Best DJ in the world
Ajay has just moved into the building. He’s slim, dark and
reasonably tall. He lives alone in a single room near the city bus stop. The
room is very small and Spartan even for him who believes in minimalism. He has
three T shorts, two shirts, two pairs of jeans and perhaps three pairs of
underwear. He wants to look attractive but he knows he’s not. He relies on the fact that he is a DJ for any popularity he is hoping to get with the opposite sex. Music is something that runs in his veins, since he is from a family of musicians. Other than that, he dreams of
being an extremely good quizzer, knowledgeable and some other things that he is
yet to sort out in his head. The
rest of the time he plays the ancient music system in his room and
listens to music from the 70s, jazz, soft rock and country. Music was
the friend that had stood with him since the time he remembered.
Ravi often looks at Ajay going in and out of the building. Ravi
knows that he has a job somewhere in the middle of the town from the way his
clothes are crumpled at the end of the day. But Ajay does not look like a very
welcoming or friendly person for Ravi to ask what exactly he does. So Ravi just
sits on his window at 8 AM and 8Pm which is the time for Ajay’s comings and
goings. Since these are summer holidays, Ravi has a lot of time on his hands. He
has already finished his homework, which basically involved lots of essays on
topics like “My favorite food, “My pet” and “My mother. He has also finished erecting
the school project on a thermacol platform. This one was about trying to
recreate the school building on the basis of how the student saw it. Ravi made
it like a maze of rooms, to show how confusing he thought it was. For a second
standard student, to spend fifteen minutes to reach his classroom from the main
gate each day just felt too stupid to Ravi.
In the evenings, Ravi played with the other boys in the
area, Motu, Golu and Sanju. They played cricket or marbles or hide and seek,
based on how they felt that day or how the weather was. Sometimes they just sat
and examined the soil. At other times, they deliberated over the aliens. Ravi
had to be back home before it was dark so he would be indoors by 7PM, ready for
dinner. Then he was allowed to stay up for just an hour and forced to hit the
bed by 9PM.
Since he had nothing to do in that one hour, he waited for
Ajay and simultaneously tried to mix songs on an app that his mother downloaded on her phone. Ravi is sure he will grow up to be the biggest and best DJ in the world. One day
he had heard Ajay talk on the phone in the staircase. He was talking about a party that he was going to DJ for in his office. So Ajay was into music too! That day Ravi had decided that he really liked
Ajay. Now Ravi looked at him going and coming to office, and thought of ways to
becomes Ajay’s best friend...
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