chapter 10

“What is happening to me? I don’t even know, am I feeling good or bad? I am feeling very awkward and strange. Until yesterday, I never gave a smile to any stranger but today I did. But why? I am not in love with him. I don’t even like him. I don’t even know his name. Then why did I smile at him? He took my smile as a green signal for him to make an advance.”“I guess I did a stupidity by doing that. Why didn’t I go directly to my home? Why did I make him chase me on the road?”Another thought countered this thought, “I didn’t ask him to chase me. He chased me on his own.”“But when he was looking at me, I felt as if he was raping me with his eyes. I felt very filthy. It was a very dirty feeling. But I am also feeling very excited as if something new is happening in my life. But…Now just shut up and stop thinking! The reality is that I am not able to understand my feelings right now.” I switched on the t.v., played a movie and started killing time. Obviously, I didn’t understand anything what happened in the movie but I was able to successfully kill my time.  The Next DayEarly in the morning, I was sitting on the bench in the class. Vaishali entered the class. I didn’t even come to know that she had entered. I was lost in my own thoughts. She was surprised to see that. She didn’t say hi hello. She let me think whatever I was thinking. She slowly sat beside me, without creating any disturbance. I was still unaware of the fact that she had come. Nikhil entered the class. I didn’t even come to know about that. He passed right in front of me. I didn’t even look at him. I was still lost in my thoughts. Her eyes widened in surprise. She thought, “I thought she must be lost in the thoughts of Nikhil but here the story seems to be different.”She snapped her fingers in front of my eyes. First two snaps, I didn’t hear. When she snapped her fingers for the third time, I startled and came back to my senses. She said, surprised, “Hey, where have you lost?” I smiled and said, “Hey, I was here only.”She said confidently, “I know you were not thinking about Nikhil.”Now, I was surprised, “How do you know?”She beamed at me and said, “I know everything. I can read your heart.” I got scared for a second but then I thought, “How can she read my heart? She is neither a psychic nor a saint.”I said to her, “Really? Okay, then tell me what I was thinking?”She simply said, “You were thinking about the bike boy who used to follow you.” I was dumbfounded to hear that. Looking at my face, she became confident of her answer, “Hehe, I told you I can read your heart.”I tried to lie, “No, you are wrong. I was not thinking about him.”She giggled and said, “Don’t try to fool me. I know you were thinking of him. I think he has stolen your heart. Oh ho, I think love is happening.”I said in an angry tone but the undercurrent of my tone was very friendly, “No way!”She started laughing. Her laugh was very contagious, I also started laughing. She said, “See, see, this girl is laughing. Ladki hassi to matlab ladki fassi. (When a girl smiles, it means he is interested in a boy.)”I laughed and said, “Don’t tease me!”Vaishali - I am not teasing you. I am just showing you the mirror. Hehe!Mam Rajni entered the class and saw us almost playing in the class. She frowned at us. Immediately, we sat on the bench making innocent faces. We were trying our level best to control our laughter but it was erupting for a fraction of a second after every two to three seconds. Mam even noticed that. But she didn’t say anything to us. Perhaps, she understood that it was our age to laugh. Hehe. When the school was over, Vaishali said to me, “Did you notice one thing? One very interesting thing happened today.”I asked, “What?”Vaishali - Today, Nikhil looked at you about ten times but you didn’t even look at him even once. Hehe!I don’t know why, but I felt very good to hear that. I laughed aloud from the bottom of my heart. It was a kind of victorious feeling. Perhaps, it was a victory of my ego over the ego of Nikhil. I felt as if I won the game. I enjoyed listening to it. I wanted to win this fight, say game, again and again. Maybe, it was a kind of revenge on Nikhil. I said to myself, “Let him look at me. Let him yearn for me every day. Now, I will never look at him. Now, he will realize what’s the pain of ignoring the other. Huh! I am not even interested in him now.”We got on our scooties and set off for our homes. Vaishali asked me, “Is the bike boy going to come today?” I smiled and said, “I don’t know.” Hardly we travelled about two hundred metres than I saw him again in the rear view mirror of my scooty. Before I said anything, she said, “Hey, he has come again! He is trying his level best to impress you. Hehe!”I said, blinking my eyes thrice, “Yeah, I think so.”Vaishali - Hey, let’s go to the main road today again. Let’s see what he does today.Divya - What! Hehe! She said excitedly, “Let’s see, does he have the guts to talk to you?” I gave a half smile and said, “Okay, let’s go.” We turned our scooties to the main road. Today, he was chasing us with his friend. His friend was a pillion rider. (It will be so nice of you, if you leave at least a single word comment and please don't forget to follow me and become my superfan. You will be able to read all the locked parts of all my series for free and you will also be able to chat with me and my superfans directly.)