DIARY OF A SENIOR

                            CHAPTER: 2

3^rd January

Classes reopened after the vacation. I and Maddy being from Ranchi boarded the same train, when we entered the room Omi, Papun and Shintu were already there.

“Here comes both Daddy Cool and Loverboy of our room” said Shintu.

“So tell us both of you who got an upper hand on that golden goose??”

“I was completely out of touch, you know trip to Goa and all, never really got time to talk to her” replied Maddy.

“That’s lame but look at the smile on Jeet’s face, something’s cooking there” commented Omi.

“ Not really, you know casual talk and sometimes video chats that’s all, and Maddy you may not got time for her but she was really concerned for her daddy, the seminude pic of that foreign chick from that beach on Goa that you uploaded on facebook  really made her go nuts, I am sure you don’t wanna hear all those out of line comments” I replied.

“You filthy bastard, you plotted against me, you gonna pay for that” said Maddy.

“That not plotting, what you thing I made it up, you should have thought about it before uploading that pic, but all you wanna be is a hotshot  but I guess all you have  become is a filthy jerk to her”

“Please guys cut it short, it’s the first day of 4^th semester, we have met after such a long vacation and all you guys have left to talk about is Sana” interfered Papun.

But I guess we were gonna hear that name more frequently in the coming days. My phone beeped and the name which flashed..wanna guess…yup it was Sana.

“Hi sir, welcome back, vacation was too long, getting bored at home, can we meet tomorrow need some help on which books to be followed”.

“ya sure see you tomorrow in canteen at five” I messaged her back.

Next day at canteen

“Tell me sir how was the vacation” enquired she.

“Nothing special only B.S.N.L training in advance telecomm. and a project on 3G, what’s about you?”

“Same old same old, so tell me you find any pretty face there, you remember my 20 sec. courage rule right.”

“None that I fall for and that 20 sec rule I will keep that in mind.”

“Sir I also need to ask you a favor, you know I am in NSS and we are organizing a blood donation camp and I want you to be a part of it”

Well that girl literary wants to suck my blood.

“Really, you remember you got a techfather too whom you can ask for all the favors in the world and trust me he is not gonna refuse”.

“You want me to ask Mr. Skinny for blood, well we can’t afford to replenish  2units from the blood bank in return of one that he’s gonna donate.”

We both laughed on that.

“And anyways after that cheap trick of uploading that pic I am really not in a mood of talking to him.”

“What I am gonna get in return of my loss”

“First of all helping someone is not a loss, Don’t you sound like him, anyways what you want”.

“Well how should I put it right, may I have the honor to ask the most beautiful girl to spend an evening with me?”

“Finally you are flirting with me.”

“Not at all I am just being extra friendly with someone who is extra beautiful, and things in life appears the way you wanna see them. You can see that evening out as a date or just two friends hanging out together watching movie and grabbing some dinner.”

“You play with words so beautifully that you always find a way to manipulate me. Thank god I am not your girlfriend otherwise who knows what horrible things you had made me to do”

“So I take it as a yes.”

“Ya whatever, I am so addicted to your company that I wouldn’t have missed that even if you had refused to donate blood.”

“Well that’s charity and fun altogether, and seriously I haven’t seen a better combination of both.”

                            “It’s Sunday,where are you going so early, you are supposed to be in your bed” said Omi.

“Well today is that blood donation camp and Sana have requested my help” I replied.

“She didn’t tell me about it” Maddy sprang out of his bed .

“Ya she is not talking to you for now, until you are not gonna remove that pic from your profile don’t expect any word from that side, well you know what do me favor and keep that for a little longer so I can get ample time to make her fall for me by criticizing you.”

“Hey I thought you are scared of syringes and you are going to donate blood” said Papun.

“Well if it can take me closer to her than that’s the least price I can pay, anyway you people enjoy your sleep I got to go, and Maddy off the record she promised me to be on my bedside.”

