part-3

It was a usual bright morning with a constant cool breeze heading through my window from the nearby hillock. Dev and me always planned to go there for a trek but never suceeded in getting up early in the morning and jogging up to the top like rocky balboa. The window was full of stunning greens and sky-blues. Well, suddenly I realised I have 10mins left to reach college. The time when you are late[already the meeting time has past] is still comfortable; coz you know your DEAD. But when you know you have only sometime left before the meeting time;its slow, painful death. So i was undergoing the latter, with Dev still snoring and samson already in college, am sure he had politely knocked a few times and left. The day just flew past, I came back to the hostel and everybody had that excited look on their faces, unlike the dull and the expressionless stares at the common TV we had. Surprisingly we never had fights for the remote, as it was an all-guys audience we viewed quite common channels and what happened next in some crappy television sitcom was never on our minds [except ROADIES] that was one show which the entire hostel used to be present for and a full house. It used to be awesome fun to watch roadies, predict and laugh at all the stupidity as a big unit. Unity was something that was deep in our minds somewhere in some corner which would be activated if any of our hostelites was in any kind of trouble.
Hostels most awaited party was nowhere in site, but the excited air and the smiles told me somebody was upto something . Evening went by, nothing, no party. Night began and me and the now going psycho Dev[No party] tried to get some sleep, we abused SUmit[birthday boy] and slept.
Then at around 11.30 there was a knock on the door, which grew to a loud door breaking bang, we both jumped out of our beds, wait Dev was still snoring, only i jumped and kicked Dev on his butt and we both reached the door. We saw 2 of sumits pals asking us to join them below at sumits room, we both smiled the party was Onnn. THe small, really small room was too small for our big hearted/walleted summit and his 26 odd friends. Believe me there were 2 crates of smirn off khamba's then another 9 crates of beer 2 crates of RC khambas! my eyes popped out as to how the hell did this truck load of booze comin in. The answer taught me the fundamental rule of breaking in--- bribed the hostel keeper, with a quarter! We both were like what the hell! The party began with loads of music & 26 odd guys gyrating to some shady numbers. The best part about being in a hostel party is, you will not be the only suckiest dancer also the moves to "watch out" for begin after 3 pegs down, Thats pure awesome blissful rib breaking stomach blasting laugh that you can have while watching those moves. The chicken and booze was flowing and within a couple of hours everybody was high flying on the rainbow. Guys tend to get sentimental and some even start to cry, some cannot stop laughing some cant stop talking and some should not challenged or dared to do something at that point.
One of sumits friend began challengin guys for an "Arm wrestle", the wrestle began. We all started cheering for some odd reason, we were screaming each others names for some odd reason! you know something like vikram vikram vikram.. like an encore, some guys start screaming out of the balcony facing the girls hostel, got excited threw beer bottles at them [wonder how would that turn women on... forgive him he was drunk] THe Room -- There were two beds, facing each other, on the right side of the bed was the door, in front storage area and behind he balcony. There were people cheering from the storage side and from the balcony side. outside the door was the neighbouring room and opposite the neighbouring room was the common bathroom toilet.
The scene
Everybody stopped cheering. The two drunk arm wrestlers were still wrestling for sumits birthday championship tropy. Then as i looked up, Dev had vanished balcony guys were half hiding under beds, some hanging out of the balcony and people were running helter skelter. but the arm wrestling continued!! On one of the biceps came a beige colored stick. THe arm wrestler just flicked the stick and abused in Hindi and continued his fight to glory. THe guy holding the stick abused and gave one "ssmAck" on the guys head, It was a COP>!! and yes i peed a little. They were every where!
I just did not know, whether to jump off the balcony in the arms of the girls hostel matron or give the pandu a head butt, i was just plain lost. The Game was over as soon as it had started. I simply got up [ sometimes its not me who reacts in super panic mode,its my subconsious, i am a mere witness to the happening; as in this case] Brushed past the pandu who was busy abusing the arm wrestler, excused another near the neighbouring room who was pulling guys from below the bed and ran upstairs for my life. Of course in the room Dev was pretending to sleep and not opening the door, I changed his surname with an abuse and he opened it quickly. He apologised that he came up alone, he said i was too engrossed cheering, he saw the first hostel kid running up the stairs shouting polic police with his up accent and he ran up! I asked him to relax and told him everything will be alright. We saw a mob control tata 407 complete with bars and hand cuffs ready for arrests. We saw sumit and his room mate and a couple of arm wrestlers being taken away for the night. when they stopped. I didnt understand, then they removed sumits hand cuffs and let him and his friends go, i heard sumit going door to door asking something. He came up to us and asked for some monetary help as the cop had seen the arrangemments for the party and guessed the party belonged to a richie rich. He opened a bbiggg mouth of 10k for bribe. I had 500bucks! samson had 1k we put it in, and our hostel owner came in and spoke of a 50:50[news after the scene] with the cops and said he had reduced the bribe 8k! We also had loads of jokes as to how a couple of guys locked themselves in the bathroom and peed. Some were hiding on the balcony ledge and could see girls in their rooms[complete lie, we tried that] Some hiding in sumits closet and neighbouring rooms closet some in the toilet. It was hillarious, awesome fun.

Sumit bailed out his friends next day and cops got lawyered by his DAd. The scene was controlled and sumit and his friends lived happily ever after!

But it did leave an unremovable imprint on my mind and the fear comes up whenver i see rave parties being busted and innocent fun loving kids being caught by cops.