Hi,
It is completely a teen fiction short story. I planned it as three shots only. I wish that you guys would support further too. Now let’s get into the story’s first shot.
I've already posted it at Wattpad, and posted here too, don't know why that post got locked since its year old post 😂
So posting it again, refreshing my journey in India forum once again!
Index of the story
Part 1 - Page 1
Part 2 - Page 4
Part 3(Last) - Page 5
‘A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous’
- Ingrid Bergman
**SSM Stadium**
“Abhi…. Abhi…. Abhi….”
The entire stadium was roaring and screaming the name of the star player of the team. The champion football event was held between national level colleges.
It was nail biting moment, that only few seconds left, and Abhi’s team need to fix a goal as soon as possible.
“Arjun, soon pass it to him” shouted Abhi.
“No, Abhi it may leads out to fail” screamed back Arjun.
“Ok, soon we have less time” he replied back.
They both argued however didn’t give up their bonding in the match.
It is nearing to the goal area and the final kick. The entire stadium applauded happily. And it is a ‘Goal!’
The goal has been gained by Arjun not by Abhi. This was the great disappointment for everyone.
“What happened to Abhi bhai, Purab? Why he missed out?” asked Bulbul sitting near Purab on the stadium seating.
“I don’t know Bulbul, however we made a goal. We won the championship. But I just going to hate the reason Abhi gonna say” replied Purab.
Bulbul looked him confused.
“Why what will Abhi bhai will say as reason? Is he injured?”
“Tanu! He thinks that she is his lucky charm. Today Tanu didn’t come for match due to her beauty contest. He will say that his lucky charm didn’t wish him, so he lost” said Purab with full of frustration.
Arjun and Purab had tried their level to make Abhi understand that luck is not in person. It is just a time which helps the person’s talent to reach the right path or destination. But Abhi have been always illusively mind washed by Tanu that because of her only he was getting success. But the good part is he thinks her as his lucky charm, not more than that. He was not in the list of those boys who fall for her beauty.
“What nonsense? See Purab, I believe in Abhi bhai’s talent. He was really passionate about football and Music. And personally I'm his great fan. You're saying he is just believing luck and that too her! I just can’t digest this” yelled Bulbul.
“Just now you came to know this, for this you're reacting like this. Then think about us. We were adjusting this for past three years. Just the first three matches Abhi went with Tanu, and he was the man of the match. This made her to play the trump card and he failed to identify her true colors. We are fed up with this topic Bulbul” said Purab with giving up tone.
“So sad Purab, I think it is time to break those blind beliefs” said Bulbul, determinately watching Abhi on the football ground.
“Who can change that Bulbul?” asked Purab, but Bulbul turned to check her mobile ringing.
“Di” she said by looking at the mobile. Purab turned with the shock. ‘Poor, these two doesn’t know that this was going to be the truth’
“Your di will help us to break the blind belief?” asked Purab with hope.
“Arrey Purab, I didn’t mean like that, actually my di was coming here from Delhi. She just got transferred to continue her studies in our college. I think she reached here. She only called; I just read the name flashed on my phone” explained Bulbul.
“Oh I thought she might help us!” said Purab disappointedly.
“No Purab, my di is too sensitive; she can’t handle Abhi bhai’s character. Ok, convey my wishes to our team, I need to leave now, to pick my di. Bye Purab”
“Oh! Hello! We won, where is my treat?” asked Purab teasingly.
“I’ll give it later. Now I have to leave bye” she said and kissed him in his cheek and left the place in a rush.
“Who is the person gonna change my friend’s blind belief and gonna make him crazy for her?” asked Purab looking at the empty sky.
**At Bus stop**
“I came and I am here Bulbul”
“Pragya di” She smiled and rush to her and hugged Bulbul.
“Yes… I…. I was calling…. You for…. Long Long time” she said it pausing each time with her stammering.
Pragya has stammering issue while speaking, which was because of the incident happened in her childhood. That was the reason for her sensitive and tensed behavior too.