Well the very sight of syringe do scared the hell out of me  but I had to hold on to that fear, I didn’t want her to tell me be a man. I never quite understood what is there to do with syringes and manhood. Well she was by my side all the time, I guess she sensed my fear so she hold my hand for the whole time. After it they put on a red cap on me and clicked a pic.

“Let’s go, I need to feed you some chocolates and coffee” said she.

“Well you know that’s not gonna make up for my loss”

“Ya I remember my promise, tell me when you wanna go out”

“Let’s make it tomorrow, I will pick you up at 4o’clock.”

“That sounds perfect, see you tomorrow.”

                               The real surprise of that blood donation came the next day. It was Papun with a newspaper in his hand came to me

“That girl’s made you famous, have you seen today’s newspaper”

In the middle page it was my pic they clicked after I donated. Sana had it published. I looked like a complete idiot with that red cap on me. For the next 2min. we all laughed at that pic. I need to thank her, after all it’s because of her my pic got printed in a newspaper I thought. The next thing I did was call my parents and brag about my pic on that newspaper.

                   “Going on a date, so someone among us is going places” said Omi. I replied with a smile on my face

“Don’t tell Maddy but it’s not a date, we are just dealing in charity, it’s her charity to go out with me in response of my charity of donating blood.” I replied. Then entered Maddy in the room

“You going somewhere” he asked me.

“He is going out on a date with your techdaughter, give him your blessings father-in-law.” said Shintu.

“A date huh, have you forgotten how things went  pretty nasty last time when you were acquainted to a girl.”

Fuck you Maddy, that was necessary to bring Shika’s name in middle of it, a name which I want to completely erase from my memory but I have to live with it.

It was around 1^st semester, there was this hottie in our class. Whenever she used to enter the classroom everyone used to hoot over her and whenever professors called her roll number for attendance the whole class used to roar present sir in unison.

It was one of such day, some people said present sir over her roll number abs somehow I didn’t on that particular day. His boyfriend was sitting in front of me. He messaged her that Jeet have given that proxy. That pissed off girl with all her murderous rage came to me and asked

“Have you given that proxy against my name.”

I decline but she wasn’t in a mood to hear anything.

“Then tell me the name of those who did it or you gonna regret this big time.”

Well frankly I do regret it till now but how could I take the name of my friends? She went to the registrar and complained against me.

After half an hour of lectures over moral issues and threatening me for suspension and black dot he did something I least expected.

As they says life screws you whenever you least expect it to do so. That registrar screwed me completely.

He called my dad and told him

“Your son gives proxy attendance of girls.”

My dad was really stun, in all those academic years of mine he never had heard a single complain against me let alone a complain about a girl.

After lots of persuasion he allowed me to attend classes.

When I entered the classroom everyone looked at me like I was some renouned culprit and has come out of prison just completing my sentence.

“Don’t worry everything gonna be fine”, said my roommates but all their assurance was going in vain.

“How am I gonna face my dad, what will I tell him, will he even talk to me” all these uncertainties were killing me from inside. First time in

college I felt like crying, the more I was scared I more I wanted to screw that girl.

“I am so gonna take that damn bitch down” I acclaimed.

It really took time to made dad understand that it was just misunderstanding. Thank god dad didn’t told mom about it. Even today when I return home he asks me about it and whether any disciplinary action was taken against me.

That girl didn’t stop there, she took the game one step forward, she made her boyfriend who was the head of the literary society throw Omi out of it only because of me with an absurd reason that the article was way out of line, abstract and vulgar.

But we avenge it the better way.

“We can’t sit like this, we have to do something about her” said Omi.

“Ya but what can we do, nobody even believed that it wasn’t Jeet, we are already in a lot of trouble and revenge doesn’t seems a good idea.” Papun looked in a dilemma.

“I have a plan, but the risk factor involved is too high, if anyone wants to back out he is free to leave.”

