An Unexpected Visit

II Om Namo Bhagawate Vasudevaya II

Sam, Samira and I were sitting on the balcony on a summer Sunday night at our rented flat; we took in Nehru Nagar, New Delhi. And three of us suddenly felt at about 11PM, we heard someone knocking at our door. But that’s not all to our utter surprizing three of us got msg reading “An Unexpected Visit” from a same number. As the knocking was still on, three of us got call from a single number at same time!

Sam is not less than a brother to me and we were friends since the first day in our college, KIIT. He is my best buddy, but not a boyfriend. He works at Infosys and often shows off calling himself an Infy. A tall, with slender cheek bones, and well-built body; all in all, he is a smarty. Samira is my colleague at a multinational IT firm at Malvya Nagar. We know each other since two years, when I went to the testing team at Infozech regarding some technical sort out. We became friends the very day and started having lunch the same day onwards. She is a sharp girl, with beauty and brain.

By, the way, I am Ruhi a girl with high ambitions but I always take a back step in everything because of my average look which makes me feel I am of no good. I feel my protruding jaws are sufficient to bring bad lucks whenever I see myself in mirror. But Samira feels me beautiful! Anyway friends are like that, a friend always finds perfection in ever thing of her friend and she happens to be my good friend.

Three of us coincidentally happen to stay on same rented flat in the capital town. Since an year and half Samira and me had decided to stay together as first, it would be an easy life with a close friend and second, it is easy for both of us to  commute, to the same office even in late hours. We often have to stay back after office hour for our increase in work load.

Sam has been living with us since six months after he was relocated to Delhi by his company, and who else other than his buddy Ruhi, he could have contacted in this new city? I asked him to live with us, i.e. to share same flat with us. He was fine with it, but more than that his mother was relieved as he has to be under my eyes and I shall be there to take care of him. He is bit childish at times.

So, we got the msg beeps on the same time reading the same msg followed by the ring on the three phones from a single number at the same time. By now it was 11.10 PM. The door was being knocked for last 10 minutes, but we were hesitant to open it, as Delhi is not a safe city anyhow.  By now we had started fearing of all the incidences that has been happening for last 10 to 15 minutes. Samira already had wetted her eye lashes in fear. Sam was the only one to give us the moral support at this time of night. We did not have eye hole to peep, who was knocking at the door. We shouted “who is it?”, but no answer came.

Samira was constantly worshiping and reciting prayers in low voice, and I too was completely scared by this moment. Somehow, Sam gathered courage to open the door, and both Samira and I stayed at his back to see who it was.  Sam very slowly opened the door and we found nobody on the other side. We however thought it was someone’s trick. But as Sam closed the door, the same sequence repeated again instantly. We heard the knock, got the msg on three phones and followed by rings on three of ours phone at same time. We tied to receive the call but before that the call was disconnected. Sam dialled the number only to here “the number is switched off.” This time Sam again opened the door and no one was there. This thing repeated for six to seven times and by now it was 1 AM. Then we thought to call the police, and before we could dial 100, msg on our mobiles flashed “Calling the police…An unexpected visit.” Now, we were really frightened. How could anybody other than three of us know we were to call the police? Now it was 2 AM and we were completely traumatized.

Samira told she could hear someone in Sam’s room and Sam quickly rushed to his room to check. Samira and I were standing on the corridor. Sam returned finding there nobody. He then went in to Samira and my room only to find none. We were still hearing the knock at the door, getting the msg and getting calls. It was 4 AM by now. None of us could sleep last night.

Now the knock on the door stopped and we did not receive any call or msg anymore. We thought to make some tea and rest some while and then move to the police station at 6 AM and report the incident of last night. Samira and I went to make tea when we heard three male voice saying “make five cups Samira.” When Samira and I moved to the corridor, we found Satish and Rakesh along with Sam standing and laughing at us. Samira ran to Satish to say him about the last night event. Satish had a smile on his face. I saw Rakesh was also smiling hearing it. To our surprise, Sam was also smiling along them. I shouted at them “why you guys smiling? And Rakesh how you are in Delhi and Satish is also with you!”

Then Sam, Satish, and Rakesh simultaneously shouted “APRIL FOOL” and then they sang “aprilfool banaya, to tujhko ghusa aya…” Yes Rakesh is my fiancée and Satish is Samira’s boyfriend. Rakesh and Satish were on on-site project of our company at USA. These three boys had planned to make fool of us girls on the April 1^st and plotted the scene of last night where Sam was playing the main role and was coordinating with the other to guys.  They had come to Delhi from USA just to make fool of us! “The guys will always remain guys” I thought. But however, it was ‘an unexpected visit’.