Bulbul being an overprotective friend cum sister, always stands for Pragya. For Pragya, Bulbul is everything. They have a single similarity of dark in their life is they both lost their family in the same train accident. Seeing her parent’s dead body made Pragya to cause her speaking. It made her to stammer due to fear first, later it became her behavior too. People used to tease her, but Bulbul is the bouncer for Pragya.
**At Daffodils Apartment**
Pragya just opened the door and smiled seeing the room. She entered inside the new place and checked everything in the room. She just kept her bag and suitcase on the corner and smiled by seeing the nearby photo frame on the wall.
“Di, I done all the procedures in the college, tomorrow you just come and sign the admission paper in office room”
“Ok Bulbul, I… I was…. Wondering that that… we both… both were in… same block building right?”
“No di, mine is CA block and you were Psychology block. Don’t you worry we can meet during break and lunch time”
“How about… about boys there?” asked Pragya worrying that whether they would tease her.
“Boys are too good di, they won’t tease you. Make a note that if you didn’t disturb them, then you're safe. Got it?”
Pragya was still not convinced with Bulbul’s encouragement. She had argued to study by correspondence, but Bulbul had forced her to come to college, because that will make Pragya to come out of the grief. Finally giving up the argument Pragya agreed to study in the same college. And she got transferred from the college in Delhi to here. Bulbul feared that Pragya might feel alone there because the hostel warden in Delhi informed Bulbul that the girls started to bully Pragya for her stammering nature.
**The Next Day at College**
“Hey Tweety!” called out Abhi.
“Ohho! Bhai how much times I said don’t shout out like this in public” said Bulbul approaching him.
“What to do, I got used to it. Habit never dies” Abhi chuckled
“Fine, here I got lunch for you all. Specially made by my di” saying she handover the lunch bag.
“Your di, then I will test or taste the food now itself” he tried to open the box.
“Nope bhai. I knew you won’t have food without your both friends. So don’t break it because of my di prepared food. Please” said Bulbul
“That is the truth, just forgot in excitement. Then I will give it to Purab and go”
“Sorry to ask but where are you going?”
“It’s ok, Football team captain selection, need to meet Tanu and I have to go there” said Abhi by looking his watch for time.
Bulbul got reminded about Purab's word about Abhi’s obsessed thought that Tanu is his lucky charm. ‘Without finding any solution I can’t interfere in it’ thought Bulbul
“All the best bhai! Hope you would be selected this time. I know you will” she wished luck to him.
“It is difficult Tweety, because last few matches I didn’t gain points, so possibility were very low that I would be selected as captain. I know that I won’t be. Just going to see who the new captain was”
“I think your time gonna change, let a new luck enter your life and you would just get what you never thought for and it should be all you wished” said Bulbul happily, she couldn’t understand why she said like that but strongly she believed that today someone gonna change his blind belief.
“Really Tweety? See I feel Goosebumps when you said it. A new luck to enter in my life? Tanu is my luck always”
“I don’t know why I said like that, but I feel like it. Anyways bhai, it is getting late, you carry on” she said bidding bye from him.
Abhi was filled with the thoughts of Bulbul’s words. ‘I too feel like something gonna happen in my life which I never expect of’
“Hey Abhi, lost in thoughts? Who is the girl?” teased Arjun.
“Nothing, here Purab, Tweety gave this, and the food prepared by her di”
“Wow that was too nice, yesterday only she came and she prepared food for us” explained Purab.
Purab explained about Bulbul’s di and her transfer to their college. Abhi was quite exited to know about his Tweety’s di. He doesn’t know why but wished to see her.
“Abhi today challenge day. You didn’t forget I guess?” asked Purab.
“I didn’t forget. Tell me soon, I have to meet Tanu” said Abhi folding his shirt sleeve to half hold.
“You need to kiss a girl” said Purab with a new cooked idea in his mind.
“What? What the hell you're telling? Are you in your senses Purab?” shouted Abhi hearing the challenge.
