chapter 6

CONQUERED BY MY FIRST CRUSH.Chapter 5 :I smiled at her for understanding my nervousness and nodded my head as an acknowledgement.“Would  you like to  have noodles or ice cream”, queried aunt Mrudulatha.“Ice cream is the best aunty. I had my breakfast”, I replied to her while feeling  Harsha gaze on me.Mrudulatha brought the ice cream in four bowls  and offered it to everyone. Harsha tookthe bowl and left the place while looking at me from the corner of his  eyes. My eyes followed him from beneath my eyelashes till he was out of my sight.Later I spoke to them  for sometime, promised to Roshini to accompany her to school for the next day and bid bye to them.I went home, explained everything to my mother and ran to my room. I fell on to the bed  hugging the pillow and recollecting  the incident that happened earlier.My heart reminisces the way  he looked at me, the way  his eyes sparkled by seeing me, the naughty smile he gave to  me and the way he checked me before leaving the place.I acknowledged that he too had my effect on him    like I do have his. I can feel some chemistry between  us. I got up from my bed and went to the  window to see the sky feeling  the lightness in my heart.I saw the same person who made my heart thump rapidly with unknown feelings    on the opposite side of my window. I realized that his  room is exactly opposite to mine and immediately hid behind the wall peeking through the  window. It was the time my chase for him had started and    I kept stalking him whenever I had the chance.My mother invited Harsha’s family for dinner on the  occasion of my birthday and they came by the  time before dinner. Roshini gave me a gift for my birthday which also reminds me of our new friendship whenever I glance at it.The elders went along with each other like an earlier acquaintance and communicated very friendly. My father, who used  to be very rigid,    interacted with uncle Anandvardhan like an old friend. Uncle’s jovial nature made my father fascinate him and opened his heart for uncle’s friendship.I and Roshini kept chatting and Harsha was left  alone. I noticed him to be very different from earlier, behaving like a  stranger. He didn’t even glance at me and kept observing the   interior of my house.“Alekhya! Why don’t you show the interior to the kids”, chirped my mother.“Yes Kanna! Show them the house. They might be feeling bored” proposed my father.I invited Roshini and looked at Sriharsha batting my eyelashes requesting him to follow us. For the first time after entering my house, he glanced at me   and I could  see so many emotions hiding behind his eyes. They might be amazement,   delightment, ecstasy, fondness, affection or longing. But he immediately made a  straight face and his eyes turned blank without showing any  feelings after realizing my eyes on him.I took them in and showed the entire house explaining each and everything. Harsha Kept silent throughout the time but  I can feel his gazes on me very frequently.By hearing my  mother’s call we all  headed towards the dining room. We all  had our dinner chit chatting with each other. Once we had the fun completing our dessert we called out  the night and Harsha’s family bid bye  to us and left for their house.Roshini and I promised to each other to go along to the school for the next day as we were so excited to start our secondary high school.