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It was now confirmed. Class ND06C, or in simpler words, our buddies' class had a quiz. And the interesting part is that the quiz winners were to be taken for a 'fun' trip. Though initially everyone hesitated to participate, because they had not been told where they were going to be taken. But then as the hype built up, many of them took part.
"What?" exclaimed Antara, expressing her shock through every part of her body she could use for that purpose.
"Uh, I didn't know when I was saying that 'either all of us go, or none of us does', I was mentioning about the ghost of the dead cleaning boy on the third floor." joked Rishab.
"WHATTTT?" screamed Antara and stood up, now using every 'cell' of her body to express her shock.
Smiti agreed (not with Rishab; with what he said, as she clearly expressed).
So it was official. Either all of them were going or none of them was. And to keep their standards at the same level, they all went to the Library, and Rishab and Armaan were told to keep out. Yeah, he did talk like an idiot, but Armaan sure was an Encyclopedia.
Anyway, so our wise men (and girls, dare we call them women, even in a joke!) were busy with their wonderful studying in the library. Let's cut to their Library session.
[In the library]
"Now what made them conclude that matter is made of atom?" Sunidhi raised her doubt.
"They saw it... Under 'microscopes'!" bluntly replied Kanishk.
"What are you? A geek?" said Sunidhi.
"Try Nerd!" taunted Smiti, and went back to her reading.
"Anyway, I don't understand why they should conclude that if we somehow see around the time dimension, we could see our future? Future obviously depends on the present, and the present is changing every nanosecond. See, it changed.. It changed... Again.. Again.." Everyone stared with a "Yes! We got it. Do murder us with any further of it". That helped. Kanishk left this and started with the next statement which had some semantic significance.
"So the future should be all messed up when seen from the present!" Kanishk said, coming out of the book that he had virtually entered before he began with this unusually abnormal doubt.
"Kanishk!" said Smiti, keeping her hand on his shoulder, as though stopping him from something. "Today, it will be just questions from the books that 'Normal' people read-"
"Well, normal people do read these-" started Kanishk with a shrug.
"-and" continued Smiti, "for definition of my 'Normal' refer to the 'Normal' Oxford Dictionary. I don't care how 'Normal' is defined in your dictionary"
Kanishk didn't appreciate that, but he had no choice. He smiled and shut up.
Finally Antara spoke up, and she had real big news.
"Hey guys! Does it mean something if you have just found a major flaw in a research work?"
"Ofcourse!" everyone said.
"What did you find a flaw in?" said Anish, coming from his seat, where by the way under one Science book, a number of "Fashion and Trends" magazines were piled up for his reading.
"Look, they have mentioned the timings, but they did not use their brains." said Antara, pointing at her head with her index finger. "Now, how would I know whether it is morning or evening?"
When they read what she was talking about they did not know whether to kill her or kill themselves. All logic had suddenly disappeared from this Universe and they forgot all about the Life and Death. Gaining some consciousness, Anish replied. "I understand it is a lot of complex mathematics, but if you subtract 12 from any value of time going beyond 12, you will get the time in regular values we studied in Elementary school."
As if she had not butchered the whole concept already, she blasted everybody's heads off with her doubt unaffected by the explanations.
"So how did that solve the problem? You just changed the numbers. I still don't know whether it was morning or evening! Crazy people...!"
[Outside the library]
"So how was your date?" said Armaan, trying to pull Rishab's leg.
"Yeah, it was good. We ended up kissing!" said Rishab, blushed and took a sip of his coffee.
"Ohkay!" said Armaan, pretending to feel happy for him. He was feeling jealous, however, which he expressed when he turned his head away from Rishab.
Rishab was smiling and celebrating inside. "This works! This works!"
"So when do you have 'your' date?" asked Rishab, cunningly smiling.
"Oh, me? I have already had two dates. We 'started' with a kiss." replied Armaan and went to the food counter.
Rishab's eyes (and his mouth) were wide open. And Armaan was standing at a distance with the same expressions. Poor guys! They were getting jealous for a reason that they had both just made up.