“I'm challenging you that you should kiss a girl just to prove that you're doing everything according to your luck. Else you should drop the idea of maintaining Tanu as your lucky charm” explained Arjun about the challenge.
They very well know that Abhi won’t kiss any girl until and unless it is his girl. But till date there is no girl in his life. So it will obviously going to end up that he gonna give up the challenge and accept their wish.
“I know that you're challenging me, just to get rid off of Tanu right?” furiously asked Abhi.
“Let’s break the silence. Yes, I'm challenging this so that at least you would throw the thought that she is not a bloody lucky charm for you. Fed up of it yaar” yelled Purab.
“I accept the challenge. I will prove you guys that she is my lucky charm and I am ready to kiss any girl who you guys would choose. But I won’t kiss publicly” said Abhi with determinant voice.
‘Today let me prove them that Tanu is my lucky charm’
Purab and Arjun gasped by seeing Abhi’s acceptance for the challenge. But they tried to play smart.
“Ok, go and wait in sports room we will send the girl there. Don’t try to play smart with us or cheat us” said Purab.
“That was good. I will wait. Do it soon, Arjun you have been nominated for captain selection, so make it fast, we need to leave soon” saying this Abhi moved to sports room.
“Arjun, what we gonna do? Who will accept to go inside? We are trapped by our own plan” worried Purab.
“We know very well that Abhi won’t kiss any random girl, he will just play something to win the challenge, but he won’t kiss. I damn sure about it Purab”
“So what is cooking in your mind? We just send a random girl inside knowing that he won’t kiss right?”
“Yep, a silent and nerdy girl, find her, because she should do anything because of our threatening. She should not oppose our words. Come let’s search”
Pragya entered in that timing near them. She thought to ask them where is her block and class. But fate played the game with her.
Purab just came and snatched her notes and bags. Pragya gaped by seeing it.
“Why are you doing like-” before she could complete, Arjun came forward which made Pragya to tense even more.
“If you want your things back, then you have to do the things which I say to do, else I will say the entire college that you tried to misbehave with me” Arjun threatened her.
‘I am sorry poor girl, once our work done; I will apologize with 1000 sorry and will do whatever you wish’
“I need to…. To go to my class… ple…. Please give my…. My things….” She said with tensed tone.
They thought she was stammering because of fear.
“Until you didn’t do what we say we won’t give your things” finalized Purab.
She was hell tensed with their threatening behavior. First day in college, the first meeting is terrific. ‘I have to leave them without any issue. Bulbul warned me to be good with them so I should do whatever they say me to do’ she thought and nodded her head that she will do what they say.
“That’s like a good girl; you need to go inside the sports room. Our friend is inside the room. He will… he will kiss you, you shouldn’t stop him” explained Purab.
“What?” shouted Pragya in disbelief “You…. you want me…. to let him… let him kiss me?” she asked them back.
“Yes, see you both gonna be alone, so no one will see you. I assure you won’t face any problem in future. If you refuse then I am sure that you will face problem daily by us. Choice is yours” threatened Arjun. ‘I think I'm playing in the right way. She didn’t left with any choice now’
Pragya thought ‘What a worst day ever? First day in college and getting threat that I will face problems daily, what should I do now? How could I accept their words and kiss some unknown person. But I can’t get into problem with them; moreover because of me Bulbul shouldn’t get into any issues. I have to give up this time, for Bulbul’
She made her mind for accepting their words, somewhere around she could sense that something gonna happen in her life. A new change.
“Too good, now go to the sports room, he will be waiting for you” said Arjun. Pragya nodded her head and moved to the sports room with hell out of fear.
“What is the need to say her like that? We can just say the truth right? She may help us” asked Purab.
“Yaar, if we say the truth means, this girl would behave very normal and Abhi would guess easily that we are trapping him. So it is best. That she too goes inside with the same feel” Arjun explained him.
**At Sports Room**
She entered inside the dark sports room. She was frightened to the core knowing that she gonna do this with an unknown person, whom she didn’t know about anything. She has to do this and run off from this place and meet his friends who were waiting outside with her things which they snatched from her to do this. She has to get her things and run out to her class.
