bonding,wondering and….’oh rahul not again’

It had been evening and still i was lying on my bed with dev.

“i am never going to drink again.” i said.

“that is what everyone says but i bet you would” dev replied.

“Hey raghav thanks for last night. I mean it was hard to catch this bull.” Dev complimented with a smile.

“that he was.” Raghav replied with a decent smile ,“ hey rahul.

“guys lets go out somewhere.” I said with a smile. “now that we have another person in our group.”

“oh! And what about the modern art you just performed in my room last night. Who is going to clean that mess up.” Dev snapped.

“yaaar. I am really sorry what happened last night. I was not in my senses. Of course i would clean it up. But promise me that we’ll go out after that.” I said with smile on my face.

“have you guys done the assignment that Dena had given us” Raghav pointed.

“ crap! It totally skipped off my mind.” Dev said in a low tone.

“One day i am going to kill you Dena.” I cursed.

I then headed towards dev’s room to clean it up. The room looked like a ghetto. The books were thrown here and there. The bed sheet was off the bed. my vomit at another corner. Bottles lying on the other corner of the room and an unbelievable foul smell.

I didn’t know where to start from.  Finally i decided to start with collecting the books and bottles.

Door knocked. It was raghav.

“hey can i help” he asked raising his eyebrows.

“sure. I’d loved to be helped” i replied.

He started helping me. The door opened with a bang as if someone had kicked it.

It was dev.

“how could you guys start without me?” dev asked.

“we thought you were resting so ….”i was saying.

“ok i get it” dev interrupted. “lets continue.”

For the first time i saw feeling of love and unity amongst friends. I never had friends who would run to clean my mess up. I now realised that it was a very sweet beginning towards a strong friendship .I was noticing how all three of us were snatching the working load from each other. It seemed that all three of us wanted this friendship to work.

After we got tired cleaning the room, we lied on the bed over each other.

“so we are done with the cleaning business. Now how about we start with the assignment” dev said.

“the assignment has 21 questions. It would take aleast 4 hours to solve it. There is no point we can go out.” I  pointed out.

“Rahul look tell me one thing. Why do you want to go out?”  raghav questioned.

“obviously to have fun.” I replied

“so why don’t you go alone and have fun?” he further questioned.

“it won’t be much fun without you guys.” I replied in an emotional tone.

“that is what i am talking about. We can have fun whenever we are together. It can be a movie or this assignment in front of us. We’ll solve the crap out of this assignment and crack jokes side by sides. Its all about living in the moment. ” he  explained the same way dev does.

I and dev fell silent.

We started studying together without saying a single word. Even though it took us 5 hours to complete but it was so fun that we didn’t realise how time flew.

“ooh!! I am tired” raghav yawned.

“yeah same here and we have to wake early up tomorrow for Dena’s class.” Dev signed off.

We then retired for the night.

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“hey lets go its getting late.” Raghav said.

We then rushed to the lecture hall. We reached the door. Dena had already arrived. I checked my wrist watch. There were still 3 minutes for the lecture to start.

“shall we go in?” dev asked.

“yes i am going in. There are still 3 minutes, that shows we are on time and he can’t question us.” I said in a commanding voice.

“sir, may i come in.”i asked

He looked at me and give me a look in my eye. “no, you are late” he replied and got his eyes off me.

“sir we are 2 minutes before the scheduled time. So i don’t see the point of getting late.” I replied in a loud voice.

I then checked anumeha out of the rest and gave her a wink. She smiled back.

“oh! So you are arguing. ” Dena threw the chalk down and took out a pen out of his pocket. “so Mr. Big head what’s your name?”

“Rahul khetan” i said with pride, as if he was nominating me for a Nobel prize.

“Mr. Rahul, i am going to mark you absent for the next 15 days. You need not come and waste my time anymore.” He said with a smile.

“Let me see what is going to stop me. I have done nothing wrong.” I challenged.

“don’t you step in a foot or..” Dena shouted back.

“or what….” i said standing right in front of him.

He brought his right hand up and smacked it on my left check as hard as he could. I moved side and jumped off.  i was totally sweating . it took me about a minute to realise that it was just a dream.

I sprung off my bed. For the first time i was eager to attend Dena’s class. Since i had studied the night before.

I then woke Dev and Raghav.

We reached to lecture hall early, even though the front benchers had occupied their places. Dev headed towards the last bench.

“are you sure you can hear everything from that end?”Raghav questioned. “ There is always a middle section. The teacher doesn’t notice you and nobody calls you a ‘nerdy front bencher’. And can see beautiful girls from here. Even anumeha.”

I suddenly got an adrenalin rush hearing the name anumeha.

“i am in. Dev lets sit here naa…”i said hurriedly.

Dev seemed pissed off from Raghav. Without uttering a single word,  he threw his bag on the bench and sat next to it.

