From my creative writing archives:
A short fiction story I wrote 5 few years ago, in early 2010...
A QUICK BITE AT “QUICK BITE”
A Very Short Story
By
VIKRAM KARVE
A QUICK BITE AT “QUICK BITE”
I am having a quick bite at Quick Bite…!
Hey, I’m not trying to be funny.
“Quick Bite” is the fast food joint opposite our office complex where we often rush out to have a ‘Quick Bite’.
I sit at a table for two, concluding my quick bite with a cup of coffee, when I see the office “macho-man” Raj enter Quick Bite for a quick bite.
His eyes search for a vacant table but the place is jam-packed.
Raj looks in my direction.
I beckon him to sit on the vacant chair opposite me.
As Raj settles down I ask him, “All alone…? Where is your girlfriend…?”
“Girlfriend…?” he asks.
“Rita…” I say.
“Rita is no longer my girlfriend…” Raj says.
"Really?" I interrupt, “That’s great. It is good you dumped Rita. She is a shameless nympho.”
“Rita? Shameless nympho? What are you saying?” Raj asks.
“Musical Beds – Ha Ha – Musical Beds!” I say, laughing.
“Musical Beds?” Raj asks.
“Ha, Ha … That’s what we called her in college … that shameless nympho Rita … we called her ‘Musical Beds’ … yes, Rita’s nickname was ‘Musical Beds’ … just like we play Musical Chairs … Rita plays Musical Beds … but let me tell you Raj … you have done the wisest thing by dumping that shameless nympho Rita...” I say.
Then, I hurriedly gulp down the remains of my coffee.
Raj looks at me with a perplexed expression on his face.
But I am in a hurry, and I have got a lot of work to do.
So I quickly get up, pat his shoulder, and rush back towards my office.
Suddenly I see Rita talking to my colleague Chanchal near the entrance of the office.
Chanchal waves out and calls me, so I go towards them.
“Hey, you know what?” my chatterbox colleague Chanchal says excitedly the moment I come near them.
“What?” I ask.
“Rita and Raj got married yesterday. It was a very sudden secret hush-hush affair – parents’ opposition, you know. That’s why they did not tell anybody,” Chanchal says.
“Really?” I ask surprised.
“Yes,” Rita looks at me and says, “I am no longer your friend Raj’s girlfriend. Now I am his wife.”
With these words, Rita turns around with a flourish, and she walks towards Quick Bite for a quick bite with Raj.
VIKRAM KARVE
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This Story is a work of fiction. Events, Places, Settings and Incidents narrated in the story are a figment of my imagination. The characters do not exist and are purely imaginary. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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