Chapter 5

*Ritika Pov*      

When Di started to walk towards that person who really seems like an Unkhushal person just like Kri said. I held Kri's hand tightly hoping that Di will not get in trouble or something.

"We have one task for you to do." A senior said smugly and remaining too looked at me the same way.

When he stopped in his tracks and turned towards Di, all the seniors looked at the scene in shock like they couldn't believe he even stopped.

"Why did he stop? He never stops even if our lecturer calls him." The girl who gave the thought of kissing him said with complete shock.

"Look he even took the rose and didn't snap at her." a boy said looking at the scene infront of us.

"And now she is really going to kiss him?" the same girl asked in fear and I can see the worry for my Di in their eyes.

But when Di after kissing him she rushed towards us, all the seniors looked at her in complete shock with mouths wide open. She asked me whether I am fine and when I said I am, she left after I actually assured her completely.

After she left we all looked at that Khushal to see he just stood there in stun and looked at my Di until she disappeared from our sight.

"That is so not supposed to happen. As for our plan he should just move on without stopping even when she called and we will flaunt that she can't even do a small task. That's what we have been doing from last year." Girl said pacing around and suddenly stopped when she realized that some of the juniors are still standing infront if them.

"You come here!" A guy said and I walked near them.

"You need to go to canteen and bring all of us any snacks." Another guys said.

That's all! I thought frowning. This is ragging? I thought completely disappointed. But I didn't say it out loud because who knows they will may even make me kiss someone else.

"And she will go with you." One senior said pointing out at another junior.

I nodded and we both left towards the canteen as per the directions. The girl is completely quiet so I looked at her frowning.

"Hello! I am Ritika." I said offering my hand.

"Hey I am Anita." She said taking my hand.

"Sorry! I never gave my introductions at first so I was kind of silent." She added smiling.

"It's nothing! So what branch?" I asked her when we neared the canteen.

"Mech! What about you?" She asked smiling.

"Same here! This is definitely a good coincidence." I replied and we walked towards the containers where the food it kept.

"Excuse me? How much are these?" I asked the old man standing there.

"There is still time for that kid. Go to your classes and study something atleast one day."

 He replied scowling.

We both were taken back by his reply. So this is the ragging? I thought grinning.

"Uncle! We will stand here and ask you all the prices for all the things that are here. Let me tell you we can use very irritating tone too. So give us Uncle please." I said grinning.

"Do whatever you want." He said and started cleaning the glasses and everything.

I winked at Anita and we did the same like we said for atleast ten minutes. Then finally he gave us our orders.

"Kids these days can get any ideas except the good marks." He muttered to himself.

We both shrugged and started walking towards the door but suddenly one group of people came infront of the door. Looks like they turned this side just now.

I stopped myself from colliding with the guy infront of me and also from making snacks fall down. I looked up to see that he is looking at me fuming.

"Don't you have eyes? Look where you are going properly." He said with complete anger.

"I am so sorry!" I said dramatically gasping looking at the corner of my eyes and Anita slapped on my hand.

"Wait! They are not our seniors." Anita said when I glared at her.

"So? And how do you know that?" I asked her confused.

"They are my classmates in Jr.College. And you need not say 'Sorry' to them at all." She replied looking at them for one second and again looking at me.

"I know that!" I said smiling.

"Then why did you didn't say anything for the way he talked to you like that? And to top of it all you apologized?" She asked in complete confusion.

"Look Anita! He and they knows that the mistake is theirs. Not accepting their mistake he shouted at me or that's what you call his whining as. But see even though it is not my mistake I apologized." I replied grinning.

"And that helps in..." She trailed so that I can finish it.

"I will get the brownie points and these gets a feeling in subconscious mind about how wrong they are." I said and her mouth formed a big 'O'.

We heard someone clearing their throats so we looked ahead and saw that they are still standing there.

"The 'They', 'Them' and 'He' are standing infront of you." The same boy said who talked to me angrily.

"See Anita! They are already feeling sorry for the way he talked to me. Because of which they are still standing infront of us." I said smiling sweetly at all of them.

"Look! I just want to tell you that..." he started to say in anger.

"It's ok! You need not apologize. Mistakes happens and you are a kid so obviously it happens." I said cooing him.

"You! I am not a kid. And my name is Kalyan." He said huffing.

"Ok Kalyan." I said cooing him again.

He started bringing his hands infront of me like he is ready to press my neck. I immediately gasped and said "Kalyan! I told you right that you need not apologize and you definitely need not join your hands infront of me."

They all looked at me shocked and Anita is just controlling herself from laughing. I dragged her and left the canteen in the tiny space we had as they are standing infront of us.

"But still you shouldn't have apologized." Anita said frowning.

"I didn't!" I said grinning.

"What do you mean?" she asked confused.

"I didn't even look at him or them. I looked only at the Canteen Uncle from the corner of my eyes completely and said that. But they didn't saw that." I replied.

"I got another doubt! Why do you need to do all these? You could have just shouted at him back and showed him his mistake." She asked frowning.

"Ok I will shout at him because he shouted at me. Then he will again shout at me because I shouted at him. This just goes on and ends with both of us becoming rivals or something. And this is my first day which I want to be filled with fun. What I just did is also fun. So he got little medicine for his rudeness and my mood too didn't got disturbed which actually became even good after this." I replied and released a breath.

She joined her palms infront of me and bended her head. I laughed and we both walked towards our senior's direction to give them their snacks and go to our classes.