I sat next him. Even raghav fell silent looking at Dev’s strange behaviour.

Dena arrived. The class stood up to wish him and complete the formality.

He totally ignored the wishes.

“ok everyone  as i remember i had given you an assignment. Kindly submit them right away. For those who haven’t got them right now, i donot want to hear any excuses. Please leave the class right away.”  he barked  trying to act like a stud, but to us he would always be an arrogant teacher. “and a word of warning to those who have copied. Somehow you would be caught. So why don’t you surrender at first and leave the class.”

Some of the front benchers jumped off their seat and rushed out as if Katrina Kaif had opened a kissing booth outside.

“so i assume all of you sitting in front of me have done the assignment yourselves.” He announced. “now i would randomly call anyone amongst you to solve  a question of my choice.”

He then called students randomly to solve questions.  Everyone was successful in solving them.

“ok . who is going to be next?” Dena said with his yellow teeth. Technically they weren’t yellow, but if they were he would have perfectly looked like a vampire. “how about you, pretty girl in sky blue t-shirt. What’s your name?”

“Anumeha” she said with a lovely smile.

Guess who he pointed out? It was the beauty queen ‘anumeha’

Every straight guy and few girls whose sexual orientation was doubtful turned around to experience a glimpse of this vanilla ice-cream.

She walked down confidently and grabbed the chalk from Dena.

Damn! Her hand writing was pretty just like her.  She got stuck in the middle of the solution but Dena helped her out.

“Brilliant Miss beauty with brains.” Dena remarked.

“what Brilliant. She struggled with the solution. I bet she would have got it wrong  without dena’s help.” Dev whispered.

I ignored Dev’s last statement.

“last question. How about you Mr. slippers?” dena pointed out at me.

“Go Rahul, show your calibre.” Raghav motivated.

I had got sweat all over me by the time i reached Dena. I took the chalk and started with the solution.

I thought to present a solution which was better than the one discussed in the class.

“you sure, you want to start it that way.” Dena commented.

I wanted to punch Dena in his face and ask him to ‘shut up’.

“aaahhh….iiiss annnothhherrr sooollluoottiioonn.” i  stammered.

“what?” dena said.

The class giggled. This decreases my confidence. Again i totally went blank. I couldn’t write a single word further.

 “Duffer boy. Get out now. I would like to meet you in my office after this lecture.” He fired.

Without any opposition i marched out cursing myself.

From a Diode we became a Transistor

I had a very bad mood that night, the reason behind it wasn’t Dena but anumeha. I ignored the girl of my dreams. Firstly, i am shorter than her. Secondly, her beauty is so immense that i stand no way near top ten contender list for her future boyfriends.

Later that evening i found her online. Somehow recollecting my courage sent her ‘hi…’ on chat. She did not reply.

I felt broken inside. I rushed to dev.

“I want to die. I hate this place. No, I hate myself” i said.

“i know, wrong things are happening with you. But this doesn’t mean that you have to run away from it. You need to stay there and fight back.” He explained.

“i am feeling very down yaar.” I said like a pessimist.

“You are getting miserable. Don’t worry everything would be fine. You’ll get over these Yips one day. You need to just relax. Okay, see tomorrow is a Saturday, which means no college tomorrow.” Dev explained. “Alcohol would help you feel better. We can drink tonight, without worrying about any hangover.”

“ ya  i need a drink. I am in.” I said.

We were heading towards but the liquor store but found Samarth on the way.

“Are you guys free tonight. I am feeling kind of bored.” He asked.

I didn’t want to tell him, what we were about to do. So i ignored him.

“we are going to have a liquor session. Wanna join?” dev asked.

“no i have got better options than that. You guys enjoy.” Samarth signed off giving me a strange look.

“so what are we gonna drink?” i asked to avoid discussion about Samarth.

“let me see i hate vodka, tequila is expensive, rum sucks, i guess whisky would be fine. What say?” he reverse questioned.

“Hey what about gin?” i asked in order to brag my knowledge about alcohol.

“don’t you love your genitals?”he said. “gin gifts you non-erectile malfunction.” he said.

“oh! Is it so. Then whisky is final.” i said.

In about an hour we were ready with aqueous ethyl alcohol to screw our livers but get a little peace of mind.

“Don’t you think that this is too much for two people?”i asked

“Rahul i think you are forgetting who we are.  Today again i would ask the same question all over again. What makes us different?” i asked raising his eyebrows.

This time however i was in mood of doing anything. I was pissed off with my situation and would have done anything to rectify it.

“We do! yes. Lets continue.” i said with full energy.

“i propose a toast to our brohood. No matter what happens i am there for you. Remember that. And as far as this college is concerned ‘This is our college and it would work the way we want it to be.’ Right?”he said.

I was really moved from his speech. I would have even kissed him if he were a girl.

“yes totaly. ”i said.

