“Ah.. now the pain has ameliorated. It is time to sleep.”,
Dutta said.

“Yes. We are also going to our rooms. It has been a memorable
night.”, and the friends moved to their rooms.

“Oh God! Why these birthdays come?”, Dutta sighed and
went to sleep.

Contd..

Next Chapter from next post.
Keep reading.

Around 20 people were stuffed inside Dutta’s room and
they were enjoying themselves.
Music was put on the highest volume in that small 20 watts
music system. It was enough for the people in the room to have
a ball. All the neighbours of Dutta were already there in his
room.

“Ah!! It was fun today. I breathe easy now. I was so desperate
to give birthday bumps to Dutta.”, Bhakar sighed.

“Yes me too. It was fun.”, Rohit added.

“I have been crying in pain and you guys had fun.
I will avenge my pain. Let the right time come.”, Dutta sounded
vindictive.

“Haha. Let’s see. What can you do on my birthday.”, Bhaskar replied.

“You’ll feel my wrath on your birthday and mark it I won’t be
complacent.”

“Ok we’ll see.”

Now everybody started dancing and having fun.

Somebody asked, “Dutta, won’t you celebrate by cutting a cake tonight.”

“These guys haven’t brought any cake.”

“No shops were open. We’ll get the cake tomorrow. Don’t worry.”

The dancing continued.

After about half an hour, everybody got tired.

Dutta seemed extremely tired as compared to others.
“I am done. I am feeling sleepy.”
“Ok. We are also feeling dizziness. Oh. We have physics class
tomorrow morning. So boring. That lecturer sucks.”
“Oh yes.”
“I think she should get some training from some known physicists.”

People kept talking for another half an hour and that too random
stuff. A sort of Bakchodi was on.

Contd…

“Arghhh.. It hurts. But anyways, thanks for the wishes.”, Dutta
could speak. It seemed that he was tired.

“May you perform your very best this year.”
“Many many happy returns of the day.”
“Happy B’day Dude.”
Such kinds of wishes kept coming for Dutta.

Meanwhile, one of the friends, Ankur brought a bucket full of
water and poured it right on Dutta. It came as a big surprise
and Dutta was jolted. Dutta sought a revenge and so he went to
the bathroom to bring another bucket of water.

He straight away splashed it on Ankur.

“It’s my birthday but I think my friends should also get
drenched.”, Now, Dutta was more excited.

This was more like a fire in the jungle.
Ankur and Dutta triggered a chain reaction and soon other friends
were also drenched.

They seemed unsatisfied as they did not get chance to drench anyone.
So, one of them thought that everybody who is a friend of Dutta should
get bedraggled this night.

“Yup, today night each friend of Dutta will be drenched in water.
Each one has to have a bath tonight.”, Bhaskar said.

So the MISSION BATH started in the mid of the night.
One by one each person from each room was dragged out and bathed
in water.

Even guys who were having a sound sleep were not left out.
They were pulled outta their beds and drenched.

“Ah!! Here is another friend of Dutta. How can we miss him?”,
Aman was pulled out and bathed.
The process continued for a long long time until everybody got
themselves satisfied.

Now, half of the people retreated to their rooms.

“Hey where is the warden. Isn’t he awake? I wonder if he has see this
happen in the hostel campus.”, Aman shouted.

“Warden is sleeping in his room. We’ve locked him.”, Saket replied.

Contd…

“Man! It is gonna be hell of a night for me.”, Dada said.
“Yess!!!”, shouted everybody.
“I’ll call up the Warden. He’ll come to my rescue.”

“Ha ha. Dada, no one will come to your rescue. I have locked
the warden in his room.”, Abhik said.

“What? You guys have locked the warden in his room.”

“Yes buddy. Now you are alone.”

People kept murmuring and now it was 1158 by the watch.

“Only two minutes to go and then I’ll be using my new boots
to their most appropriate use.”, Bhaskar added.

“I know that you guys have planned assault on me but I am ably
armed to tackle those stuff of yours. Whatever will happen, I’m
not going to budge.”, Dutta sounded resilient.

It was 11:59:30 by Rohit’s watch now. People were following different
watches. “It’s time by my watch, we should start.”, somebody shouted.

“No. wait. There is still time. Let Dada relax a bit. We have to
caress him as he is a pioneering scapegoat tonight.”, Rohit shouted.

Others were pretty excited and they started the countdown to Dutta’s
birthday. “10 seconds left, now 9, now 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1”, everybody
shouted at the top of their voice.

Dutta was picked up in no time. His limbs were picked up by four people
and they carried him as if a couch was hanging in between the trees with
the help of some support.

Now the assault on the butts of Dutta was to begin. This would mean that
Dutta had no time to rest.
Four people were on the sides. They started the onslaught.
Bhaskar with his new and hard boots seemed barbaric as Dutta
started to moan in pain.

“Arghhhh.. that was hurting. Please be slow.”, Dutta cried
out in pain.

But the friends continued and with no less vigour. Everyone had their own turn
with Dutta being battered time and again, but all the battering was out of
love for Dutta and nothing else.

Contd..

Thanks for bearing with me.

“Things do not change on their own. You got to change them.
If you want success, you have to do hard work for it.”, Anand
commented.

“Oh! Anand, forget about those things. We have to enjoy tonight.
It’s Dada’s birthday.”, Rohit replied.

