I woke up at 8am. A feeling of excitement along with a little nervousness spread throughout my body.
I laid on my bed for a while holding my phone, looking at my today's schedule.
Today onwards no sick people around me. No-one will make me feel I am old-school just because I never did drugs...
"Already up, did u sleep well?" A voice came and I snapped out of my thoughts. It was my mumma. She was standing on the door . I usually don't speak for at least an hour after waking up so I simply grunt and she understood.
Chuckling she left the room.
I got up and did my regular work out.
I joined my parents on dinning table for breakfast, "Good morning" I greeted them.
"From where did the sun rise today?" Said Arjun. Arjun is my brother, he was jolly and chilled one. He teased me all the time but knows his limits. We were pretty close to each other.
"No seriously. Why did you wake up so early today. Its still not noon yet." He teased me munching on his aloo paratha. He was a foodie and ate lots of sugar and ghee. But still he had lean body.
"Its my first day of college, I transferred to another one if you remember." I replied grabbing a toast.
"Are you sure about transferring? You can still go to your old one. I don't understand why you suddenly decided to change." Asked papa. He was in his late forties and typical brown dad vibe.
"Yes I am sure. Its not that big deal." I replied chewing my toast.
"First of all, sit properly Kavya . Put your legs down, you don't sit cross legged on chair."
Ordered my mumma. Mumma and I always fight. She is commander in chief and I am a rebel.
She is very fair and plum, and papa have dark tone. Its like rasgulla and gulab jamun got married.
"And secondly, the new college is much far. It will be more than an hour drive to your college. You are already a lazy fish, will you be able to cope up?" She asked taking her seat. She snatched the plain toast from my hand and placed a paratha in my plate.
"You know I am on diet. This is way too oily." I complained.
"Its not, eat fast and get dressed." She ordered. I did the same.
"How are you planning to handle the college and classes together?" Asked papa.
"Its all settled", I replied. I teach mathematics and science to class 10th. When I was in first year of college my neighbor asked me to help her daughter in studies. The daughter along with her friends insisted me to be their tutor. Since then I teach. Its not a huge class, but yes I have 2 batches.
After the breakfast I took a quick shower and wore high waist black jeans with a white string top along with knee length nude shrug. I never tie my hairs, open hairs make me feel confident. I just put serum on my long black hairs and let them flow.
After few hours, I was walking towards the college building,
" late by 45 minutes" I whispered, the drive from home took longer than expected. Now I have to wait till the second lecture starts. I sighed. I walked into the corridor looking for Lr.26.
It was on the second floor on extreme corner of the left wing of the building of the college. It took me minutes to find it. It was the only class without room number board on it. I saw few girls giggling outside the class.
One of them was standing by the door of the class so I rushed over to her and ask " is this Lr.26?"
She was a plum girl with fair skin and long brown wavy hairs tied into a low pony tail. By her appearance she looked kind.
"Yes" she nodded and entered the class after me.
I quickly glanced around the room feeling excited. I saw few bored students using phone, few looking at the new face(me), and some talking to each other. The lecture room had 5 rows of benches and many windows. Fully ventilated.
I sat on a bench of an empty row.
The introductory lectures were over. The classes started few days back but I was not allowed to attend lectures till all the formalities were over.
Professor entered the class with huge smile on his face. He was young, with dark complexion and raven hairs. I already knew him as he was HOD and he also helped me to complete the formalities.
He talked casually to few students before he asked me to introduce myself. My favorite part. I got up and walked up to the stage,
"Hello guys" I greeted loudly. Nobody responded. Life-less eyes staring at me. I cleared my throat and continued.
"I am Kavya Advani. I am your new class mate." I said, still nobody responded.
"Why did you choose Xavier's? Isn't the last year supposed to be the most important one?" Asked professor in his deep and calm voice.
"Actually, I had faculty issues and also the education standards are much high here." I completed. Most people have stage fear but I have stage excitement. I love being on stage.
I was about to sit on my bench when sir introduced me with few girls. I picked my bag and sat with a girl on the last bench
At this point, I knew that people around here were numb but I was happy.
"Hello" I greeted them keeping my bag on the bench."Hi" said three girls in unison. I looked at the one who was sitting with me. She was fair with brown frizzy pony tail. “Hi I am Saachi " she said excitedly."Kavya" i replied."I am Afreen" a girl sitting in front of me spoke. She was the same girl whom I talked to before entering the class."Stuthi" a small petite girl said shyly."Nice to meet you" I said formally. And Saachi frowned. She grabbed my arm and pulled me towards her."Why did you come here? What’s the real reason?" She asked. I looked at her blankly. I don't like someone in my private space so soon. It makes me feel suffocated but she had her own vibe so I let her be."I already told on the stage. Faculty issues." I spoke and they nodded, all three of them waiting for me
Its been a week here. I started hanging out with the trio and sat with them since the first day. This was the last year of graduation and I am going to be a Zoologist soon. The college timings were from 11:00am- 6:30pm and huge amount of my time was wasted on the way to college as it took about an hour to reach. Our lab was scheduled after the lunch break. The lab here was smaller than last college but much clean and ventilated. I was really interested in studies and attended all the lectures with complete concentration. I liked the behavior of the professors , they respected the students and had friendly interactions with students, unlike the previous college where most of professors had harsh attitude and dominant nature. No one approached me during this whole week, except for one. I got a text message by one of the boy from class welcoming me to the college. That’s all.
