Kaira Story- What have we become??

Part- 1

She tiptoed of the party hall. In these two years, Naira hated to be surrounded by people, despised noisy environments and avoided any form of unwanted human company. She could not take it and it suffocated her to be in such spaces.

Taking a deep breath, she entered the library in the college. She had no interest in the fresher's party and to dance. She closed her eyes as hazy and blurred visions of a hospital room and a doctor's face swam in front of her " I am sorry, but you cannot exert your legs anymore" said a unfamiliar doctor's voice.

"Princess, be strong princess.. You cannot dance anymore" said a voice which was dear to her

"Papa.. Papa.. i want to see Karthik.. Papa.. Shubam.." Naira opened her eyes, her body shivered to even think of the happenings of the day.

She went to the corner of the library, opened her laptop and took out some management books from the shelf, to work on a difficult assignment that Professor Goenka had set them. It was just two weeks into college and Professor Karthik Goenka had already sent her out of the class three times. For no mistake of hers. It was that Kunal who had trapped her all the three times, but she was sent out

"Yes, why would he bother finding out what what happened? " Naira thought and wiped a tear from her eye. "His favourite word with me has become GET OUT. . be it his class, his house or his life...Ganga Mayya what is happening with my life? How long will I keep going like this?" She thought and set to work on the assignment

In another corner of the library, a young guy sat on a chair, removed his jacket and threw it angrily on a nearby chair.

"What the hell am I doing here? What has Papa got me into? He told me to take care of the college take over, I did not want to but he forced me, I come here and these people flatter me to take up guest lectures, I dd not want to do it but Maa forced me to do it. Now these people say that the original lecturer is on emergency leave and I ll need to take classes here for some more time. That too in a class, which includes her, the one who I did not want to see again in my life DAMN...".. he spoke to himself with gritted teeth as, he loosened the first two buttons of his shirt and took out a bundle of answer sheets to correct

The last two years had turned Kartik Goenka into a monster. The employees at his house and office in Udaipur who loved him once were now scared to even stand in front of him. He broke things , fired people left right and center. If anyone went to Kartik's cabin and came out without a blasting, they would be celebrated upon.

He was no less crappy as a professor too. Two weeks he had already given them 7 projects and 5 tests. He was the least lenient person when it came to correction of answer sheets and there were people who failed by a few marks, who failed by many marks. Then there was a girl, whose marks were at the rock bottom.

Sighing, he took out aher sheet first,for correcting. His hands ran over the name "NAINA SINGHANIA". It drove him mad to think that she ha changed her name, city and herself and has moved on, while he was still in the same place, where she left him two years back. Anger took over all his senses again, as he started correcting her answer sheet. She had obviously failed to be attentive in his class and her answers were all over the place. Karthik's way of setting the questions was way different from other professors.It was not from textbooks, but from the concepts he taught in class, which she had not been attentive.

Crossing out most of the answers, he finished off his correction with a big word on the front "FAIL". In the frame of mind he was currently, it gave him an immense pleasure to fail her.

LITTLE DID HE KNOW HE HAD FAILED HER ALREADY TWO YEARS BACK and this failure did not hurt her as much as that one.