The Other Twilight - I

“No Alice, listen to me. You are not gonna do this” Edward said in authoritative tone.

“You can have Wasabella, but I can't have Rake? ” She fought back.

York – a very small town, a town - where the thorn bush turns wild/ white. The city which gets scanty rainfall and doesn't have much luck in getting sunshine either. I was transferred there on a client project that I was assigned to against my wishes and my only motivation to go there was that I was getting paid in dollars. I was on a project of a local weather company, engaged in making predictions based on the city's weather. And immediately, I could see a pattern of missing animals against the local weather. Whenever it was sunny, there were no reports of missing cattles.

Little that I knew that my encounter with forks is going to be a much more than a regular job assignment.

“I am sorry, I am really sorry. First, I bumped into you and then I broke your iPad. It's totally my fault.” I said apologetically.

“But you don't have to worry, I am a s/w guy I can fix this in minutes.”

I didn't know what I was getting into.

“That's exactly what I am worried of, of all the people I could have bumped into , I bumped into a s/w guy. What a luck, alas.” She said mournfully, her eyes fixed on the broken screen of the iPad.

And that's how our love story began. A love story between a mortal and an immortal.

“I am sorry? You are a what, vampire? Ha Ha”

“You are right and I am the count Dracula, and a very handsome one - mind you.”

I said in sarcastic tone not knowing that Alice was being honest to me. And the fact that I was not reading her eyes lead further to my disbelieving. Eyes they often tell you truth without the necessity of utterance of a single word.

“You don't believe me, ain't you Rake? “ “It is as true as my love for you. I am a vampire and I can cling to the ceilings just like a bat.” I could now sense some seriousness about what she was telling me. But it was hard - even the simple thought of believing such a thing makes you sound crazy.

“If you are a vampire, then you must drink blood – human blood.” I added.

“Yes, blood – but not human, only animal. We've overcome our desires for human blood, we practice yoga everyday. We are a strict follower of Mr. RamDev. We call ourselves 'animo-blood-etarian' ”

“Oh! I got that. Are you the reason behind the recent disappearance of cattles and farm animals from York?

To be continued...

The Other Twilight - II

“You are the one who killed Jhonny's buffalo and took away Bob's sheeps “ I screamed in anger.

“Yes, but you must understand there are no McD or KFCs here. We have to eat what we can get our hands on.” She said complainingly

“Hey, I am a s/w engr. I can create a software which can help you in satisfying your hunger pangs and I'll also create an iPod-Android app so that you can use it any time you want. ” I said thoughtfully.

“How romantic...” Alice couldn't stop herself to say so.

“But that's not practical, we need energy and that's why we hunt. So your s/w won't be any good.”

“ Alas, here goes my plan to create a product and my own startup – Vampire Studio++ ” I said to myself.

“But how will our love survive, you are a human and I am a vampire” Alice said waking myself from my thoughts.

“You have to choose, if we were to be one. Either the pity human life, or become one of us.” Alice offered a solution.

I was puzzled, not knowing what to say. There has to be some other way, I thought.

After scratching my brains (the Google) for long time, I decided to invite her for a dinner, a perfect setting for executing my plan. That night, I prepared my mama's fav. dish, what she prepares for me back home -Veg Pulao with Nutrela and Cottage Cheese.

“You smell so nice” Alice said flirtly, I wondered what she had in mind tonight.

“No, that's the dish I prepared for you.” She looked at me with hungry eyes.

I was bit fearful, because here I was – a dinner, preparing a dinner for her. What if she chooses to have me as the main course rather than the Veg. Pulao.

She jumped toward me ferociously like a hungry lioness, just then I pulled off a spoonful of pulao – from the cooker at my right - straight into her mouth. She tasted rice, instead of flesh – very nice. As the food melted in her mouth she became softened. A lioness tamed to a lamb, and in no time the whole cooker of rice was gone. I didn't get to eat even a single grain of rice.

Alice was cured, she was no more a vampire. It was proved that I was a genius. And as I doubted they were just a lunatic family of non-vegetarians – who never tried anything veg. So, it was just a magical spoonful of pulao that took to turn the entire family into normal. Their skin turned to normal from pale - apparently lacked the vitamins and minerals. And I finally created a product Rice-o-magic illustrating the details procedure of creating tasty veg pulao – a vampire killer.

And as for the ol' York, it again was safe – safe for farm animals - cows and buffaloes.

-xoxo-

Who am I?

When I was just a student, studying my engineering or rather skipping it I heard of a term called a Software Engineer. I wondered for sometime what it actually is? Then one find after lot of research I deciphered the term. Then I felt who is an SE and what it feels like to be one?
Now that it's 3 years I am one I think how it feels like not be one?