit different. night studies are the secret behind Rowling, Tolkien and others gyan. remember how potter studied stuffs hiding from the muggles in the prisoner of Azk..? Not a bad idea actually. Ya statutory Warning: its addictive and also is injurious to your grades in exams, attendance in class, and also health on prolonged usage.

Anonymous said...

mail me your diary.. ill mail mine..

red skirt .. are you sure? now i have more doubts on you..


by far .. the best post by anusha...

cool one girl

Nikhil Menon said...

hehe..samma funny babe.. :)

chriz is rite,this one was a blockbuster shy baby.. :) (or not-so-shy baby??) :D

Take care

Nikhil

Thoorika said...

ahhhhaaaa.. !! Till today i was bringing my diary in my bag to the clg.. Now I shall do that mistake!!!! BTW Who is that friend?!

Elithraniel Arawion said...

@ prathul

thanks heaps man.. welcome to my blog :) glad to see you stay

Elithraniel Arawion said...

@ abhishek

sinner? :( sigh... and the very next line u say i'm brilliant.. which one am i? :P

rotfl.. and yeah i know.. night studies were such a riot!

Elithraniel Arawion said...

@ chriz

u mail ur diary first.. then i'll mail mine

and that caption saying SKIRT was for u :P

Elithraniel Arawion said...

@ multi

me WAS shy.. u seee. WAS... PAST TENSE.. actually i'm shy even now.. see shy is coming :P

Elithraniel Arawion said...

@ mayz

thank u thank u.. and i remember what u told me ;) and STOP SUPPORTING CHRIZ

Elithraniel Arawion said...

@ thoo

why do u want to know who it is.. u guess de.. very easy.. i keep talkin abt her all d time :P

Elithraniel Arawion said...

@ chriz

o what a tragedy!

Anonymous said...

ROFL! nice post de.. :) and yea even i am curious on who the person is..

Elithraniel Arawion said...

@ swe

danke

Abhishek Behera said...

you are brilliant.

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Mayank said...

Hello :)
I have been following your blog for quite some time now, and have simply loved some of your posts! Thanks :)
This post.. hmm.. I feel you could've written much better.. the idea was fantastic, and so is everything else.. Just that..hmm.. something is missing.. as in, I mean.. I've always thought of you as an extremely talented writer.. So this one disappointed me slightly.. :P
Keep up the good work !

Keshi said...

Thats so not nice girl :( I'd never do that.

Keshi.

Arv said...

LOL... this so brings back a few memories... we all have our episodes from the childhood days.... I guess its perfectly OK... LOL...

take care mate.. cheers...

Usha Pisharody said...

Lol!

Inspiring stuff!!
To make that move with another's personal diary, statutory warning or no.. :D!

:)

Elithraniel Arawion said...

@ abhishek

thanks man :)

Elithraniel Arawion said...

@ dum d

hey hey... thanks for the feedback.. will try to better it :) keep reading my blog...

Elithraniel Arawion said...

@ keshi

hehehe.. :P i was young and jobless in life

Elithraniel Arawion said...

@ arv

that was the intention ;)

Elithraniel Arawion said...

@ usha

thanks girl :)

Keshi said...

lol its alright...we all do something like that in our lives.

Keshi.