CHAPTER 9B
NANDINI'S P.O.V
I did that! Really! I sang a duet! That too with that Moron Malhotra! Yup, I so damn did that.
I held up the pain in my body, which had taken over me sitting upon that sofa from one hour. I stretched my body and tried to relax it a bit. The pain, no, it wasn't ready to go. An idea struck my mind. Yep! All I needed was a warm shower. I unbuttoned my t-shirt in the living room just to have myself in the shorts and the vest. I just headed to my bathroom and as I reached there, my eyes directly went to the mirror in front of me. I found myself staring at my reflection so keenly that if I removed my gaze even a bit inch apart, it would rip apart my gaze. Was it me today? Was it me singing the duet? Was it me letting a boy flirt with me? Was it me today letting some mind take over mine? Was it me today who stood so close to a guy? Was it me today who was speaking to a guy and telling a love story? Was it me there out today who was developing feelings for a boy? No, this can't be me! But, still it's me only. I turned on the tap, took handful of water in both of my hands and splashed it in my face, so hard that it pained more that it soothed me. I sighed. I undressed myself, turned on the shower and stood under it, like a numb human, with nothing to say, nothing to express. The warm water rushed down my body as if that single thing was also against me today. It seemed the water opposed me and I opposed the water. It shot my body like hundreds of sharp needles giving the unwanted pain. I knew it would soon turn out to be relaxing. It was 1 span of 20 minutes that I stood there still the same. As I figured it, my blood circulated normally now, I turned off the shower, dried myself up with a towel and changed myself in a sweatshirt and PJ pants. I touched my wet hairs. I needed to dry them. I took my hair dryer, went in front of the mirror again and dried them slowly. After I was ssatisfied, I just took my phone, set my alarm and with that went to sleep. Good Night to Myself!
You won't cross over your favourite things just to find the unpleasant things on the other side. That's what morning was to me as it brought the light to me. I never wanted to sleep the nights just because I knew it would bring the morning to me in a few hours. But, I had to sleep. There was no option given to me. Maybe, life had decided how it wanted to behave with me. I woke up not so sleepy as my alarm rang. As usual, my schedule was followed by me. I freshened up, woke up Arisha and went to make the breakfast, bacon bread with omlets. That' what Arisha loved. I served it and we together had a breakfast. I got myself dressed up in a blue tee and black skinny leggings. I did a loose bun of my hair, gave my lips a smirk to play with and went straight to the car.
"Come up fast, speedy!" Yep! That's what I called Arisha.
"Coming up, baby!" She replied coming down, her appearance visible to me.
We drove all along with small talks and finally reached in there. Fortunately, I didn't get any phone call today but Arisha moved so fast that I guess I walked 3 metres far behind from her. Reason?? Oh god! Don't ask me again! I already said I call her speedy.
"Arisha slow up, fine!" I literally shouted at her. She didn't argue. She looked back, waited me to reach till her and then walked slowly beside me.
"Thanks, highness!" I faked myself and she smiled.
As we slowed our pace and moved more forwards, Mukti, Cabir, Aashi, Dhruv and Alya came into the view and Arisha just directly approached them. I wanted to reach to the class soon, so without looking towards them I moved forward. But, destiny was usual against me.
"Nandini, where the hell do you think you're going? Just come here!" Mukti shouted on the top of her lungs and I turned towards her as I knew I couldn't win this time.
"Hmm?" I was tired, so only that small sighing word came out of my word.
"What hmm, I'm not gonna approach you to come here from tomorrow! You know why? Because, you'll come here by yourself and approach us!" Mukti almost nudged me and waggled me badly.
"Is it necessary?" I asked making a puppy face. She falls for them, I guess!
"Yes, ma'am it is, now, please, change your expression!" She said annoyingly. I nodded and she smiled.
Wait a minute! Where the hell is Moron Malhotra? He is missing. I looked the sideways to find him but he was nowhere.
"He isn't here!" Mukti said and I coughed. Where from she get to know that I was finding HIM? No, I won't let her assume so as Alya was there and I knew she would take that thing so pessimistically.
"Who?" I asked making a questioning face, trying to act real.