**They both didn't saw that the 'They' along with 'He' heard everything she just said to Anita standing just behind them as they followed the 'He' who walked toward her to shout at her again.**

After giving the snacks to the seniors we both left to go to our MECH block. We sat beside each other in the middle bench and then saw few people entering the class.

In those few we saw the few who are from the group we saw before in the canteen and mainly that guy.

He narrowed his eyes at me and I looked away rolling my eyes. Didn't expect this but I am kind of sure that this will be fun.

*Akhila Pov*

I sat at the last bench and stared outside the window. I always liked the last bench not because we can ignore the classes but because we can be free completely.

Ofcourse to be honest to ignore the boring classes too. I smiled looking at the birds and my hand immediately itched.

I took my book and started drawing them. I was so engrossed that I got startled when I heard the door opening with sudden crash.

I looked up to observe two things. One is that few people are looking at me in shock and those people are the same who ragged me. I didn't expected them to be in the same branch.

That is not the main thing here. Because the second thing made my eyes go wide as the culprit for the door opening with that crashing sound is none other than 'Khushal'.

"Why do they all need to be in the same branch and in the same class?" I asked whispering no one in particular.

"You are also a senior?" The girl who actually gave me the rose asked sitting beside me.

I still looked at that guy hoping that he will not look at me and nodded at her question. She then gasped when he started walking toward us but still didn't look at us.

"This is his place!" she whispered.

Before I could ask her should I get up, he stood near the bench and I lowered my head immediately.

I slowly looked up with my head still bending and saw that he looked at me with frown for one second which immediately changed into a little shock. Then suddenly he moved away and sat at the other last bench which is beside this.

"Do you know black magic?" The girl asked me amazed.

"Er... what?" I asked her confused.

"My name is Rani. And he always sits in the place where he sits for the first day at the beginning of each year." She replied.

"Oh! Maybe he changed his mind this time." I said and closed my book.

"I am really sorry about the ragging part. And we didn't think that all will happen." She said and started explaining when I looked at her confused.

"So I just had to go near him and call him but when he will not care my call like he generally does with everyone I have to come back to you guys and you all would have looked at me smugly. That was the actual ragging?" I asked her shocked.

"Yeah! We would never go to that extent but I just added kiss to scare you a little." She replied guiltily.

"I kissed him unnecessarily?" I asked shaking my head.

"It's ok! You did what all the class wanted to do from two years." A guy said smiling at me.

"Even guys wanted to kiss him?" I asked him looking up and down.

"Oh no! We guys wanted to slap or punch that cheek but like they say an unexpected kiss from a beautiful girl is worse than a punch. As the punch only disturbs the face but the kiss disturbs the mind." He replied laughing and I shook my head again.

"So Rani, introduce me to your friend." He said showing me.

"I too don't know her name." Rani replied smiling.

"My name is Akhila." I said offering hand and she took it. Immediately it was taken into his hand and said "My name is Zaheer. And you are beautiful my dear."

"Please don't mind, my boyfriend is little flirt." Rani said punching his shoulder.

I laughed and tried to forget that someone is sitting very near to us who have a questioning look in his eyes.

He must be thinking I played a prank on him as I told him that I was asked by senior acting like a junior when I am actually not a junior.

"Rani! Can you give me your notes so that I can know what I missed from the before classes?" I asked her.

She nodded and moved to her seat. I thought she will return but she just passed the book to me.

I looked at her questioningly for not sitting here. She gestured me towards the side bench and shook her head.

I don't need any other explanation right now and I didn't dare to look at his side. This is so not what I thought.

*Kritika Pov*

I sat at the last bench and saw that the classroom is immediately filled with everyone. Some girl sat beside me who didn't even glance at me.

Lecturer entered the class and started the introductions actually. That's a surprise but the only problem is he is asking why we chose CSE.

We chose this to study this is the simple answer. I don't even know why he is even asking this stupid question.

So when he asked I just said "To study this!" and immediately everyone laughed making me frown.

"Why did you choose this particular one?" he asked not at all getting angry.

"Because I can't accidently kill anyone by the mistakes I may do in working with a computer in future." I replied honestly.

"What?" he asked shocked and everyone too looked at me shocked.

"Yeah by choosing science I can kill patients, animals and plants. By MECH I can kill the workers who will use the machines I may design in future. By EEE you know what will happen with wrong connection in the electronics right. So I chose this and I can study peacefully without fearing that I will harm someone in the future except the computer ofcourse." I replied and sighed because I am tired of repeating the same thing to everyone.

Then I heard someone laughing and I immediately looked at the door to see that my hallucination started because Sanjay is standing there.

He asked sir permission and entered the class which filled with the students who are clutching their stomachs to not laugh that much made me realize that he is not a hallucination.

I gulped and sat down holding the table because I just realized that I have made myself a fool infront of the whole class.

"Hey! It was funny and we enjoyed it. But don't think badly about the situation." I heard the girl beside me said smiling.

"I am Ria." She said forwarding her hand.

I took it and said "As you already heard I am Kritika."

She nodded and smiled at me. We both talked ignoring the introductions which are going on and became good friends immediately.

She just doesn't talk that much so she didn't said anything when she first sat beside me. I immediately liked her and felt happy that I already made my first friend in this college.

And I tried to ignore the fact that my neighbor is my classmate too. This is not at all what I expected and I am dreading the situation.

You are so mean God! I thought and immediately apologized to him.