He saw a girl opening the door and entering inside, the brightness reflected on her light blue color long anarkali salwar and her face gloomed in this low light too. She looked nervous. He had finalized before she come that he was not going to do what his friends said, because he can’t do it.
So he thought that he would say the girl to lie to his friend that he won the challenge and then he can rush to his Football captain selection which was more important for him now. But seeing the girl his mind changed. He wants to do it, not because his friends challenged him, but it was a kind of desire just rouses in him suddenly.
The girl came in and he moved near her and locked the door, he moved close forward to her, where in fear she pinned herself to the wall, facing him close to her.
“So you're ready? Shall I?” he asked her, where she was facing down with nervous.
As she was not replying, he moved even more close and asked “I'm asking you only!” he said as his voice reflects his increasing desire but she thought it as a threaten.
She jerked and her hand rests over his chest and nodded. Her eyes conveyed how much she was frightened by this and she was not ready to do this. But his desire was not leaving him to think about it, so he made his mind and smiled at her. She found a sudden comfort in his smile. While she was lost in that, he leaned close to her and cupped her face, rubbing her cheek with his thumb.
For a moment, he didn’t move further or she didn’t lead it, their breath took few seconds to mingle and later both found that their lips met. It was little startled and later he started to kiss her pouring out his sudden roused desire.
His hands doesn’t touch any other place of her body, it touched only her face and her arms. She just rested her one hand on chest and the other was clutching his shirt collar. Moving seconds, the kiss turned intense, an unknown hunger to taste her lips took over his sense. Being captured by his impatient lips she doesn’t know what to do with it.
Suddenly he felt wetness near his cheek because of her tears and the reality strikes. He parted from the first kiss with an unknown girl and looked at her eyes deeply. It was filled with hurt and immediately his eyes filled with guilt.
He jerked back from her and ruffled his hair roughly.
‘What the hell you have done Abhi? You just kissed her, she is crying. What you gonna do now?’ his thoughts got a break when he heard her opening the door.
“One minute” he stopped her.
He has already planned that he would tell the girl to say a lie to his friend that he kissed her. But here he had kissed her really and he know very well how it gonna turn when the news spread on the college. She might suffer.
She just turned to look at him. She was tensed that what he gonna do now.
“Firstly I'm sorry, it was a challenge, and I need to kiss you. But I am sorry for what happened here. Once you go out, if they ask say that I didn’t kiss you” he said her not looking at her ‘Guilt kills’
“You want me to lie?” she asked.
“For your goodness, if you say I kissed you, it will mean as that you would let anyone to kiss. So only I'm telling, hope you understand and I'm sorry again” he said by looking into her eyes.
There is no trace of prank or trapping her. He was saying it with guilt and the reason was valid. She just nodded her head and left out the room.
Even he felt guilty to kiss her but he couldn’t negate the fact that he loved kissing her. He could feel himself different when her lips touched his. She didn’t respond for the kiss still she was with him until they parted.
As said by Abhi, Pragya had said his friends that he didn’t kiss her. Arjun and Purab were happy that their challenge worked well. Abhi said that he will try to give up the thought of Tanu being his lucky charm. This was indeed good news for Arjun and Purab.
The unexpected thing that had happened made Abhi to believe in luck to the core.
He knew that he would never be selected for Football captain, as he was not even nominated for it. But when Arjun and he went to check for the selection result, it shocked that Abhi had been selected as the Captain, giving a chance to prove him back. Moreover he didn’t meet Tanu also.
Suddenly the thought strikes his mind.
‘I kissed her, so is she my lucky charm? Or kissing her pulled my luck back into my life? Bulbul said that I will get my new luck in my life today? Is that her?
The cursed frog kissed by the fantasy princess and that frog turned to the prince charming. Am I that prince? Is she my Princess? Is that is my Luck having her in my life?’
To be continued…
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Abhi Varma
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