All those who wander are lost?
Tiny drops of rain splashed against the window. Heart woke up excitedly. It was waiting for this day since a long time. Mom had granted permission for today’s brunch at their favourite French restaurant. “Today’s the day, today’s the day! Wake up, Brain, wake up! Today is our brunch day! I can already smell the appetizing aroma of freshly stewed, delicious Ratatouille! Ah, what a perfect day!”, the dreamy-eyed Heart pumped vivaciously. Brain scratched itself and looked around skeptically with narrowed eyes.
The drizzling sky painted a grim picture. Sounds of thunder
echoed across the hall like a devil’s wicked laughter. The ominous morning had
a premonition of inauspiciousness. Unlit alleys have witnessed innumerable
crimes in dark hours. Brain shook in horror as Heart’s excited voice brought it
back to reality. “Listen here, Heart!” Brain tried to control its accelerated
breath, “The day doesn’t seem safe! We can’t risk our lives just to satisfy some
food craving! It's unsafe for a girl to go out alone on such a dark gloomy day. We
must postpone this brunch to some other time.” “Postpone?”, lashed out Heart
angrily, “Are you mad, Brain? Please stop overthinking! A girl doesn’t need a
protector to go out and have brunch at her will! Look! Look, how beautiful the
weather is for a perfect long drive. And why do we need to worry? - we just take
a cab and enjoy the weather! And then we can have the delicious French brunch
we had been drooling over in Zomato since long!”, Heart closed its eyes in romantic bliss. “This is such a bad idea, I am saying!”, Brain muttered under
its breath. Heart chose to simply ignore the comment.
“Brain come fast! There’s an empty cab near the gate! And I surely
don’t want to be late,” Heart danced rhythmically. “In a minute!”, Brain
snapped. It downloaded the detailed map of the location from Zomato and took a
print of the same. “Phone battery -check, pepper spray - check, wallet – check,
map of the location- check”, Brain went over the list again. “The cab driver
knows the address to the place! Come, get in quickly. Yayy , we are finally on
our way to some amazing French delight!”, Heart exclaimed excitedly.
The gentle breeze brushed past its face amidst the rhythmic beats of raindrops touching the ground. The fond memories of childhood
adventures and comfort swayed Heart away to a distant dreamland. Brain was,
however, skeptically alert. It wandered its eyes from one passing store to
another, registering every single detail of the journey. “Hey Heart! Listen
here!”, Brain shook Heart frantically, “I think… I think this cab driver is
taking us to some other location! Look, according to the map, we should have
taken a left turn two blocks ago. I can’t spot this path on my map! I have lost
complete track of our whereabouts”, Brain panted, gasping for breath. “Brain
just calm down! He might have taken another route to avoid traffic. Your map doesn’t
capture this road, but it doesn’t mean it’s the wrong way!”, Heart tried to
reason. “No, Heart! This seems to be a deserted pathway leading to some unknown
location. I am telling you; we should scream for help now! We don’t know where
this guy can lead us to. As is, there are very few people on the street in this
weather”, Brain started calculating the best way to get out of the
moving car with minimal injuries. “Wait Brain, Look he just took a left turn!”,Heart exclaimed while checking the map, “ We seem to be on the correct path now.
A right turn from the next corner would lead us to our destination. Uhh Brain,
you should just relax! I wish someone builds a map with live location tracking
and route guidelines; something that we could share with mom back home. Maybe that
would help you relax during road journeys!” “Of course! In a Utopian world!”,
Brain replied curtly while texting the cab’s number to mom.
Quite Brainy :)
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DeleteThats absolutely brilliant. A little anticlimatic but then not all stories need to be the opposite.
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