Exhausted routine

"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 daughter in science. After few days the daughter along with few of her friends insisted me to be their tutor.

More students joined of class 9th and 10th.

Its been 3 years and I love teaching. Although sometimes it's hard to handle them but I somehow managed.

After the college I rushed to the classes . I taught from 6:30-8:30 pm in two batches.

This new schedule is sucking energy & hell out of me. My eating schedule and workout was f*ucked up while my sleeping schedule was already ruined and couldn't ruin any further. "Why did you transfer here in last year, you dumb"- my inner self shouted at me.

I laid numb on my bed thinking about the routine and slowly drifting into the sleep....

Buzzzzzzzzz buzzzzzzzzz, my phone rang...

I grunt and ignored.

Irritated by the buzzing after 10 minutes , I picked it up without looking at the screen, I don't care who is calling.

"Kavyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"- shouted shaggy I removed the phone from my ear.

I am not sleepy any more. I smiled happily. Some people are worth keeping. "You stupid dumb ass girl"- shouted Rosh.

"Where have you been?!. Its been a week....."- shaggy.

"Am I the part of this conversation?" I interrupted hi.

"You Ditched Me Again Kavya, this is not done. You texted me that you are coming over but you didn't, where were you?" - Rosh shouted.

"Guys, calm down please. Don't get started now. something came up."- I spoke calmly.

" Kavya, you know this is our time, our PUBG time. Now, open your app both of you , Rosh you can scold her and I will flirt"- said shaggy excitedly.

"No guys... I can't. I am too tired, I am hanging up now." - I uttered

Shaggy and Rosh were my best friends. We played PUBG together daily. We had a great bonding with each other.

"Do you wanna talk about it? Are you okay?" Asked Rosh with concern.

"I am fine. Just exhausted Rosh." I replied.

"Is some stupid ass boy giving you hard time? Is Someone bothering you? Just tell me the name." Asked shaggy in cold voice. No, shaggy is not a fighter kinda guy. He is dramatic.

Rosh scoffed, " what will you do about that huh shaggy? You live farrrrrr……" shaggy lives in different city. We have met few times. We first time talked on social media and the rest is history.

I interrupt Rosh, "No. No one is bothering me except for you two. Why do you guys ask so many questions?"

"Because we care okay. We are not like you who ditch every plan at last moment” Rosh Shouted.

"Rosh shut your mouth. My babe is tired, do you want me to massage your feet?" Spoke shaggy. Yes, flirting is in his blood. No, we are just friends. But yes, we do flirt.

"Yeah, massage her neck too" spoke Rosh.

I laughed. "Can I go to sleep now?"

"No, what about our game?" Complaint shaggy.

"I am hanging upppppp….." I said and hang up.

I again drifted into the sleep....

Rumors?.

Walking by the canteen before the first lecture I saw the trio. I no longer sit with them during the lectures but we did share the lab table. I stopped sharing the same bench with them after about a week. Not because I had issue with them or something but simply because it didn't clicked.

All three of them were giggling. Ahhhhh another gossip. I walked towards them.

"Hi guys, what’s up?" - I asked

"Hi Kavya" all three of them in unison

"What's the news?" I jumped directly on the point

"We don't know. You tell us." - Saachi said pinching me on my elbow.

What?! Is this something related to me? I wondered.

"We are late for the lecture"- I said looking the time in my phone

Saachi rushed towards the class grabbing my hand -"will continue this conversation later for sure" She said

The trio sat on the first bench of the middle row while I sat on the last second bench ,behind June and joey.

They were the love birds of the class. Not the typical love birds but only couple in the class. Joey seems nice, he plays musical instrument, our tabla guy, and I always wondered what was he doing in this field.

Beside joey sat a really skinny girl with curly hairs who was angrily looking at her phone with tears in her eyes.

Lectures went by draining our energy.

"Why is this trio looking at me with "that" look?" I thought. What’s wrong? I wondered.

After lectures ,I walked towards the lab talking on the call with Rosh and shaggy explaining how tight my routine is and I am not ignoring them. But those stubborn ass never listened.

"I told you I am not ignoring you" I said for the 100th time.

"Don't lie, you got new friends" complained shaggy dramatically.

"Yeah got new friends" added Rosh. Words barely recognizable as her mouth was stuffed with something. She was eating non-stop.

"Shaggy come on, I wasted my whole lunch break just arguing with you" I replied angrily.

"Yeah, wasted. I am wasting your time." Another complain.

"I am going in my lab now, talk to you later." I sighed and hung up on them.

 Placing my bag on the lab table, I sat with the trio. Few minutes passed by in silence, something was wrong, these girls not talking at all for this long?

"What's up guys?!" said while working on my practical.

"Kavya? Have you made any new friends here?"- Afreen spoke with a smirk.

Afreen was bold and really opinionated. She knew where to hit and when to hit. There was no point in lying to them.

"Yes. Kevin and I went to grab tea together yesterday."- I casually spoke.

" Ohh yeah?. As in date?" - immediately spoke Saachi moving towards me.

I glanced over to Kevin's table who was already looking at me as if he knew what we are talking about.

"NO."- I said boldly to make my point.

" It was a casual hang out."

"Didn't Ricky asked you out first?" - spoke Saachi.

"No. I never spoke to him. He never approached." - I explained.

Why are people talking so much about Ricky? look at him. I felt bad for him.

"So how was your date?" Asked Afreen raising her eyebrows.

" I already told you it wasn't a date" - I said rolling my eyes. I returned back to my practical.

I look at Kevin's table, he was having an intense conversation with his buddies.

The trio already knew I was with Kevin yesterday, by the looks on their face even before I told them. That means someone else did.

I immediately texted Kevin....

"We need to talk"

And looked at him angrily.

After few secs, he noticed I was looking at him, he smiled. I pointed towards his phone. He read my text, while I still looked at him angrily.

"Sure. After the lab?." - he replied.

I continued my practical work without again looking at him. Occasionally talking to trio, answering their curious questions about you know what.