Drunken conversations - A moment in time

Winters brought along thick cover of fog that had just started to roll in. Law school didn’t give her as many sleepless nights as the two boys in her life did. 

It was 2:30 am by her watch and the persistent beep of a call waiting made her take note of the name on the screen. ‘Damn!’ She thought to herself, it was probably the fourth time this month she’d have to tell her boy that she needed to take the other call and he was definitely going to be mad at her this time.

It had to be done. She made her excuse and switched the line.

“Hello!”she said a little anxiously, but before she could say anything else, the drunk voice from the other end shouted joyously “Baby, I got a job, I got placed”. And she smiled.

He’d called up her other number an hour ago and said the same thing over and over again till her Mother replied...”Congratulations! She’s in college son.” He then spent the next ten minutes apologising for calling in the middle of the night. But did it stop there. No, he had to call and let her know, and she knew that she’d not smiled so much in a long time as she did that night.

He was after all her bestie.

That night and that conversation took place over a decade ago, but it’s still there in their drunken conversations somewhere. Some friends did take precedence over else and hope for some they still do.