There were sports on campus the following day. I dressed up in my beautiful dress and went to the campus. I had taken my sportswear with me to be worn for the sports. I was on the female volleyball team while Manu was on the female basketball team. It was an amazing sports day on campus and so, the campus was filled with activities. After the sports were over, I went to freshen up and change into my dress. I had kept my dress in a locker but when I came out of the bathroom, there was nowhere to be found. I searched and also asked other girls but no one seems to know where my dress was. I had wrapped a towel around my body with my hair still wet. When I was searching, I found my dress on the basketball court on the floor.
“Oh, my God!” I exclaimed moving close to where my dress was. “Who the heck brought my dress down here?” I uttered pissed off.As I bent down to pick up my dress, I heard a voice laughing from behind. I turned to look in that direction. There, I saw Sidd.“So you were behind all this?” I asked burning with anger.“Look at yourself now, Miss Pretty, you are so shameless,” he abused and grinned wickedly.“How dare you touch my clothes?” I reprimanded. “You have got no manners, you know that? Anyways, you can laugh all you want but watch out for me, this isn’t over yet,” I threatened and left furiously. I heard him still laughing and calling me names. I felt a little bit embarrassed but I meant what I said.I started thinking of what to do to retaliate for what he did to me.The following day, I went to campus with a plan. I asked Manu to help me out and she reluctantly agreed. When I noticed Sidd walking without his friends in the hallway, I and Manu in opposite rooms pulled a thin wire from both sides and he fell in front of the students. The students all snickered at him. I couldn’t help but laugh too. I bet he felt embarrassed about that and left the campus almost immediately. I felt relieved for what I did but that wasn’t the end yet. I know I should be expecting more from him.I was in the library the following day, trying to concentrate on my studies. Sidd came along. I didn’t look his way. I was engrossed with the boom in from of me. He moved closer and sat on the chair beside me. He placed a book in front of him and opened a page.“Once upon a time!” Sidd began loudly. I looked around the library. We were the only ones in the library. I glanced at him. He was trying to piss me off. I faced the book in front of me once again. “I was seated with a bookworm. Not that she’s beautiful but annoying. She dreams of becoming Albert Einstein’s mate in the future, funny, right?” He continued. Was that supposed to be written in the book in front of him? I looked at him with a frown.“Sidd, I am trying to focus here, what are you doing?” I questioned cheesed off.“Are you blind, Rani?” he retorted. “Can’t you see that I’m reading?”“Are you a clown, Sidd? Who reads in such a manner?” I retaliated.“If it disturbs you then excuse me. You can return to continue reading some other time.”“You are crazy, Sidd. It’s obvious you got nothing to do, so please walk out,” I demanded.“Now she doesn’t want to become Albert Einstein’s mate, but Elon Musk’s. She is now acting like a confused alien from Mars,” he continued reading loudly.“Argh!” I groaned. I stood up to leave. I strapped my backpack on one shoulder and picked up my phone. As I turned to leave, Sidd flung the book he was reading at my front. I stumbled on it and fell to my knees. “Ouch!” I exclaimed.Sidd stood up laughing at me. “It seems someone missed her step,” he mocked and picked up his book. I stood up staring angrily at him. “Now she’s leaving Elon Musk for a desperate hunter chasing after her prey,” he continued reading while heading out.I stood there seething with anger. Sidd is a psychopath. Maybe he got his revenge on me for falling to him the last time. Now I can’t even focus on reading any more.“Argh! Damn it!” I exclaimed frustrated and headed out of the library. I will still retaliate.Later in the day, I sneaked into the campus computer lab. Sidd was there. He was working on a computer. I heard he was preparing for a presentation on our graduation day. I can’t wait to mess that up. I hid at the entrance, looking at him as he continued typing. I wanted a little opportunity to make him confused. I looked around, nothing was grabbing my attention. I stood there waiting for him to at least stand up. He continued with his work, I was almost giving up when he finally stood up to get a sheet of paper, I guess he was about to print it out. I took the opportunity and tiptoed to the computer, I hurried erased the file and changed the computer setting to a foreign language, and hurried back to the entrance. I watched as Sidd returned to the computer, he sat down to continue and was faced with a blank screen in a complicated language. I couldn’t wait to chortle.