[Time lapse. It was finally the time. The quiz was beginning]
"So, Andecians ('NDEC'ians), today is the quiz which will give the few lucky ones of you a chance to go for the so much sought after 'Fun trip'!" declared an enthusiastic anchor, and the crowd applauded for no reason. Apparently they were just clapping because of the way the anchor declared the beginning. It was pretty obvious that applaud should follow.
"HU HU HU HU HU" Armaan celebrated.
"Did someone tell him the trip is to the African jungles?" whispered Sunidhi to Smiti and Antara.
Antara giggled. Smiti, however, didn't find it entertaining. "Competition.. is.. a.. COMPETITION! And Competition spirit should not be made fun of!"
"Ohkay! Goddess of Competing." taunted Antara.
"Dude!" said Anish, trying to stop Armaan. "We are still waiting for the competition to start. Are you with us?"
Armaan brushed Anish's hand off his shoulder and firmly replied, with index finger raised upright like a hero, "If we are here, we'll clear the rounds, and then we'll be the winners too."
"Are you playing Blindfold? Or you are pretending to be unable to see so many competitors sitting with us in this hall?" taunted Vineet. Rishab was busy with an eBook he had secretly downloaded, because he had been commanded to not touch any book at all.
"Touching an eBook is virtually touching a book!" loudly said Kanishk. Well, it was loud, but with the noisy crowd in the hall, only the eight of these and probably some others sitting nearby could hear it. The others looked at Kanishk, gave him a "Don't keep proving that you're jerk" look, and got back to their talking. Rishab immediately closed the eBook, and started looking at the book in a guy's hand, who was sitting in the next row.
"And reading a book in someone else's hand is-" began Vineet.
"No! That clause had not been mentioned!" interrupted Rishab, smiled and got back to reading that book.
"Shame on you! Now you don't even read a book that a 'girl' is holding!" giggled Armaan. This finally stopped Rishab.
[Few minutes later, in that hall]
"So, all our contestants have been eliminated! One round to go. Sunidhi and Antara, are you ready?" said the anchor. They nodded in affirmation.
"Now, since atleast one of you 'has' to clear this round, we have greatly reduced the difficulty level of questions." said the anchor very seriously, but clearly he was telling them that they were idiots.
"Do anything! We won't win." whispered Antara to herself and Sunidhi.
"So," started the anchor. "if you were standing under Eiffel Tower, where would you be?"
"FR-FR-French" shouted Antara.
"You mean 'France'?" corrected Sunidhi.
"Absolutely!" celebrated the anchor. "You said it! It's France. Sunidhi, you get the ticket to the Herbert Park. Have a 'fun' trip!" he said and handed the ticket over to Sunidhi. All of them were dumbstruck. No one moved. Well, actually the rest of the crowd did.
"How could you do that?" screamed Smiti.
"I DON'T KNOW!" replied Sunidhi, holding her head, as if this was her worst loss.
"None of us is going!" drawled Rishab.
"THAT I KNOW!" said Sunidhi, angrily repeating Rishab's tone.
[That afternoon, they were all sitting in the cafeteria]
Kanishk had left for some work. He had told them that a girl would come to that table. That would be 'Pratigya' and that they should keep her engaged till he returns.
"He told Pratigya how we look. Would it have been wiser had he told her the table where we invariably, 'always', sit?" commented Vineet.
Anish put his bag on the table (trying to show everyone the new designer bag he had just got, err, just been gifted). Rishab replied to Vineet, "Yes! But then everyone has a signature style. This is his."
Everyone became quiet. Anish wanted people to see his bag, and so he started tapping on it.
"Stop it!" screamed Smiti. Anish stopped at once.
"May be you guys wanna have something?" said Sunidhi, trying to cheer everyone up.
"NAW NEY NO NAY NANNA NAY NONTHIN" angrily gibbered Smiti.
"Come on! Don't be rude." said Antara. "When you are with us, speak in our language only!"
Unknowingly, Antara had cracked a real joke. 'Unknowingly' because she thought Smiti was actually using a language.
"What's the matter? You guys don't think it was my mistake, do you?" said Sunidhi, smiling, but clearly aware that everybody was upset with her.
"Yeah!" loudly agreed Antara.
"Hadn't we decided that we won't give the right answer?" said Armaan in a little break he took from drinking the third glass of Milk. He had been drinking milk like a heart-broken lover consumes alcohol in a bar.
