A Double Life


This post has been published by me as a part of the Blog-a-Ton 6; the sixth edition of the online marathon of Bloggers; where we decide and we write. To be part of the next edition, visit and start following Blog-a-Ton.


Note- All the characters in this story are fictitious. I have used the names of the fellow bloggers just for fun. No offence meant!




When I started my computer I was shocked to see this image on my screen... What does it mean? This is so typical of Vipul ! He always does that. Some code or the other to decode for everyone else...He so much enjoys pulling legs of others on top of it... But this time he had overdone it! Ok. I am on it! I have to do it before anyone else this time. I was concentrating very hard on it when the phone rang. I didn't hear the noise first then I didn't recognise it. But my brain came to its normal sharpness after a while. I have to answer the phone right now! This has to wait for a bit then...


Vipul.!.. Again so much like him. Disturbing me knowing that I must be working on the given task. "How dare you disturb me this hour..." I almost barked in the phone but I was in for the surprise again. It was not Vipul! It was his girlfriend calling to know about the whereabouts of Vipul. Vipul is missing from yesterday night! Where the hell was he? I stared blankly at my screen. It dawn to me suddenely! This is the last message of Vipul. Had he tried to tell us something thro' this? I had to talk to Pawan about it or consult Sid! They were the experts of such kind of things. Suddenely the image became so much more important!


This all started about six months back. Vipul was the master mind behind this all. He started a society called Messengers. We all were members of this society. It was just for fun. we wrote messages in different codes to each others and then decoded it. But after sometime it became an obsession. Number of members kept on increasing steadily. Codes became more and more complecated. And now this... What the hell was happening? I called Pawan and Sid and asked them to come over my place. I called Shilpa as well....We might need one cool analyser and a person with great resources... What exactly did Vipul want us to think about this image?


I glanced on the notes I have written down about the image. 1) Things - Table, chair, pen , pencil (large?) 2) Colours - Red, pink, black, yellow 3) Mood of the picture - Thinking , writing , confessing.... May be showing three steps of life? This image is showing something loud and clear... It was very simple but I was a bit confused about it! Why? Any way I was ready with my explanation when the other three arrived.


All three of them were looking so tired. They were trying out different possibilities from last night. Oh my... I was the laziest member of our society then... I was so ashamed of myself that I made coffee for them all and tried to concentrate on what explanation they had for the image. Besides all my points shilpa had analysed all shapes in the image as well. Pawan was talking about the prominent bloody red colour in the image. Sid has declared himself as a detective recentely so he was talking about the suspecious members of our society for whom we had secret names and codes. He started matching those names with the image.....This was a bit complecated than I had thought.


That sence of "It's so simple" was nagging me still. Two months back one senior police officer had aproached Vipul about the case.... I talked for the first time and just asked Shilpa if she had a phone no. of that officer with her. All three of them stared at me like I was an Alien and it just dawned on them like me. We dialed the no. with the speaker phone mode and when somebody answered it we asked for the Vipul holding our breaths without knowing it. "Hello?" familiar voice answered us and we relised our breaths with the joy cries. Vipul was expecting our call!!


What? You still didn't get it? Vipul has landed a job of decoder for the government of India. He was recruting for some members from his sosciety before closing it down for ever. Something that had started as fun has turned out to be a larger than life before it turned out to be something horrible as we all have started to fear..... Now we all are living a double life with all the colours in the image showing our personalities. Want to join in? Wait for the next image and let us see if you can decode it to the satisfaction of our team members....




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Comments

Pra,
You have some imagination ! If not already you should watch Michael Douglas-Sean Penn thriller 'The Game'. It has some great parallels and like your story the strange events culminate in a great ending :-)

PS : Vipul had started a cult huhn ? :-)
Siddhesh Kabe said…
Pra ji..waah waah..kya imagination hai...

and u get a warm hug from me for calling me a detective...:D
Prashansa said…
Madhuji, I haven't seen it but now I will see it as soon as possible.Thanks! I think Vipul is going to be furious..ok..I will wait for his reaction...
Thanks a lot Sid! Thank God you are not angry at me! Thanks millions...
Rocksa said…
Hello! Now that some weaving of a story! It was as though I was watching a detective story on TV! Good luck with BATOM!
Guria said…
What an idea, pra! Exciting! A society indeed! :)
Dreamer said…
Nice imagination :D
Karthik said…
Shall we call it "The da vipul code"?
:-) Awesome, Pra. Enjoyed it very much.
All the best!
Shilpa Garg said…
What an imagination Pra!!
I liked my role!! :D
Vipul must be getting hiccups...:D
Cheers :)
Roshmi Sinha said…
You have some imagination lady! Poor Vipul... he has now turned into the protagonist for one of the entries for BATOM :)

If you don't win... you know whom to blame ;)

Good luck!
Nethra said…
Another "granny's tale". She tells anything and everything. It was a nice read. :)
Anonymous said…
kewl write!
Nice post, gr8 imagination!

I guess the next BAT topic is gonna be VIPUL! lol

@Sid
The detective tag is only because of that hat you're wearing!
Vipul Grover said…
lol.. furious for what :)
Man, Blog-a-Ton has made me js too popular, central character in so many stories :P
fun reading it prashansaji..
bt hey, the image is not visible, u hav js pasted the link.. plz see into it asap :)
Megha said…
:) Cool story...so different..Nice
Pushpz said…
Interesting! this picture has really stumped most of us.. :))
Gauri said…
What Imagination!!!

Good luck for BATOM6! :)
Vineeta said…
OMG!! wat u guys r upto??! I guess I missing this fun and shud chk the blogathon contest soon :D

btw.. wat a story pra!! God.. I almost felt like entangled in the web of twisted climaxes :)) Great great imagination I must say :)
geeta said…
seems like Vipul is a criminal here in BAT....(just joking)
any ways nice story
Talking Skull said…
Great... had fun reading this... Good one... :-)

The pace at which Vipul is getting popular, we might soon see him on one of those bawdy reality shows like Big Boss 3, Pati, Patni aur Vipul or possibly Vipul ka Swayamvar...

Good Luck for BATOM-6
Shruti said…
Heheh :)
Good one pra... Pawan's Red for the gory nature and sid as the detective.. I was ROTFLing :P

LOL at talking skull's imagination! Vipul ka swayamvar is the pick of all!
aativas said…
For a moment it sounded amazingly realistic.. waiting for the next image to be decoded :)
Neeraj Shinde said…
Haha... This one is another which is targeting the marshal! I am sure he deserves all the blame for suggesting this picture! But, people like me are equally responsible for it cos' I voted for it! :-)

Good one pra!
sid as detective i can relate it wit his display picture haa haha and its good to see different takes on the image haha nd vipul is the hero :P

good one madam :))
Vipul Grover said…
lol nice discussion.. anyway, pra plz revote, havn't receivd ur cmplete vote, it just reads ur link,not the person who u r voting for..
Innovative imagination.....
creative interpretation...
Keep it up :)
Anonymous said…
Hey nice imagination and the way you wrote it made it worth reading!

Hmmmmm...lets see what is the nest pic your team of coders and decoders are gonna put in BAT. :P
Vineeta said…
hey where r u these days pra??

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