letter 14

hey Tan and Cos,

How long will you be away Cosie?? I know you are enjoying your trip to the dry part of the world very much but you know how much me and Tan miss you. We both are missing your letters and I am dying to get more info about Nike. He must have done something weird in all these days. So girlie come back soon and help us catch up with some hot and happening news about the weirdos we love so much..;)

And Tan its really nice to know that you are using your deo bottles in a productive manner these days rather than emptying them on you. hehe.Just kidding. And guess what, I have tried to find an explanation for Sud's fascination with female innerwear. I think Brecht's words have made a great impression on him. And here I quote Brecht: "From the cradle to the coffin, underwear comes first". :P I dont know how much literary-minded this guy is but for sure whatever he must come upon this line somewhere. You know what let me know something about the new kid on the block. I am just so curious. People might think that I am too curious about these HST-ans but what can I do, they are so interesting(in a good way or bad, whatevr it is, you just cannot deny that they are interesting).

But what shocked the hell out of me day before yesterday was what I saw on the idiot box. And then my friend Juhi called me up and said that she knew the girl Rashmi who was murdered by the HST guy. You people have met Juhi once when she came to our college last year. She is the fair and tall girl. I knew that these weirdos are frustrated individuals, they are sex-starved and all but I did not know that they can be dangerous also. I mean Rehan makes and repairs boats, Rohan makes paper-planes, Sam mugs up every book he gets ---this was all fine. They were doing what HST was teaching them. They also behave weirdly specially with girls but that also is understandable because of their existence in almost out of the way places where no human beings but only HST-ans can survive. But what I did not know was that they can get ferocious when jilted in love. I dont know if they know the meaning of love but i guess they also "fall" in love. And in every sense of the term they "fall". This guy from HST-Air named Vinu has brutally murdered the "love of his life"( this is what he used to call her). What Juhi was saying was that, the guy was always a bit of a show-off. He kept saying publicly that he loved Rashmi "madly" (ya sure, he was mad, now that he has murdered her). Rashmi used to be irritated with such kind of behaviour. She was also studying in a prestigious institution and was a brilliant student. They were having some problems regarding this but then both of them had gone to a hill station to celebrate Rashmi's birthday. You people must have seen what happened after that on the TV. I just dont have any words to say. If this is what "falling" in love for the HST people mean and if this what loving "madly" means, then I admit that I had not known the meaning of these words before correctly. I just cant say how much disturbed I am as Juhi kept crying on the phone but I didnt know what to say to console her. Rashmi must have been of our age only and I cant believe her life just ended because of the whim of a pathetic loser. Just dont know what else to say about these weirdos. We thought of them to be silly but they are not--- they are vicious. I just pray to God that all HST- ans dont turn out to be so.

So much for today...Love ya both...Write to me soon ....

Sec