But nobody seemed to be in a mood to back out. Shintu go on to narrate the plan.

“You know 15 days are left for the end semester exam and after 5 days i.e Monday starts the lab practical exams and assignment submission. The back side of the girls hostel is under construction, the guards on the front gate remain active for the whole night but one in the back side goes down by midnight. We will break in the girls hostel  on Sunday after midnight, reach to Shikha’s room and burgle those lab practical files and assignment files and dispose them in back of the dispensary where they dispose all those medical cartoons.”

We were stunned for a moment, didn’t knew what to say, but the next second when we thought of the humiliation we were facing because of her, the idea seemed perfect.

“That’s a brilliant idea but how we gonna enter her room, it will be locked from inside” asked Papun.

The time was very less and we had to reach a solution very soon, we can’t to waste this opportunity.

Day 3:

Only 2 days were remaining and we haven’t yet came to a conclusion.

“What happened Prithvi you looked tensed after you received that phone” asked Omi.

“Nothing, it was Chandani, she is having some trouble from Sikha her roommate and wanna change her room.”

That’s it, our solution was right there in form of Chandani. All we need to do is convience them join the plan.

On hearing our Prithvi dazed us for quite sometime and after a pause full of surprise and terror he finally said

“Have you people gone nuts, do you even know what could happen to you if it goes public.”

But after hours of our persistent effort he said

“Fine, I will talk to Chandani about it but I can’t guarantee anything.”  

Now all we can do is wait for Chandani’s decision. All our planning now depends upon her answer.

Day 4:

We were gathered in the room and eagerly waiting for Prithvi’s arrival. The moment he entered we all literary jumped over him with the same question

“What did she said.”

“Well don’t know what to say, you guys are in luck or badluck. Sikha have pissed her off enough to easily make her join our venture.”

Ah a sigh of relief. Prithvi continue to add

“She said Sikha will fall asleep by 1 o’clock, you should be there around 2 to 2:30 a.m. She have asked you to be near the toilet on the second floor, she will accompany you from there there to the room. You will get 10 minutes to do the job and get your ass out of that palce. In between if you get caught, you can’t take her name. Are we clear on that?”

“Yes”, we all replied.

Doomsday:

All planning and plotting was done. Our anxiety was on a all time high.

We were waiting for the right time to come. Around 1:30 we came out of our hostel and slowly proceeded towards the girls hostel.

“You guys are pretty sure that you really wanna do that, I mean we get expelled for that” Papun looked really tensed while asking this question.

Papun, the biggest geek. The only one in our group who don’t have crappy grade. Didn’t wanna mess with the luscious career waiting to kick start after the college I presume. But you friendship is a thing which make you do stupid things and you don’t even regret them.

“ After having come so far you can’t back off now” said Shintu.

By now we have reached the girls hostel, the guard was in long asleep. We were now waiting for the signal from Chandani. At that instant the phone blinked, it was from Chandani

“Everything clear, make it quick.”

We entered in the girls hostel from the backside and reached the toilet on second floor, Chandani was witing for us there.

“Slowly follow me” said she.

We did as commanded. After passing one lobby we reached the room in the second one.

“All her stuffs are on that table, grab them and get the hell out of here”

We opened our bagpack and put all those practical files and assignment files. Slowly we slipped out of that goddamn room and heard Chandani locking from inside. We were on our own now. We slowly walked out of first lobby and reached near the toilet. Everything seemed too easy, getting in hostel, taking those files, something’s missing. Yup things in life are not so smooth so was with this burglary. The warden seems to be up for a late night pee.

“Hey you, stop right there”, she shouted the instant she saw us.

We were freezed for a sec and then ran for our life. We came out of that under construction section, the guard was still sleeping. We ran towards our hostel but by that time the warden was out also and her screaming’s woke up the guard. Though he couldn’t catch us but saw in which hostel we were getting in. In the mean time we weren’t able to dispose those files.