“cheers”…

We then gulped the drinks we made. After couple of drinks, my mood was getting better.

“You know what” I said inviting dev’s raised eyebrows. “i love anumeha. She has this aura which makes her so special and different. She probably is the prettiest girl in the college; still that angel has no attitude about her beauty. She stood against the entire class to save  someone she didn’t even know. There were like a dozen of girls in there but nobody except her had the courage. How sweet is that. I know I may never ever score her but i really feel bad when i am not able to communicate with her. I am only able to talk to her on chat”

“oh i see. This girl has blown your mind off.”

Dev served me another drink and i gulped it in anger. I was not in mood to listen anything right now. I wasn’t thinking, just spitting out whatever came inside my head.

“one night I am like chatting to her like a stud or something and the very next day i screw it off by ignoring her. She might have felt very offended, like she is some kind of a call girl. Why?? Why can’t i talk to her normally? Screw me!” i said and grabbed the whisky bottle. “its the time to disco. I am going to drink it neat.”

“no no rahul stop.” dev said to stop me. But it was late i had gulped the bottle like a thirsty nomad.

At beginning nothing had happened, but the thing is that alcohol shows its action gradually and it did.

“look there it is finished and nothing happened. Do you know why? Not because ‘we do’ . but its because this brain is unstoppable. This brain is no ordinary brain its a super brain.” I said in a snobbish accent.

before I could say more i puked on the floor. i had ruined dev’s room but instead of apologising i said, “wow now i feel better.”

“Ok that’s enough of the room service. Lets continue it outside.” Dev rushed

The world seemed like spinning as if i were riding on a Columbus and it was getting hard to even stand. Even though dev had difficulty to walk straight he still somehow managed to become my crutches.

“i feel like puking again.” I said hurriedly.

We sprinted towards the washroom, fell twice on the way and laughed like a psycho.

Finally we reached the washroom. I then painted it like Michelangelo painting Sistine chapel. Watching me puke dev joined me too.

Finally emptying our stomachs we started to roam around.

“What happens if we saw deena shyam right now” i asked.

“we would start chanting ‘dena syam maa ka dena’.” Dev giggled.

We then started shouting the phrase. Many rooms turned their lights on but nobody bothered to come out.

“no if we say that this on his face he would terminate us.” Dev pointed.

“yes in that case we would salute him and start doing march past. ”i said.

We broke into laughter. Both of us had fallen down, and couldn’t control it.

“hey you out there.” Someone with an unheard voice pointed.

The guy was quite far so couldn’t recognise him.

“its ‘maa ka dena’ i guess. Now what?” i said.

Dev was still laughing. I stood up and started saluting him.

“hello sir.” I said with my left hand on my forehead .

Suddenly my head started spinning at a rate i could not control. I fell down.

That’s all i remember. Next thing i saw was me lying on my bed with dev, who by the way was snoring like an alligator and an unknown guy sitting on my chair next to me, who was also asleep.

My head was still spinning, i guess now i understood what a bad hangover is.

The worst part of drinking is that every time you drink, the next morning when you discover a hangover and you pledge that you won’t drink ever again. But still you do drink next time.

 I somehow managed to get up to drink water but the bottle slipped out of my hands.

The sound woke up the unknown guy.

“oh you’re up. Stay there let me pick that bottle up for you.” He said with concern.

“aahhmm….i actually don’t remember what happened last night and i don’t even know you ” i said.

“my name is raghav Biswas. You and that guy snoring beside you had a hell of night. I mean you guys were like freaks running around.” He said with concern.

“could you feed me what happened last night?” i asked.

“ok.. haha….well you  greeted me with a salute” he laughed.

“i remember that but everything after that has like vanished out of my mind” i said.

“after that you were like abusing sir dena shyam and whats up with anumeha. You said ‘i love you anumeha’ like a hundred times” he said.

I broke the eye contact and looked down to avoid the question.

“i know yaaar, what happened you told me the entire story. Don’t worry you will gain your confidence one day.” He assured.

“thanks yaaar. You are the first person who feels that there is a possibility.” I said with a smile. “what happened next.”

“well you people went crazy and it was getting hard to stop you. so i slept the entire night on this chair.” He said.

I felt very guilty at this moment. Again someone unknown to me saved me.

“thanks man i owe you one.”  I said and with widened arms to hug him. He came close and gave me a tight hug.

Becoming an Underdog…..post# 4

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Rahul: hi…..

anumeha: hi…..wats up????

Rahul: nothing…just wanted to thank you….

anumeha: oh! So u meant thank u later that day

Rahul: yaaaar…..plz….stop

anumeha: oh….u get irritated quite fast

Rahul: normally i don’t….but

anumeha: kya hua?????? (what happened)

Rahul: i never talked to a girl before…since i was in a boys skool….so i hav this phobia….

anumeha: oh is that so???? koi na dunno wrry….aur bta hwz clg??? like it??