Sunidhi began with her explanation. “What? I was out of my mind, I admit. I was not even thinking at that time. And that was the plan. I was not going to think, so the answer would never come to my mind. But then Antara said French, and since I was NOT thinking, I didn't know that I was actually answering the question. I just tried to correct her."
"Have you forgotten the rule? Never correct her!" shouted Smiti, and immediately turned to Antara and said "No offence intended!"
"Oh, okay!" replied Antara.
"Yeah! You answered the question right over there, do you know? Eiffel tower is in France and nothing can change the fact now unless continental drifts speed up and take Eiffel Tower out of France before the End of Day!" complained Rishab.
Armaan smiled and said, "You and Kanishk never let people realize the absence of each other!" Rishab stared at him, and started to read the pamphlet he had just got from a junior.
"France was the RIGHT ANSWER? Oh My God!" said Antara, and covered her face as if she had just been declared the Miss Universe for the rest of the years of existence of the Universe.
[At the gate]
A girl with big glasses and messed up hair had just entered the cafeteria. She had hit a guy and was apologizing to him for causing him the trouble.
"Oh, I am so sorry!" she said.
"You just caused me a loss of Twenty Five bucks!" screamed the guy.
"Here" she said, gently pulling a Twenty and a five out of her purse. "I did not want to cause any kind of loss."
While this was all happening, these seven could not hear the discussion. They could see a girl and a guy discussing something, and the guy screaming at the girl.
"Is that-" started Armaan.
"Let's wait! Don't jinx the moment!" said Antara. They were all waiting for the girl to move expecting her to reach their table.
[TO BE CONTINUED...]
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Friday, December 17, 2010
07: About all the Dates
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Smiti and Antara were sitting with Armaan, listening to his GI Joe stories.
"You know, once my GI Joe punched Puntoo's" said Armaan. (Yeah, Puntoo was his childhood buddy's name)
Smiti and Antara appreciated with half open eyes.
"I tried to give his GI Joe a-" he went on.
"Hey guys!" Kanishk greeted. "Wassup?"
"Heeyyyy!" celebrated both Antara and Smiti.
"You got some story, eh? C'mon, c'mon! Tell us..." Smiti said.
"Uh, if you want me to.." said Kanishk and began. "Last night, I called up Pratigya. She was with her sisters. She told me how much she liked my new song. You know, the one I wrote about how love changes life? She really liked the lyrics. What do you think about the song?"
There was a silence for a minute. Finally Smiti said "Yeah! So you were saying that his GI Joe could just not take the blow, right? Carry on!"
Taking the hint, Kanishk turned to Antara. "You heard the song, did you?"
"Ofcourse huney, I did! I really loved the part where you used 'Love' very, uhmm- you know, the word you used uh, 'Love'-"
"The song was all about 'Love'. You didn't hear it either, right?" Kanishk said.
"Yeah!" Antara affirmed and left.
[Vineet and Rishab were sitting in the Library, hunting for entirely different objects]
Both of them found something out and together started with
"Hey! Check this book out." (This was Rishab) and
"Hey! Check that chick out." (This was Vineet)
"I cannot have said that." said Rishab, repeating pronouncing "Book" to confirm he said "Book". "You said that? No, you can't!" he added.
"I know! But I think I need to change. Look at Armaan!" said Vineet brushing his hair with his fingers.
"And how about me? Why don't you look at me?" said Rishab.
"I do 'that' too. Whenever I'm feeling low and need some confidence, I compare myself to you!" mercilessly replied Vineet.
Rishab angrily stared at Vineet with a "How dare you? You mean I am dumber than you?", and Vineet looked back with a "Duh!".
"See, in their early twenties, guys rather check the girls out. What do 'you' do? Check the 'books' out-" said Vineet and grabbed the book from Rishab's hand, looked at the second page and continued. "-that have not even been written by a girl."
"That's not true. I did check a girl out." Rishab replied, implying Smiti.
"And from what I remember, you've not received any confirmation to your girlfriend registration with Smiti as yet!" said Vineet, his eyes moving around searching for some eye-candies.
"Dude!" exclaimed Rishab. He didn't like Smiti being referred to as 'girlfriend'.
