The Bored Maharani!

I am bored!

You know why? Cameo has gone out of Delhi for two days…and without him, this place gets on my nerves.

Yes, you are right. I stay alone the entire day, but then that’s routine. After these people leave, I go off to sleep, and I wake up when they come back. Now Cameo is the one who plays with me. All Mercury is good at is…sitting on her haunches and typing away! When they come back, and after I’ve told them how happy I am to have them back; Mercury goes into the kitchen to make tea, while Cameo and I play. We play Bite-Knuckles and Snatch-Ball; and by the time Mercury brings the tea and the snacks, I am tired and ready for the refreshments.

Then they talk and I sit between them. Both Mercury and I compete to gain Cameo’s attention – Cameo is smart, so he multi-tasks! He talks to her and plays with me. After the evening tea, Cameo and I go for our evening walk. It’s our quality time together. Just Cameo and I. That’s the time when he shares his innermost thoughts with me! (I sometimes feel that he is closer to me than he is to Mercury.)

When we come back, Cameo joins Mercury in the kitchen and while they prepare dinner, I watch TV…and then we dine together. After dinner, we relax…they are fond of reading, so they read while I doze off.

Now let’s review the situation that’s been prevailing at our place for the last couple of days.

The morning routine is almost the same, but the evenings are…as I said, boring! Mercury comes back and takes me out for my walk. Then she goes into the kitchen and makes herself a cup of tea. She comes back with her tea and some snacks for me. Then she gives me the snacks, puts her computer on and begins to type. Her tea becomes cold, half-forgotten; I become bored, completely-forgotten! I sit alone for a while then I begin to doze.

Then after an hour or two, she goes into the kitchen and prepares some instant noodles for herself and some instant chicken biryani for me. (Incidentally, the instant biryani tastes good – if you want I could ask her for the recipe.) She gives me the biryani and gulps down the instant noodles so that they are gone in an instant! (I guess that’s why they are called instant noodles.) She then asks me to jump on the bed and go to sleep, which I would do anyways for want of better things to do!

Then she re-perches on her chair and begins to type…

There she goes again…tat-a-tat-a-tat-a…can you hear it?!

The sound puts me to sleep! Do you see why I am bored? Thank God…Cameo is coming back tomorrow morning!