Rahul: ya actually i did….u tell i heard u recieved a proposal very first day??

anumeha: arre no…..these r rumours…a senior jst asked me if i was                                    committed…..dats it….

Rahul: oh…rumours very 1^st day….u’v become a celebrity

anumeha: ur mouth deems 2 wrk properly online….

Rahul: yeah right

anumeha:hehehe

anumeha: rahul gtg….its getting late….nice talkin 2 u….

Rahul: nice talkin 2 u 2

anumeha: k….gn…tk…sd

Rahul: ya…..gudnyt…..sleeptight

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I was overjoyed, punched the air a la Brett Lee. I wanted to rush to Dev’s room and tell him whatever happened, but i knew that he would come up with a flaw. Even if this was a dream i wanted to live it.

In order to see the possibilities of our getting together I google searched ‘do tall girls like short men’. The result came positive. This stimulated my thoughts and i was back to dreaming about her.

Suddenly phone rang.

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             Papa…calling

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i accepted the call.

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Me: hello

dad: so how is my son?

Me: i am fine. How about you.

Dad: how was your first day in college?

(i didn’t know what to answer )

me: great. The professors are very caring. Tell mom not to worry. I have  made many friends and i am totaly adjusted in here.

(i can’t believe i said those words)

dad: so what were you doing right now?

Me: aahhmmm…. studying…

dad: oh! Then mr. Engineer must not be disturbed. Gudnight  then.

Me: bye…

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i was feeling guilty lying to my parents the very first day. So i decided to open my books. After my studies i retired for sleep.

The next morning our first lecture was with prof Dena. So i dressed myself properly to qualify his engineer norms.

“Hey rahul, watch it today. You have gotten yourself into dena’s sight. Be confident and don’t screw yourself today” dev suggested.

“ya… i’ll try”i replied.

The prof had not reached yet, so we decided to stand besides the door of the lecture hall. Suddenly, I saw anumeha coming.

It seemed as if time had frozen. I was looking into her eyes and she into mine. My heart started beating very fast.

Still looking into her eyes i was wondering about the pickup line.

“should i say ‘hi’…no thats too old style… what about ‘wow you look great’…no that would be flirty… ”i was thinking.

The more she was coming closer the faster my heart was pounding.

She was just three steps away and still we had eyes glued to each other. I was completly blank, so i did not know what to do. Finally i broke off the eye contact and turned my face off her. Even she ignored me and passed by.

“ fuck you rahul. What was that? ”dev asked.

“i know, i screwed it again. I got nervous.”i replied. I was very pissed off; i kicked the lecture door in anger and walked towards the benches. I saw Samarth offering me front seat via signal. But i denied and headed towards the back benches.

The prof then arrived inviting a mexico wave of ‘good morning sir’ starting from the front benches.

“ok! Please be seated” he said ,“ So today we are going to step into engineering mechanics. But before that we are going to brush up our roots. Now what is this in my hand?”

“a piece of chalk” the class replied together like a nursery rhyme.

“yes” he confirmed ,“ now if i drop this on the floor how could i find the average speed it would reach in?”

almost hands were risen except mine. The prof gave chance to a front seater.

“total distance divided by the average time” the student replied.

“correct.  long ago physicist were satisfied with the average but newton wanted to think off the hook. He wanted to know what would the speed be at any instant of time. So what did he do?” he halted and smiled ,”he took a hypothetical case with decreasing the distance and hence comparing the speeds. He later found out a method to find speed at any instant., taking time interval ‘INFINITESSIBLY SMALL’. Now what’s this infinitessibly small? Its the smallest positive number you can think of. Its not zero but smaller than the number you can think of.” The class felt silent. Even the back benchers paid attention. “And This changed the view of physics since then and this legendary physicist even gave birth to a new branch of mathematics, called  ‘calculus’.”

After a halt he continued “Fine, Enough with stories and legends. Time to solve questions”

He took a chalk and started scribbling the board. The entire class followed him a copied the question.

“Crap! its rotational mechanics, my weakness and nightmare.” Dev whispered.

I smiled and didn’t reply. Rotational mechanics was one of my favourite topics.

“yes there it is. you all will get 5 minutes to crack the behaviour of the system.” the prof said. “and your time starts now.”

i was still flexible with my concepts and found out the answer in about two minutes. No heads were up till now.

 “Wow! You did it. Your answer is so short. Oh! you used Impulse momentum theorem. I was trying it with the basic toque equation which makes the solution lengthy. Nice job!” Dev praised.

The prof found us whispering. “hey you at the last bench. Stand up!” said prof dena pointing towards me.

 “have you done the question?” he roared.

Again my heart started pounding very fast, but this time for a different reason. I stood up but didn’t reply.

