LIFE.... AS IT COMES (CHAPTER 4)

"Hey Tam! When is your interview?" Sheila asked as she left the room in a hurry to collect the wash-clothes.

"It's at 11." replied Tam while applying oil in her hair. Tam had shoulder length thick chestnut hair and was extra precocious to make it look lustrous when she went interviewing. Tam was a journalist. Had column of her own and was also given the job to conduct interviews of newcomers. Given her unwavering personality, she was clearly the one who left the bright-eyed new comers in awe of her.

"Oh god! Even I have to reach before 11 today." groaned Sheila from the balcony.

"Chill! Will give you a lift darling!" Tam announced.

"Yes. But we have only 1 bathroom."

"Hey girls! 1 of you can use our bathroom for once!" Ryan's lazy voice trailed to them.

"Oh god Ryan! Can you for stop eavesdropping on our conversation for once!" Shouted Tam as she threw a pillow at his direction.

"Hey! I was just trying to be helpful! Talk about being grateful! Huh!" grumbled Ryan.

Kunal cam came out of his room while tucking his shirt in.

"Yeah yeah use ours. Both of us are done."

"Kunal at least for once remember to close your fly!" said Sheila for the 100th time in her life!

"Oh oh sorry sorry! Really didn't see! You didn't see anything, right?" he questioned Sheila a bit suspiciously.

"Yeah right. We get up early in the morning praying to god and waiting for the time when Kunalswamy will bless our eyes while dangling his ding-dong in front of my eyes! Gosh! I just wait for this moment everyday!" drawled Tam, her voice scathing.

As Sheila and Ryan began howling in laughter, Kunal looked at Tam suspiciously.

"What?" Tam asked him.

"Are you a lesbian?" he asked.

"WHATTTTT?????????" a chorus ran across the room.

"No, I mean I think any girl would consider herself lucky if she got to see something like this everyday, but you don't! That's why!" Kunal reasoned.

"Dude! She has been seeing this for the past two years. She is used to it, you know. It doesn't excite her anymore. You know she needs something new and fresh. So why don't you operate so that----------"

"Cut the crap Ryan! And anyways am not using your bathroom and neither will I let Sheila use it."

"But Tam we will get late------"

But Tam cut Sheila short.

"Shell if we adjust we can manage."

"But why won't you let her use ours?" Ryan questioned.

"Yeah why?" followed Kunal.

"Because you don't really clean the loo and it stinks and is dirty!" said Tam

"That's why it's called loo! Otherwise it would have been called garden or something." joked Ryan.

"Seriously Ryan when was the last time you cleaned the loo?" asked a very concerned Sheila.

"Well, the time when our tap broke and the water flowed out, the loo cleaned itself." mused Kunal.

"That was like 6 months ago!"

"Yeah! Very recent yaar! What? You girls clean your loo every week or what?" Ryan scoffed!

"God! I don't believe this. We broke down the connecting wall between he two flats to tolerate this shit every morning?" grumbled Tam as she dragged a shocked Sheila into her bedroom.