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.