“no i suppose. So tell me what’s the torque equation?” he fired a bullet which had hit me like a bazooka.

It had been ten second and i was still silent. He looked at me with angry expressions on his face as if i had raped his daughter.

“How did you get into PEC? This is the most basic principle.” He insulted. “Day by day the level of intelligence of this prestigious institution is decreasing. Donkeys  are getting admitted. Sit down. You better start working hard or you are going to mess up with your grades.”

I sat down. I did not have the courage to look up and make eye contact with my classmates.

“i guess this question would be solved in eight steps. All of you might have done it.” Prof addressed. He started doing it on the board.

“Dude! What is up with you? you  have a better solution than this ‘maa ka dena’. You solved it in 3 easy steps. ”Dev whispered.

“i donot know, i just went blank” i said like a loser.

“Not again…come on yaaaar….”he said.

I remained then silent and listened to his lecture like an underdog.

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post #3……pls do comment

i cursed myself that why didn’t i miss the lecture at first place.

I went back to the hostel and got properly dressed for my next lecture. When i reached near the lecture hall i realised that i was again a minute late. Even though the teacher didn’t arrive but the the students were there having their eyes set at the door waiting for the prof to arrive.

I was about to face a hundred students who had laughed at me about an hour ago.

The first step i took inside, a guy a shouted “hey the slipper guy!!”

and the entire mob turned into laughter. My cheeks went red in embarrassment and i turned my head down. About a minute later a girl stood up and shouted “Hey its not funny. Everybody shut up.”

It seemed as if i had found a little sunlight on a cloudy day. The girl was such a beauty. Her eyes were innocent and beautiful. She had a fresh, milk complexion. Her red t-shirt made her look more radiant. Summers, oh my god Girls they’ve never looked better. They look so fair, bright and radiant.

Within a second the entire class shut into pin drop silence. I located Dev at the last bench and marched towards him. On the way I looked towards that beauty queen who had saved a my life a minute ago from hungry engineers. I stopped beside her bench to thank her. Since childhood i was a caligynephobic. That explains why i never had a girlfriend.

It had been half a minute since i had stopped but i didn’t utter a word. I was just staring her standing in front of her like a dumbo. At this moment the entire class had got their heads turned at me. Gathering energy from my entire body i opened my mouth and “Fanku ” sprang out of my mouth. Again the entire hall sprang into laughter and for the third time in an hour i embarrassed myself. This time even this piece of beauty couldn’t control and showed her pearl white teeth. This time i was saved by the prof who came to deliver his lecture. I found my seat in the end with dev.

“ man donot worry. This happens to the best of us.” dev consoled neglecting what the prof was barking.

“yeah right. I have become a laughing stock now. By the way who was that professor?” i asked in a depressed tone.

“his name is Deena Shyam. He teaches us Engineering Physics.” dev replied .

“I hate him. He really sucks.” i poured out my anger.

“hey howz this Deena shyam……’maa ka dena’….” dev giggled.

Even though i was pissed off this joke made me feel better.

“looks to me that we made a tag line for this prof” i said.

We showed least concern towards the prof and even the prof didn’t bother to obstruct us.

“Hey who was that hottie?” i asked.

“that cute chick who saved your ass and later you blew her off?” dev asked with a smile.

“yes that one.” i replied.

“Anumeha Garg.” he said.

Anumeha seemed to be the sweetest word i had ever heard.

“you know what i kind of like her. She fought for me with a hundred people. That shows she likes me too. Hey! Do you believe in love at first sight?”i asked looking in dev’s eyes.

“everyone is after her. A senior proposed her on the very first day. She denied. Rahul stop admiring her she is way out of your league. Look at yourself, you are like a foot shorter than her. Why would she go out with a shorter guy? No offence.” dev explained.

This made me fall back on earth. At this moment i wished that my ancestors were tall. For the entire lecture i ignored the prof and stared Anumeha.

At the end of the lecture we waited for the entire class to leave in order to avoid anymore mishap.

In the evening i went to samarth’s room to copy class notes. He didn’t know the story since he was busy solving physics on the front bench. After telling him what exactly happened, he gave a fake smile and handed me his notes.

“hey why are you so shut and socially inactive?” i asked seeing his behaviour.

“What? Thats rude.” he replied.

“samarth come on man you can trust me. Is anything wrong?” i further said

ignoring his last statment.

“actually there is something but…”he said.

“what tell me? Trust me i won’t tell anyone.”i assured

“i trust you but now is not the right time.” he said.

“its 7 pm. My mother is going to call me. We’ll talk later” he said.

“you even have timings to talk to your mom….haha”i joked.

He didn’t even smile. “Bad joke” i said to myself. I realised it was time to go.

