Monologue of a Gaay in the city

Once upon a time three wise single gay men travelled all the way to town, to meet Divi. Divi was this young 25 yr old who was happily in relationship with Sachin .They all met in Atria, a mall situated near Nehru Planetarium where one went to see and understand the galaxy, stars and universe. However, we were here to see a rare specimen too, a guy in relationship and still in love after 5 yrs. Rumi starts the conversation by asking “how is your boring life”? Ken being protective about Divi interrupts and asks “when is Sachin coming”? Divi says “he will take a while, tell me about you guys any potential relationships?” and looks at Rumi directly, Rumi says “wrong person”, points at us & continues “ask these two, they want to be in one, right now am just looking for eye candy in this mall and its tough!” he comments after he had scanned the floor we were on .Rumi makes a hand gesture that one uses when a bee buzzes & annoys you shifting Divis’ attention towards me. I sip diet coke and say “nope its just me” and I look towards Ken he smiles and says” well nothing serious, I just met a few guys nothing serious” I comment at least you are meeting, you are in the field I don’t have time” Rumi just interrupts and says “ya we all know about your job, now please don’t start again”, he looks at Divi and updates him about my job condition where he explains “ he is in a job which requires him to put many hours he doesn’t have offs and has bored us with that for like ages now”. What he said did hurt me but who expects empathy from queen who had not found a guy to leech on in a mall. I just nod and say “yep! that’s me”.

We ask Divi to tell us about you, and he starts telling us of the things that Sachin does, where they go, etc..etc.. his life was like a Yash Chopra movie a romantic musical, and Ken had all his attention on him commenting ‘that’s sweet’ sometimes we both did aww… just then Rumi says “yeah we know you are in a relationship please don’t go on, I have not travelled all the way to town for listening to this”& while he was telling this he was not looking directly at us but his eyes were still searching (I felt he was avoiding all the mushy conversation) and then all of a sudden he points at something and shouts “see Tops are on sale” and points at a window display of a shop. Few people did stare directly in that direction cause Rumi was too loud we too look in that direction too; it was just some shop selling girl tops and had a board “Tops are on sale”. It was really funny cause we were the only 4 guys laughing while the Parsi aunty’s could not understand the joke and found us silly, Ken comments looking at Rumi “couldn’t you be more loud and camp”.

Later we settle at a food court where we order and Divi receives a phone call from Sachin saying that he will be a few minutes late. Just then while we were having our lunch we see Mr. Truth Seven with a hunk and who walks in our direction he comes and says “how are you doing darlings”. We hug him and he asks Divi “still in relationship?” Divi nods, Mr. Truth Seven smiles and looks in our direction & questions “how r u singles?” were we carrying a board now with our relationship status I question. “You guys spend so much of time together that I don’t think that you guys will be ever be in a relationship” Mr. Truth Seven answers & giggles, we were just silent it was like a slap on our face he looks at us and says “got to go date, isn’t he hot” and leaves. We look at each other in question and a thought runs thru my mind, is my friendship the reason for me being in no relationship?
 Sachin just came in on time to lighten the situation and we all order for desserts we just needed something sweet to lift our spirits up. Our eyes were cast on Sachin and Divi they were feeding each other, having a couple laugh the Kodak moments, both of them looked so beautiful, it was there love for each other which was adding just the right spice to their relationship just then I look at my Fren-en-emies, my cause for not being in relationship. And I see Rumi looking at SACH-DIV, somewhere the bitch had a  heart which somewhere desired to be in that place with someone special  & then there was Ken who was smiling looking at them & having the same feeling. Somewhere we were missing being in love, every action that  SACH-DIV did actually reminded us of our past lovers and we so badly wanted to be the one to experience all that and not just watch.

We left town with a very good feeling and in taxi we were silent, from Bandra we hopped into a rickshaw and Ken breaks the silence “are we actually spending too much time with each other” Rumi looks at Ken and says “c’mon”  I interrupt looking somewhere in the air and not directly at them “I too want to have all that, I want feel loved, I want to share food, have those Kodak moments, I want to be hugged too”, just then Rumi answers seriously ‘You guys know what I think we all deserve that and we will get it maybe we are not cause its not the right time, but till that time we have each other and we are fun, we have hugged together we have had those Kodak moments together, we have fed each other at times, we are so blinded by finding the one that we love and finding that Divi or that Sachin that we forget the most amazing relationship called “friendship” that we have with each other  I am glad we are spending time with each other, may be we might find someone maybe we wont but we will always have each other . Being Single & Gay is difficult, I have survived those break ups cause of you guys. I know many gay guys don’t have friends, many  sleep with a hidden agenda of sex when they make friends we haven’t, we choose not to .So till we have a man or men in our lives we have each other till death do us apart and we need to make most of it, so now just make up your moods up & next time if anyone questions if we are single promise me that we will grab them by their balls & say YES!SINGLE THATS US!” what Rumi said almost got tears in our eyes and we kept our heads on Rumi shoulders and had the most awesome experience.

So the three wise men probably may or may not find the ONE but they knew that all three of them had found each other in that tiny island called MUMBAI