Within 5 minutes  our hostel was surrounded by security guard and few faculties from the nearby quarters started coming in.

An overnight security check was on its way.

We were scared like hell as we weren’t been able to dispose those files.

“Now what will happen, I told you this was a bad idea” said Papun. He was trembling while saying those words.

“Nothing’s gonna happen, you stay quiet” we were also too damn scared but we tried to keep him under calm as we don’t want him to spill everything out.

After few minutes someone knocked the door. Shintu opened it.

It was our hostel warden, h.o.d of electrical department and a security guard.

“What happened sir, any problem” asked Omi.

“Girls hostel have been burgled and those boys were from this hostel.”

“From this hostel, how’s that possible, something must be wrong and what you gonna find in this room.” I said trying to avoid the search.

“Don’t you try to be oversmart with me, all those buttery words gonna make the suspicion more on this room, guards go on and search thoroughly”

They started the search, each and every bag was thoroughly searched and finally came the turn of that bagpack containing those files.

“Sir that’s our college bag, you only gonna find stationary in it” I again interfered.

“If it contains only stationary than you have nothing to worry about but if have something else we both will have to talk” I get that abrupt answer in return.

The more they started to unchain the bag the more our pulses rose.

“It’s empty sir”, the guard said.

Wo…what its empty, how could that be possible.

After they left the room

“Where did those files vanished” asked Papun.

“Where you want them to be..any gueses…well I put them in the flush”, said Maddy.

We all jumped over him and hugged him

“Maddy you are a savior buddy.”

Now all we were waiting for is the results to be announced and before seeing ours we scrolled the laptop screen and reached her roll number.

Shintu announced “That bitch got 4 backlogs in 5 subjects.”

We are not proud of what we did, but we don’t regret it either.

We nailed the whole expedition and in the end the risk was worth it to see her looser face sank down to earth.

Coming out of thoughts I replied to Maddy

“ You don’t see the big picture, you only remember what Sikha did to us don’t you recall what we did to her, anyway I can’t be late for my date so got to go, bye.”

After watching the movie we were on our way toward a restaurant. We watched Gangs Of Wassepur. It was full of vulgar dialogs. Till today I regret the choice of movie, escaping the amazing spiderman we choose GOW, not one of my best decision. We had to be mum for the whole movie with a series of cheap comments flowing in air. And one of them pointed her too which really flushed the mood in gutter. We were felling relieved after coming out of the hall and discussing the movie was not a good idea.

After acquiring a table I resumed the conversation

“Look I need to apologies for having you watched such a horrible movie.”

“Chill, that wasn’t your fault, how could you know what’s in there before watching the movie, it’s just those inglorious bastards who lack the common attribute to be called as civilized.”

“But it’s not only those filthy people, something else is also there, u look terrible tonight”

“Nothings there”

“Common you can tell me stuffs, if you call me your friend then you gonna behave like one, it’s cool with me, you can tell anything without hesitation.”

After a long pause she started talking

“You know I got a big sister Priyanka di, she works in an IT company in Delhi. She fall in love with one of her co employs, they wanted to marry but when dad came to know about it he asked her to return home so that they can arrange for their marriage but when she came home, she was home arrested. Mukund my jiju when came to know about it rushed to our house but my dad’s hired goons didn’t even let him enter the house, he was thrown out of the house.”

The waiter came with our order and interrupted the story. After he left 

“ So Priyanka di decided to elope from the house. It was a wedding and my parents were gone there. Di’s room was locked from outside and they ordered me not to open it till they come. But the way she was crying I couldn’t resist myself opening the door and help her to elope. When they returned and couldn’t find di, I took the beating and finally dad asserted that he will not see their faces ever again.”

She looked completely heartbroken, her voice started chocking and seemed like was on the verge of crying. After a little pause she continued

“ In this vacation, jiju and di came to visit us. You know di was 6 month pregnant and dad didn’t even see their faces. From inside he ordered mom to shut the door on their faces. Now you tell me what was their mistake, what’s the mistake of that baby who hasn’t even arrived. All she wanted was to have mom and dad to be with her during the delivery.”