“ catch you later. ”i signed off and came out of his room

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I wanted to talk to anumeha but due to this phobia i couldn’t. It had been two days since that incident and i was ignoring her and even she started ignoring me.Then an idea sprang into my head. In today’s world each and every youngster is on social networking site. I searched her name in almost every site. I finally found her on facebook. I sent her a friend request and waited for the aprooval with crossed fingers.

Later that night i discovered that she had accepted my request. The best part was that she was even online. I checked her friend list and that realised i was the only one from the college. This gave me a little confidence to chat with her.

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Rahul: hi…..

anumeha: hi…..wats up????

Rahul: nothing…just wanted to thank you….

anumeha: oh! So u meant thank u later that day

Rahul: yaaaar…..plz….stop

anumeha: oh….u get irritated quite fast

Rahul: normally i don’t….but

anumeha: kya hua?????? (what happened)

Rahul: i never talked to a girl before…since i was in a boys skool….so i hav this phobia….

anumeha: oh is that so???? koi na dunno wrry….aur bta hwz clg??? like it??

Rahul: ya actually i did….u tell i heard u recieved a proposal very first day??

anumeha: arre no…..these r rumours…a senior jst asked me if i was committed…..dats it….

Rahul: oh…rumours very 1^st day….u’v become a celebrity

anumeha: ur mouth deems 2 wrk properly online….

Rahul: yeah right

anumeha:hehehe

anumeha: rahul gtg….its getting late….nice talkin 2 u….

Rahul: nice talkin 2 u 2

anumeha: k….gn…tk…sd

Rahul: ya…..gudnyt…..sleeptight

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post #2….pls do comment

“You need some help arranging the room?” my mother asked.

“No ma I’ll do it myself” I answered with a weird tone.

“Yeah right! Like always you would like to do it on your own. Oh! Look at my sweetie, he is going to the college.” my mother said and came towards me to give me a hug.

I looked up at the ceiling wondering when would this be over.

“well  we better get going” my mother said “I’ll be waiting in the car. ”,my mother signaled my dad.

My father winked my mother while leaving as if i were a kid and I do not understand such signals.

“So beta!!”my father said with a long sigh ”there are going to be many students in the hostel who would indulge themselves in wrong things. you wouldn’t right?”

 “ya dad. You’ve asked me this like a million times. We’ve been in this room for about 2 minutes and you’ve already said like a thousand words. I get it. I am not a kid anymore. Please stop embarrassing me yaaaar.” I said.

My father came close to me and gave me a tight hug and said ”Ok. I perfectly get it Mr. engineer”

My parents then left.

Well yes i am doing engineering. Well who isn’t. Every year there are like ten lakh students applying for colleges. Its a mad rat race.  The fight is for top government colleges. 1% of them get it and rest do not. Then this mad race is again divided into different levels. The top amongst them are IITs(Indian institute of Technology. There are about ten of such institutes );NITs(national institute of technology. About fifteen such colleges)and some states colleges. Well i managed to get in a state government owned college in Chandigarh ”Punjab Engineering College”. Or as the brand name suggests “PEC”.

First year boys students are supposed to stay at shivalik hostel, where currently i am going to stay.

I just went out of the room saw two students coming towards me.

“hi, I am Rahul Khetan”i said taking my hand out to shake hands.

“Dev, Dev Agarwal” said the bulky guy with facial hair distributed across his face unevenly.

 “And I am Samarth” said the other one with a cold smile possessing a tall and athletic body.

“so what are your plans for the evening?”Dev asked.

“well nothing. Just going to set my room up.”i replied.

“Oh! come on. Do it after you come back. Come with us we are going to the so talked about market of 17 sector” Dev said. Samarth gave a nod to in his favor.

I thought that college starts in a  day and i need friends. Friends made here are friends for life. So i shouldn’t throw up a given chance to make few.

“yes! Totally . I am on” i said with appreciation.

We hired an auto rickshaw and headed towards the market and reached the market in about fifteen odd minutes.

“Is this it. Damn! I am really going to miss Delhi.” Said samarth.

“so you’re from delhi?” I asked

“Hell yes, i am from the city of hearts.” Samarth replied. Dev gave me a look raising his eyebrows showing hatred towards the last statement passed by samarth.

“So where are you from dev?”i asked to change the topic.

“that is not important. Guys we are in Chandigarh lets cherish it. Forget your pasts and start your life all over again ”said dev.

We then brisk walked across the place looking at Chandigarh’s feminine beauty with open mouths.

“i need a smoke”said dev. “does anyone amongst you smoke?”

This statement gave my conscience a setback. Its not that i never had friends who smoke but i had promised my father that i won’t fall into such people’s company. It hadn’t been an hour since my father left and i had got myself into dilemma whether how to react. But anyways i needed friends.

“Hell no !”samarth said hurriedly to convincing us that he had never had been hanging around smokers.

“well not really i donot like smoking but i don’t mind others smoking around me”i  

said. samarth gave me a wierd look and looking samarth give me a look dev gave me a look. To escape the situation i broke the eye contact and started looking at my wristwatch.

