She was walking around in her study, going through her books and thinking of what to read next when her eyes fell on her favorite one, the book they had gifted to her on her 21st birthday. She glanced at the wall clock and realized that it was just an hour before she would enter into the 25th year of her messy yet beautiful life. She inhaled the sweet scent of the pages, she had always loved to do that, and opened the book. The title page had his writing, "True friends are never apart, maybe in distance - but not in heart." Maybe her younger version would have found it as a bit of an overstatement, she was not the one to believe in eternities and forever, however that changed. Of the gazillion things that had changed in her life, some for the better and some for the worse, the two of them had been her only constants, the people who had stood by her side as solid as a rock on all the dull and bright days, the people who taught her the meaning of friendship, the people who came into her life unknowingly and became an integral part of it...
All the moments they had spent together were dancing in front of her eyes and her laugh echoed in the study, a childish laugh and it was as if the books were all laughing along with her. If it was possible to love someone and hate them at the same time, they were the first people on that list. They were the nicest friends one could ever dream of having but also the biggest jerks she had ever met. The people who couldn't help but get on her nerves at times and wouldn't stop until she would cry, a thing which somehow they found funny. They had the audacity to reply with a "K" when she was furious and threatened not to talk to them, forever. Yes, she was a bit of a drama queen that ways, stretching issues that had no base, getting mad at stuff which no one could help and screaming like a banshee for no apparent reason. People had to be very patient to be with her, she tended to be difficult at times but somehow it had never been a problem for the two of them. Days of not talking to each other and a plain old "Wassup" would get the wheel rolling. Words like 'awkwardness', 'complicated', 'weird' didn't exist for them, they were one of a kind. Every girl wishes for a perfect boyfriend who would pamper her like they say in the novels and here she was, wishing that the two of her best friends would be with her till the world ends. She remembered all the times when she wanted to meet but they couldn't because of something or the other and she would be breathing fire but they won't even care to apologize. Standing there in the middle of the room, she couldn't help but smile like an idiot, for being so unreasonable most of the times. Endless talks about Sherlock and FRIENDS and Dexter and Breaking Bad & countless hours of studying together which involved less of studying and more of chitter chatter & countless arguments...God, how she missed them and wanted to go out on a drive at this hour of the night!!!
One present, Four lines and a door was opened to the lane to which she didn't see an end. If it hadn't been for their phone call, she wouldn't have realized that she had turned 25. "Happy Birthday...!!", they screamed but she was so overwhelmed that she was a minute late in responding. "You were crying,weren't you??", they asked together. "I was so not", she retaliated and this was the perfect beginning of her birthday, for in her ever changing life with lil bit of ups and quite a few downs, they were her only irreplaceable and angelic constants...
