BREAKING IN - PART | 01

“You’ve really lost your marbles, man!”

“Lemme explain, Matt…”

“Don’t!” I knew better then that to stop him. I continued to pack my rucksack.

“Gosh! I still can’t believe it – you’re gonna do it. You’ve gone bonkers, man! Do you hear – total boozed-up bonkers! This ain’t no limbo land, goddammit! For Christ sakes, why can’t you understand that?”

“Matt, why can’t you understand?” I shot back. “She’s my dream – the dream that I’ve always dreamt of. She’s the fruit that I’ve so patiently waited for. I am telling ya – she’s that someone whom I’ve searched for my whole life!”

“Dammit! You’re only twenty! When did you go searching for her? You couldn’t even tie your shoe laces till you were ten! And by the time you were fifteen…”

“She’s my life, for Christ sakes – my soul, my muse, my music…my everything! I have to do it. I have to go there tonight – no matter what. It’s either tonight or never!”

“I still say you are one crazy dude. Stoned crazy. Dope! And a big bummer too!”

“Call me what you like, but all I know is that I love her. Madly love her – ever since I first laid my eyes on her. The cupids hadn’t hit me with mere arrows man – they fired an AK-47 at me! Just kept shooting and shooting – non-stop! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

“Probably were cannon balls that hit your goddamn head, by the looks of it,” he intervened.

“Matt! Please…”

“Ok! Do as you please, loverboy. It’s your butt on the line, not mine. But don’t come crawling back to me and yelping that I didn’t warn you so. And yeah…besta luck! You’ll definitely need that!”

“Thanks, Matt. Fingers crossed too!”

“You’ve got it, chum! By the way, out of genuine curiosity – how’re you gonna get into that cooped-up place? The hellava thing’s guarded like Fort Knox!”

I was expecting this question from him, eventually. I knew Matt too well enough for that. And also because the question had me going too. Hmm. How was I gonna get into the godforsaken place? But today I had the answer. I fumbled into my jacket pocket and fished out the skeleton key to the main gate of the campus buildings.

“Just got it this morning. It did cost me quite few smackers, but I guess it’s worth every penny of it,”

Matt bid me farewell. He was sad, I could tell. He cared for me too much. And I was glad to have such a friend. But I was madly in love also. And nothing could have stopped me from going there tonight.

Not tonight anyway!

TO BE CONTINUED…