“Its kind of getting late.”i said to changge the topic.

“Yes its getting pretty late and my mother is going to call me in half an hour. So we better get going.”said Samarth.

“you can go to a washroom and tell your mother that your in hostel.”said dev.

“unlike you.hhmmm…whatever leave it. I am leaving is anyone coming with me?”samarth said looking towards me.

“dev lets go yaaar its pretty late and we have our first day in college tomorrow.” i snapped.

Finally all of us agreed and moved our asses back to the hostel.

At night after the dinner dev came to my room discussing about things around the college.

“did you like Samarth? What a douche bag he is. “he said .

Damn! so backbiting the very first day. I was confused how to react.

“Yeah totally! But i think he needs time. He is away from parents for the first time unlike us so. He needs some space and time.”i replied with crossed fingers wondering all possible ways he could react.

“yes. I guess you are right. Hey by the way do you have any problem with my smoking around you?”asked dev.

“well not really. I have had friends who smoked in my past life. So yeah! I am cool with it.” i answered.

“Do you drink?” he threw another bomb at me.

I wanted to saw no since i had promised my dad. I don’t know but kind of liked dev and didn’t want to sound like a kid so…

“ya i have tried it quite a few times. But not that often.” i replied in response to this massive bomb.

“you do drink. Awesome! So finally i have found a partner. No not a partner but a ‘BRO’. So lets propose a toast tonight for this ‘BROHOOD’.”said dev.

At this moment i was regretting last comment passed by me.

“Hhmm…. i  don’t think tonight’s gonna be a good idea. The thing is that i donot want to go to college with a hangover on the very first day.” i said making a very lame excuse.

“Let me tell you rahul we are amongst top 1% students in india. That shows we crushed exams to prove everybody a point that we are india’s cream and the difference between those 99% of the populous and us is that They only think and we do what they think. So rahul tell me what makes us different? ”dev asked.

“we do!”i said with appreciation, showing i was fully convinced by the fact.

“i didn’t hear you. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE?”he shouted.

“WE DO!”i said in a higher pitch.

“Common girl tell me WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE?”he shouted louder.

Now at this moment i had totally fallen over this bulky guy with a strange x-factor 

and i said “WE DO! WE DO! WE DO!…lets do this”i shouted in the highest pitch i could.

After a couple of glasses.

“so rahul. Do you have any girlfriend?” he asked and gave me a wink.

Being too cool got me into a booze the very first night. Now i needed a safe escape to rectify the current situation.

“well no,  never even had one” i replied making a loser face.

“You know what? Neither do i and we are going to make this happen because???”

he asked raising his eyebrows.

“WE DO..”i replied convincing that i was in the mood..

after a couple of drinks and loads of chit-chat we surrendered for the night and went to sleep.

Door knocked.

          “Hey wake up….” someone said possessing a deep voice

“ya…..who is it???”i yawned.

“this is dev. Rahul, get up we are getting late. Our first class starts in about ten minutes.”if somone had poured a bucket of cold water onto me.

Ten minutes were left and i had to chose between my toilet business and my breakfast. Finally i decided to skip the breakfast and chose the essential business. The washrooms really suck in government colleges. When i came back i found a text message on my cell phone

   “          1 new message

               From: Dev

i am leaving for the class. Get your ass to lecture hall 1as fast as you can. I’ve heard that the prof is a dick. I have already left. My apologies.  

                                                                                                         .“

At that moment i cursed my self that what had i gotten myself into. I rushed

as fast as i could. After covering half of the sprint i discovered that i was still

in my bathroom slippers and had forgotten to put on shoes. I convinced

myself saying that teachers are generally soft-spoken on the first day and continued running. A minute later when i reached near the door of the lecture hall made me realize that my theory had an exception.

As soon the prof’s eyes fell upon me my body trembled with fear. I felt as if i

had entered  hell and had an eye contact with Satan.

This beast looked like middle aged cynic who was pissed off with his life. Talking about his physique he had a large 1 pack abs which was so large that he looked like a pregnant woman about to deliver in a month. He had a phone handler attached to his belt showing his conservative nature.

“Oh! Our honored guest” the prof fired.

I looked down breaking the eye contact.

“First the very first day ; and what is that you are wearing in your feet?” he asked while laughing.

The class also started laughing.

“silence” the prof shouted.

“sir, actually i was getting late so….”i saying but he interrupted.

“Have you heard about kalpana chawla?” he asked with pride

“yes sir” i said.

“and what about Himanshu Manchanda?” he asked.

“ahhmmm…..no sir” i replied in a very low pitched voice.

