The Accurate List - First Accomplishment

“It isn’t that easy, Rashi. You sure these are the things you wanna do?” Sonal asked Rashi while reading her accurate list

“Yes indeed all of those, not a single one left out and before Pratham.” She replied

“Ok so gear up we have a lot of arrangements to do.” Sonal said

“Coming up first, the Royal Enfield. Do you know anyone who owns it?” Rashi chose her first task

“Yea, I do. One of my colleagues, Ronak.”

“Ok call him up and fix a meeting.”

“Aye aye captain…” Sonal called Ronak and explained the situation on hand; they met at an old cricket ground near Rashi’s house. Ronak was the perfect one to ride that bike; whether his moustache, his well-built body structure.

“What are you trying to do? Break me up with Pratham?” Rashi whispered to Sonal as Ronak approached them

“No, not at all. Well Ronak here my friend has a condition of his own, in spite of being a hunk, he is very introvert. So you got nothing to worry about.”

“Hi Ronak.” Rashi greeted him

“Actually he prefers to be known as Ron.” Sonal tried to create some conversation between them.

“No its ok, anything will do.” Ron said

“Umm so shall we start?” Rashi asked

“See there are some basics to be cleared, first of all helmet is must for your own safety, secondly you have to feel the bike and respect it. Then the technical stuff that is accelerator, clutch, brakes, and gears.” Ron explained Rashi about the bike.

“I’ll better wear this helmet thing, I know my ride is gonna get bumpy.”

“You are lucky that this one has self-ignition, just press this button and she is ready to roar.” Ron advised Rashi to start the engine.

“This is totally going on your weeding DVD.” Sonal’s excitement was full on as she turned on the recorder

“Ok so what should I do now?” Rashi asked Ron

“Grab the clutch and shift into the first gear. After the gear slowly release the clutch and accelerate.” Ron instructed while Rashi was on rider’s seat and Ron at pillion.

“Ok, gear shifted, releasing the clutch….” Before she could complete her sentence the bike took jump start and down they were in a flash.

“The accelerator! You forgot it.” Ron kind of yelled at Rashi

“Oh yea, sorry about that.” Rashi said while getting up

“That was amazing, both of you just flew.” Sonal was laughing while she was still behind the camera

“Now this time we will be going to do great.” Ron tried to cheer scared Rashi

She ignited the engine, put her in the first gear and did the same as Ron was instructing her to do. And it went more smoothly this time, until he asked Rashi to turn left, and she went right. Ron was prepared to go left so he was tilting towards it, but the bike went right resulting in misbalancing and they were biting the dust again. Ron and Rashi falling down while Sonal recording all of it. This went for quite a few days… meanwhile Pratham was on the way to his first one from the list with his childhood buddy Aarav…

They were cruising along the fields in the SUV, on their way to Leh, Pratham’s dream to go on road trip was coming to reality.

“Dude, this list concept where the hell you get it from?” Aarav asked Pratham

“It was with me from a long time, just waited this much to seek my partner’s permission.”

“Hah! Becoming a slave even before weeding? Not cool bro…” Aarav denied his logic

“It’s what you think, and Sir Aarav may I please draw your attention back to road and to fuel indicator also?” Pratham sarcastically pointed his middle finger at Aarav and then at fuel gauge.

“Sharks! We are running out of fuel. And you are telling me just now?”

“Chill car’s not stopping at this moment.” As those words left Pratham's mouth the car took a wobble and stopped

“Very well said Mr. Dude knows it all. Now we are stuck here.”

“It’s a busy road; we will manage to get a lift.”

There was no sign of any other human being there other than them. Stranded alone, between two mountains, they started walking cursing each other. After walking a while they found a village, where they somehow managed to sneak out a bike, paid the owner and left. Riding up and down the mountains, Aarav was busy in capturing memories for Pratham, and Pratham was the one doing all riding because they came to the conclusion it was his fault that there was no fuel left in SUV.

“Hey look, Pratham.” Aarav patted him

“That is what we came here for, The Lake.” He said

They have finally reached their destination. The lake was crystal clear, blue till your eyes can see. It was difficult to tell where the sky kissed the lake, there was no difference. There were some kids playing in the lake, Pratham jumped in and joined them. Aarav continued to take snaps of his best buddy’s dream coming true. After some joyful of time, he came outside and texted Rashi

‘Done…’

Surprisingly the replied came in an instance and it was the same.

‘Done… 9 more to go…’

On his way back he chatted, talked even skyped Rashi, but did not tell her what was his first accomplishment. He reached his hometown and asked Rashi to meet at the coffee shop they used to meet. He was waiting for Rashi, and there she came, riding the devil itself. She parked the Enfield and reached Pratham to hug him.

“Learned how to ride it… task number one completed.” She was bursting with joy of accomplishment

“Road trip done…” He showed Rashi pics Aarav took

“Yea yea well I am going to complete my accurate list first.” Rashi tried to show off

“We will see about that.” Replied a calm Pratham

-The Other Me