#59 …when someone is jealous with your befriending other guys.

"Who is Abhinav?” Sumit asked as soon as we met. He had come to pick me up to attend a friend’s birthday treat.

“A long lost friend.” I said impressing on the word friend.

“But you never spoke about him earlier?”

I hadn’t expected Sumit to reply with that tone on my query. He seemed hurt to find out that I knew someone else as well in his very college without his knowledge and that I had found someone like Abhinav worth befriending. I could even hear the tone of his silence. Had I used any other guy’s name the reaction would have been same. He always treated me as a priceless gem and was angry to see his very own junior sharing it. He was the lion of his den.

Actually this morning I had called Sumit to find out if he knew Abhinav, studying in his very college. My sister had just befriended him and being an elder sister, I was simply trying to keep a check on her friends.

“I am not supposed to keep you updated with my friends list.” I said amused at his concern.

“But I am supposed to keep tab on who you mix with.”

“And why?”

Though he didn’t reply I had my answer.