A tear rolled down her cheek.

“Today di called, it’s the time, ah how badly I wanna be there but when I told dad about it he said if I went there he will not ever talk to me. I can’t help myself from abstaining my mind from those thoughts.”

“You know it’s not always someone’s fault, it wasn’t your di and jiju’s fault when they fell in love with each other. And judging your dad as culprit is also not true. Think like this, he loved her so much and wanted her life to be perfect but when she choosed someone she took that privilege from him. Every father wants to be the hero in his daughter’s life but when someone else took that place it’s really hard for a father to adjust. Under social pressure he did made an mistake but you people needs to make him realize that mistake instead of accusing him.”

“Yup, you are right and I also ruined the evening.”

“No, you just made it for me, you believed in me and told me your story, I couldn’t have asked for anything more.”

“But I do owe you an evening out, may be some other day.”

A waiting of lifetime for that evening to come.

Diary of a Senior

                        CHAPTER : 1

“Get up you lazy ass”, screamed Maddy ,” Don’t you wanna see your techchild ”.

 A sudden chilled wave ran down my spine. I sprang out of my bed “HOLY SHIT classes of juniors are starting from today right”.

My roommate’s eyes were ablaze and a grin was on their faces. I could see through their mind they were really in a mood to cash this day. Gosh it was like yesterday when we walked in this college. We were really scared while entering the hostel weren’t we like we were walking in the underworld and those seniors looked like spirits placed there to take the vengeance for our past sins and contrite with the idea of vacating home. The fear wasn’t absurd at all. All those tiring introduction session flashes in front of my eyes. Well this reminds me of my first introduction. This was in a nearby stationary shop and the one who took it was a gorgeous madam. Well wasn’t pretty sure whether it was horror or sheer fun. Papun gonna agree with me on this after all he is the one with maximum intro in our group. But now gone are those days of introduction. Gone are those days of walking towards playground with shaky legs, it rings a bell isn’t it Papun, when seniors ordered us to draw the marking of entire football field with chalk dust and our fault was only that we dared to walk in the field without asking them. Gone are those days when we lusted to get in the canteen but couldn’t as we were instructed to do so well it rises memory too, when we walked inside it and seniors ordered us to gather in the field later that night for introduction. Gone are those days when seniors used to bump in middle of the mess queue.

 “Wake up Mr. Daydreamer “, cried Shintu ,” You wanna be late on the very first day of being senior”. And I was like HELL NO.

                        When I returned the room was a battlefield and roomies were like belligerent. And the topic who is going to get a techdaughter. For a lay man it might not seemed as a topic of interest but for us it was not of less importance than whether Kashmir is going to be in India or should we surrender it to Pakistan.

 “Dude believe me there’s no way I am not getting a techdaughter. I can bet all my life’s earning on that and this is not a blind guess, half of it is mathematical probability and rest telepathy with god who just assured me that by all means I have been facilated with a techdaughter.” This was none other than our very own Omi for you, after all it took a lot of mind boggling effort to earn him a tag of Dealer. Later we came to know he got a techson. What you think Shintu

“ I don’t give a damn whatever it is till it is writing my assignments”   and you Papun

” Same here buddy, I got a lot of things to worry about rather than a techchild”.

Now was Maddy’s turn and he was like

 “God please please  please give me a hot techdaughter.”

Everyone busted in chuckles. Now the arrow pointed in my direction and I was like I have never devoted my thoughts in that direction in past one year. I went deep in my thoughts. I again became nostalgic. From my hypothetical slam book when I first entered this room. Papun was already there, a couple of days later came Maddy accompanied by his mom who told us how shy Maddy is we should take him with us to the mess hall and classrooms, yup we did laughed at this behind their back followed by Omi who started studying the very instant he lodged the room as trying to make up for the loss of coming late and at last came Shintu, I remember when I entered the room after classes were over Shintu was already in that room writing some stuffs, I told Papun

 “ So another geek huh”

 on which Omi replied

 “ no, he is writing assignments for seniors”.