"C'mon! You have to move on. See, I did! Girl's don't need so much time. And if they take it, you take the hint.. You're just not on her mind." explained Vineet. "I proposed Sunidhi, she ran away. The other girl proposed me, I ran.. uh rejected. I moved on. Now I'm checking new girls out." Suddenly his phone rang up.
"Call from home. Listen, you just find yourself a date for this evening. Party hard, or keep reading these highly distasteful books like a loser." Vineet said and left.
Rishab gave it a thought and decided to find himself a date for the evening.
Outside, Vineet was apologizing on the phone. Psst.. The call wasn't from home. Read on.
"Sorry, sorry! I'm very sorry. I promise, from next time, I'll take a book and keep reading it. No more checking girls out anymore. Love you! But where did you see me from?" he said, paused for her reply and then continued, "Yeah, ofcourse, that doesn't matter. Such an idiot I am." and concluded with a "Muaaaah, miss you too, Barbie!"
And then the smile disappeared and he went away mumbling swear-words.
[Antara, Smiti and Sunidhi were sitting in the cafeteria]
"So, I think you took Vineet's proposal really well!" taunted Smiti.
"I-WAS-NOT-READY!" angrily replied Sunidhi.
"Yeah, my lip-color was fainting out, my eyes were sleepy, my heels were an inch shorter, my nose was an inch longer, darararaaah, tarararaah! You girls and your tantrums!" 'Grandma'ishly commented Antara throwing her hands in the air. Smiti and Sunidhi stared at her. They were confused whether to give an angry look or confused look. Antara looked at their faces and said "Fine! I just thought of taking part in your discussion. I'm sorry if you don't like my participation!"
She went back to reading the notes that she had stolen from the 'secret notes repository' near the cafeteria, as she called it. Yeah, when Sunidhi came to know that Antara called it "Secret Notes Repository", she tried to explain to her that it was rather public. But before she could tell her that, Antara warned her of getting jinxed if she said anything bad about the "secret Notes Repository".
"So what does it really take to get ready?" asked Smiti, looking at Sunidhi.
"See, if he did it in a better way I would have accepted his proposal. By the way, now that you are talking about Love, why did you break that poor guy's heart? And if you really don't like him, tell Rishab that you don't." said Sunidhi.
"Uhh, I- I- It's not about me, and you're not good!" cried Smiti. Tears were as if ready for the command, and began to drip on the first complaining sound coming out of Smiti's mouth.
"O-M-G, I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Don't cry. Please don't." said Sunidhi giving her the shake she had and grabbed a tissue paper kept on that table for her.
"That's alright" said Smiti still crying.
"No! No! I'm really sorry. Here, wipe your tears. Please don't cry."
Smiti pushed the tissue paper and the shake away.
"I said I'm sorry! C'mon. Please" said Sunidhi, when Smiti did not accept this friendly gesture.
"No, it's not thaaaaat." Smiti explained, her words hardly understandable in those cries. "I have just cried, I don't wanna puke around, and can't you see, that's Chocolate Shake made in our Cafeteria?"
"Oh! I'm sorry" gently said Sunidhi and kept the shake away, and brought the tissue paper near her face and tried to wipe her tears. Smiti bounced out of her seat and stood up a little away.
"Don't bring that near my face." Smiti warned, putting her crying on a temporary halt.
"Why?" said Sunidhi calmly.
"Because Naresh has cold, and he sneezed multiple times into it." replied Smiti.
"Yeah! He left it here to dry. Didn't it feel wet?" Antara said casually, still reading her notes.
"It did. But I thought it is just water. Ewwwwwwwwwwwww" cried Sunidhi and threw the tissue paper away. Coincidentally, the other end of the projectile was a secret admirer's drink.
"Hey Naresh!" he said.
"Yes?" Naresh replied and blushed.
"There's a tissue paper in my drink."
"Oh, I'll remove it" said Naresh. He planned to keep that tissue paper with him as something coming out of that guy's drink.
"No no! Can you just throw the drink away and give it to me?" the guy said.
After a few minutes he received the tissue. He looked at it with his eyes filled with love, kissed it and kept it in his breast-pocket.
This time, really guys, even I would say 'Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww'!
