Nerdy Chapter 14

They say life hits you with surprises when you sleep and don’t expect any of them. Don’t make weird faces, I made this up; introduced Mehul, Kavya, Raghu and ahem Rashi, there was enough introduction about them, let us start the real part where it all began.

One fine day, Rashi pinged me at Yahoo messenger, and we had a long chat. Apparently, her parents were having another not-so welcome war of words in front of her few hours back and she had no one to talk to and express herself, so she logged in and found me online. She said “Hi” and I acted as I’m not online opened my notepad and wrote this “sorry was busy with some work, so how are you?” I waited 30 seconds and she types “you there?” I waited 5 more seconds and then did “ctrl+c” and “ctrl+v” from the notepad. She didn’t type for 10 seconds and then I got impatient and she explained that was busy with another chat window. I thanked god for not letting my act back-firing on me.

She went on describing about her father and mother; I kept on ignoring all her stuffs related to it. I was getting bored and joked, “Let’s write a Computer program to stop your father and mother yelling at each other.” and she started giggling not literally, she used smiley messages to convey her giggles, smiles and “laughing out loud” expressions.



She suggested meeting at a CCD near her place at 5 in the evening and I hesitantly agreed upon the idea. I had to complete all my pending chemistry and physics assignments but I thought thrice and couldn’t say “no” to the prospects of hanging out with a sweet girl like Rashi.
We entered the café coffee day with both our right foot at the same time in unison as we were programmed to do so. Rashi and I also saw that and exchanged smiles. Rashi insisted upon sitting on a seat facing the entrance, and without thinking too much I agreed upon.

She started talking about her school, career, parents and her first crush. I was almost sleeping but occasionally could see the animated facial expressions of Rashi. I finally decided to sit upright and started looking at her eyes while listening to her and that was more than a stimulant and I really needed to decaffeinate after that.

As I was suddenly gaining interest in her words, Rashi quickly ducked under the table for 20 seconds and rose again. I was perplexed but she said “we will have to leave the place as soon as possible”, I was not in a mood to go so early but I didn’t speak anything and came out of that place.

Immediately after getting out, Rashi apologized for her strange behavior and said her father had just entered the place and so she had to do that.
I was relieved; I didn’t want her parents to think that I’m her boyfriend.
We then went on a long walk to her place and I left her 100 meters before the entrance gate to her house as guided by Rashi.

As I was on my way back home, a SMS beeped “want to meet again?” to which I replied “Yes” with eagerness of a child, to which she said “come online @ 9 PM”.
This was just a beginning to a thing which shouldn’t have been started in the first place. SMSes, Online Chats, Phone conversations and my academic life was being continuously screwed.

One day the worst happened. Kavya started banging on my door and I quickly put on my pajama and opened the door.
“You are in a big trouble!” Kavya exclaimed and when I asked the reason, she said “fiitjee has sent mark sheets and Mehul and you have done very badly.” I was shocked and rushed downstairs with Kavya.
“What are you doing Gogul? Wasting your parents money here staying far away from them?” aunty asked with an expression never used by her before and I felt very bad looked down.
Kavya was also lecturing us. When you prepare for IIT-JEE, everybody has an opinion about your preparations. Mehul got irritated with Kavya and threw the glass bowl at her, which wobbled to hit at her head. She shouted and fell and within seconds blood came out and she fainted.

Mehul was shocked and kept standing with eyes wide open and expressionless!

(---Continued on next "Nerdy Chapter"----)