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‘This new girl Alara is performing really well,’ Sheen says as she walks up
to me. ‘She is good for our weekend business. You must ask her to perform
every Saturday,’ she adds.

Has it ever happened to you that the other person says exactly the thing
that you have been thinking of, and at that very moment? True friends
mostly know it all. And I like Sheen, just for that!

‘I will see.’ I tell her, just to draw out that I-don’t-give-a-shit look on her
face.
Alara reminds me of Elisha. While there’s hardly a chance that they

would be related, I must check on her just to be sure. The crowd goes mad
as she steps down the stage, and I realize that another star is born, right here
at Ricky’s.
Now it’s Aarav who has to perform. I know this champ will rule the
stage.

‘Aarav, go for it!’ I scream as he looks stupefied on stage. After a long
pause, almost three minutes, he starts:

Hi
I am Aarav.

Sad, depressed, and a comic. I know ironic.
Or is it? I don’t know.

So I am recently single. It’s hard. I have started hating every couple
around me. And the rock bottom of the problem is not that you are single.
You hit rock bottom when you find out that even fucking Ramesh has a
girlfriend now. Ramesh has one. Ramesh. You know Ramesh? He asks the
audience.

A girl from the audience replies no.

See, that is how unremarkable Ramesh is. Fucking Ramesh from
accounts.
Ah...

So we broke up six months ago. By we, I mean SHE decided that it is not
working anymore between US.

Ah…
I really loved her. I really do love her. Do not know why. I hate her. I hate
that her one smile can make your day. I hate that she brings joy to people