[Two hours later. Kanishk was on a call outside the classroom, while inside the class only a few students were sitting]
"Guys, don't you think Kanishk has started to spend too much of his time on phone?" said Smiti, feeling concerned (about the people on phone).
"Atleast he is doing something! It's better for the World's safety than waiting to be doomed by his unstoppably producing 'Musical' compositions" commented Antara.
"That's rude, Antara!" said Sunidhi.
"Why? You want me to start talking about your unreasonable complaints?" bluntly replied Antara.
"O-M-G!" began Sunidhi.
"Yeah! Nujifew!!" replied Antara pronouncing it as 'NOO-ji-FIU'.
"What?" Sunidhi and Smiti said all confused.
"So you don't get this, but you understand her 'O-M-G' everytime. I said 'Now Use Just Initials For Every Word'." explained Antara.
"Bravo, Kanishk! Bravo!" celebrated Kanishk as he entered the class after completing his call.
"Great! Everyone's doing that." Antara said pointing at Kanishk with her hand.
"That's a word! Bravo means-" started Sunidhi.
"Ofcourse it is. You will obviously support your like." grumbled Antara and then said to herself. "Phhhua.. Now bravo is also a word. Wonder what it means... 'Because Rebirth's Are Very Obvious?'" and then her eyes got all bright.
"Why? What happened?" said Smiti talking about Kanishk's celebration.
"Pratigya said she's coming to meet us all tomorrow." declared Kanishk.
"What?" Sunidhi said. It was just not clear whether she was happy about it or this was a tragic news to her.
"Kanishk, are you sure you wanna do this?" Smiti said.
"Hell yeah! Give me one reason I should not date this girl." challenged Kanishk.
"One-Exams are nearing. You can't afford to spend time-" began Smiti, and Kanishk began to give looks which conveyed 'Oh Come on! Not that exam stuff again.'
"I knew that won't work for you." snapped Smiti. "Two-Have you really told Zarine about your break up?"
"Uhh.. Wh-Why do I-Why should I be the one to tell her? Why can't she break up?" argued Kanishk, fumbling a couple of times. Smiti and Sunidhi kept looking at him.
"Why don't I think before I speak?" grizzled Kanishk and went away.
[In a few minutes the news had spread around]
As if "WE-HATE-SUNIDHI" wasn't enough, girls had come up with a "WE-HATE-KANISHK" group too. Guys wanted to make a "WE-LOVE-KANISHK" group but then they how the "Pervert & Co." would interpret this, and dropped the idea.
"How can he do that? Who leaves a girl and never tells her?" said a girl to another.
"That is a real 'Guy' thing. Date her, Leave her, Date next, Leave the next..." giggled a guy to another.
"He's such a jerk and an idiot. Every guy is after Zarine, and he's leaving her!" complained another girl.
"He's such a jerk and an idiot! He's leaving Zarine." celebrated another guy.
"For God's sake, leave me alone. I never dated her. I have only met her online. We have never seen each other!" explained Kanishk.
"And soooooooooo, you can just stop calling her and think that the matter is solved!" snapped Anish.
"Then what do I do?" said Kanishk. No one said anything. "Question mark!" continued Kanishk.
Everyone remained quiet. Nobody had an answer. Antara broke the silence.
"Exclaimation mark, Ampersand, Pound sign, Asterik, Question mark!"
They understood what she meant and started to find a solution.
Rishab got a call.
"Shhhhhhhhhhh. Not everyone's blank as you, Rishab! People are thinking." shouted Smiti.
"I am sorry!" apologized Rishab and went out to take the call.
After five minutes, he came back celebrating. "Woho! Yehe!"
"Everyone's like that! Omg, Bravo, Woho. You guys are-" complained Antara.
"What happened? The reason has to be good enough to justify disturbing the thinking session.. in which 'Armaan' is participating too!" said Sunidhi. Armaan was still busy thinking.
Rishab looked with a "Really! He is." in amazement, but then he returned to his celebration.
"I have a date this evening." he declared. Everyone remained quiet waiting for the name. ".. with the blonde Librarian."
Everyone gave the 'It was expected out of you' look.
"Cool! Where? In the library?" taunted Smiti. Rishab looked at everyone, and then cried.
"What can I do if she feels comfortable only in the presence of books?"