Few days passed, Everyday I rushed to my solitude during lunch break, alone. I severely needed a friend. A few classmates eventually started smiling at me whenever I entered the class. The crush guy being one of them, I didn't responded earlier but now I hesitantly smile back at him whenever he smiles at me. I walked into the classroom 10 minutes early for the first time in my life, VICTORY.A message popped up on my screen,Mumma-We are going on shopping this weekend, have you reached college yet?I felt smile creeping up my face.Me-yes mumma, reached here 15 minutes ago I am walking into the class now.. Me- I am Excited for shopping.Mumma-Take care and eat somethingWalking inside the class still looking in my phone I typed.Me- Yup. Bye.I reached the bench I usually sit on and glanc
"I had a good time with you. Thank you for the tea " I typed and pressed the sent button. It was nearly midnight. Immediately he replied -" pleasure is all mine. Looking forward to meet you soon ". Reading the message from the notifications I tossed my phone on the other side of the bed as I was completely exhausted by my new schedule and didn't had any energy to have any sort of conversation with anyone. I woke up around 9 am and rushed to get ready for the college. It takes about an hour to reach the college. The college had afternoon shift so lectures started at 11am to 3:30 pm. Lectures were followed by the laboratory sessions of about 3 hours, from 3:30pm - 6:30pm. But the professors were kind enough to end the labs an hour early. I am a tutor, I teach mathematics and science to the students of class 10th. I started teaching after 12th itself when one of my neighbor asked me to help her daug
I busted out of the lab as soon as professor dismissed us. I knew Kevin followed, I waited for him in Parking."Are you the reason behind those stupid rumors?!" I barked angrily standing in the parking lot, as soon as he came. He was still few feet far from me. Few people turned to look at us.He paused at his position for few moments then slowly walked towards me."First of all......" Breathing heavily... " how can you walk so fast?" Catching up his breath. " You busted out of the lab so fast. I had to literally run" he saidI stared angrily at him tapping my leg."NO. What rumors?"- he said after somewhat calming down." Oh come on. You know what I am talking about, spit it out"He pursed his lips into a single line."Kavya, I am innocent stop glaring at me like this. " Its scari
The next day Kevin introduced me to his friends and few other classmates.He started sitting in the middle row.He even introduced me to his friend , Armaan.While he was introducing me to Armaan, a girl joined us singing softly to herself."Hi" I said."Heeeelllllloooooooo" she saidShe was the same skinny girl with curly hairs. She walked away singing to herself. "Who is she?" I asked." Carol" he said .Armaan was tall, shy guy. He didn't talk much."Hey, did you listened to the songs I shared with you last night?" Kevin in excited tone.No, I didn't."Yes of course" with a fake smile."Yes?!" Raising his eyebrows "which one did you liked the most?""2nd one" I lied."Are you sure?. What was the name of the song?" He definitely caught me lying." I don't remember that" I looked aw
At this point, Kevin and I started sharing a same table in lab, me with Kevin, Armaan and Raaj. And during lectures Kevin and I shared same bench, shared lunch and spend most of the time together. Few of the mates started talking but most of the class didn't mind anyway, making it up to the last year this college had already sucked everything from the students, the whole class wished that this year passes by as soon as possible. But yes, little gossips and teasing, here and these was mandatory because INDIA. I started enjoying this new life, new friends, it all felt like I am a fresher again. The burden of assignment , stupid class tests, and who the f*ck gives homework in college? And actually checked the next day?????? And what’s up with these stupid class seminars? Why the hell I have to explain the topic that you are supposed to teach? But watching the fellow classmates fumble was fun too. My seminar topic was "vitamins"
In just one week, Kevin updated me with everything, how he met Armaan, Armaan was into photography and editing stuff and Kevin joined him in first year. Armaan helped him a lot in the starting, but then Armaan’s interest diverted into the electronic music. But Kevin continued editing stuff, and now he owns a camera worth lakhs. He earns too. His hobby changed into passion.He calls himself cinematographer now.It was the part of my schedule to reach college, listen to Kevin's stuff, chirpy boy he was. Everyday he would tell me about his ex, how they spent a night under the sky, and same old same old. I paid attention in the starting but eventually I got bored and pretend that I am listening.And his stupid imaginations were cherry on the top.During the 3rd lecture, Carol me and Kevin were sitting together."Did he tell you about me and him?" Whispered Carol. She sat on my