“Yes.”

“Dada! I have got special boots. It would be fun tonight.”

“I know, you guys are ready to beat the hell out of my butts.
I doubt whether my humps would be able to bear the assault
you guys are going to impound on them.”

“Hey come on. You will be able to bear it. Everybody does that.
Don’t you remember what you did to me on my birthday.”

“Ya, I do.”

“Hey guys, it’s 9. We should move inside. I got some work.
I’ll go.”, Rohit moved inside.

“Ok, lets go inside.”

Everybody went inside the hostel.

Contd…

Have a great weekend!

“Come on guys. I don’t want to miss my dinner. Hurry up.”,
and Dada started to move towards the mess.

“This is ridiculous. We came here to ask Dada for dinner and
also to accompany us. It seems that he is in a hurry. Today
night, we will have to avenge all this.”, Rohit uttered in a
jocular accent.

“Yes, I’ll also take care of him tonight.”, Bhaskar added.

All the three guys were in the mess.

People who knew Dutta (Dada) kept nagging him about his birthday.
Dada, though, took it lightly and without much offense.
He had already decided what was going to be his fate.

After a nice meal, all the three moved outside the hostel,
where Anand and Sushant joined them.

They sat on a raised platform. Nice and cool breeze was flowing
at the place. It was enough to make them forget all the heat
of the day.

“What a cool evening!!”, Dutta opined.

“Yes.”, others took a sigh.

“You know what, I wish I could stay all the time at this cool
place without thinking about all other things of life. Just peace.”

It seemed Dutta was getting a bit sentimental. He used to get sentimental
every now and then.

“It seems Dutta has started his feelings outpour. We must stop him
before he starts thinking more of such things.”, Rohit whispered in
Bhaskar’s ears.

“Dutta, forget about this breeze. Let’s talk about your birthday.”

Contd…

Despite all this, people liked him and they were ready to demonstrate
their love towards Dada.

It was 8’o clock in the evening and people were heading towards the mess
for their meal.

Rohit came to Dada’s room for enquiring whether Dutta was still in his
room or ran away somewhere. Bhaskar accompanied him to Dada’s room.
When they saw Dada, they gave a nonchalant look and thought of waking
him up.

“I guess, Dada may be sleeping since evening. We have to wake him up.”,
Rohit said.

“Yes, this stupid lousy lazy sloth always sleeps. Today night I will
give him enough bumps so that this year he won’t be having long
sleeps.”, Bhaskar replied.

“So what are you going to do?”

“Did you see those Woodland boots I bought last week?”

“Arghhh!! What? You are going to use those boots to batter
Dada’s butts?”

“Yes, definately. And after the show, Dada will surely forget
sleeping.”, Bhaskar seemed mischievious.

“Anyways, now lets wake this Kumbhkaran up, so that he can
accompany us to the dinner.”

Both Bhaskar & Rohit started pampering and poking Dada and
waking him up as they knew Dada won’t wake up this easily.

“What the hell? You guys go off. Let me sleep.”, Dada felt
annoyed.

“You got to wake up. It’s already 8:30. After half an hour,
we won’t get dinner.”

This statement triggered a seemingly electric signal in Dutta.

“What? No dinner. Wait.. I’m coming in 5 minutes.”, the response
was electric.

“Haha, Dada, food is you weakness. We know that.”

“All the weaknesses will be tweaked tonight”, Bhaskar added.

Contd…

It’s been a month or so that I didn’t write anything. Suffering from something called TYPHOID, I have become weak. Anyways, Now I am fit and fine and ready to resume where I left.

I’ll try to continue as soon as possible.

Few of the guys were already outside Dada’s room.

“So Dada, have you arranged for some padding. Your hind side
is going to be beaten up and I am unaware of the injuries you
may get.”, Sushant said to Dada.

“Guess what!! Nothing is gonna happen. I have talked to the
warden. I will move to his room before 12.”

“Good Dada, you told us otherwise we would have been searching
for you at all the nooks and corners of the campus. It would have
been hectic. It is better that we will have to have a go only at
the Warden’s room.”

“You guys will get suspended. The warden is pretty strict. He will
complain about you guys to the higher authorities.”, Dada was a little
bit afraid.

“Ha ha.. We will see what happens. And that too only before midnight.”

Soon Sushant was gone.

“Oh!! This guy. He scared the hell out of me.”, Dutta was speaking to himself.
“I will have to arrange something which is fullproof and concrete. I have
to escape this birthday bumps anyhow. I have not given birthday bumps
to any of the guys, why should I deserve to get those?”

“Be ready Dada.”, Bhaskar pampered Dada and went out.

Dada was getting tensed as the time was passing by slowly. Every
moment was heavy on his heart. He had seen others getting birthday
bumps. He started thinking, “I remember how Sushant was beaten up
on his birthday night. O Hell!! He was literally crying. Also, Rohit
developed pain in his butts after powerful smacks. Oh no!! I have to
do something.”

The problem with Dada was procrastination. He was always thinking of
doing something but implementation was far from being into practise
at that very moment.

He kept thinking instead of doing anything to escape the bumps.
Though he had a talk with the warden, he was still thinking of
other ways. He did not have confidence even in the highest authority
present in the hostel.

“I guess, there is no escape.”, Dada finally sorted out.

“I will have to bear something on some parts which are
really sensitive.”

Contd…