Wink

Satish had just shifted to a new residence in a new complex in Goregaon. He had his own vices, not so good ones. He had recently bought a new binaculors. He had two hobbies, gazing stars was the good one. The bad one was - peeping into people's balconies.

Satish had recently shifted to a new neighborhood which had high rise buildings. His appartment was on the 13th floor, facing another appartment on the same floor in the building opposite to his.

One evening, he was gazing stars from his newly bought toy, the binaculors. He couldn't resist the temptation and focused on the balcony on the flat opposite to his. The lights were off. 

The next day the same thing was repeated. He gazed the stars and then tried peeping into the balcony of the opposite flat, the lights were still off. He concluded, may be there was no one in that flat.

A fortnight passed by. His star gazing continued. One of the days he got late finishing off his office work. After finishing his work late night around 1 a.m., he decided to take out his binaculors and gaze the stars. He smiled as he looked at the stars and just by chance he happened to look at the flat opposite to his. The lights were on. He tried to focus through his binaculors into the flat.

He focused for long. After sometime, he saw the curtain slide and a beautiful girl look straight at him. She winked at him. Satish was shocked. He re-focused, and tried to focus more, she was there smiling at him. He couldn't believe his luck. She kept looking at him, smiling! After sometime the lights went off.

The next day he decided to again focus his binaculors at the same time at the same gallery. He again saw the same girl, she winked at him and smiled. He zoomed in. She was extremely pretty, her complexion milky white, her eyes were big and her hands were very beautiful.

This routine repeated for a couple of weeks. The same would happen everytime. At 1 a.m.she would wink at him and smile.

One of days he decided to make the next move. He looked from the binoculars, she was still there. She looked pretty, very pretty. He immediately, took the lift went down from his appartment, went to the building next to his. He took the lift to the 13th floor. He knew which flat it could be. He went to the flat and rang the door bell. No one opened.

He stood there ringing the bell, for sometime. No one opened the door. He thought may be he was at the wrong door. He went down, looked at his window in his building and at the opposite window. It was the same flat. He again went up, rang the door bell. However, the same happened, no one opened the door.

The watchman saw him go up and down a couple of times and asked him, "kya hua sir, aap kyu baar baar upar jaa k aa rahe ho.?" Satish replied, "I want to go to flat no.1302 in wing C." The watchman gave a confused look and asked, "Kyu?". Satish responsded "mujhe woh madam se milna hai jo yaha rehti hai."

The watchman gave a very confused look and said, "kya bol rahe ho Sahab. Yaha toh peechle 2 saal se koi nahi rehta." Satish ridiculed him and said, "I know there is someone and I need to meet that lady. I have seen her and she is very beautiful and she winked at me too."

The watchman was shocked to hear what Satish said. He responded - "sir, yaha ek Julie mem sahab rehti thi kuch 2 saal pehle, unhone khidkhushi kar li. Uske baad yaha koi nahi aaaya rehne. Jab police ne tehkikat ki pata chala tha ki raaat ko 1 baje unhone khudkhushi ki thi." 

Satish felt the ground under his feet slip away. He had seen someone wink at him at 1 a.m. every night from that same very flat!

Satish gave up star gazing and peeping into people's gallery from that very day!