“Oh, God! How come? Who did this?” he lamented trying to correct the mistake, but how does he get the language? Undo means what in Russian? I chuckled inwardly. Even the short code wouldn’t help him. He stood up and hit the desk in frustration.“Ta-da! Looks like someone is confused!” I snickered walking into the lab. “What happened, Sidd? You don’t know Russian?” I mocked then tittered.“Argh! Damn, you!” he exclaimed may be angry or frustrated.“Aww! What are you going to do now?”“What is your problem, Rani? You know this is important. Do you have to play with everything?”“Play? Was I playing? Don’t you know reading is also important when you distracted me from it?” I retaliated.“You are such a devil’s advocate, get off my way!” he said angrily pushing me off the way and storming out. I continued laughing. What he will do next doesn’t matter to me at the moment, just having fun with laughter.The following day, I was to deliver a speech to the class. I moved forward facing the students. I’m not good at fumbling with words, and I’m fully ready for the speech.“Good day, students!” I greeted. “Today, we’re going to be treating the concept of a Growth Mindset. As we all might know, the concept of a growth mindset has gained widespread recognition and attention in recent years as a key factor in personal and professional development,” I started.“Can I ask a question?” Sidd raised his hand.What? I haven’t even started, and he has a question. Was that why he came to sit in the front row to distract me? Oh, God, he is certainly going to take revenge on me for ruining his computer work yesterday. Then this speech is useless. It’s automatically sabotaged.“What’s your question, please?” I asked, pretending to be polite.“What did your mind tell you before you decided to deliver a speech to us?” He asked.“What do you mean by that?”“Nothing, continue,” he gestured.I ignored him.
Later on, I was seated on a bench with Manu. I was going through a book while she was going through her phone. “Look at this, Rani,” she said showing me her phone. “This is the dress I will be buying for my birthday,” she said. I collected her phone to properly check out the dress. It was a pink beaded white Anarkali with a stole. A mannequin was wearing it.“This is beautiful, I like it,” I said.“Should I order two? I want us to have the same dress,” Manu said.“Are you kidding me? Should we be wearing the same dress on your birthday? Who is the celebrant? People will be confused,” I stated.“Yeah, that’s right, but you can wear another dress on my birthday while you still have this one,” she suggested.“Then order for two,” I affirmed. “I’m sorry, maybe your birthday date that I know is not correct. You were born in November, right?” I queried.“Yes!”“And we are in February.”“Yes?”I laughed. “You are preparing for nine months to come birthday?”“But I like the dress.”“You are f
The next day on campus. I was seated in the courtyard reading. The day was beautiful, with no disturbance. I haven’t seen Sidd since today, so I was rest assured of a peaceful day. As I continued reading, I heard my name.“Rani!” Someone called angrily. Sidd? I thought he wasn’t on campus today. Oh, God! He came standing right in front of me. “Where is my jacket?” he demanded.“Sidd, let me ask you a question. Why are you so obsessed with a common jacket? I told you I burnt it,” I said nonchalantly.“Do you know the worth of that jacket?” he asked.“Does it costs millions?” I retorted.“I want my jacket back, Rani. You got to give to me.”“Then beg for it. Let’s see if it resurrects back for your sake,” I said. “Besides, I had begged you to give it to me. It’s your turn to beg me to give back to you.”“Do you know the ramification of what you are doing? You know next time I won’t ever give you anything from me no matter what you say, hope you know that.”“And I hope next time you won’t
