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I was getting frustrated that Pragya and Prem were trying to make me angry so I kept my anger further to rile them up. The further I stayed quite the more annoying they were. I am not going to lie that I wanted to laugh out loud with their cuteness but I told myself that I was not going to let them win. Still I had the urge where I just wanted to burst my feelings and tell Pragya that my dad let me join guitar classes. It was almost the end of the day and Prem stopped but Pragya kept going by calling me silly names, trying to tease me, trying to talking to Arjun. That's it I had enough. That was when I went towards her and grabbed her arm to take her away so I can talk to her. She looked petrified.
I asked her what was she doing. She replied why did it matter to me. I said because you are my friend and she replied, "a friend who you won't talk to". I told her that she only started it. She said that she just teased but I was one who made it an issue and told that I won't talk. "OK Tell me sorry. We will end it here", I told her as I didnt want to continue the fight. I just wanted to share my happiness of joining guitar classes with her. To my surprise, she asked me why should she say sorry. I told her that she teased me to which she replied that I also used to tease her a lot and asked me whether I was apologizing to her everyday. Was she picking up a fight with me? I was annoyed at her statement. She stood there with her arms crossed and I also waited for her to tell sorry first. Prem came out of nowhere and asked me whether we were done talking as he wanted to go home soon. "I am going now", Pragya said and started walking. Prem asked me what did I do. I just frowned at him as he asked me instead of asking her. I and Prem started walking behind her. I called her but she didn't respond and then Prem went towards her. They started talking with each other again and I was left behind.
"Oye Chashmish", I called her and she turned back and gave me a murderous stare. She bent down to take something. It looked like a small stone.
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Me and Prem were having fun teasing Abhi. He loved teasing me. Wait till I show him what I am capable of. His face was worth seeing. Abhi was totally gobsmacked that I was being like that and I was loving it. Let me carry on. I and Prem tried various ways to make him angry but it wasn't really working. I was kind of frustrated and wanted him to just talk to me. He was being silent and it felt very weird. Weird that he was being silen becasue he was so jovial usually. I wondered if something was troubling him. It was end of the day and still there was no progress despite my and Prem's efforts to get him angry or even talk. I could tell from his face he was getting annoyed and saw almost a glimpse where he just wanted to talk to me. Prem gave up. I would never give up on Abhi. I approached Abhi and started coming with silly names so he would get irritated. I called him "nutty, moody, grump, kadoos, kanjoos, mango", even though he wasn't one. He did gave me a sharp stare when I said all these but still he kept quite. I sighed. I started teasing him about how he missed me that's why he was not in the mood. I was the best, and so forth I continued with my teasing. Still nothing. Suddenly I saw Arjun and thought to try my luck. When I was talking to Arjun. Arjun spoke sweetly back I felt weird but didn't want to show my awkwardness to Abhi as I knew he was watching me from the corner of my eye. I had a little smirk as I saw him approaching us and whispered to myself, this worked. I internally gave myself a high five since Abhi won't give me one. Once he came near me, he gave a murderous look and I got scared since he grabbed my arm to take me away.
He held my hands so hard that it hurt me. I pulled his hands off mine and he asked me what was I doing. I asked him whether it mattered to him. We had a silly argument over who was wrong and then the final stage reached when he asked me to tell sorry. I told him that I wouldn't. OK, I was teasing him and annoying him. I accept that I was at fault. But he also teased me everyday and if he came to know something annoyed me, he would definitely do that. So when I did the same, why was he making it an issue? I actually wanted to apologize him for not talking to him for the past few days mistaking him to be hiding something from me when he was actually planning a birthday surprise. But he just spoiled my mood by making a big deal out of me teasing him. I didn't want to apologize for this reason because I wouldn't have teased him if he hadn't told me and Prem that he wouldn't talk to us. After some time, Prem came and asked whether we were done. I told them that I would be leaving and left. After few seconds, Prem came chasing me and asked me whether I and Abhi fought again. He told me to go soft on Abhi and then I heard Abhi shout something that I didn't like. He called me Chashmish. I turned back and stared at him. I wanted him to know that I didn't like the name. I looked around for something to hit him with.
