TOMMOROW (part 1)

*Disclaimer: All the characters in this story including the first person I is fictitious*

Hi! I am saying "hi" to you only.How are you? Oh! You dont remember me. OK. I introduce myself. My name is Kannan. Age 24.Working in a manufacturing company. I am a carefree person not taking a single thing seriously. I am tall,lean and slightly brownish in colour. I think this brief introduction about me is enough. I am staying in a room along with four of my friends Ravi,Raja,Arul and Ganesh. They all work in the same company that I work. We five are placed on campus in that company. Now I shall come to the matter.They all are studious and are preparing for various exams like UPSC, bank exams etc.,We used to get newspaper daily. I have never read the newspaper that comes to the room as I will be busy(!) all time.Those four days Thursday to Sunday they all are going to their native places. I also decided to go initially but I have to cancel that plan as I got a huge task in my office suddenly. They left by wednesday evening.

Fresh Thursday morning. I woke up alone in the room.Newspaper was near the footsteps.When I was going outside I took it and thought of placing it in the shelf. Without my intention I just glanced through the newspaper.The name of the newspaper is "Daily News". What is this? I have not heard of this name. Why can't they buy Hindu or Indian Express. I glanced the first page. "Train accident at Bulawayo.165 Dead. Saina Nehwal won the title.Moves to Rank 1" Suddenly I saw the watch. Oh! Its already too late. I took bath.Got ready quickly and ran to the office. Its a wonderful day in the office. I got reward for my performance. At noon my childhood friend Balaji called me in mobile and we spoke about a lot of wonderful incidents that happened during our college days. Evening while I was returning to my room there was a slight drizzle. I enjoyed the Mother Nature's power and beauty. I ate my favourite dish "Chann Battora" in a hotel. I came back to the room. I changed my dress. Just switched on the TV to see some comedy clippings(usually I will see that only. I wont like to see news, serials, songs etc.,) . I am seeing my favourite comedian’s play. While I am enjoying like this suddenly I saw the flash news that scrolled at the bottom of that comedy channel. “Train accident at Bulawayo. More than 200 feared dead”. What is this? Why they are putting the accident that happened very earlier as flash news. I even read this accident in the morning newspaper rite? Or whether another train accident happened in that same place. Out of eagerness I turned to a news channel. Just at that time headlines of the news was transmitted. “Major train accident happened today evening 6 o clock at Bulawayo. Saina Nehwal moves to the number one position in ranking after beating the Russian oppenent in the finals of the Chennai Badminton series that happened today”. My BP raised slowly but steadily. I searched for the newspaper that I read in the morning. I found it and read again. Suddenly my eyes moved towards the date of publication of the newspaper. It is published as December 8 Friday. My BP reached the Mt.Everest. I saw the calendar. It read December 7 Thursday....