This is a part of a bigger context which i have been working for quite sometime.After a long passage of time, i re-started working on it and wanted to share a small portion of it which i wrote today.Hope you all like it and as always nothing beats a comment below the blog.Thanks!



I was doing what i was best at, flipping my fountain pen between my fingers. I made sure the cap was turned ON as like the last time,spilling the royal blue ink on the shirt of the girl sitting right in front of me was the last thing in my mind.I scanned around the examination hall as i still fondled with the pen.This was certainly the best i could have done at that time as the next or say the last 4 questions were not only uncomprehending but also unanswerable. I was clueless, but still could have written something which would have fetched me a mark or two.While my fellow class-mates furiously raced on the answer sheets, I gave a wry smile.It was weird given the fact that I never scored less that 80% on any given day and in any exam.I recalculated the least marks I could have scored even if I left the rest of the questions. Though my mind wanted to be strict with the evaluation, my heart made generous attempts with score.My analysis showed that I would still pass and with marks way above the border line.I kept staring around when the invigilator stood next to me.Its insane when someone starts to have a sneak-peek in your answer-sheets expecting a lot and you have nothing to offer.Its same for a fellow student or a teacher cum invigilator.That day I would have disappointed anyone.
The teacher who had adorn the role of invigilator after staring for more than 20 seconds on my answer-sheet could resist herself from asking "What are you upto.?Finish your paper soon.The time's running out".I glanced at her,shrugged my shoulders and gave a "I dont know the answers Ma'am" look. The sheer disappointment was writ large on her face.I imagined how similar anger imbibed with disappointment would also be clearly visible on my parents face too, once my results came out.The sudden realization of reality made me panic and i took my pen and flipped the paper again in an attempt to save the last minute honor and pride. The efforts went in vain as i stil didnt have any idea about the remaining questions. The english written seemed hebrew and greek to me. I wondered why I played anawares to the questions when the entire class curiously kept writing in.Well !! I hadnt studied 3 chapters from where the questions emerged. Now the question was why. What exactly was i doing the earlier night. My last night deed was sitting in the other class, as her roll number came before me and was seated in class different to mine.Shit! I thought, had she been seated in this class,I would have stared at her rather than getting anxious and wasting my time. The girl with whom I had my 1st date in the school canteen a week back had suddenly become my need if not the necessity. I looked at my watch which showed 12.15pm, 15 minutes still to go before the final bell rang, and i suddenly drowned in the flash back of the last night events.
I was done with more than 70% of my syllabus when the bell rang. My class-mate and my rival in class had come in with a doubt.Infact he had rather come to keep a check on my progress with the subject and if he had his will, to sabotage it.I still had 3 hrs to go before the clock struck 11pm, the time when i would start my revisions. I felt like extending the break i took courtesy my rival friend and i logged on to internet to spend the next 10 minutes.I setup an alarm to ensure that the 10 minutes didnt last for an hour. I signed in to Gtalk to see if any of the other guys were online.Truth to be told, i wanted to check if she was online and pass on a few study tips to her. This is what the geeks and the studious types do, rather than sending pleasantries, they pass on study tips. She was online with the busy status and the status message being ":(:(:(".I clicked on her name trying to check out what the plural smilies meant.Since, the larger part of my mind was occupied with life sciences and other biological things, i fumbled to type anything.I closed the window and was about to sign out when she pinged me.It was like a deja vu moment.
Her: Hey, done with your studies i guess!
Me: Are you asking or telling me.. :D
Her: Asking you as i am yet to start. :-/
The beep sounds from my alarm startled me.I pressed the cancel button to switch off the alarm.
Me: Oh..! y..Dont you have your class notes ???
The multiple question-marks were for the extra attention i was showering at her.
Her: I have but noone helps me despite of having studious friends in the class.
The heart skipped at beat.Did she mean me?I was studious for sure but never before in past had she asked me to teach her.I would have surely obliged and would have been infact loved to do it.
Me: Oh.. who are those stupid friend's of urs ?
Words such as 'stupid','idiot','insane' which would have made me go really insane, if used by any guy for me, had a completely opposite effect when a girl used it.And if that girl was hot, the feeling compounded itself.All boys i guess feel the same.
Her: Well.. one of the stupid ones is chatting with me right now :P
There you go!.. wow...I am so stupid.I loved it.
Me: Are you chatting with some other guy too :P
I tried to pull her leg
Her: No, but if i did, will that bother you ?
By now, we had completely deviated away from the topic we started with "Studies".And i had no sense of realization about it.
Me: Hmm...How do i escape being un-bothered seeing the girl of my 1st date chatting with someone else.! :)
Her: So sweet of you.! but by the way, that was not a date. How can just a samosa be date, you cheapo :P
Me : Oh, i thought it was :)
As soon as i pressed enter after typing the above statement, i got a message. The user "puprplehaze" is no longer online!
Now that was ambiguous.She left leaving many questions unanswered.Did she like me being bothered ? Did she think it wasn't a date.? Did she expect another date with me?
I spent the next 30 minutes trying to figure out what she meant and in what context.I could no longer concentrate in the books and somehow I had a feeling that the shrewd neighbor of mine had conspired the entire sent of events. Damn! he seemed to have really succeeded in his attempts. My mum shouted my name for dinner as i cursed myself and the competitive neighbor of mine for the nth time.As i gulped the 3rd roti, a beep took all my attention.Somebody had pinged me on Gtalk, where i was stil logged in.Noone except me noticed that as my concentration was still transfixed at the girl who called me 'cheap' an hour back.I excused myself from the rest of dinner saying I had to study late, so wont be eating a lot.My mum was about to play her regular concerned pre-recorded "khayega nahi to padhega kaise" message, when Dad intervened and asked me to carry on. I jumped off the dining table and headed straight to the desktop rather than the washroom. It was her!!. My unbound excitement reached no limits and I spent the next 2 hrs chatting with her. No, still none of my answers were answered, I stil was 'chaep' and had to treat her in a better restuarant despite of the fact that it was me who helped her out by escorting her home.And above all i wasnt complaining.
As the clock struck 12, she logged off saying a flurry of byes and sweet dreams in a single go.I logged of my pc, and stared at the blank monitor for the next few minutes.I never realized how a broad smile also companied my staring eyes.I was too excited and pumped up to study any furthur.I wrapped my books, took a notebook and crashed on bed.People say you lose your sleep when you are in love, but i fell asleep as soon as i closed my eyes. The next 6 hours i dreamt of nothing but her.My dreams were shattered when my alarm went off at 6 Am in morning. Though i panicked for not having studied the last 3 chapters, but on looking at the larger picture where i got to be with her, it calmed me down. Though i didnt sleep back, i gazed at the roof top with eyes wide open, thinking about her.
The shriek noise of the final bell brought me back to the examination hall.Before i could react any furthur, my answer sheets were snatched off my desk as if it was an entity of a paramount importance.I hurried out of the class looking for her, unware of the truth that she didnt come for the exam. I hogged around in the school searching for her before i dragged my bicycle out of the school campus.