Rishab went away.
"I got it!" said Armaan. Everyone looked at him expecting some words of wisdom. Duh!
"Some plan?" said Vineet.
"Yes! A Plan. The ants had already planned that. I saw them hitting each other with the tentacles under my sweet box. I hate ants! GRRR.."
"O-M.. I mean Oh My God!" said Sunidhi.
Finally Kanishk came up with something. "I know what I have to do."
"What?" said Smiti. She knew it was not good. She could read Kanishk's expressions.
"Don't worry. You just take care of Pratigya till I return tomorrow." Kanishk said with an evil smile.
"Let's go!" Kanishk said and they all started to leave for the day. Smiti was still wondering where Kanishk was going, but she had already had enough for the day.
"Now you do it all the time" mumbled Antara. People didn't care. They didn't even stare at her and left.
[The day concluded]
Smiti and Antara were sitting with Armaan, listening to his GI Joe stories.
"You know, once my GI Joe punched Puntoo's" said Armaan. (Yeah, Puntoo was his childhood buddy's name)
Smiti and Antara appreciated with half open eyes.
"I tried to give his GI Joe a-" he went on.
"Hey guys!" Kanishk greeted. "Wassup?"
"Heeyyyy!" celebrated both Antara and Smiti.
"You got some story, eh? C'mon, c'mon! Tell us..." Smiti said.
"Uh, if you want me to.." said Kanishk and began. "Last night, I called up Pratigya. She was with her sisters. She told me how much she liked my new song. You know, the one I wrote about how love changes life? She really liked the lyrics. What do you think about the song?"
There was a silence for a minute. Finally Smiti said "Yeah! So you were saying that his GI Joe could just not take the blow, right? Carry on!"
Taking the hint, Kanishk turned to Antara. "You heard the song, did you?"
"Ofcourse huney, I did! I really loved the part where you used 'Love' very, uhmm- you know, the word you used uh, 'Love'-"
"The song was all about 'Love'. You didn't hear it either, right?" Kanishk said.
"Yeah!" Antara affirmed and left.
[Vineet and Rishab were sitting in the Library, hunting for entirely different objects]
Both of them found something out and together started with
"Hey! Check this book out." (This was Rishab) and
"Hey! Check that chick out." (This was Vineet)
"I cannot have said that." said Rishab, repeating pronouncing "Book" to confirm he said "Book". "You said that? No, you can't!" he added.
"I know! But I think I need to change. Look at Armaan!" said Vineet brushing his hair with his fingers.
"And how about me? Why don't you look at me?" said Rishab.
"I do 'that' too. Whenever I'm feeling low and need some confidence, I compare myself to you!" mercilessly replied Vineet.
Rishab angrily stared at Vineet with a "How dare you? You mean I am dumber than you?", and Vineet looked back with a "Duh!".
"See, in their early twenties, guys rather check the girls out. What do 'you' do? Check the 'books' out-" said Vineet and grabbed the book from Rishab's hand, looked at the second page and continued. "-that have not even been written by a girl."
"That's not true. I did check a girl out." Rishab replied, implying Smiti.
"And from what I remember, you've not received any confirmation to your girlfriend registration with Smiti as yet!" said Vineet, his eyes moving around searching for some eye-candies.
"Dude!" exclaimed Rishab. He didn't like Smiti being referred to as 'girlfriend'.
"C'mon! You have to move on. See, I did! Girl's don't need so much time. And if they take it, you take the hint.. You're just not on her mind." explained Vineet. "I proposed Sunidhi, she ran away. The other girl proposed me, I ran.. uh rejected. I moved on. Now I'm checking new girls out." Suddenly his phone rang up.
"Call from home. Listen, you just find yourself a date for this evening. Party hard, or keep reading these highly distasteful books like a loser." Vineet said and left.
Rishab gave it a thought and decided to find himself a date for the evening.
Outside, Vineet was apologizing on the phone. Psst.. The call wasn't from home. Read on.
"Sorry, sorry! I'm very sorry. I promise, from next time, I'll take a book and keep reading it. No more checking girls out anymore. Love you! But where did you see me from?" he said, paused for her reply and then continued, "Yeah, ofcourse, that doesn't matter. Such an idiot I am." and concluded with a "Muaaaah, miss you too, Barbie!"
