Her heart was pounding furiosly,but her body moved in slow motion.Lifting legs that weren't hers.Walking towards the mirror that hung above the unfamilair chest of drawers. Looking in the mirror and seeing...
VIDUSHI KUMAR.
The reflection stared back at her,frozen and uncomprehending.The same pale face,greesy hair and thin lips she'd scorned before in the canteen.There was no question about it-Sanyukta Aggarwal was Vidushi kumar...
Her body couldn't move but her insides were shaking.Sanyukta closed her eyes"think of who u really are" she commanded herself.Sanyukta,brownish black hair,choclate brown eyes,turned up lips forming a natural pout...Sanyukta-the coolest girl at FITE,the beauty with brains...When she had her image firmly imprinted in her mind, she opened her eyes again...but in vain!!!
"stay calm" she told herself.."This has happened before,you know that,and it will pass" If sanyukta had disliked Vidushi earlier she positively hated her now."Hate...Hate...Hate...I have no sympathies for Vidushi" She tried again but it was of no use.
But it was hard to focus on hate when what she was relly feeling at the moment was hunger.It occured to her that maybe her hunger was making her to week to get back into herself.
Moving awkwardly on the unfamiliar feet she went to the door and out into the hallway.As she was exploring the house her eyes noticed a big antique clock "Oh freak!! I am late for college" she exclaimed.But while she was in this body she could probably imrove the way Vidushi dressed.
There was certainely nothing in Vidushi's almirah which Sanyukta wud want to wear. "Was the family too poor to buy her clothes? No,that couldn't bE. The house looks OK." Once again,it was Vidushi's fault-she had no taste. Another reason not to feel sorry for her"...Sanyukta thought. By now she was starving and she cud hear noises down..."maybe Mrs Kumar is setting up the breakfast table"
When she came down she witnessed a fight between Mr and Mrs. Kumar.There was throwing of dishes,physical abbuse and God knows what not!!! Sanyukta or rather I shud say Vidushi felt noticed so she just picked up a snickers lying on a cabinet and ran to the bus stop. Sanyukta knew Vidushi came through the bus,she had noticed it several times and even mocked at her for this but in reality she actually wantad to sympathise with her.It wasn't hard to spot the bus stop. And when the bus stopped and the doors opened just in front of Sanyukta or rather Vidushi,the other people waiting just pushed ahead of her to get in. "So rude", Sanyukta-Vidushi said to herself- but the bus driver was even ruder-after the man just in front of her got in,the doors closed.As if she wasn't even there!
"Hey!!" Sanyukta yelled banging on the bus door.The driver seemed mildly surprised whwn she climbed in."I'm sorry...I din't see u" he muttered. "So this is Vidushi's life" Sanyukta mumbled.As she made her way to the back of the bus, she decided that the first thing she'd do after reaching college wud be to find herself.Maybe that wud provide the jolt to end this transformation. As soon as she got off the bus Sanyukta hurried to her own locker. There she(the other Sanyukta) was...fiddling with the stuff in locker...talling to Tanya. "She looked good" Sanyukta -Vidushi said. Sanyukta-Vidushi looked at the other Sanyukta...focussed at her...but still nothing happened.
Gradually the students began to assemble in their respective classes.It dawned on Sanyukta that she had no idea where Vidushi was supposed to be? She went through Vidushi's locker and luckily she had pasted her tymtable there. She quickly noted it and then noticed the tym. "Damn!!! I'm late" she said. But when she entered the classroom the teacher didn't even glance up.None of the other students took any notice of her.She moved to an empty seat at the back of the class as the other seats were either occupied or booked.As the boring bussines studies class started Sanyukta utilised that time to ponder over her situation.
Obviously this body transfer experience was different from other ones. She'd never spent this long in any other person's body...but something else was bothering her more- if Sanyukta is in Vidushi's body where was Vidushi??
The next clas was that of Sir Vardhan's-accountancy,one of Sanyukta's better subjects. When the teacher asked for responses she raised her hand. The teacher gazed out over the class "Doesn't anyone want to give it a try?" Sanyukta waved her hand. Then another girl tentatively put her hand up.
"Yes Kaustuki?"
Sanyukta lowered her hand."Wow!!! Vidushi was such a loser that even teachers ignored her?" After this class she again checked the timetable-physical education-it said. It was a compulsory subject for all FITEians as the dean believed all work and no play makes mind dull."Good,atleast now she'll be playing,not just sitting and thinking...but there were 6 minutes for the class-What cud she do with them? In her normal life she exactly knew what she wud do-go to the closet washroom with her friends and apply lipgloss and set her hair for the next 4 minutes. But Vidushi...what wud she do??? So sanyukta decided loitering in the halls when she collided with Ruhi. "Ouch!!! can't u see-r u blind" Ruhi shouted.Hearing Ruhi shout,Tanya and the Robotic Sanyukta reached that place. Sanykta cntinued to stare the robotic Sanyukta when she snapped "Watch ur step missy-Ruhi u better use my sanitizer now"...and everybody who gathered in the hall started laughing.The other Sanykta was meaner...Sanyukta thought.Sanyukta cud sense something burning behind her eyes. "This is ridiculous. I am not Vidushi,so why m I feeling bad if someone insulted her ?" She hurried down the stairs and tripped. She closed her eyes,her mind prepared to roll down the entire filght of stairs,maybe she'd fracture her leg or something...but nothing happened.As she opened her eyes her gaze met a pair of black familiar eyes. As she continued staring them he spoke in a husky voice"Are u fine?" That's it...she couldn't control the sudden eruption of emotions and spoke thughtlessly"ur eyes"...before she cud speak further the man straightened her and then started rubbing his eyes..."Why,what happened to my eyes?" he asked innocently.Sanyukta smiled and said"Ummm...nothing,just ignore" That's all she cud manage to say.He was Randhir-Randhir Singh Shekhawat.Sanyukta had dated him once and she really enjoyed being with him.But she had to breakup with him due to one of her stupid group rules-never date a guy for more than 3 months-Sanyukta couldn't argue with them about the rule but she never ever dated anybody else after Randhir coz she knew that somewhere she had fallen for him. Her chain of thoughts was broken by Randhir"Vidushi,did u actually see that before?" he said. Sanyukta didn't understand what he meant but what took her by shock was that Randhir knew Vidushi-but how??? She continued her thoughts staring blankly at Randhir when she heard a voice of shrill whistle and realised she was late for physical education class.Sanyukta had actually been enjoying the class this month-they were playing volleyball and Sanyukta was good at it.She was always so focussed that she had no idea how Vidushi played.But she decided that she cud safely assume that Vidushi was clumsy.
After Vidushi's physical class it was her free time so Sanyukta went to the canteen.But waliking into the canteen today was a whole new experience for her. Yesterday it was her kingdom;now,she felt like she was walking into a warzone,with enemies at every table.It was scary.
"Hey, hi again" she heard that same husky voice and her cheeks turned red"-no-sanyukta never blushed,so why now"...she asked herself. "coz u r talking to ur love stupid" her heart replied. but her mind said "maybe that's what Vidushi wud hve done and right now u r in her body so u r acting like her...the best way is to ignore him." Sanyukta listened to her mind and quitely sat at an unoccupied table leaving behind a confused Randhir.
For the next class there was no subject,just a room no. 200. It dawned upon her that this cud be Vidushi's so called 'UNIQUE' class.And for the first time,she actually felt a little spark of curosity..."Umm...actually the 2nd time" she thought thinking about Randhir. As she was entering the class she again saw Randhir,who was heading towards the same class.
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