Chapter 24 :- Friendship is the first step.

He tells me that " No need to say thanks, it's my pleasure that you said yes. It's so sweet of you that you get agree to come here with me without knowing me that much"

I tell him that " I would like to know more about you and understand you. So that next time when we meet you don't have to say that I don't know you."

Words come out from my mouth and I'm also surprised by them.

He has a smile on his face and tells me that "After my friends, you're the first one who wants to understand me. So for knowing and understanding me you have to become friends with me. Can you be my friend?"

What? This is not the thing I expected from him. What should I say to him? I want to know him and to know him I can be his friend. So after thinking this I replied to him that "Okay I can be your friend".

After hearing this he has a smile on his face and tells me that "When I feel too angry and frustrated and can't express my feelings with anyone when I feel sad I come here. This place has the power to calm me down and I feel peace and a different level of satisfaction when I come here and sometimes when Kabir and Aditya find out that I'm not in the mood they come here to find me out and just sit silently and try to change my mood."

He has a feeling of satisfaction after telling this.

I think that after saying that we are friends he became more open up about himself to share that with me. I like this thing about him that without having any hesitation and thinking too much he asked me that can we become friends. If I were at his place I may pass two three days thinking that I should ask him if we can become friends or not.

I tell him that "It seems like your favourite place" and he interrupts me and says that " You can tell it's my 'Sukun place' because I find peace here."

He asked me that " As you know that we're friends now so I would like to know about you. Tell me what's your favourite place. Or if I say in my style which is your 'Sukun place'?"

I like that he also wants to know about me. I feel like equality exists in my friendship with him. As we both are interested in knowing each other.

I tell him that, " My home is my favourite place. I find my peace at my home.

Whenever I have any problems my family is always with me to change my mood. If something I don't want to share with my family then conference calls with my school friends or college friends change my mood. So my home is my 'Sukun place'."

We talked about some random things and witnessed the sunset. After that, he tells me that

" You know our human tendency is that we love to see going down. It gives pleasure to see but many few love to see rising. We don't have the patience to see something rising up. I can give you an example of this thing. You must notice that many places are famous for having a beautiful view of the sunset and even in India many places are famous for viewing the sunset and you can find many people gathered for watching the sunset. But you will find only a few who have witnessed sunrise."

After saying this he looked at me for my reply and I told him that " When sunrise only a few watch it because they love to see it and it's also applied to humans that who truly love you will always love to see you rising up in whatever you do. Many people love to watch the sunset and I can relate it in that way when humans achieve something great in life there are many eyes that want to find something good or bad from that person. If that person is best still many can hate him but that hate is nothing in front of the love he gets from the people who love him. Even after some time, he gets fall down from whatever he used to be still that few people who really love him want to see that person rising again and that gives him the strength to rising again and all who witnessed sunset always have faith that the sunrise again"

I love his deep thinking. He talks less and he has good observations and thinking.

I feel like he gets satisfied with what I said to him. He tells me that " Yes you're right. I like your views on this. And I think it's time to leave from here before we get late"

We all sit back in the car, take the same seat and get busy driving a car while enjoying music. I get busy talking with my roomies and his friends.

He stopped the car in front of Domino's Pizza and then we reached inside and he came later after parking his car.

We ordered Pizza and enjoyed food with sharing talks and when the bill came me and my roommates took out money from the purse but Aarav and his friends stopped us and said that they will split the bill among three of them and it's free to treat for us. My roommates and I insisted a lot but they didn't listen to us. So finally we agreed to them with no choice left.

After that he first dropped me and my roomies at the gate of our hostel and I looked at the time it's 9:00 p.m and I smiled and after coming out from the car I told him that " Thanks for your treatment and dropping us before the time. See you soon. Goodbye"

He said to me, " No, need to say thanks, remember we are friends. Goodbye. See you soon"