SanDhir FF: Recess /Part3-Pg13, Part4-Pg15/ - Page 8

"In my body, where the shame gland should be, there is a second awesome gland. True story." - Barney Stinson, How I Met Your Mother

I took a deep breath in and headed towards the canteen hall to take a seat in the same place as the earlier recess. Well, it was a pretty crazy thing to do but not keeping my promise, I accepted, was even crazier. I still didn't understand why everyone was so freaked out though. I mean, the guy didn't look like some creepy, psycho killer. In fact, he was quite handsome and his eyes, oh his brown eyes, were to die for.

With this happy and gorgeous thought in mind, I finally reached that hall and saw that the guy hadn't come yet. I took a seat and this time, the whispers were definitely lesser than the last time around. Sighing with happiness, I kept my bag in the chair and went to stand in the queue for lunch. The menu wasn't too bad and I decided on the menu. After that, to keep my mind going, I looked around the canteen and saw that the guy had entered finally. As I reached the counter, I settled on some rice and chicken, I came back to the table to see no one there again. I was peacefully eating my lunch when that guy came and sat opposite me, having a burger and some fries.

I cringed at the sight. Burgers and fries had too many calories to be eaten every single day, at least for me. Sure, I loved them but I couldn't afford to eat them and put on weight which would affect my flexibility as well as my stamina. I tried to look as far away from it on possible and once again, food was the most important subject in the canteen right now for me.

Buck up Sanyukta. If you keep going on like this, you are definitely not going to enjoy your lunch and snacks.' I thought. Suddenly, I heard an all too familiar voice I'd heard just a few hours ago.

"Excuse me? It looks like you're new here. What's your name?" he asked. And he sounded scared, almost.

Weird,' I thought. Why would he seem scared? It wasn't like I'd done anything since I came except ramble a bit. Then I realized his question was yet to be answered.

"Yeah, I joined today. I'm Sanyukta, and you?" I asked him. Good job Sanyukta, at least you showed him you have etiquettes. Maybe he'll be a little less scared now.

"I'm Randhir." He said, definitely less scared now. Speaking of which, his name was really nice. He seemed to be smiling as well. That was an improvement.

"Nice name." I replied with a smile on my face as well. It didn't hurt to show some courtesy now, did it?

"Thanks, yours is too. I was just wondering, which subject did you top in?" He asked me.

Great, here we go again. What was with people automatically assuming that I was made for studies and not sports? He was the third person to ask me this question after two of my teachers. I gave him the widest possible sarcastic smile I could and answered, "Is tennis considered a subject here? If it is, then yes, I topped in it."

"Oh." He exclaimed. Out of all the reactions he could give, which included sorry', he had to go with oh'. I just smiled and then went back to eating my food.

Suddenly, he spoke again, "Just in case you wanted to know, I'm here for Literature and Basketball. Also, I'm the school captain, so if you ever need any help, you can come to me."

I almost spit out the chicken I was eating, almost. I was now starting to put all the pieces together. Of course, he was the captain so he was intimidating. In most situations, people would feel ashamed of the way they had acted but here, I just felt cool just thinking about how I sat with the school captain on the first day, on two occasions as well. Sure, it was a little weird but that's okay.

"Oh cool," I said noncommittally but inside, I was bubbling with excitement.

I saw him look out the door and turned to see what he was looking at. I managed to catch a glimpse of jet black hair but in a moment, it was gone. As I turned back again, and went back to my food, I noticed that he was making signs at someone but didn't look into it too much.

"Hello Randhir!" I heard someone call out from behind me. I recognized that hair as the one behind the wall and wondered what they were up to.

"Karan, where were you man? And where's Arpita? I thought you guys said you'll be here in five minutes." He told them.

Huh. Why is he acting?' I wondered. He had just been talking to this guy Karan and now he was acting as if he had just entered.

"Who's this girl Randhir? Hello, I'm Karan, and you are?" he asked me and held out his hand.

I shook his hands and answered, "I'm Sanyukta and wasn't it your hair I saw behind the wall two minutes ago?"

"Err, no, you must be mistaken." He answered, and he was trying to look anywhere but the table. Randhir suddenly chuckled and tried to make it seem like a cough, and then his face was back to his previous expression.

"I'll just go and get my lunch," Karan said to no one in particular and practically rushed to the queue, looking relieved.

As everyone must have guessed by now, I'm a very intuitive person and I simply can't sir without knowing something if I know it is being hidden from me so I did what I always did. I asked questions.

"What was that? Weren't you two just talking?" I asked him, coming straight to the point.

Randhir gulped some water and then answered, "No, I wasn't talking to anyone. You must have seen someone else. Many people have that kind of hair around here."

"Oh, okay then." I told him but I knew it was Karan I saw there. Before I could continue, Karan appeared again and took chair from a nearby table and sat next to me.

"Sanyukta, what do you specialize in?" he asked me as if I was a doctor but it was definitely better than Randhir's way of asking me.

"I'm ranked number 1 in tennis in India, and you?" I asked him and just caught the surprise on his face which made me laugh a little.

"Biology and Chemistry got me here and made me a house captain. Anyway, which house are you in? I would love it if you were in Sampras, I'm the captain there." He told me. I didn't even know there were houses.

"What are the houses? I didn't even know there were any." I told him.

"Well, there are four houses. There's Albert Einstein, Pete Sampras, Mozart and Picasso. Your class teacher will assign the house to you. Who's your class teacher?" he asked me.

"Mrs. Bethany, she teaches us Physics but I didn't attend Physics today so I didn't get the house. I'll probably get it tomorrow." I told them and saw both their faces turning a little irritated. "What happened to you guys?"

"We had a surprise test because you didn't attend class today." Randhir accused me which left me utterly puzzled.

"Wait, what are you saying?" I asked him. He had definitely gone crazy if he thinks he had a test because of me. We weren't even in the same class.

"What Randhir wanted to say is that our Physics teachers are the same and ma'am was in a bad mood because you didn't attend class and she was angry so she took all her anger out on us by giving us a surprise test." Karan explained. Well, it wasn't my fault then. I didn't even know that she would do this, heck; I didn't even know how she looked.

"Uh huh, I'm sorry, I guess. I didn't know she would do that considering I don't even know how she looks. Anyway, I'm done with lunch. It was nice meeting you Karan. I'll see you guys tomorrow. Bye!" I told them and left the canteen. I had to meet Vidushi and get notes from her.

Vidushi sat next to me in class and we had spoken in the free time we got between classes. She told me she had some work in lunch so I was alone in lunch and she told me to get the notes before lunch because we had Chemistry lab after that and she has to leave early and she wouldn't be able to give me the notes in the lab.

Before I could reach the classroom, Vidushi spotted me and pulled me towards the window she was standing and started shooting questions at me.

"You spoke to Karan and Randhir in lunch today. Oh gosh, isn't Karan so good-looking? And Randhir's eyes are such a deep shade of blue and you could dive in its depth. I can't believe I didn't go to lunch with you today. I missed a chance at having lunch with the two hottest seniors in our school. Can I sit with you guys tomorrow? I still can't believe that you're new and you still sat with them and spoke to them." She finished and finally let me speak.

"Vidushi, I didn't know who they were. It was the only table empty so I sat there. And sure, you can come with me tomorrow. Now, give me the notes please?" I told her.

Vidushi ranted all the way to the classroom about how hot both the guys were and kept cursing her luck and kept saying things about how she would surely never go with anyone but me tomorrow onwards and finally, she gave me the notes.

She also gave me something to think about while I was writing my notes; Randhir's brown eyes.