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Kiya and Panchi : Chapter 2
The next day Kiya woke up with the ringing of her cell. She constantly kept disconnecting the calls. She wanted to sleep more. After an hour, she finally woke up. She saw her cell phone, 10 missed calls, 2 msgs that read- ' Wake up u lazy bones.'
The other read-'Yippee!!! Our dream has come true... We got in Thodamal. My father saw the merit list and told me just now. Call asap...' The message was from her school friend, Gia.
Kiya thought that she should go to sleep once again. But that was not possible, she already woke up late. She washed her face and brushed her teeth. She asked her mom for a coffee as her head had a slight pain. Over sleeping also causes such headaches. After drinking her coffee, she immediately took her cell phone and called Gia-
"Uth gayi maharani? What the hell? How much you sleep yaar?- Gia said in sarcasm.
" Sorry" Kiya said while yawning.
" Get ready asap and we have to go to the college to secure admission." Said Gia
"I'm really confused. I don't know what to do? You go and complete the formalities, I need one more day to think." Kiya said.
"Ok fine. I'll be leaving." Saying this she hung her phone.
A day had passed. Kiya was unable to decide. She felt helpless and needed someone to talk. She called Ruchi on her cell but she didn't answer so she dialed her landline number out of frustration. The phone was ringing. Before anyone on the other end could say anything, she blurted-
" Hey! It's me. I am helpless, tell me what to do. You know what, I got through Thodamal but I don't want to go there. Hello. Are you there?" she suddenly stopped. She thought she was not talking to Ruchi.
" Hello Kiya, Ruchi is not at home." Said a voice.
Kiya felt stupid. She thought of disconnecting the call but that would be more stupid of her to do that.
"Oh, I am sorry" she said sadly.
"That's fine. Ruchi is out with her friends I suppose"
She understood that it was Ruchi's elder brother KD (they called him KD bcoz he did not like himself being called Keshav)
"Actually she was not picking up my calls. By the way when will she be back."
"She said she'll be back by evening. Anyways I will tell her that you called." He said.
"Ok. Thank you. But how did you come to know its me." She questioned again.
" Because only you call and say it's me instead of a usual 'hello'. Ruchi keeps telling me all this and our landline has a caller id. She has saved ur number." He replied.
Kiya thought of jumping into a well. She thought' why the hell did I ask this question? I'm so stupid. Uhhh !'
" Okay. Anything else." He asked when Kiya did not speak for sometime.
"No. Thanks. Bye." she replied.
Kiya was a little relaxed as her stupidity changed her mood. She started laughing on herself. She started thinking about KD. 'what he must be thinking of me? Was he laughing on my silly questions? Why was he so rude? Didn't even say bye. Anyways why should I bother?'
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Few days later 2nd list was out and Kiya finally got into V.J.T.I. She had decided to go to V.J.T.I. by this time. But Ruchi failed to get into it. Kiya was nervous but Ruchi on the other hand seemed cool. She told Kiya that for safety purpose she is securing in Sadar Patel. Kiya did not want to loose her friend.
And finally the last list but yet Ruchi could not make it. And she ended up going to the former college. They went to same classes but due to different college timings, their batches were different.
One evening,
Kiya was sitting on her bed doing nothing. She was hurt that she was all alone in the college. All her friends were in different colleges. Kiya's mom called her for dinner. She did not reply. She sensed that something wrong has happened to her. Every mom can feel that her child is in pain, even if they don't confess it to them, as it is said that for a husband his wife may or may not be a 'QUEEN' but for every parent their daughter is a 'PRINCESS'. Kiya's mom came to her room to find out what had happened.
" Come let's eat. I have made your favorite dessert for diner."her mom said.
Kiya nodded her head in affirmative.
"What happened to you ? It seems you are least interested." She straight away asked her.
Kiya explained everything to her mom. She heard everything patiently.
"You know why this has happened? Asked her mom while Kiya gestured 'why?'
" Because DESTINY has planned a beautiful surprise for you." She answered
"Really my sweetheart, in this world everything happens for a reason. It may sound silly for you right now and you may be 'thinking why only me' but on a long run it may really prove beneficial for you. GOD wanted this to happen and HE has planned your DESTINY." her mom added.
"May be." Saying this she went for dinner. Although Kiya showed that she had ignored her mom's talk completely, she was thinking about the 'SURPRISE' her mom had mentioned.
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It was a pleasant morning. Kiya woke up early that day. It was her first day in classes so she was excited but sad at the same time. Her best buddy was not gonna be with her.
Kiya approached her classes with nervousness building inside her. There was hustle and bustle near the reception regarding allotment of classrooms, filling forms, preparing id-cards and what not. She managed to ask a peon about her class and went inside the classroom. She saw very few students in the class. Girls were sitting on one side of the classroom. She saw the fourth bench empty and went to sit there. On the 3rd bench, she saw a girl scribbling something on her book. Kiya saw her writing 'V.J.T.I.' in the college name's blank. Kiya thought she should start chatting up with her as they were in the same class as well as in the same college. She decided to play dumb.
"Excuse me, any idea when this class will be starting. It's already 5.30pm, yet no professor" she asked artlessly.
"They said 5.00pm. May be because of the overwhelming crowd, it will start late" replied that girl.
"Actually from tomorrow my college is commencing and the timing is 7 in the morning. They should not leave us late otherwise getting up in the morning would be difficult." Kiya purposefully gave her the hint as she knew that the girl must be thinking the same as they were in same college.
"Even mine. Which college you have joined?" she asked.
"V.J.T.I and wbu?" she questioned back.
"Same here"
"That's nice. By the way I'm Kiya and what's your name?"
"Panchi"
"Nice to meet you Panchi."
" Same here. Are you Ruchi's friend?" she asked. Kiya was amazed at this.
"Yes. But how do you know?" Kiya asked
" Ruchi keeps on telling me about you. You both are best friends right!" she said playfully.
They were chatting on the usual topics. Didn't know what suddenly strike Kiya's mind and she asked" Hey are you Ruchi' brother KD's girlfriend, Panchi?"
"Yeah. That's me." She replied.
" Can we be friends? Kiya asked.
"Yeah. Sure." She answered.
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Days passed and Kiya did not feel lonely. She had a friend with her. They used to study together, bunk lectures which were not so important, party together. Every weekend, all three- Kiya, Ruchi, Panchi would hang out together. Kiya started enjoying her college life a lot.
Next chapter soon...
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