AB and me

It was almost 10 years back. One chilly morning, two kids were standing by the school gate. One of them had a pair of sparkling eyes, whoever saw his eyes, fell into love with him.I'll call him AB. And the other one was the best friend of AB. I will call him SC.Well! AB was one hell of a mischievous kid, always engaged in some kind of activity or other. Be that stealing the shells collected by the other students and throwing them into the nearby pond or intentionally making a fault in the "Bratachari" to put the blame on the student standing next to him, or ride on the back of the School guard's goat, or run away from the school only to watch "Patua"s on job. One great thing about AB was that his mischiefs never got caught. Not a single person could have thought that AB did this, or its AB who's behind all these things. However, I am not here to glorify AB. So lets get back to the school gate.

Both of them were in the final year of their primary school.SC was tensed about the upcoming exam, but that didn't seem to bother AB. His mind was elsewhere. Suddenly AB heard some words. It was like SC saying something like " this stuffs there in this book" and a mischief played into AB's mind. " You betcha! I'm pretty sure that its not there."

" No, you are not right! I have seen it only the last day"
" I've read the whole book, and I'm pretty confident that its not there"
" No its there"
" no its not"
" yes! its there"
" no its not, if you have the guts then show me"
" I can show you but right now its not with me"
" if you can't show me then you lose"
" but I don't have it with me right now, Okay! wait for a second, I can show it tomorrow"
" No, you'll have to show it to me TODAY, unless I'll assume that you don't have the balls"
" okay, I'll show you that this afternoon."

now the fact was that SC's place was far away from AB's, at least for a 10 year old boy. And it was really a hard task for him to get himself to AB's place that afternoon, and show AB.But still SC somehow managed to do that. That day, on 6 o'clock, the doorbell rang at AB's place. AB knew whom it was and so he opened the door.

SC- " look you moron....."
" hey sorry!! I just remembered that I too have seen that thing in that book"
" what????!! but then you should have given me a call."

AB smirked.

" you, you, I wont talk to you again."
" hey come on! at least you won."
" but you knew all these, na?? right from the beginning you knew that the stuff was in the book, and you intentionally raged me up! you just knew that I'll do all these.Do you know that I even haven't had my lunch, I headed to my home only to fetch the book and came directly here"

" oh I'm so sorry, come on! lets have lunch together"

as far as I can remember, that was the first time AB did this. And after that, he has done the same thing with many a people, only the victims have changed.A few months back, I met AB, and I asked him why he does this.He said, he gains an unearthly pleasure by guessing people's psychology. The loves to see things go by as he set them up to be. Its not that, he plays games but he loves to make people realise that how monotonic they are, how predictable they are, by setting up traps for them. Its not that he plays dirty games with them, his games are rather innocent but still they are games. He said," once xyz comes in vicinity, I can guess what his first words will be, I know that on which topic he's gonna talk with me."
he said, " if I am walking with someone with our hands in hand, and if when we're in front a kfc outlet and I feel her hands to loosen, I can instantly guess that she's feeling hungry, now the other person doesn't know that, and she thinks it to be some kind of magic, but this pure experience, the only difference between me and other people is that they just watch people while I study them, its my pass time hobby." The conversation ended.

I met AB yet again yesterday, he was looking a bit gloomy, as if he was deeply thinking something. I asked AB about that. He replied, " I played that game yet again." I said, " So whats so big about that, you already know that whats gonna happen."
" yes! I know that... but that's why.... forget it"
I was rather in an inquisitive mood that day. So I told,
" no... please tell me... you look really upset, what's wrong about it this time, is the game not working properly?"

" no.its perfectly okay. Everythings going on just the way I thought it to be"
" then?"
" then... nothing but still a hitch...a hitch"
" what hitch?"
" still a hitch... I haven't figured it out yet"
" sounds interesting and you are lying"
" yeah! how come you know?"
" guessing people"
" oh okay... the thing is that everything going on as I expected but..."
" okay dont elongate it further... my readers will get bored"
" but THE THING IS I DIDN'T WANT THESE ALL TO HAPPEN"
" what??? then why the heck did you pressed the trigger?"
" I don't know, I felt static, I pressed it but believe me after pressing it I have not done a single thing about it"
" then who?"
"I don't know,I think someone else is playing this game for me."
" you are sounding spooky but why aren't you interested in playing the game?"
" look! there are two possibilities, 1) everything goes all right, 2) a certain person will get shattered"

" ..."
" and I really don't want that person to withstand anymore pain"
" you bastard! then why aren't you ending it?"
" its out of my hand now"

Then I heard the whole story and assured AB that he could have done nothing else. And that, its people who choose their destiny, others can only show the way but its up to oneself to follow that way or not. And that, he has done nothing this time, his only fault was to be present in the scenario and its only his presence that catalysed the whole thing.The way the thing was going it was bound to happen, he only catalysed it, nothing else. And then he also warned the person concerned numerous times, but no use. So, it can't be his fault.HE DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.I also told AB that, everything will go all right but still he didn't seem to hear a single word uttered by me.