 Now our wolf pack was complete. One year passed and what a hell of a year it was. Now it’s our juniors turn to complete the cycle.

“I also wouldn’t mind a techdaughter either” I replied coming out of thoughts.

 “It’s time buddy to kick some ass, are you guys ready” said Omi and we were like ”yes” he again asked ” I can’t hear you, ARE YOU READY”,”YEESSSS” we all shouted in unison.    

                                

                                           Later that day the hot topic was who is the biggest eyecandy.

 “ Its SANA” asserted Mini. Sana,who knew it’s the name which gonna change my life forever. Then came the news of the evening. It was Mantu who announced Jeet,Omi and Shintu you thee got techsons  and their names are..wait a sec who wanna know their names…Papun you got a techdaughter named Kushi and Maddy your techdaughter is SANA. That sound  made an effect like when a tornado meets a volcano. For a moment or two we stood numb and then started jumping like popcorns. But it was Maddy to be looked at that day, he was like he just won a jackpot.” Tomorrow’s treat is on me” declared Maddy.

                            The next day was special in its own context. Its Prithvi who showed why it’s important to have a guy with girlfriend in your group informed us Sana wants to meet Maddy as she wanted some books and it was like a sound we were so longing to hear. In the evening at ice-cream parlor Maddy’s treat was on and rests of us were persuading him to take us with him to meet Sana. After a lot of persuasion and adulation he agreed to take me and Omi with him.

“Jeet you are not going to dominate me in front of her, do you”, asked Maddy on our way of returning to hostel.

 “You kidding me I am just gonna sit there and watch her. It’s gonna be all Maddy show”, said me with thought in mind that they only gonna hear me  the next day. I guess selecting me was only destiny and nothing else.

                                                        Finally the day arrived that we were waiting for so long.

” Jeet you realized you are not going to any party,you have been doing your hair for 15 minutes now”, said Omi.

” Ya whatever and look at yourself, that’s the third t-shirt you are trying” I replied. Then came the man of honor, Maddy dressed in a chrisp white shirt with hard crease.

 “Some girl so gonna get impressed today” commented Shintu. After that we started our expedition which we had named MISSION CANTEEN FANTACY. But halfway down it started raining. We searched our bags and found only one umbrella and if it wasn’t enough few meters ahead of us was a senior who later introduced himself as the topper of electrical department whom we had to honor by donation our umbrella. But all the rain in the world was not enough to stop us let alone the rain in our college but it did put some setback to our preparation but I guess it made all three of us even as, when we reached the canteen we were completely flooded with water. But it was nothing compared to the heart aching message that flashed on Maddy’s mobile screen which read as

” Sorry sir, its raining…I am in hostel…I couldn’t come”.

That’s what set our mood off. Rage was the emotion that paused on our face for the next 5 minutes. Disappointed were we tend to leave the canteen. Clearly not to mrntion  MISSION CANTEEN FANTACY was failed….wait a sec…..or NOT. Sweta entered the canteen and behind her was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen with bare eyes. Dressed in ravishing pink salwar kameez. I was dumbstruck. She started walking toward our table and I was glued to my chair.

” Good evening sir” was her first words. I was supposed to reply but my Adam’s apple failed me, I was sitting there mesmerized by her charm, toungtight . I was there to give her a hard time but it was upside down. Had Maddy not tapped by back god knows for how long I would have been paralyzed like that.  

