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friend in need is a friend indeed

The call came early in the morning. I thought I was dreaming. It slowly got louder, piercing through the stuffy solid air of my room. I snaked out of the mosquito net; the phone was lying on the table. A woman was on the other side.

The panicked voice of the caller didn’t register. I hung up and shut my eyes when the words started swimming in my head…Akash…hospital…sounds of the woman weeping.

I jumped out of bed, wondering whether I was awake or having bad dream. I dialed the number that had been automatically saved on the cell-phone. It was busy. I desperately tried to get through but it remained unreachable for the next four hours. By then, everyone was where they needed to be – just not when they needed to be.

Akash and I have known each other for ten years. He was the first person to ask for a peek into my paper during an exam. I tried to show him but the teacher knew what I was up to and so he was al