Room No - 432
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It was the day of campus
placement, and just like every final year student, Saloni reached the college
Auditorium hall in time to attend the sessions of placement drive.
Her diligent preparation
made her confident in her knowledge and skill. She could answer every question
asked to her satisfactorily.
As expected, when she
found her name in the list of selected candidates at the end of the day, she
called her parents first to share this news, and all of them were over the
moon!
There came the day of
leaving the city and moving to her workplace. With a heavy heart for leaving
her parents and a lot of excitement about her future, Saloni bade goodbye to
her parents until they met the next time.
Everything seemed so
alluring to her as she looked through the window of her moving cab when it
crossed innumerable branded outlets of apparel or footwear.
After around 45 minutes,
the cab dropped her in front of a giant gate that was supposed to be her
destination. She was amused to witness the largest training center of IT, where
she would be enrolled.
Inside that giant gate,
beautiful and sophisticated tall buildings lurked. Such a scene was enough to
uplift her spirit and trust in her future, which seemed so promising.
After completing all the
formalities of joining, she was allotted a room, which was a room on the 4th
floor, room 432. She tried to recall the familiarity of that number, and to her
surprise, her spiritual self recognized it as the frequency of Om.
She perceived it as a
sign from the Universe to welcome her into this new venture in her life. The cozy
interior of the room gave her a homely feeling. “Wow! A home away from home”,
she exclaimed with joy.
As the days progressed,
so did the stress of the training. She tried to cope with the tasks and
assignments that would make her return to her room exhausted until she fully
collapsed onto her bed.
Every night, she would
feel her roommate entering the room around 11 pm and leave the room early
morning. It didn’t create any kind of suspicion in her as the trainees were
allowed to use the resources of the training center till midnight.
Upon special requests,
some of the training centers would open an hour earlier than usual to prepare
for the training exams. So, leaving room early wasn’t something she found
unusual in the case of her roommate.
So, Saloni never got a
chance to communicate with her roommate. Days passed, and she got even busier
with the preparation of the final test. On being requested by her batchmates to
know about her roommate, she waited for her during the weekends, but she didn’t
come.
Saloni thought that her
roommate must be a localite, leaving nearby, who might be visiting her family
during weekends.
It was the last day of the training session, and job locations were allotted to the trainees. It was the last time the trainees of a batch saw each other; they may or may not have met in the same office.
Saloni wanted to meet her
roommate once before leaving the training. She enquired at the administrative
block. What shocked her the most was the reply of the guy at the administrative
block, who, after searching on his computer, said that room 432 was just
assigned to Saloni and no one else.
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Swati Sarangi
12.10.2025
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