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She was about to hit me with the stone and I ducked down . I missed the stone. She tried to grab another stone but I held her. I told Prem to go home and I would meet him there. Prem said his byes to me and Pragya. As soon as he was out of our sight, I took hold of Pragya and took us to the nearby park which was on on our way. We sat under a tree. I asked her what was she doing. She simply replied that she felt like hitting so she got the stone. She said, "I almost got you. But you...you are just too fast. I don't like that name so don't call me Chashmish". I told her how much I liked that name so I was keeping it and she can't do anything about it. As soon as I said that, her face lit up, she had a mischievous smile and a glint in her eyes.
She asked me to call her again with that name. I got a little suspicious but I called her Chashmish. She told me "again" and started walking backwards. I shouted Chashmish. She started laughing silently and I realized that there was a boy walking there. He was also wearing glasses and most of all, he was older than me and looked like a giant. He looked at me angrily and I understood what Pragya had done to me. I went to my cycle and Pragya came running behind me. After running for few metres along with my cycle, we stopped to breathe. We bent down with our hands on our knees and looked at each other. We started laughing at our latest adventure.
"So you are here?"
We saw Pranav stopping near us in his bike. We didn't realize that time had passed away quickly and it was getting late. Pragya's mom had started worrying that she didn't come home yet so she had called my home and Prem had told that I and Pragya would be coming late. Pranav had been searching for us as Prem had told them that we had a fight. I scolded him in my head for being a detailed updater. Pranav took Pragya in his bike and I started cycling to my home.
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I grabbed a small stone as I did not really wante to hurt him or make him bleed. As I was about to hit him, he bended down on time and the hit was missed. Damn, I thought. I took another stone but he held me again. As he told Prem to go home, Prem said bye to his brother and me. Abhi didn't leave my hand but watched Prem go. As soon as he was gone Abhi took me to a nearby park. He made me sit under a tree in park. I was skeptical. I was wondering why he wanted us to sit under the tree when we can easily walk and talk. He was just enquiring what I was doing with the stones. I told him the reason. Instead he was being stubborn and told me he was s going to keep the nick name he kept for me. *Shrugs*, I so did not like that name. At the same time, a thought occurred on my mind and I was too happy.
I saw a boy of my brother's age wearing a glass coming by. I decided to teach Abhi a lesson. I told him to call me like that again and he obeyed me like a baby without knowing the plan. I told him to call again and started walking backwards in the boy's direction. The boy heard Abhi shout Chashmish and my plan worked. He looked at Abhi angrily and Abhi started running. I ran behind him. We ran together for few minutes until we became sure that we were out of the boy's sight. We stopped and laughed at what happened. By that time, my brother came searching me. It seemed that Mom had called Abhi's house and Prem had informed them about our fight. I went home with my brother in his bike while Abhi started cycling.
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The next day I decided to tell Pragya everything about my guitar lessons, the first thing in the morning. I thought I should buy her sweets. On my way to school with Prem, I bought sweets pack for Pragya from a corner shop. Prem didn't really question me as he didn't like sweets for some weird reason and he knew how much I loved sweets. It was quite surprising despite being twins we had different taste in things. It can be a good thing also. I didn't like sharing my favourite things so it helped. When we reached school, I saw Pragya by the gate talking to her friend. As soon as she finished talking to her and saw me, I went running to her and told her I need to tell her something. Prem was looking at me in a strange way. He just told me that he will meet us in the classroom and he went off. From my backpack, I got the sweets out and at the same time excitedly Pragya asked "What would you like to tell me? that you missed me?" Then she chuckled. I rolled my eyes with a smirk and said to her "in you dreams". She frowned and looked away with closing arms around her by her chest with a pout. I laughed and she saw me squinting her eyes, frowning more. I laughed even louder. I gave the sweets to her which were in my hands, she looked at me with a curious face, and then looked at me again for few seconds and had a big smile. She took the sweets and started munching already. Then I told her "let's sit on the bench" and sat near the entrance of the school. As we sat, we discussed about our evening what we got upto and then finally came the moment where I wanted to tell her. I was more excited about her reaction as I know she would be more happier than I was. When she almost finished her sweets, I said to her "Chashmish, I am going to start my guitar lessons?" She stared at her sweet for a second and the next one fell as soon as she put her head up to me, and asked "what?" I told her again I was going to start my guitar lessons. She said "say again". This happened three times. She stayed stunned for few seconds. As soon as she got up and got me up, she held my hand and started jumping up and down, then finally hugged me. Seeing her this excited made me more excited than the I was excited about starting my guitar lessons. As my eyes were closed during the hug, I sighed and was thanking that I couldn't ask for a better best friend.
