Chapter 1

It was the 17th of May. He went up and took the paper. On seeing it, his eyes had a tear drop. Thoughts flashed by him. It had been a long time. Thirty five years to be precise. But memories were still the same. Life flashed back to the college days, school days, the parks, beaches, roads, the chats, the moments they spent. He walked up to the milk booth, and got his daily quota of milk. He was living alone. Atleast for today. His wife had gone to meet her mother, with the kids of course. He sat on the tea table, and pondered upon how stories had changed so drastically.

He went upto his drawer, and pulled out a diagram. It was so evidently a graph theoretical statement. There was a connected graph, or was it connected? Yeah, it wasn’t. He found the disjoint vertex, it was marked in golden. This was made in those days, when graph theory was the order of the day. He had once been too very good at it. But then eventually the interest had faded out. He found it pretty unusual for himself to be emotionally very attached to stuff, but this was something he couldn’t control. May, the 17th, by default, had to be one of the darkest days of his life every year. The day when he lost himself into thoughts. Thoughts of the past. Thoughts which wouldn’t end up doing him too much good. But thoughts, those which would remind him of the golden period of his life. He took that eventful piece of paper, and kept it in his inner palms.

He went thinking into that dastardly trip with that paper in his hand. That fateful graph theory camp, which ended up changing his life. Changing his life forever!! That trip which brought Anjali and Vinay back into their lives!!