And then the smile disappeared and he went away mumbling swear-words.
[Antara, Smiti and Sunidhi were sitting in the cafeteria]
"So, I think you took Vineet's proposal really well!" taunted Smiti.
"I-WAS-NOT-READY!" angrily replied Sunidhi.
"Yeah, my lip-color was fainting out, my eyes were sleepy, my heels were an inch shorter, my nose was an inch longer, darararaaah, tarararaah! You girls and your tantrums!" 'Grandma'ishly commented Antara throwing her hands in the air. Smiti and Sunidhi stared at her. They were confused whether to give an angry look or confused look. Antara looked at their faces and said "Fine! I just thought of taking part in your discussion. I'm sorry if you don't like my participation!"
She went back to reading the notes that she had stolen from the 'secret notes repository' near the cafeteria, as she called it. Yeah, when Sunidhi came to know that Antara called it "Secret Notes Repository", she tried to explain to her that it was rather public. But before she could tell her that, Antara warned her of getting jinxed if she said anything bad about the "secret Notes Repository".
"So what does it really take to get ready?" asked Smiti, looking at Sunidhi.
"See, if he did it in a better way I would have accepted his proposal. By the way, now that you are talking about Love, why did you break that poor guy's heart? And if you really don't like him, tell Rishab that you don't." said Sunidhi.
"Uhh, I- I- It's not about me, and you're not good!" cried Smiti. Tears were as if ready for the command, and began to drip on the first complaining sound coming out of Smiti's mouth.
"O-M-G, I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Don't cry. Please don't." said Sunidhi giving her the shake she had and grabbed a tissue paper kept on that table for her.
"That's alright" said Smiti still crying.
"No! No! I'm really sorry. Here, wipe your tears. Please don't cry."
Smiti pushed the tissue paper and the shake away.
"I said I'm sorry! C'mon. Please" said Sunidhi, when Smiti did not accept this friendly gesture.
"No, it's not thaaaaat." Smiti explained, her words hardly understandable in those cries. "I have just cried, I don't wanna puke around, and can't you see, that's Chocolate Shake made in our Cafeteria?"
"Oh! I'm sorry" gently said Sunidhi and kept the shake away, and brought the tissue paper near her face and tried to wipe her tears. Smiti bounced out of her seat and stood up a little away.
"Don't bring that near my face." Smiti warned, putting her crying on a temporary halt.
"Why?" said Sunidhi calmly.
"Because Naresh has cold, and he sneezed multiple times into it." replied Smiti.
"Yeah! He left it here to dry. Didn't it feel wet?" Antara said casually, still reading her notes.
"It did. But I thought it is just water. Ewwwwwwwwwwwww" cried Sunidhi and threw the tissue paper away. Coincidentally, the other end of the projectile was a secret admirer's drink.
"Hey Naresh!" he said.
"Yes?" Naresh replied and blushed.
"There's a tissue paper in my drink."
"Oh, I'll remove it" said Naresh. He planned to keep that tissue paper with him as something coming out of that guy's drink.
"No no! Can you just throw the drink away and give it to me?" the guy said.
After a few minutes he received the tissue. He looked at it with his eyes filled with love, kissed it and kept it in his breast-pocket.
This time, really guys, even I would say 'Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww'!
[Two hours later. Kanishk was on a call outside the classroom, while inside the class only a few students were sitting]
"Guys, don't you think Kanishk has started to spend too much of his time on phone?" said Smiti, feeling concerned (about the people on phone).
"Atleast he is doing something! It's better for the World's safety than waiting to be doomed by his unstoppably producing 'Musical' compositions" commented Antara.
"That's rude, Antara!" said Sunidhi.
"Why? You want me to start talking about your unreasonable complaints?" bluntly replied Antara.
"O-M-G!" began Sunidhi.
"Yeah! Nujifew!!" replied Antara pronouncing it as 'NOO-ji-FIU'.
"What?" Sunidhi and Smiti said all confused.
"So you don't get this, but you understand her 'O-M-G' everytime. I said 'Now Use Just Initials For Every Word'." explained Antara.
"Bravo, Kanishk! Bravo!" celebrated Kanishk as he entered the class after completing his call.
