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Disclaimer- All writings provided in the blog are a work of fiction and any relation to living or dead is pure coincidence, and the writer cannot be held for the work of imagination. Thank you.

October, 2010.

My 7th semester exams were 3 days away, and tomorrow is Diwali, this is my third consecutive Diwali away from home. We had given the last practical exam of our engineering and everyone was in an upbeat mood. The guys in formals and all the girls were looking pretty. It was the communication skills lab, and we made it the photo session. It was rare when everyone looked stunning. That day everyone wanted to be clicked and be framed who knew what was coming our way would shake our lives. The session got over, exam got over, and all got back.

Preparation holidays were basically, a time when we would dust our books, and start looking for the right books, which would be perfect for the one night setting. So I had been busy doing that the entire evening. The dinner came home at 8:30; my roommate, Pavan and I, had dinner. Then I watched a movie and at around 1:00 AM I feel asleep.

Suddenly at 6:00AM,

“What!! Who said? No that can’t happen, Eklavya doesn’t know, he is asleep”, I could hear my roommate shout, the mention of my name, sprung my attention.

He walked to me,

“Dude, Maddy is no more” he said.

“What!! Rubbish, who said” the sleep had evaporated and my senses came to action.

“I just got a call and it is true”, he replied.

I made a few calls and found out that the news was true; the first reaction was to go to the hospital.

We changed and rushed to the hospital with another friend.

The news that our classmate was dead, hit me hard.

“He was murdered”, said Surendar.

“What!!” Pavan and I exclaimed.

There was a discussion of whatever he knew, and by then we reached the hospital. Outside the emergency ward were our other classmates and some friends of Maddy, (Madhavendra Rao). Better known as Maddy, he was a super cool dude, handsome and smart.

I rushed to a few others and asked what had happened. The story was like this,

Maddy and a few others were playing cards till 2:30AM, when Maddy gets a call from his school friend who was an year junior because of reasons I am not aware of. His friend had handed over the phone to another guy who was a distant relative of Maddy, he was 3 years senior still completing his papers. This guy started abusing Maddy and asked him to meet him. Maddy set off along with another guy. Maddy’s friend and the other guy were drunk.

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