Chapter 2

ok guys, part 2, the male characters enter...

Part 2: The dance function
"Meri heels kahaan hai?!!!" Isha bellowed. Nisha knew this was her sister's usual drama that she performed every time she had to do her shows. "Yahaan hai" Nisha said quietly to her twin. "Thanks Nisha, I don't know what I'd do without you!" Isha said as she hugged her sister. The curtain lifted as everyone was in their place and the series of dances began. Nisha really hated to see her sister dance in skimpy clothes and have the college boy stare her down so she preferred to sit back stage and wait until the show was over. But this time something urged her to watch her sister perform. As she peeked out and watched her sister perform to the song "Shake it" (from Naksha), her eyes wandered out to the audience. She noticed the usual guys staring at her sister. Disgusted, she moved her hand to close the curtain but she felt herself gazing at a boy she didn't know. The boy was Manthan, the dude that was too cool for college. She didn't know what it was but she couldn't drop her gaze from this boy. Suddenly she jolted back into reality as the audience clapped hard telling her that the show had ended. Embarrassed that she had spent most of her time watching a boy, she flushed and decided to go get her books from her locker. She ambled off, then stopped a bit awkwardly and hesitantly looked back to where they boy had been. Surprised, she didn't see him there. She sighed and walked towards the other campus building to her locker, wondering why on earth she was acting so strangely.
     Isha was so pleased. The entire show was a huge hit! That meant that there would be more offers and that she would get more money! She sighed after the dancers gave her high fives and encouraging praises. She was just about to get changed when some boys that had been in the front seats during her shows began wolf-whistling at her. She started to fume with anger. She charged her way to the boys and asked them, "Koi problem hai kya?". "Haan, hum aapka dance firse dekhna chathe hai…" said one of the guys. "Waise aapka dance bohot hi acha laga hum sab ko. Specially woh Shake it wala gaana! Agli bar aap "choli ke peeche kya hai" kyun nahi kart hi?" the guy asked with the others all started singing "cuko cuko cuko" Isha glared at them. Disgusted she said "Pathetic!" and walked off trying to find her sister. When she didn't find her back stage, she realized that she must have went to her locker. "Uhh!" she said to herself "I hate these stupid campus! Why can't they just have one big building instead of two buildings?" she spoke to herself. Because she didn't have time to change she kept all her bracelets and jewelry on from the dance and rushed outside to get to the other building.
She ran ahead fast, rushing to get out of the chilly evening. Isha had an odd habit of moving her handing as if she were marching while she was running which caused her to get her bracelet tangled with a beaded mala worn as a bracelet on a man's hand. The man was also in a hurry and was headed the opposite way to Isha. At first both of them didn't realize that as their hands had brushed, their bracelets had gotten stuck to each other. So when both went their ways, the tangled bracelet pulled them together. At first both were confused, but then Isha yelled, "Kya hai yeh? Huh?" The man clearly confused at the situation tried to talk to her, "Woh-" "Woh kya? Dekho main tum jaise ladko bohot achi tarase janti hoon! Ladki deki aur hath pakad liya! Kya samajte ho huh?" Isha, who had already been in a bad mood with the pathetic boys after her show, just got into a worse mood assuming this boy was one of those pathetic boys who had come trailing after her to pester her more. Again the man tried to explain but Isha cut him off. "Mujhe kuch nahin suna!" She tried untangling the bracelets with no success. The man grinned secretly at the girl's problem. He took her hand off the bracelets and smoothly untangled them. She looked at him for a moment with something other than annoyance gleaming in her eyes but then briskly walked away with a "Hmmp!" She wondered who this boy was. Come to think of it, she had never seen him in the college much less the pathetic "thug" guys group. She felt kind of guilty for storming up on him like she did and taking out the stupid boy's anger on him. He couldn't have belonged in that clique because he didn't look like them at all. He didn't wear the leather jackets, big sun glasses and look as if he was trying too hard to look cool. He hadn't checked her out at all and in fact he had helped her untangle the bracelet without trying to grab her hand or anything. And she couldn't feel him scrutinizing her right now either. Weird, she thought, the first guy that hasn't looked at me up and down on our first meeting! She quickly looked back at him and saw that he was opening the door to the other building. She shook her head and went back to finding her sister. The man, Eklavya, pulled the door and went to search for her cousins Lakshya and Archita and KT because they had told him to pick them up after a charity function. KT and Lakshya had been involved with the sound system of the show and Archita had been one of the dancers. He wondered who the girl who snapped at him was. He turned around to look at her but she was gone.

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     -Pooja