Sweet Memories- I

Today I happened to watch this Ilaiyaraja's concert. Well, not a live-one. Its a pretty old one. But it brought back my sweet memories.
We were a big gang from my 3rd standard. Just perpendicular to our house there was a street. And we happened to stay in that street for 2 years when we re-constructed our house. It was a great period. There might be easily around 10-15 kids almost in the same age group.
Well, coming to the event. There was a neighbourhood school where almost all the kids were studying except myself, P and R. P studied in a famous girls school in Mount Road and R in one of the other neighbourhood school where people switch over once they go to 11th std from 10th CBSE. And this neighbourhood school was completing its 25th silver jublee year and arranged for Gangai Amaran's concert in Music Academy. So they gave this invitation which said admit two only to all the students. We all planned to go as a gang and without any elders i should say.
The only one accompanying was this anna "I" who was a journalist and also happened to be the uncle of one of the kid. So we started to hunt for the invitations from all the kids and started to plan the trip. We were more than 15 people and only 5 of them were from that school. We somehow managed to grab the invitations but it was short of one more. Somehow we managed to dodge and smuggle two of the kids inside by enough confusing the teacher at the door.
It was a very new experience and i was in my early teen and that was more than enough to cook up the excitement. Since this anna was a journalist he went backstage and we all once settled. It was the first live-in concert for us. P , R and myself were always pretty close. P, being the daughter of a doctor couple was a brilliant girl and needless to mention a pretty girl. She was a year-old than mine. We were too close . This R is 2 yrs elder than me.
I had this secret crush on R though we were pretty good friends. But, you see boys are often vry cunning and they choose only the best of the lot. And whenever there is P all the boys would try to charm her. But i should really give credit to her intelligence. She is a soft girl and always stand first in class and good at drawing. More importantly she was fair. This is the criteria which everyone consider whenever they look at some girl.
Well , iam deviating myself. And i got the opportunity to go back-stage cos of this anna who likes me a lot and got to interact with the singers present there. It was feeling good at that stage cos i was only around 11. The concert dragged well into the midnight and after that we started walking to the bus stand. The road was very much deserted and it was fun walking with all ur friends chatting and pulling each other in the night.
And since it started getting late that anna arranged the auto for 5 of us whose parents were very much capable of causing a scene out of their ultimate affection. That included P , R , Myself, my cousin S and Pa. In the auto we were all hush-hush discussin the possiblity of kidnap by the auto driver. So we were all totally geared up to meet the situation incase any of it warranted. Luckily nothing happened and he was sweet enough to sense our commotion and offered a free ride.
When we got into our street there was literal chaos with all the family standin outside the house and worrying.
My first night out without any elders was a big hit.