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My Noiseless Memories – Chapter 11

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Not long ago…

‘Wow… One step closer…’ To make it sound easy and not desperate, I asked her if she had traveled anywhere in the United States.

‘Nope and that’s what I regret. I have a couple of friends in Chicago but never got a chance to meet them. Perhaps, will plan sometime during the semester break to meet them’

‘Hey, listen… Got to tell you this… I heard from Sumanth and others that they are planning for a trekking, camping and adventure trip down to Tennessee Mountains. Why don’t you join them?’

‘Wow… Is it that they have already planned or still planning?’ With her beautiful eyes wide open, she queried with acute curiosity. 

‘I don’t know. But I can always tell them you are interested and you would tag along with them. What say?’

She had her cute confused look over her face but she finally said, ‘No’

‘But why…? You just told me that you liked traveling…!’

‘I don’t know anyone of your friends. I would be left all alone when everyone’s having fun. What about you? Are you going?’

Trying to play safe, ‘Yeah… they have asked me to join but I am still not sure…’

‘Oh! Then why don’t we go along with them? You will have company, I will have company… what say?’

Not sounding too surprised and at the same time, sounding accommodative, I said, ‘Sure…Anything for my roomie…’

‘Deal…?’ ‘Deal…!’

She immediately picked up her phone, scanned through the contact lists, dialed her friends in Chicago, Lahore and God knows what other places and planets she called but she did convey her excitement to them that she is going on a trip to Tennessee Mountains…

We went around the park, I showed her the place where I was mugged and beaten up badly, and she showed me the building where she had evening semester classes… We finally walked back to our apartment, watched ‘How I Met Your Mother’ on TV, grabbed some salad for dinner and finally walked back to our bedrooms. Before she closed her bedroom door, I told her,

‘I had a nice time this evening. Thank you… ‘,

‘Me too… Thanks for the tea. Had a good time…’

‘You are welcome…’


‘And listen…’ she said blushing, ‘…you could have always asked me to join you for the Tennessee trip. I would have never said ‘No‘ to you…’

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My Noiseless Memories

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Ganesh Raam

Written by Ganesh Raam

I lead two lives. On weekdays, I'm a machine learning engineer obsessed with AI, cloud innovation, and sharing what I learn. On weekends, I'm a landscape photographer chasing all 60+ U.S. national parks. Pick your pill—tech or trails—and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

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