Engineering revisited

I walked with my best friends across the campus......... towards my class... my final year engineering class. The hour hand at the watch said ... it was ten minutes past 5.... and there was not even a single trace of any life in the college........ except for we three.... me and my best pals ...........Another ten steps.. and there was our class with the doors shut... !!! we were on the first floor... and the sun setting down in the valley with its orange rays was creating a magical scene. Had a wish that the time stops at that very moment... but it never happens... the seconds hand ticked heavily..... and we opened the doors of the class for one last time...................Wished i cud ask my teacher..."may i come in.... " and wanted to hear him shout.... "You late again... no attendance..."someone from the class... "No teacher ... 5 min early...." but there was no one there... just empty desks.. and we three.... looking at the walls.... and the desks.. all empty... with quotes we wrote ... and the raised platform .. where the torture classes were held... and the last benches.. where we had fun.... laughed .... kicked out.... hiding from the teachers... pleading for attendence............ million memories rolled like a movie into our minds... and there was complete silence for a moment.. and we smiled ... laughed!!!!!Walked like heros from the medivial times.... jumped over the benches... had a look at the bench .. where the so called babes of our class used to sit.... hehehe... babes in engineering.... a dream in itself... (no offenses to any babes)... ..drifted to our place... ... sat there..... side seats...dint feel like the last day .... dont remember how we met .... how we came to such a stage... feels like i know my friends from ages... feel like as if i was born in this college..... feel like i was always here...The entire class was still there alive.... the last benchers sleeping.......... the gals chatting amongst themselves........... Mr. padhi in his own world.(?)..... Sarthak sitting besides me .... cribbing about something ..... Upendra sitting on first bench taking down notes.and smiling at the babes.... Bijay trying talking to the gals... and we laughing about something of the other..... me occasionally scribbling something on my notepad............ making some sketches.. or bullshit poetry(shayri) ...........Ahh.. Pecha asking me to look outside... for some babes from I.T ... standing there....... and i without even a word...looked outside.. it was an unsaid communication.... Rakesh pinged me... and i, with the same enthu... looked outside... but today there wasnt anybody there................ just the deserted corridor.......... and i cud see the Computer department at the end... no one there..................looked back..... but there was debu bose .. in his dream world.... not scribbling anything in his notebook... not laughing this time.... not sayin anything this time........... just sitting there.. and there was sugyan... and there was me ......"roll number 119.......... ""roll number 138............ Sandeep.... u sleeping again........ ""Ok fine............. roll number 240""....................... hey .. present ma'm............ ""you sleep dear...!!! no attendence for you.................""roll number 258......... " ....me again...:))No attendence.... the class has ended... and my friends... chatting and laughing .... going for a chai... aur a sutta..... aur to that desi canteen(which seems as a five star dream now)..and we sat there ..... sat there all alone ......... closed our eyes, for the entire world outside the walls of the campus was calling us..............Wanted to attend one last lecture........ but this time there was no one to take that last lecture..............and there was that door... open... and we wished all the time .. to run away ..... to bunk.. but this time it wasnt..... one last time.... one last time......