Our late night calls…. It’s crazy how our friendship started because of late-night conversations and unknowingly changed into long distance relationship.Nearly 6 yrs ago from now, it was 11 PM, a cold winter night, I called you. i’m making the bed and you’re busy doing something, but we’re still on the call. we talk about our day – you tell me about your classes and how that one student burped in the middle of class and we both laughed so loud. I tell you something random, too, and we keep talking.It’s 12 AM, i send you a meme and you start giggling. you send a meme back. i send you a bad selfie clicked by back camera of my Nokia phone, and you send a picture in which you hide your eyes with your palm. and we keep talking.it’d be 1 am. and our conversations suddenly stop being funny. you’re telling me a childhood story. the one in which you went to the market with your mummy and scraped your knee. you still have that scar, i saw few days after our conversation. and we keep talking.It’d be 2 AM.and you’re sharing your future plans. You want to open your own child-care home in future and want to adopt 100 street children. You want me to join them in dinner every Friday evening and we both will sing and dance for those children. I’m just listening silently then.it’s 3 am. our phones are lying next to our pillows. You’re unhappy with the situation now. but actually we both were. You tell me why we can’t meet, why do we have so much of distance between us. We were unhappy with our long distance relationship – and I’m convincing you that it’s just a matter of time. Few more months and we both will be close to each other’s eyes. i can almost hear your breath from my phone’s speaker.we are quiet now for the most part. you yawn. i ask you if you’re sleepy. you whisper, ‘no’. there’s a long pause. we can hear each other breathe. i ask if you’re awake. i just know you nodded. you say, ‘yes’.and the next thing we know – we can hear the birds chirping. there’s a faint light drawing in from the curtains. it’s morning now and neither of us realized it. we say good night for the third time. and you argue if we should say ‘good morning’ instead?we laugh. with a big smile on our faces, we put the phone down.