"Hey, Anjali wait!" Priya came running after me. "Shall we go to the canteen?" We walked on the corridor leaving our classroom.
"Sorry Priya, I've to get the materials to do our assignment. So, I'm going to the library" I said.
"Ok but you should allow me to copy it later. Deal?" she stopped asking with a grin.
"Sure." I said and walked towards the library.
Priya and I are the students of 1st year Bachelors in Business Administration. We share the house also. We found the hostel food and rules horrible so, we switched to a small house with two rooms near our college. Priya is from Andhra Pradesh and I'm from Tamil Nadu. Yes, I'm a tamilian.
"Where's the administration department books?" i enquired as i signed the entry register in front of the person who wore a glass for his nose not eyes.
"That side" she pointed her finger to the third shelf on the left side.
"Thanks" I headed to the third shelf.
There were numerous rows of unimaginable large and thick books. How people wrote with full intention to finish the book? i wondered because i always had a secret desire to become a writer and whenever I start writing something, I'll threw it in the bin before I could reach three pages maximum.
I walked into the admin. row and took a quick glances of books. I kept my fingers on the books and moved towards the end of the row, slowly examining the books, to get what I wanted. I reached the edge of the shelf. Partnership, Joint Stock companies, Co- operative societies and yeah, Sole trading. Sole trading is what I've been searching for.
I happily extended my hand and took the book with nice grip because it looked thick. When I attempted to take it out, someone's strong hand also caught the book with same grip. A sudden awkwardness felt in the air.
The hands belonged to a tall guy with broad shoulders. He looked handsome in his Derby black shirt and in his perfectly fitting Denim jeans. His hair was nicely messed but looked cool, matching his style. His black shining orbs scanned my appearance like what I did with my orbs. He withdrew his hand and the book was in my hands now. The book weighed heavy so, I held it with my other hand too.
"umm, you can take the book." I extended the book with a smile. I needed it badly but he took his hand when he realized that I also needed it. That gave me a nice impression of him.
"It's okay, you can have that. I'll look for the another one", he said with a smile and turned to look at the books that were kept in a proper order.
I said thanks and walked towards the librarian and asked him to register. He flipped a large sized note book of register as i looked around for that guy to see whether he got the book or not. He didn't. He was still searching.
"Do you have an another copy of this book?" I asked the librarian. Something told me that I should not be a selfish as he gave up the book for me. I decided that I should not leave the place until he finds what he wants.
"We have three copies but another two were already taken" he replied adjusting his glass.
The Librarian returned the book to me. I saw the guy. He was still searching. Something into me drove me to help him. I walked towards him.
"Excuse me" I called him with a little hesitation.
He turned, surprised a little and smiled "Yes?"
"I asked the librarian about the other copies. He said they are already out. If you can tel me your topic, I think I can help you." I didn't think but said, "If not, you can take this."
"Thanks for your concern. But I don't know among us who needs it most. We should fir-"
"This is a library. Go out and talk" The Librarian cut us off and showed his face.
We both looked at each other and shrugged. He gently gestured that we can go out and talk. We came out and saw the canteen opposite to us.
"Coffee?" he asked in a very gentle manner. I nodded.
I sat on a table while he went to get coffee. I read the cover of the book and mumbled myself the publisher's name as I don't have anything worth to watch around. I lifted my head and watched the guy. He was standing in the small queue and heading towards the coffee maker.
His way of behaving was double macho. The way he stood, the way he spoke, the way he lead to me to the canteen made me decide that he is the perfect masculine though his manners are gentle and pleasing. Yes, he is very gentle. To say in simple, tough outside kind inside.
Suddenly something struck me. Why am I thinking about a stranger so much? This should not lead us to anywhere. Moreover, I'm a tamilian and he looks like a north Indian. I eat Idly dosa where he will eat Roti and some kind of Sabji. I laughed to myself.
"What were you thinking Miss-" he asked with a questioning smile and stopped as he don't know my name.
"Nothing, by the way, I'm Anjali Sriram, doing business administration, first year." I stretched my hands to shake.
"Cute name. I'm Kapil Nirmal doing MBA, first year." he shook my hand with a soft grip that was neither tight nor loose. He was gentle again.
I noticed him looking deeply into my eyes as if drowning. In fact he didn't spoke for minutes. I wanted to break the silence as the panic became to settle in me as his gaze tightened.
"Um, I have to submit the assignment before this 25th and what about you?" I asked him and took a sip from the cup.
"Well, I have to submit it on or before 27th this month." he said coldly and kept the cup down after a sip and looked at me.
"Oh my gosh, if I give you after 25th you cannot complete because you have a very short time. I cannot finish before 25th because only four days left for that." I said worrying. My mind was not thinking a proper idea. Our mind never thinks when we are in a situation that needs some solution, right? "what are we going to do?"
"I have an idea. I should come to your place or you have to come to mine. We should do it together. What you think?" He asked concerning.
"Sounds good... but... I don't know what my room mates would feel... I have to make sure... whether they mind... or not." I replied as my orbs ran through everything around us in confusion.
"Then you can come to my place. Don't be scared. I'm staying with my parents at home. They would definitely won't mind about it." he replied with a smirk in his face. I should say that smirk made me feel he is flirtatious. But the next moment I wiped it because he had behaved well until the last moment.
"Erm, are you sure?" I asked with a little hesitation.
"I'm sure Anjali. More than sharing a book, we can help and guide each other. Tomorrow is a Saturday and don't plan of this weekend. We got something to do."
We both laughed, shared our number and stood up to leave.
"It was nice meeting you Mr.Nirmal. See you tomorrow."
"Same here, but please call me Kapil" He said and stretched his hand to shake.
"Okay, bye" I smiled at it as I shook his hand back and left.
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I opened the door and walked into the house. Priya was sitting in the sofa watching television. We exchanged our 'Hi' and I came back to her after refreshing myself. She held her face tight without smiling or showing any reaction.
"Priya, Is everything okay?" I asked because she always behave like a brat.
"You said you have no time to come with me to the canteen but you had time to go with Kapil, isn't it?" she asked angrily glaring at me.
"Sorry Priya, but it was not on purpose. I can explain." I explained her everything in a single breath and leaned back in the sofa resting my back and felt relieved.
"Oh, so your going to his house tomorrow?" she asked with so much interest that made me wonder why.
"Yeah but what's the deal? How you know it is him who was sitting with me?" I asked seriously and waited for her to reply. She mentioned his name but never talked about him and I never heard her telling his name.
"Which girl doesn't know about him in our college? He is Kapil. Kapil Nirmal. They are very rich and popular people of this city. You had an easy yet precious opportunity to get along with him. Every girl in our college longs for him!" she almost fell off from the sofa dreaming.
For the next few hours, Priya rattled and praised about Kapil and his features and made my ears pain. At last we settled in our bed to sleep and Priya fell fast asleep. May be out of tired of speaking about Kapil I thought.
I had no fear or hesitation before I heard about him from Priya. But now something odd I felt in my stomach and I had no sleep the whole night. I slapped myself for accepting to come over.
well, that's for today guys. I'll see ur comments n then decide whether to continue or not. Pls remember we have a nice Dev team, so, encourage them by commenting and that makes them work even more effective. I'll look forward to ur comments or just hit the like button.
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