“exactly. Both of them were classmates and students of mine. Well the only difference is himanshu threw away chances he got and kalpana grabbed every.    Himanshu didn’t get placed. The thing is that he was a loser and i see that loser in you now and i don’t teach losers. Come in the next class when you are in time and dressed like an engineer. You may go now” he said raising his finger pointing direction out of the door.

At this moment i was speechless and felt like a loser. Without saying a word i shut the door and went away.

Well my story starts here:->

“You need some help arranging the room?” my mother asked. “No ma I’ll do it myself” I answered with a weird tone. “Yeah right! Like always you would like to do it on your own. Oh! Look at my sweetie, he is going to the college.” my mother said and came towards me to give me a hug. I looked up at the ceiling wondering when would this be over. “well we better get going” my mother said “I’ll be waiting in the car. ”,my mother signalled my dad. My father winked my mother while leaving as if i were a kid and i donot understand such signals. “So beta!!”my father said with a long sigh ”there are going to be many students in the hostel who would indulge themselves in wrong things. you wouldn’t right?” “ya dad. You’ve asked me this like a million times. We’ve been in this room for about 2 minutes and you’ve said like a thousand words. I get it. I am not a kid anymore. Please stop embarrassing me yaaaar.” I said. My father came close to me and gave me a tight hug and said”Ok. I perfectly get it Mr. engineer” My parents then left. Well yes i am doing engineering. Well who isn’t. Every year there are like ten lakh students applying for colleges. Its a mad rat race. The fight is for top government colleges. 1% of them get it and rest do not. Then this mad race is again divided into different levels. The top amongst them are IITs(Indian institute of Technology. There are about ten of such institutes );NITs(national institute of technology. About fifteen such colleges)and some states colleges. Well i managed to get in a states government owned college in Chandigarh ”Punjab Engineering College”. First year boys students are supposed to stay at shivalik hostel, where currently i am going to stay. I just went out of the room saw two students coming towards me. “hi, I am Rahul Khetan”i said taking my hand out to shake hands. “Dev, Dev Agarwal” said the bulky guy with facial hair distributed across his face unevenly. “And I am Samarth” said the other one with a cold smile possessing a tall and athletic body. “so what are your plans for the evening?”Dev asked. “well nothing. Just going to set my room up.”i replied. “Oh! come on. Do it after you come back. Come with us we are going to the so talked about market of 17 sector” Dev said. Samarth gave a nod to in his favour I thought that college starts in a few days and i need friends. Friends made here are friends for life. So i shouldn’t throw up the given chance to make few. “yes! Totally . I am on” i said with appreciation. We hired an autorickshaw and headed towards the market and reached the market in about fifteen odd minutes. “Is this it. Damn! I am really going to miss Delhi.” Said samarth. “so you’re from delhi?” I asked “Hell yes, i am from the city of hearts.” Samarth replied. Dev gave me a look raising his eyebrows showing hatred towards the last statement passed by samarth. “So where are you from dev?”i asked to change the topic. “that is not important. Guys we are in Chandigarh lets cherish it. Forget your pasts and start your life all over again ”said dev. We then brisk walked across the place looking at chandigarh’s faminine beauty with open mouths. “i need a smoke”said dev. “does anyone amongst you smoke?” This statement gave my conscience a setback. Its not that i never had friends who smoke but i had promised my father that i won’t fall into such people’s company. It hadn’t been an hour since my father left and i had got myself into dilemma wheather how to react. But anyways i needed friends. “Hell no !”samarth said hurriedly to convincing us that he had never had been hanging around smokers. “well not really i donot like smoking but i don’t mind others smoking around me”i said. samarth gave me a wierd look and looking samarth give me a look dev gave me a look. To escape the situation i broke the eye contact and started looking at the watch. “Its kind of getting late.”i said to changge the topic. “Yes its getting pretty late and my mother is going to call me in half an hour. So we better get going.”said samarth. “you can go to a washroom and tell your mother that your in hostel.”said dev. “unlike you.hhmmm…whatever leave it. I am leaving is anyone coming with me?”samarth said looking towards me. “dev lets go yaaar its pretty late and we have our first day in college tommorow.” i snapped. Finally all of us agreed and moved our asses back to the hostel. At night after the dinner dev came to my room discussing about things around the college. “did you like samarth. What a dousche bag he is.”he said . Damn! so backbiting the very first day. I was confused how to react. “Yeah totaly! But i thing he needs time. He is away from parents for the first time unlike us so. He needs some space and time.”i replied with crossed fingers wondering all possible ways he could react. “yes. I guess you are right. Hey by the way do you have any problem with my smoking around you?”asked dev. “well not really. I have had friends who smoked in my past life. So yeah! I am cool with it.” i answered. “Do you drink?” he threw another bomb at me. I wanted to saw no since i had promised my dad. I don’t know but kind of liked dev and didn’t want to sound like a kid so… “ya i have tried it quite a few times. But not that often.” i replied in respose to this massive bomb.

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