Our final exams were around the corner, I had to prepare hard for them. I was an intelligent girl but still, I had to stay up late studying.I was studying one day on campus when a ball was thrown at me. Sidd came to pick up the ball from where it was.“Why did you throw the ball at me? Can’t you see that I’m studying?” I asked as calmly as I could pretend.“Did you see me throw the ball?” He questioned.“I knew it was you, who else in this whole campus does silly things?”“Seriously? And who in this whole campus is as bad looking as you?”“If my look was that irritating, why then do you always disturb me? You can’t live without my beauty,” I commented boldly as I was packing my books to go home.“You are so delusional, you know that?”“Just admit it,” I stated as I was about to go. He threw the ball at me once again but I couldn’t do anything about that. I knew that praising myself hurts him and that was satisfactory for me.I studied late on campus one day, I didn’t come with my scoo
Two months later, I got employed in a large business company as an assistant manager. My first day in the office was hectic. Now I know what Kiara had been going through. Come on, it’s not easy.My CEO was a nice man. Though he was kind and generous, he despises lazy workers. I love my new job and I wish to stay longer in the firm.I came to work the following day and I bumped into Sidd. That was the first time I was seeing him after our graduation.“Oh, my God! This is not happening!” I muttered to myself. “What are you doing here?” I queried boldly.“I should be the one asking you that,” he said. “I am the manager of this company, so what are you doing here?”At the mention of him being the manager, my jaw dropped. Evil is certainly coming after me.“What does it look like I’m doing here?” I retorted.“Don’t tell me you are the assistant manager my uncle was talking about,” he chuckled.“Your uncle?” I uttered surprised. “Who is your uncle?”“You want to know? Well, he is t
I stood beside the car waiting for Sidd. He had driven me to this place. I patted my feet on the ground, checked my wristwatch countless times, and looked at the hotel’s entrance, he wasn’t forthcoming. Should I cry? I was already feeling bad. This wasn’t a great day for me. Stuck in a tight dress, had to dance with my enemy, almost falling in front of everyone, and still being saved by my enemy doesn’t sound pleasing at all. Finally, he was coming. I sighed in relief. He opened the car and entered. Do I honestly have to go with him? I entered the car too, fastened my seat belt and he drove off.On our way, we got stuck in a long traffic jam. How did we get here? I was dying. My breathing was on the edge, my belly was tight with an unremovable belt. I was sweating even when the car had an air conditioner. I glanced at Sidd, he seems fine. I unfastened the seat belt. My home is many miles away from where we were. If I wanted to walk in this dress, I will sleep on the street. I didn’t w
I reached the office all rushed up, sorry and confused. I hurried into my office, fumbling with my files and computer. I got a telephone call. Not now. I answered the call. The CEO wants me in his office. Reaching work by 9:30 am wasn’t a joke. Who knows what Sidd had told his uncle? I learned he resumed before everyone else. As I tried to rush to the CEO’s office, my foot entangled with my computer’s cable pulling it along and hearing the system land on the floor. I turned to it, it was damaged. The screen was broken. What am I supposed to do? Another bad startup? This shouldn’t be happening, not today. Late coming, damaging company’s property, why? How do I explain myself? I rushed down to the system, gathering the pieces together, the telephone was ringing again. Gosh! I jerked up and scuttled to the CEO’s office.I was permitted to come inside after knocking. Sidd was there. He will be present in anything bad happening around me. I scowled at him while moving closer to them. “Good
What would my life have been like if I hadn’t met Sidd? Wouldn’t I have been happy? I always thought to myself. Hateful days in college, bizarre days in the office. All because I happened to know Sidd.“You look pale, what happened to you?” my mom asked me in the morning as I prepared to go to work. “Nothing, Mother, I’m fine,” I replied. “I will see you when I get back.” I left.The truth was that I cried last night. I imagined my life without Sidd and it was awesome. I got no other problem but Sidd. How can he be so cruel? He behaves crazy around only me. I have never seen him hurt the emotions of any other girl, but me. I tried recalling how it all started.I was a month old in college, and Sidd was the highly praised folk. His status matters less to me. I never cared about how girls swooned at the sight of him. I was rushing to class and got piles of books in my hand. I bumped into Sidd. I apologized, being too full of himself, he ordered me to tie his shoelaces as a sign of genu