#LoveAndJoy
It was the first time a person mentioned my name. Yes, I am Ashwath. But that doesn't matter. The only thing that mattered was Jessica Magnus. "But how come she know my name?" might be the question running in your mind.
I stared back at her with a surprise along with a frightened look. I had a pretty tough experience with her during my school days. She was a kind of a mean girl. She always tries to dominate others with her cold behavior. That's why I wore an annoying reaction on my face. But, it was she who called me, so it wasn't a bad thing to smile back at her. Probably she might have changed, after these years.
We both did our schooling in Bangalore. She is actually from Bangalore, but I studied there by boarding the school's hostel. I literally hate my school days due to some tough times, more importantly she was one among them who caused me the considerable amount of trouble. I hoped that all those were over, as I had completed my school.
Thus, I replied her, "Hey what a surprise! How are you?". She replied me with an unusual smile,"How do I look to you?". Guess, she hasn't changed a bit from school, same as she was, from school, but with better smile than in past. We started to have a chit chat about the very few nicest things about our past. And we also shared info about how we had joined in the very same college, then.
All of a sudden I was feeling that someone was watching all this, so I turned. It was Aasha and Ashwin. They were staring at us all time, in order to get a peek into who I am talking to. And also they were confused on seeing me talking so casually with a new girl. Ashwin wore a smile, he then turned and started walking towards the dorm and shouted on his way that he will be waiting for me in the canteen. He pretended as if he was not willing to disturbing us. This commonly happens with boys, when his friend talks to a girl. But I saw a different reaction from Aasha's face. It was also the common girl's reaction, but they usually try hiding it, but it was quite obviously visible on her face, that day,even tough it was only 7hrs that I spent with her in class but I could understand what she was feeling. She came near and tried asking something to me but she felt quite disturbed by Jessica. I gave a smile and said silent bye to her. She replied bye with a slow and a low voice which was quite annoying.
Within few minutes, Jessica also departed. Her driver came to pick her up. It was a Black BMW. And the number was TN 01 JM 719. She moved on by telling bye.
Then I started walking back in to the canteen. Ashwin might be waiting for me there, I thought, I normally have the name of being the late customer. Probably he might have been waiting for quite a long time. So I started rushing toward the inner pantry to find them. There they were. Ashwin and Aasha waiting for me. It was quite awesome to see friends like them roaming every where, united and also I just hoped that they where just friends. I reached their table, Aasha was telling to Ashwin, "Want to go home early, So order soon. I want one veg-puff". I understood that she was running out of time and I was the cause for the delay. She looked quite disturbed, might be because of me. I started to ask her something but at the same time Ashwin triggered a question at me,"What do you want dude, puff or.....". I replied,"Yes the same.". And he joined the queue to buy those puffs.
Probably the queue length intimated me that it might take some time for order to be taken, so I got some time to talk with the girl in front of me. But I felt she is not ready to talk with as if she is turning towards the wall and looking through the window and curling her hair with a pen. Gosh!, she is really beautiful. Only in these rush hours we boys find time to admire a girl like Aasha. All of a sudden she turned towards me and I was caught. I started blabbering, in order to hide that I was admiring her beauty. She stopped me with a stiff voice , "Your School mate?". I actually didn't expect that she would be asking this question. This might have been the thing which was running in her mind form the time she saw me talking with Jesiccca.
Oh! finally I got the answer for her silence, not exactly, but this is a confirmation for something which I already knew. Then I replied her,"Yeah, she is just one my school mates. I haven't talked to her much during the school times and this was probably my first lengthy conversation with her".She replied,"Ohh,... Okay Okay". I hoped that words might have comforted her, I supposed. Her face bloomed after that, might have been her natural way of retreating after getting her question answered. Then I started to talk with her which automatically started to look like flirty conversation. To err is human. When everything was going nice suddenly a puff came in between us. Yup! it was a veg-puff. And it was Ashwin who came with the puffs, From then on, I started calling him as puffs, and then the whole college started calling him the same.
Aasha started to come in her two wheeler to college. It was a "Bajaj Krystal". Me and puffs always used to walk her to the parking lot daily and only after biding her a bye we would walk towards the hostel, talking a whole lot of things. And one fine day, the evening routine of bye bye was done and we started to walk tot eh hostel, but suddenly, Aasha's voice came into my ears, "Hey! Ashwath!, do you have a drafter?.Because I have a spare on my scooty,If you want one come now and get it.". Instantly I turned towards Ashwin as if I was asking for a permission. He laughed at me and said, "Just go and get it man, I will be waiting for you in the hostel".
Finally, I got some private time to talk with her. We started to walk together, instead of riding her bike she was literally dragging her bike with me walking by her side, guess she wasn't in a hurry today. We were discussing about our childhood, family etc. By then, I came to know that she was playful and fun loving as like a jumping bean. And also she did not have a licence to drive, but she drives a bike, pretty daring too. She is a kind of girl who try to do all kind of modern day activities, even though it doesn't suit her.
I received the drafter in my hand only after going half way down the college gate, on saying a bye, she raced on her way as I started walking back to the hostel.This time though, with more smiles. I was literally flying above cloud nine. Actually, that was the moment, I felt that I've attained something, which I was missing in my past. I turned and looked at her racing towards the gate. There I saw "Kumar Anna". He was the watchman, peon and all in all, in our college. He use to wave bye mostly to everyone in the college, especially to Aasha. When she comes in her bike, he makes an arrangement that the gate was fully opened up and clears the path as like a traffic policeman. First I thought he too is trying to impress her by doing this. But later, I came to know about that funny incident. Yes, During the starting of the first academic year, she drove straight into the gate and dropped her scooty down and was blinking like the comedy actor "Senthil". It was happening frequently and thats why Kumar anna did all these preparations.
But she had failed this time also. lol.. I came to know that a accident can happen even with these kinda dead speed bike. she was only travelling at 12 kmph.
Kumar anna lifted her vehicle by saying, "Wicket number 20", she was standing near the bike in the same way, like the previous 19 times. By hearing him and seeing her standing that way, I could not control my laughter, I was laughing loudly with tears in my eyes. Even the guys could have heard my laughter. Only after I slowing down with my laughing I came to notice that Aasha was staring at me with anger and a bit of tears on her eyes. Man! why should she cry for this??. Girls are girls. Its very natural for me to laugh on seeing a person in such a situation, but, its Aasha. "Oh please! forgive me this time please, I ll try not to laugh the next time, ha ha" was the message conveyed to her through my gesture.
Since, I was just 50 meters away from her and she started to rush towards me with all her anger mounted on her face which was about to come out in the form of tears. She came near me without uttering a word, she just plucked the drafter from my hands and went on to start her bike and drove towards the gate again. I was speechless at that moment.Was I wrong?, I might have been, I thought. I was left blank , so I did not realize that I should have told the words, "I am Sorry", to her. Because my act of laughter during her crisis time, even though it was funny, might have hurted her, because,as I told you, she was very childish. She looked back at me and raced out of the gate once again.
Crrraaaash!!!....
Again i heard a Tyre screeching sound, along with a high pitched human tone. It was Kumar anna shouting in pain. Oh no....!!! she had hit Kumar anna's middle portion ( probably the groin), this time. He was jumping in pain. HA HA HA!!!, No way that I was going to control my laughter this time ha,.. ha.... ha....
To be continued...!
2 comments:
NICE......
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