"Great! Everyone's doing that." Antara said pointing at Kanishk with her hand.
"That's a word! Bravo means-" started Sunidhi.
"Ofcourse it is. You will obviously support your like." grumbled Antara and then said to herself. "Phhhua.. Now bravo is also a word. Wonder what it means... 'Because Rebirth's Are Very Obvious?'" and then her eyes got all bright.
"Why? What happened?" said Smiti talking about Kanishk's celebration.
"Pratigya said she's coming to meet us all tomorrow." declared Kanishk.
"What?" Sunidhi said. It was just not clear whether she was happy about it or this was a tragic news to her.
"Kanishk, are you sure you wanna do this?" Smiti said.
"Hell yeah! Give me one reason I should not date this girl." challenged Kanishk.
"One-Exams are nearing. You can't afford to spend time-" began Smiti, and Kanishk began to give looks which conveyed 'Oh Come on! Not that exam stuff again.'
"I knew that won't work for you." snapped Smiti. "Two-Have you really told Zarine about your break up?"
"Uhh.. Wh-Why do I-Why should I be the one to tell her? Why can't she break up?" argued Kanishk, fumbling a couple of times. Smiti and Sunidhi kept looking at him.
"Why don't I think before I speak?" grizzled Kanishk and went away.
[In a few minutes the news had spread around]
As if "WE-HATE-SUNIDHI" wasn't enough, girls had come up with a "WE-HATE-KANISHK" group too. Guys wanted to make a "WE-LOVE-KANISHK" group but then they how the "Pervert & Co." would interpret this, and dropped the idea.
"How can he do that? Who leaves a girl and never tells her?" said a girl to another.
"That is a real 'Guy' thing. Date her, Leave her, Date next, Leave the next..." giggled a guy to another.
"He's such a jerk and an idiot. Every guy is after Zarine, and he's leaving her!" complained another girl.
"He's such a jerk and an idiot! He's leaving Zarine." celebrated another guy.
"For God's sake, leave me alone. I never dated her. I have only met her online. We have never seen each other!" explained Kanishk.
"And soooooooooo, you can just stop calling her and think that the matter is solved!" snapped Anish.
"Then what do I do?" said Kanishk. No one said anything. "Question mark!" continued Kanishk.
Everyone remained quiet. Nobody had an answer. Antara broke the silence.
"Exclaimation mark, Ampersand, Pound sign, Asterik, Question mark!"
They understood what she meant and started to find a solution.
Rishab got a call.
"Shhhhhhhhhhh. Not everyone's blank as you, Rishab! People are thinking." shouted Smiti.
"I am sorry!" apologized Rishab and went out to take the call.
After five minutes, he came back celebrating. "Woho! Yehe!"
"Everyone's like that! Omg, Bravo, Woho. You guys are-" complained Antara.
"What happened? The reason has to be good enough to justify disturbing the thinking session.. in which 'Armaan' is participating too!" said Sunidhi. Armaan was still busy thinking.
Rishab looked with a "Really! He is." in amazement, but then he returned to his celebration.
"I have a date this evening." he declared. Everyone remained quiet waiting for the name. ".. with the blonde Librarian."
Everyone gave the 'It was expected out of you' look.
"Cool! Where? In the library?" taunted Smiti. Rishab looked at everyone, and then cried.
"What can I do if she feels comfortable only in the presence of books?"
Rishab went away.
"I got it!" said Armaan. Everyone looked at him expecting some words of wisdom. Duh!
"Some plan?" said Vineet.
"Yes! A Plan. The ants had already planned that. I saw them hitting each other with the tentacles under my sweet box. I hate ants! GRRR.."
"O-M.. I mean Oh My God!" said Sunidhi.
Finally Kanishk came up with something. "I know what I have to do."
"What?" said Smiti. She knew it was not good. She could read Kanishk's expressions.
"Don't worry. You just take care of Pratigya till I return tomorrow." Kanishk said with an evil smile.
"Let's go!" Kanishk said and they all started to leave for the day. Smiti was still wondering where Kanishk was going, but she had already had enough for the day.
"Now you do it all the time" mumbled Antara. People didn't care. They didn't even stare at her and left.
[The day concluded]
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