Day 1 : The sun was soaking at its highest during the month of April. Dehra had never seen such a summer in its past 53 years. It was a Sunday and most people of Dehra preferred to stay at home and watch their weekly dose of Ramayana, Mahabharata and The Jungle book. The streets of Dehra were almost deserted as the schools also were closed for summer break and most kids had returned home or were at home trying to cool themselves.
While most the kids were at their home enjoying their summer break by watch The jungle book or Shaktiman, there were 3 little brats Ankur, Jia and Madhav who were as usual at their favorite hangout Utopia cyber cafe.
Ankur's dad was a high profile businessman of Dehra. Who apparently also was the president of the Paltan bazaar shopkeeper committee . His name and fame were wide spread, not only due to his business deals but mainly "his offers made were never refused". Ankur was in his eleventh grade, but the cops of Dehra always feared charging him of anything. So you see, Ankur was a big shot in himself.
Jia belonged to a very subtle middle class family, which was more like a lower income group family. Jia's house was on a long term loan from the bank and Ankur's dad had promised to help Jia's family repay the debts over the years for their service which he would ask for when required. Jia was a very attractive girl. She belonged to a middle class family, but she had boys always around her. And one of the boy was Ankur. This made Ankur and Jia very good and close friends.
Madhav's father owned a dairy shop and the shop was now run for generations. Madhav was to join his father at the dairy as a family ritual but Madhav was a stubborn kid so insisted that he could run a cyber cafe. So his father made him the owner of a cyber cafe which they named as Utopia.
Utopia became a immediate success as this cyber cafe was the only cyber cafe in the locality. This cyber cafe was always flocked by many. Few came to the cafe to take print outs of study material, some came to the cafe to access their Orkut account or Facebook account, but mostly people came to the cafe to hangout. Utopia cyber cafe over the years became a youth hangout. Madhav was always a wonderful host. He always welcomed people to the cafe, as his business instinct always said that more the people, more the sale.
It was just another day when Ankur and Jia were at Utopia to meet Madhav.
Ankur : Hey Madhav! How are you? All good with the oldie dairy owner? (Jia punches Ankur's stomach with her elbow for being so rude)
Madhav : Yes all fine. And hey Jia, you're looking so gorgeous today.
Jia: Thanks Madhav, hope Ankur can also see this and compliment me each time he see's me.
**all laugh**
Madhav - You both can occupy the last cabin of the cafe, that's free for you and no disturbance too. (Madhav giggles).
Jia : Thanks Madhav, you're the best for always keeping out our favorite system and place.
Ankur and Jia were at their system and the only work they did was to hold hands and write testimonials for each other on Orkut or change their profile picture. Jia was the one who wrote good testimonials which were poetic and also made sense. Where as Ankur was always writing stupid testimonial and scraps for Jia. His all time favorite testimonial would have been " Roses are red, lets get to bed, else I'll be dead and you'll be my favorite bud" They were always laughing and giving puppy kisses to each other at the cafe and Madhav silently always watched and envied them. Cyber cafe for Ankur and Jia was only for social networking between themselves or maybe for Jia to prove to Ankur that she's the better one here.
Outside the air conditioned cyber cafe the sun was soaking up everything. Fumes of heat were rising from the ground.
And suddenly the phone inside the cyber cafe rings and Madhav knew it was from one of his customer Mr Verma ji who had recently taken the internet connection from him. Madhav answers the phone and before he could say a word, a voice from the other side says "Check you mail" and the phone disconnects.
Madhav was wonder-struck for a minute and as he sees outside the window, the climate starts to change. There are black rain clouds which are slowly covering the sky. In a fraction of minute there was a thunderstorm with lightening.
Ankur and Jia stand up from their cabin to discover what was happening. They see the black clouds outside the window and are simply confused. They are even more confused because their friend Madhav was just lost in his own world.
Jia shouts out to Madhav and asks where's he lost and the confused boy Madhav just has his mouth open.
Jia walks up to Madhav to see what he has been up to. Madhav's e-mail is displayed on the screen. The subject of the mail says " I am John titor from the year 2036"
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