Remembrance

In my third class, nearly 18 years ago I happened to meet a girl - Abirami. She entered into 3rd ‘A’ classroom in St.Antonys matric school in Karur and I was told that she is a new comer to my class. I saw her with a band aid on her forehead and when asked about that, she casually said that she hit her head somewhere (I don’t remember where) and needed some stitches done. Then we started to know about each other. She was naughty, smart, intelligent, humorous, and friendly and gets angry very easily. I couldn’t remember what made us friends. She became my best friend. It is strange that we had many similarities - same hairstyle, height and our birthday too falls on same month and sometimes same marks in exams – many such strange things. I had some of the best time of my life with my friend. We do fight often. But we were great friends.
Till my seventh class, we were enjoying our school life together. After the annual holidays I didn’t meet her in school. During my eight class she had to switch to some other school in Trichy due to some family situations. Those days we didn’t have any contact numbers and there were no means of communications possible as she was not aware/not sure that her family would move to Trichy that year. We both had many good friends in school. But I missed her so much. Once during my tenth class I got her number from one of my friends. That number was not working.
After 4 yrs, when I was doing my 2nd year in college I got her number from a school friend. This time I spoke to her. Since it was after 7-8 years, both of were in search of words. I came to know that she was doing her BBA and planning to do MBA. So at last I found her. After 2-3 such calls I couldn’t reach her with that number. By that time I should have known her email id at least. But I didn’t. I don’t know why we both didn’t bother to know some alternate contact details. Strange. But I’m sure that I will meet her someday.