chapter 8

I said, a bit surprised, “What! Why should I give them a chance? I will give my heart to only one boy.”She said, correcting herself, “I mean, you can choose one among them.”I said, annoyed, “How can I choose one among them? I love Nikhil. I don’t even know them.”After a few seconds she posed a very weird question, “Do you know Nikhil since birth?”Divya - What kind of question is this? Vaishali - Answer me. Divya - No. Vaishali - How did you come to know about him?Divya - We met him in eighth standard. Vaishali - Means once you didn’t have even an idea that he existed. Then one day, you met him in the eighth standard and you came to know about him. When you reached the ninth standard, you fell in love with him. Right? Divya - Yes. Vaishali - Now, you don’t know the boys who are following you. If you give them a chance to talk to you then you will come to know them and they will come to know you. Then it may happen that you will fall in love with them. I said in an angry tone, “Have you gone mad? How can I give them a chance to talk to me?” I love Nikhil. I only want to talk to him.Vaishali - Chill, Divya, chill. You love Nikhil, I can understand. You want to talk to Nikhil, I can understand. But try to understand, he doesn’t even want to look at you. You can’t waste your full life on whom. We should love those who love us. We should only care for those who care for us. Those who don’t care for us, they don’t deserve to be in our life. They don’t deserve us.Her points appeared valid to me. Perhaps, I heard these lines somewhere, maybe in the Bollywood movies. Maybe that was the reason that my memory got identified with her dialogue. It entered deep inside my brain. But still, I said, “No, I am not going to give them any chance.”She said, making a face in such a way that I was doing foolishness by not giving them a chance, “Okay, as you wish.” We entered a shop and ordered two burgers. Those two boys also entered the same shop, sat in the row next to us and ordered a pizza. I looked at them sneakily. They were stealing glances at me. Vaishali also noticed that. She said, “Look at them. They are trying their best to impress you.” I said, “Huh!” She said, “I guess they care for you.”I didn’t know from where, but a thought crossed my mind, “Let’s throw a glance at them. I am not doing anything wrong by looking at their faces. I am not trying to impress them by doing that.”I tried to look carefully at the boy whose complexion was fair and looked handsome. His hair was long and well groomed like a filmy hero. He also looked at me at the same time. When he noticed that I looked at him, he quickly smiled. I turned my eyes quickly back on my burger, “Oh shit! He saw me that I was looking at him. What will he think of me? He will definitely think that I am interested in him. But I am not. If he is looking handsome, it doesn’t mean I am interested in him.”Vaishali looked at the same boy and at me in turns. She said in a low voice to me, “Oh my God, he has started continuously looking at you. Just look at him.” I said abruptly, “Just shut up.”Vaishali - What has happened to him? He is not moving his eyes off you? Did you do anything? I said, “Oh ho, why did I do anything? I am not interested in him.”Vaishali - But he was not doing like that before. Divya - Actually, I just threw a glance at them, I just wanted to see clearly who the hell are they who always follow me. But when I looked at them, he looked at me and must have felt that I am interested in him. Ugh! I made a big mistake. Vaishali started giggling, “Hehe.”I said, feeling embarrassed, “I don’t want to eat burger. Let’s go from here.”Vaishali - Hey, wait. Let’s finish our burger na. Divya - He is staring at me. I am feeling very uncomfortable. Vaishali - He is not going to eat you! You eat your burger.Divya - Let’s go. Vaishali - I am not going to go anywhere. I want to finish my burger first. I spent seventy rupees on it!I said angrily, but deep inside my heart, I was not angry at her, I didn’t know why, “Is your burger more important than your friend?”She took a bite and said, “For the time being, yes. Hehe! Sit down. Nothing will happen to you. I am with you, don't worry.”I gave up against her insistence and sat down. He went on staring at me without any scruples. I felt very awkward and very odd. I don’t know how to express my feelings. It was a kind of very dirty feeling. He was kind of raping me with his eyes and I was not doing anything. We had our burgers and got up to exit the shop. He was still watching us go but he didn’t try to talk to us. I don’t know why. We got on our scooties and reached back to our homes. At 10:30 p.m.I lay on the bed to sleep. When I closed my eyes, the image of the same boy appeared in front of my eyes. He was still staring at me. I opened my eyes and said to myself, “Oh gosh! He is not even leaving me now.”I again closed my eyes to sleep. This time, Vaishali appeared in front of my eyes. Her words echoed in my brain, “We should not care for those who don’t care for us. We should care for only those who care for us.”(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.)