"Manik!" Cabir said and Navya grinned. Why the hell is she grinning?
"Doesn't matters, I was just watching out the exterior of the college!" I said making an I-DON'T-REALLY-CARE-LOOK.
"Okay, now can we leave that topic?" Alya said almost growling and busting with fire. This girl, is she a bitch? Shut up Nandini!
"Anyways, Dhruv and Alya how are you?" I asked as it was both of them with whom I had spent the least time.
"I am fine Nandini! What about you?" Dhruv replied with the most genuine smile I had ever seen in my whole life. He is sweet!
"I am good, Dhruv and you Alya?" I replied and asked Alya again hoping for her to give an answer, at least this time.
"I am okay in my life, until someone just comes and makes it awful to live!" Neither was the reply polite nor was the tone of replying. Did she mean me for that someone? Yeah, of course!
"I'm getting late for my class, so I should better leave!" I just wanted to go out from there, not because I was hurt by Alya's word. I could never be, because I never act typical. I just wanted to go because I was really getting late.
I just went out before anyone of them could stop me.
My first and the second class went quite well. I was paying attention and I was able to give my whole concentration on the studies. It was not time for my third period, Maths!
I didn't struggle to find my class and as I found it, a smile played on my lips, surely on my hard-worked victory. But, as I entered the class, there was the fab4, Aashi and Navya seated on the seats with other students. Oh shit! We had the same class. They would eat up my head. The seated like something really weird. The connections were messed up, I guess. Mukti was with Aashi, Cabir was with Navya and Alya was there with Dhruv. Actually, no, nothing was weird. It was just that Alya seating beside Dhruv just made me biased on the whole thing. I sighed. I entered the class room and Mukti waved me a hi and the gestures continued. I returned them back. I took a seat on the table which was in front of the table beside which Alya and Dhruv seated, in short just diagonal to them. I opened my book as I wanted to have an introduction to the chapter which was going to be thought. I was so lost in the books that I didn't realize, that a whole tall figure was standing beside my table and addressing me. It was when he said that out loud, I caught his attention.
"Nandini, could you please shift?" There was the Manik Malhotra willing to sit behind me. Hasn't he got any other seat. I looked around but sighed in disbelief to find all seats filled up. I nodded.
"Thanks a lot!" He said in an annoying voice.
"I wonder why you were so lost in those books." He said and I glared him.
"Because they are books, and they are meant to be lost in!" I replied in the same tone and he nodded, giving up.
"Anyways, Mukti told me you were missing me?" He said, a smirk playing on his lips. What the hell!!!??? I would make Mukti regret this.
"She is an expert in spreading rumours!" I replied trying to compose myself, blush and heat both rising from my necks to the cheeks.
"Oh okay, anyways I was just joking!" He said and I was the STUPID ONE now. I glared at him once again, as I had nothing else to do.
"Why are you so angry all the time, can't we be like polite friends?" He asked softly and I just wanted to lay my heart down to him.
"We can be, I am sorry, I am just so annoyed!" I apologized. I was really being mean without any reason. I smiled to him to which he returned the same.
"It's okay, anyways, you know, you can share anything with me, we are friends now!" He hand touch mind and the hormones started exploding, as if they were struggling their hardest to come out of their cells. Oh shit!!! I would explode here. Someone, please tell him to stop touching me! Now this apology will be heavy on me!
"Yup, I know!" My face had become all red by then I guess, or it was just what I thought. I pulled my hand away in the next second and he looked confusingly towards me.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to!" He said and I smiled.
"It's okay! Completely okay!" Liar Nandini!!!! You are a bloody liar! The next moment, our Maths teacher came. I read his name on the piece of timetable that I had got- Mr Gupta. I still remember his face. His beard was shaped something so weird, that it seemed that it was a river flowing down a hill. Yes! It looked that weird. His face gave that impression of a scientist, but then what was he doing in the maths section? I don't know!
"He is the weirdest teacher here!" Manik nuzzled those words in my ears and I shivered, I wondered why he was weird and that doubt of mine was clarified in the next seconds. He switched of all the lights, instructed the window-side-seaters to open the window and then started teaching his values, not Maths!
