when will ya come out?

Every gang has its baby, the guy who looks the smallest, an undeveloped mush and beard, really cute and pink in color. We had one too, and this is about him something that shook ma outlook toward life.
We were so used to calling him baby that many even forgot his real name, even the juniors in school called him baby, even my younger brother.
He loved it too because girls just found him irresistibly cute. But that very fact made them not go beyond and consider him a man, they were really comfortable around him and the most disastrous of all didn't think of him more than a 'baby' :p.
Some of the people in my gang including yours truly were still in the early stages of figuring out what commitment really was, some successful some not so, well you know how it goes.
high school is such a funny period, people confused, thinking of lifetime romances some not even knowing what they were doing. The guys who were not so lucky kept trying their best to get a girl. Peer pressure at its lethal best.
One day we were all sitting in the ground pretending to study, keeping the edge of the book at eye level so as to peek at the girls sitting and studying/pretending on the opposite side. You know if someone actually observed us they woulda thought we were real sincere sweethearts..torch bearers of the youth.
That's when a girl came to us, spoke to a guy she had broken up with(its actually called dumped). Almost as soon as she went all of us pounced on the poor Devdas asking him to narrate the entire convo.
Apparently nisha the school babe (they always have these cool names) thought baby would be a great boyfriend. You see girls have this tricky way of conveying things, totally non-commital, if you arent well guarded there is a great chance you going to buy a dog, grow a beard and search for wine shops for atleast a year.
Baby jumped the gun. And it was very surprizing that things actually happened. They were seen holding hands the next day in the neighborhood cafe.
Many were jelous, they had tried for nisha themselves, some including me were really happy for baby.
Baby gave us a treat for the 15th day anniversary and one more for the first month, man for foodies like me this was the greatest thing that happened, bless Nisha.
But my happiness was shortlived. One day the female called baby to tell him some weird reasons for breaking up. It always happens the same way, feeling guilty about parents, i need more personal space( ya they want to launch research satellites) but theres always THE reason.
We found out the next day, some of N's friends (girlfriend's friends = GOD) had a problem with baby not being able to shave.
They just couldn take their close friend going out with a baby.
Its not very often in life you feel totally screwed, but when someone tells you you are not good enough, trust me its like the worst feeling on earth. You feel like just dissapearing off somewhere, sometimes you just lose all the ego and beg your love for one more chance.
Well thats what baby did, he promised her he ll grow one in some time, afterall he was trying from 9th std. He shaved his soft cheeks extra hard, but all that came out was his cheeks turning to a deep shade of pink.
Sometimes I used to envy baby for not needing to slog it out in front of the wash basin mirror, trying to remove those troublesome stubles, but things were getting real sad.
Baby woke up everyday rushed to the bathroom to observe what the status was. It was very similar to the way i used to dig up the soil and see if the germinated seeds had started to grow or no. I tried talking sense, did he even need to be with someone like her, but loves just crazy you know totally..unpredictable absolutely no logic.
Like the last nail in the coffin, one day baby game teary eyed to me, the bitch had given him a deadline, to grow a .5cm beard or she was going to move on.
He had just started to get what would be mushes one day but they were still formative, and under other circumstances it would have been cause for a treat but .5cm in a month?
The last week before the deadline was some crappy hols and on the reopening day, voila baby had this really cool what ever they call - line that joins the centre of the lips to the centre of the chin and I was like soo soo happy for the man.
Almost everyone who had heard of the developments gathered to see the happy ending, baby getting his girl back and soon we were watching both of them.
Nisha apologised for being such a jerk and asking for a beard and opined baby looked real cute now. Baby as usual turned pink in embaressment. She told him how much she loved him and the usual i wanna b wid u for ever shit. Baby spoke in his cute voice. "ive brought something for you that i wanna show you"
"oh really cho chweet wots it?"
bay opened his hand, there was nothing, and in one swift movement closed everything but the great finger. He rotated it towards her turned walked off and dissapeared from the corridor.
I was just thinking of when the others in my gang would grow from babies to men.