Life in the Outer Space

Robert was once again late to the work today. He went up to his cubicle just like the way he did all these seven years careless and lazy, forcefully pulling himself up close to his monitor.
His job was simple, all he had to do daily was to come to the top tower of the space research center and look out for any clue of life from the outer space. The research center had launched different self powered and propelled satellites which radiates signals in search of life in the outer space. Robert had to make sure these different satellites work in sync with their target rates and then had to mine the abundant data that devices transmits back.

But the problem really was, these satellites and the data mining systems were so damn awesome that they never used to err on their job.Simply put satellites were always up to the task and didn't need much of Robert's intervention.Sophisticated computer programs written to manage data mining were so clever that, with their machine learning  abilities they used do to all the data analysis and reduce Robert's work to taking mere printouts at the end.


Initially Robert used to love all this setup. He was happy to be around these clever machines. But now he had started to hate these machines as he felt they were making him less and less relevant in the entire eco system.

 He walked to collect the daily printout. As he glanced on it, he couldn't help himself noticing a tiny dark circle which was indeed a deviation from the normal mundane printouts. He stared at the computer machines which were also seem to have noticed this change and were working at their full speed trying to solve the mystery around the circle.


 After all he had worked seven years in research wing and he knew something is making this day interesting unlike others. He knew circle of that dense, if it is not for a technical glitch in these computers must be an indicator of some sort of life. He felt a sudden rush of  fluridnie all over his body and the minutes later he was staring into first signs of planet housing Life out in the space in those computer screens.

 Robert decided to try out sending a  message to this new planet and sent "Azzcsx ajhsaad sa" and to which he also got a reply as
 "This is NASA from Planet Earth. Its nice to finally meet our neighbors :)". 

Robert had no clue what the message meant but he certainly liked ":)" part of it.
After all, Robert was not a human being to understand that ":)" actually stands for smiley and hell in his planet there was nothing like Smiling.

A College Love story

It was certainly not the brightest of the days. Moisture was still in the air. It seemed Sun was reluctant to come out, just like the small kids that day who didn't want to get up and go to school.
However Vijay was already en-route to the bus-stand for the only bus that gets him to "Sirsi" and to his GAS college. (Also called Govt Arts and Science college)

He was carefully making his way amidst the muddy stagnant waters along the street, courtesy of heavy rains last night. As he joined the line of people waiting, he heard that bus will be running late due to its punctured tyre. He cursed his fate for it being a Monday. Monday First class will be taken by Principal and missing his class means a great deal of problems later. As Principal had veto power in the attendance issues, everyone preferred to be a "nice boy" by at least attending his classes and were casual about others. He was sure he will miss the class and was frustrated because he couldn't do anything about it.


When Vijay made it to the college he could see that there was something unusual about Principal's class today. Instead of him being inside the class teaching, he seemed to be outside talking to "Rekha" who was sobbing with her teary eyes while the rest of the class inside was silent. He knew "Rekha" must have been "caught" for something and it should be damn serious or else Principal will never be sacrificing his class.

Vijay always loved to see Rekha. In the class, before the prayer bell, in between the class and also during the first break. In fact he wished he could see her all the time, everywhere and anywhere. Some of his friends knew his secret crush for her and in many occasions had teased him out loud calling him "VijayRekha, VijayRekha" to which he had not put up any resistance.
Few of these "VijayRekha" cries had also fallen on to Rekha's ears but she remained silent. Somehow her silence had amused Vijay.

With Principal next to her, Vijay somewhat made a fair enough eye contact with Rekha keeping in mind that he should not fall on  Princi's radar eyes. It was not like he had never seen her eyes before, but today they seemed to be saying something. Something she wanted to communicate very clearly. It was strange to him considering they never had any real conversation before.

After a brief "lecture" to Rekha, Principal went out to staff room while the bell rang for the first break. Rekha moved inside the class and joined her bench mates, while Vijay's friends came out looking for him. Friends took Vijay out and told him that Principal today while dictating few points  had seen Rekha's notes which had various "Love  Hearts"  in between name "Vijay Rekha".

He didn't know how to react to it. He didn't expect it and had never thought something could turnout this fast. He couldn't comprehend the situation fully and part of him never really believed it.
 
One of Vijay's wiser friend told him to talk to her in person otherwise this whole thing of getting caught might damage Rekha's feelings for him. Bell rang again, asking students to commence. Vijay with his friends started walking to the class and as he neared the classroom, he saw Rekha this time talking to "Vijay of A section" and in a minute understood that "VijayRekha" that she had written was meant for "A section Vijay" and not to him. He was quick to comprehend this time while his friends were still figuring out what the hell just had happened.

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