"Natural things always go better instead of the artificial things! And, after all the sunlight will help you to concentrate on Maths more properly! It will enlighten your mind in such a way that every sum would be completely clear to you, without any doubts! Therefore, no lights in my class!"
I ended up laughing on that thought. Note it, softly. So softly, that it could only be heard to Manik! Like seriously! What kind of illusion was that? Sunlight and Maths! It was like a weird combination. Now you tell me what would happen if I pair up Angelina Jolie with a Tarzan or Juliet with Robert Pattinson. People would end up throwing shoes on the screens and everywhere possible. Anyways, the situation was different in here.
"Stop laughing, he will notice you!" Manik warned me and I nodded.
"You like maths?" He asked
"My favourite subject!" I said happily and his lips too changed into a smile.
"Mine too, same pinch!" He said and pinched me hard.
"Oww, that was hard!" I exclaimed and he widened his smiled. Moron!
"Anyways, you know, Maths is easy, people just thing too hard for it, it's just like love, once you get the idea of love, you just get the idea of maths too!" He mentioned and I found him weird. Anyways, that was confusing but maybe; he has a practical story behind it.
"I don't know! I worked on it! Not too hard, not too less, and I found it interesting!" I answered and he nodded in a robotic manner.
"You should probably have this maths and love talk with your girlfriend, it will make her feel special!" I mentioned and his face fell down.
"I can't do anything, she is sitting with Dhruv! So I thought to share this with you! Anyways I told my thought to her, but she said she wasn't interested! It's the past thing! She doesn't likes Maths either and actually, she hates it" Pity on him! He was sad, damn sad and eventually I had made him this sad.
"Anyways, I won't talk about them, if you don't want me to!" He said in a sad tone and I became sad too.
"Hey, it's nothing like that! I would love listening to your stuffs! It would probably make me entertain!" I replied and probably, smiled my widest smile ever!
"Thanks a lot! I scored my first listener! You're the first one who agreed to it!" He literally had said that out loud. He was literally jumping with joy on that small amount of space. At least, he is happy! I didn't know this Manik! WOOOh!!!
But, unfortunately, the great maths teacher caught us talking!
"Manik and Nandini!" He shouted with the highest pitch possible and we both turned to look at him.
"You can carry on with your talks outside the class, otherwise you can sit here!" He said in a strict tone and my head hung down in shame. Manik stood there, same, not shameful at all. He resumed with his class and we remained quiet for the next five minutes. And then!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
POKE!
POKE!
POKE!
POKE!
POKE!
POKE! Hell Manik! I turned to look at him and he grinned, showing his white teeth in front of me like a five year-old baby.
"What the hell Manik?" I said softly but still maintain the roughness in my voice.
"I am getting bored, please talk to me! He pleaded and my anger rose.
"What are you nuts? Stop this poking game and concentrate there! You yourself said Maths is your favourite subject!" I scolded him back.
"I am nuts! And yeah, if Maths is my favourite subject that doesn't means I like to study it!" He argued back and I sighed.
"Not at all, shut up for now!" I said making my voice firmer.
"You two score a detention on the second day of your new session!" The filthy scientific teacher announced and I came on the verge of crying!
"Enjoy the detention together!" He said again and I looked at Manik angrily, as if telling him, I would peel him into pieces. And the next moment, the bell rang. Without saying anything to anyone, I just rushed out of the class.
Love is a emotion you just can't let so simply go away from you cause you know, once it will go, it would take away everything from you, make you hollow, like a bird, free to fly, but still chased by the predators. After love leaves your heart and it leaves your body, the people surrounding you will just seem to hunt you, not because they really seem to hunt you and irritate you but instead, because your eye will not see them as they are. It would make you just so near to death.
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Woooh!!! I am done! I wrote this so fast that I guess my hands would start bleeding any minute! Just joking! Here's the update! Enjoy it and please, please, please, it's a kind request to the silent readers! Please comment!! I am begging you literally! Each comment means a lot! A writer writes for their readers to read their story and comment! I hope you would understand! Anyways Bye!!!!!!!! 😊Keep smiling my lovely readers!!
Edited by horizontwilight - 9 years ago
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