As she broke the hug, she gave me a tight handshake saying "All the best Rockstar". "Rockstar?" I looked at her curiously. "You like that film na?", she asked me knowing the answer. She said that she was going to call me Rockstar. I was amused at her decision but I liked the name. As the bell rang, we ran to our class. I was very happy that Prem even asked me why was i smiling so much. Before I could reply, we saw the teacher looking at us so we stopped our conversation there. After our class, I had went to meet my Mathematics teacher as she had asked me to meet her after class. She told me to be focussed and not play during classes. She also warned me that if i continued to be careless, she would call my parents. I told her that I would try to follow her words and started walking towards our classroom as Prem and Pragya were waiting for me. That's when I saw Prem being surrounded by some boys and Pragya scolding them.
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I was at school earlier than usual and was talking to my friend. She was telling me about her new pet. I got sad thinking about what happened and the pup at our home. As she carried on talking, I wanted to finish her story so that I could tell mine. We both told each other about pets and our love for them. As she was from a different class, she went away with a bye. I saw Abhi and he came running to me to tell me something. Prem went to the classroom. I was teasing him about me and what he wanted to tell me. He was being the annoying cutie bestfriend that he was by teasing me back. I got annoyed for few seconds, but how can it last longer than that, *sigh*. I didn't realize when he took the sweets out but I was too happy though I was hesitant whilst looking at him but I loved my sweets and he knew how much I loved white mice. I took them from him and started eating. We sat on the bench together near the entrance of the school. We sat and discussed about our evening and how our day went. My sweets were almost finished. I was craving for these since few days ago. Then I heard something out of the blue, unexpected from my bestfriend, "Chashmish, I am going to start my guitar lessons?". I stared at my sweets for a second thinking I heard something and the next one fell but my head shot back up at him and I asked "what?". He told me again that he was going to start his guitar lessons. I said "say again". This happened three times. I was stunned for few seconds then immediately got up and got him up, I held his hand and started jumping up and down, then finally hugged him. I was too excited. This is his dream. I was so happy. Happy is an understatement, don't you reckon? As my eyes were closed during the hug, I sighed and was thanking that I couldn't ask for a better best friend.
I then gave him a heavy handshake and wished him. He was surprised that I called him Rockstar. I asked him about his liking towards the movie. He seemed to be happy with the name. The bell rang and we realized it was getting late to class. We held each other's hands and started running towards our classroom. The whole day was exciting until our classes got over. I and Prem waited outside our class while Abhi went to meet our Mathematics teacher. I had told him several times to be attentive in class but he never listened to me and the result was that the teacher had called him to meet her after class. We were talking about Abhi's guitar classes. Prem said that the classes would be on weekends. I asked him whether he was also joining to which he said he was not interested in music and he would rather join a library. Library! The idea was interesting. I said I would also like to join a library. He told me that I was reading too much already and that's why I was wearing glasses. It was unusual of Prem to talk like that but I kept quiet as it was good to see him trying to be jovial. I teased him whether he would also start wearing glasses if he started going to library often. I took off my glasses and put it on him. We were laughing at each other. Few older boys passing by gave some rude comments on Prem and started calling him names. Prem took off the glasses and asked me to leave the place with him. I wondered why Prem wasn't talking back when they were mocking him. If it had been Abhi, there would have been a wrestling match. Prem and Abhi were completely contrasting characters. He held my hand and we started walking but they didn't let us proceed. That's it. I couldn't stand there silent when they started pulling his tie and messed with his hair. He seemed to be too much affected by their comments as he gripped my hands tighter. I shouted at them to stop or else I would complain to the teacher.
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