“ Hi, please have a seat and introduce yourself”

breaking the ice that was my conversation starter. How I remember each word so crystal clear like it happened yesterday. How she told us that she is Sana from Jamshedpur, She attended Rajendra Vidyalaye, she was a dropper and had spent a year in Kota. Her hobbies were reading novel and at that time she was reading The da Vinci code. (I wish if I could remember my syllabus like this I could have gone places). She started unwrapping her layers but my eyes were gazing her lips which had to be the most astonishing feature of the whole package. Then my conscience pulled me back with words ‘ Dude you got to behave as a senior not loafer’. My eyes then went towards Omi and Maddy. It’s been more than a year and I haven’t seen Omi shut his mouth for more than 15 minutes but look at them now, with utter silence they were just nodding like she was the professor here lecturing on astrophysics and they were like those front row kids who just wanted to imprint on their mind every words came out of those pink lips. Then I ran my eyes towards other tables and I couldn’t stopped myself from smiling as one can clearly see all eyes were fixed on our table. It’s funny, in college one day you are no one and the next day you become the hottest trending topic of gossip only because you were sitting in the canteen with a beautiful girl. But it was my day, my moment, I am gonna live every bit of it and all these people can do is watch me in the company of the heartthrob of college. The next table was occupied by Papun and Aman  taking introduction of Kushi, that’s Papun’s techdaughter and I could see through their mind, they were dying to come to our table. Papun was like why can’t I have that techdaughter and Aman was like why on earth I agreed to accompany Papun instead of Maddy. It was like a desert after a heavy lunch to see them frustrated with their position in canteen. Then came Avi and muttered in my ear’s that he and Sana were in the same school, he was a fresher and Sana dropper. I looked in to Sana’s eye’s which were in complete refusal with the idea of talking to Avi. I wanted to tell Avi ‘ why don’t you take your ass and go to some other place cause I have just started to enjoy the evening’ but I could only spoke

 “ ya, that’s great”

and turned my face toward Sana, with my expressions like ‘ Buddy if you were planning to sit here and bore us with your old school’s stupid stories, that so not gonna happen today. And I swear to god  he looked like fucking lunatic, standing by our table side with no one aware of his existence. By all means he had to leave. Thank god for that and I guess she said the same words as I catched a glimpse of the long breathe she exhaled as Avi left. Had it been a boy sitting in place of Sana and showed a sight of relief if someone of his previous life leave our mind would have reasoned there must be something wrong, there must be some dark side he wants to hide from us but in case of girl I guess our mind lost that reasoning capacity, it’s goes to excited state only by the idea of spending time with a girl, who cares what was there in the back, all we care what’s gonna come next. Now it was just four of us left with Omi and Maddy still not able to speak a word (thank got my immunity system is better, I got a quick recovery), I guess I can ignore them too. It left us with me and her. I didn’t want that evening to ever end. I didn’t want her to leave . I want to sit by her side in this canteen for my entire life. But I guess every beautiful thing fade at one point of time or other, so was that evening. “Sir I have to go to collect my registration slip” exclaimed she. Oh god how much I hate those words. It ended the hypnotism she had on us. She started walking out of canteen and my heart chanted, that’s can’t be it, she can’t leave like this, something is missing, she got to come back and so she did. I guess god was also enjoying this foreplay.

“ Sorry sir, I need an engineering mechanics book, do you have one??” asked she. Well quite frankly I did not intend to hear this but never the less she returned to me didn’t she.

 ” ofcource I have one, I will give you tomorrow, meet me at the same time in canteen”, I replied. She noded and left.

“Dude your techson is in mechanical branch, aren’t you suppose to give that book to him”, Maddy talked after a long time.

”Ya, but I am doing this for him only, afterall every child needs a mom and”, I quoted and we all busted in laughter.

              “MISSION CANTEEN FANTACY accomplished, what you think Jeet”, exclaimed Omi on our way to returning hostel.

