Swimming

Premise

            My housemates and I shut off the house lights and household appliances from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on March 27 to participate in the annual Earth Hour event. We (Murli, Satish and I) went to our terraces. Murli and Satish are school friends. So they told me about their school days fun.

            In their school, the girls had separate 2 rows on one side and boys had separate 3 rows on other. But Murli always used to be near or in girls row. He used to eat their Tiffin’s. There was a villainous boy in the school, who used to hate Satish. The boy was fat and was nicknamed Motu. Though he did not had much problem with Murli, but some way I remembered the guy as villain in Murli’s school who hated him too.

Dream

            In the dream, Murli and I were in same school. He, I and 2 hotties (say Priya and Aarti) of the school were a group. He used to like one girl (say Priya) and I used to like one girl (say Aarti). I wanted to propose my girl and wanted Murli to do the same. I planned a school trip to THE GREAT ESCAPE, a water park near Bombay, which is an awesome place to enjoy in water and romantic to propose a girl too. I know swimming well and Murli was learning to swim from months. Priya and Aarti did not know swimming.

            Then in the water park, there was a swimming pool 5-15 feet deep. Thinking 5 feet Aarti jumped in 15 feet side. She started drowning and I saw her hands waving in the water. I jumped in the pool held her body in water tightly to mine and brought her outside the pool somehow. Seeing she was unconscious, I started trembling. But I lifted her on my hands and kept her on a bed lying by the sides of the pool. Then I pressed her chest to remove the water from her lungs. I thought to give her artificial respiration, but when I touched my mouth to hers she wrapped her arms around my neck and kissed me. I was surprised that she kissed me, but also was happy that she is fine. I kissed her back and said “I love you Aarti”. She replied “I love you too”. Murli and Priya came to Aarti enquiring about her condition.

            Then I thought somehow Murli should do something too. Few minutes later, there was a moment on the ramp of a swimming pool, when Priya and Aarti were on ramp to jump and I and Murli were standing behind them. Aarti forfeited her plans to jump and left as she was frightened by the previous incident, but Priya thought to give it a try if it is not deeper than 6.  Priya went near the end of the ramp and bent down to ask a classmate inside the pool how deep was the pool there. While she was asking, a plan stuck to me. I knew the pool was 10 feet deep in that area and also I knew that Murli is learning swimming from many days. The plan was that if someway Priya falls in the pool or I push her, after the classmate in the pool leaves and Murli jumps in the pool and saves her, they might end up the same way we did. I told Murli about the plan. Murli, too, thought that he can save her, after so many months of learning swimming.

            The classmate below came out of the pool and tried to tell Priya that it was 10 feet deep but she was not able to hear him properly. She leaned more towards the end of the ramp. I moved close to her and pushed her buttock with my thighs. She fell into the 10 feet deep pool. Then I told Murli to jump and he jumped to save her. I was so happy we both will be getting what we wanted so long on the very same day. I joyfully looked down in the pool, but found Priya and Murli both drowning in the pool. How can I forget Murli had never tried the ramp before? I can’t save both of them alone. I called the first and nearest boy I saw. He turned out to be the Motu. I told him, “Priya and Murli are drowning, I will save Priya and you save Murli”. But as I told you, he hated Murli too; he said, “I won’t save Murli”. In such a panicking situation, I thought of nothing else or any consequences and said “Ok, you save Priya and I save Murli”. He agreed. He and I jumped in the pool.

            Next Scene was neither the pool nor the school, but it was a stage of a marriage hall and I said, “And this is how Motu and Priya got married”.

Got Up

            The dream ended and I started getting conscious about the sunlight in my room. Then I heard a voice, “Deepak get up, it’s already 11”. I opened my eyes and Murli was in front of me. The first things I said was, “Murli, do you know to swim”. Murli asked “why”. I said “Nothing”.