The Irony of Life(Chapter 4)

The decision was made. His friends were going, all of them, he couldn't stay. He had to go. Why? He could not go, never ever. Rock climbing? What were they thinking? Shit man. It didn't matter now, he had to go, and he had to simply.

They had to walk all the way to the place where they would learn how to climb mountains, it was at least a decent 45 minutes away from the school.

The first day was mostly about learning on how to assemble the equipment, the ropes, the harness, the jumar, etc. The challenge was supposed to be the next day, when they were supposed to climb.

On the way back, Abhishek and his friends bought themselves a few parathas and a pastry on the way. The pastry was dirt cheap and it seemed tacky, but it tasted really good. On reaching the hostel it was almost dinner time, so they took a bath and rushed to the dining hall. They were all really hungry, they didn't do, much physical activity on the mountains but that long of a walk really made them hungry. The dining hall had a lot of food and very less time to eat, so what the boys would do was take whatever they could back to their houses(hidden, of course), and had them later in the night when they would feel hungry, or if not, they would share it with their hungry dorm-mates, someone was always hungry, it was a boys' hostel after all.

Just before sleeping Abhishek started chatting with Harsh, he was his bunk bed mate(yeah, right, bunk beds).

"Harsh, brother, today was really boring, too much talk and nothing to do, we study all day, we need less study later on in the day, I wanted to kill the people there."

"Yes, but tomorrow will be awesome, we get to climb tomorrow."

Prasoon dropped in on them midway,"You know there were girls there."

"So?" said Abhishek,"What will you do with them? Girls are boring, they aren't even interested in video games, that's why I always end up fighting with my neighbour's sister, she doesn't want to play, she interferes in between, doesn't know how to play, calls the video game a cheater and unplugs it without any warning, girls are weird and stupid."

"No, bro, not all girls are stupid, stupid girls are stupid, you've got to learn that."said Harsh.

"Well, I guess all I have met are stupid girls then."

"Yeah, so tomorrow let's go talk to them and make a group."said Prasoon.

"And do what exactly? Play Barbie house?" said Harsh and started laughing.

"Yeah, I bet he's interested in doll games only." said Kshitij.

"Am not!"

"Are too!"

"Am not!"

"ARE TOO."

"Okay, okay, we'll talk to the girls tomorrow,alright, Prasoon? Please calm down both of you."

"Yeah."said both of them in unison.

"Now, let's talk about the X-men."

"Wolverine's my favourite bro,"said Prasoon.

"Nope, he's my favourite."

"I like his claws."said Harsh.

"Yeah, they are really sharp and can slice diamonds smoothly. And, no he is my favourite."

"I will kill you,"shouted Abhishek and grabbed three spoon from nearby, put the broad ends of all of them between his knuckles and sort of pretended to have claws.

"Not before I kill you."said Prasoon and used his hands to make a fake gun.

"You can't kill me with a gun."

"Oh yes, I can, with an adamantium vaporizing gun."

"No such thing exists!"

"Does too."

"Does not!"
"SILENCEEEEEEE!!!!!"
And the night went on, the boys were innocent and young, they had no idea, how this small rock climbing experience would change their lives probably forever.