 ”Dude I can’t take her out of my mind. I haven’t felt something like this before, I guess I am in love” I replied. But I can see with every single word of mine Maddy’s facial expression was changing, finally he jumped into the conversation “Watch out Jeet, Don’t you dare talk about her like that, if she gonna be in anyone’s arms, that will be me”. Now it was Omi’s turn “Curtail this fight, what’s the point of this useless conversation when all she is gonna be is my girlfriend”,

 “You wanna bet on that”, said Maddy,

 ” Bring it on , I can’t afford to lose her at any cost “declared I.

                                                     “Jeet what’s with you buddy, you were so into Sana that you didn’t even notice me entering the canteen and both these morons were insanely gazing at her” asked Shintu,

 ”Both Jeet and Maddy have asserted that they are in love with Sana, They have also put on a bet who’s gonna get her”, said Omi.

 ”Tell me you guys are kidding” said Papun who had just returned after attending a boring introduction session.

 “No and they seemed quite serious about it”, told Omi.

“Well well, now this is gonna be fun, let us see who’s gonna get Sana, but Jeet how you are gonna compete with Maddy”, said Shintu. He was right, I stand no chance against Maddy. There was no competition between me and Maddy. He was way better than me in every aspect. He was the sexiest stud of the college for whom everygirl in the college had a longing, on the other hand I was no one, an average guy who was average in everything. If I was a girl and had to choose between Jeet and Maddy, without questioning I would have picked Maddy. How am I gonna take Sana away from him. But then the scene of a movie flashes in front of my eyes, which goes something like this:

Boy was staring at a girl and after a long pause he said

 “ Why would a girl like you even talk to someone like me”

And the girl replied

“Why wouldn’t I”.

Maybe something like this would happen with me too. Hey well she did asked for the book me with Maddy sitting by my side. Was that a signal. Oh god if I could see the future for once. I can’t wait to see what’s gonna come next.    

                                                      “Don’t you think Sana got a boyfriend” those words of Shintu striked me like lightening. That angle of store never occurred in my mind.  On the way to canteen my mind was occupied with the same thought what if she had a boyfriend. I entered the canteen and there she was, my Sana. Huh my Sana, you think it’s too early, well I guess it was meant to be.

  “Hi sir, sorry to bother you for the book, I hope I am not troubling you a lot” said she sitting on her chair,

“Don’t worry, it wasn’t a problem. It was right on my table”. It was a conundrum how to ask her about her relationship status but her next sentence was a relief, it made things quite easier

 “it’s a huge rush in the canteen”

 I was waiting for something like that to cash in

 “yup it’s the peak hour for lovebirds, so tell me Sana do you have a boyfriend”

she dazed me for a moment and with a naughty smile on her face she cross-questioned me

 “ what do you think sir??”

I replied being obnoxious” A girl like you don’t have a boyfriend, that’s not happening, I can bet all my money on that”,

 “Then sir you and all your money is going down” she replied.

I swear to god that was the sweetest melody I heard in past one year in this college. I felt like screaming yessssssssss, I felt like getting down on my knees and proposing her that very instant but you know got a decorum to maintain, after all I am the senior here. But suddenly out of blues she asked

 “you must be having a girlfriend”

 ”nope” I answered.

 But she wasn’t in a mood to stop that day

 “why not?”

all I wanted to say you  didn’t came to my life early but all I could say was

” don’t know, may be never encountered a girl who can made me fall for her”

she smiled and quoted

 “but sir if you find her don’t hesitate to tell her how you fell, you know lots of guys just wait for the right excuse and it never come”

 I nodded and questioned

 “do you really think I can have a girlfriend”

 her reply goes something like

” you are such a sweetheart who’s gonna refuse you, just remember all you need is 20 seconds of courage and your whole world could change, what you gonna lose anyway. Okey sir I got to go, thanks for the book again, bye”

 and she started walking towards the exit and I again sunk in my thoughts ‘all you need is 20 seconds of courage’, that’s what I lack I guess…. wait a sec did she just poked me to propose her, what am I supposed to do, should I go behind her. Oh shit why these girls can’t be straightforward. All they do is mess-up with your thoughts, life and sleep.