CHAPTER-1
It was yet another chilly night in Pahalgam.Even in the month of May also,pahalgum(name of the village) is having 5-degree Celsius at night. It's a beautiful town in Srinagar.Every year people from all around the India come to visit Kashmir, especially in the summer.But I am here to visit my Nana (Grandma).After the death of my Nanu(Grandpa), she came to live in our family bungalow of pahalgum.This was
the place where my Nana First met my Nanu. For my grandparents, Pahalgam is like Paris. it's their city of love except it's actually a town.It's been really long time since my whole family gathered at our bungalow. When my nana came to know about my big sister Esha's wedding, she insisted on having the engagement in our family house.I wanted to help my nana so i came a week before everyone starts coming in for the actual celebration.in this one week I & Nana took care of arrangements, lighting, music, shopping, etc.. Tomorrow maa,paa, sis, jiiz's and his family will arrive at our house. It'll be my first time to meet him. I wonder if he is as good as my sis told me.
I am sitting on footsteps of the deck which is enlightened by a bright yellow lamp.We have a very beautiful backyard. It's enlightening by small-small lamps. And there are various types of trees.We have one very large Christmas tree in the middle. which is surrounded by humming birds in the morning. We have black, red, blue colored roses in our backyard.Along with many others plants. My Nana loves gardening, so it's bound to be spectacular. I love this place.
Suddenly, I hear the door opening, I turned my attention from the garden towards the door. and saw my grandma. I smiled up at her as I saw her approaching me. She is 65 years old. Even at this age grandma looks beautiful. she has a glow on her face which can't be achieved by using beauty products, carry it's the glow of knowledge which carries. she flashed me her radiating smile, the one which makes you feel at ease. if you know what I mean.
She sat beside me.We both were looking up at the starry sky. She is the kind of woman who doesn't need to do small talk to fill the silence. As a kid, I was used to sitting on the footsteps of the deck just to stare at these hypnotizing stars and the moon.I smiled inwardly thinking how some things never change with time.
"Ashna dear, thank you for helping me out with the preparation of the wedding. I am sure, your Eesha's gonna love it!" Grandma said cutting my trail of thoughts. ''I hope so too!'' I replied to her, with a smile on my face. I know for sure, my sister's gonna love it."Eesha found the love of her life when are you gonna find your's ?" grandma asked me."Oh come on, dadi you know, love and all are not made for me. I said with a sad smile. I hope she doesn't find out why I don't believe in love. Maybe I don't deserve to be special to someone."Don't worry dear, when you will find your Mr. Right, who will give you his everything that day my child you will believe in love.but what I can't understand is the girl who was in love with word love is not more having faith in it anymore. '' says, my Grandma. Of course, I was used to be hopeless romantic but it was short lived idea. All because of him. "What changed Ashna?" asked my grandma in her soothing voice while holding me close to her. I didn't realize when I started crying, but then that's how it is whenever I think about him, I break into sobs. He was my everything or maybe he still is and I hope it would change someday. "it will be alright my child. I am here. Cry all you want." my grandma said. and I don't know if I could cry any harder...maybe this what happened when you try to hide your emotions, especially to yourself. and that's what I have been doing most of my life. Whenever I can not handle something. I pretend it never existed. After all, inexistent things can't harm me.
After crying god knows how long we went inside our house. And grandma was making me my favorite Ginger tea while I am sitting on the sofa, trying to regain my control. I know Grandma well enough to say she will want to know the whole story. Grandma entered the living room with a cup in her hand. I smiled at her and took the cup from her hand. She sat beside me. I took a sip of my tea and as always it's amazing. I ended up smiling yet again." thank you, grandma, for everything."I said to my grandma. "You are most welcome, now tell me who was that jerk. "said grandma.I almost said no to her, not wanting her to know my sad love story. and how I misjudged him. Then I saw her expression. Shit, it's going to be a very long night. or else she will not let me go until I spell it all out to her. So with a sigh, I said,"Alright I will tell you." Grandma's eye lit up with curiosity and she was grinning like a kid who knew that she got what she wanted from the other party.
I started the story by saying,"Sssoooo...the story beings. 6 Years ago......
Chapter-2 (6 Years Ago)
6 Years Ago
I was standing in the assembly hall of my school (St. Steve School) along with others.This is the best school of Mumbai (for those who don't what is Mumbai. Well Dear, it's the name of dream city of India:-) ). I am a small town girl or was would be better,my father Ajmar Agrawal is a businessman and recently we shifted to Mumbai from Indore(Madhya Pradesh ,INDIA). I am student of 10+2 science stream and have opt. for Informatic Practices as my optional subject. I have a sister Eesha , who is doing MBBS in Delhi. You see in my family,everyone is expected to be doing something great. i am going to become a Engineer. Now, don't get me wrong,it's not my passion but still, utill i don't find it well i guess i will stick with this option. At least it will sound good when people will say,"Her Father is Bussiness-Man her mother is a Social Worker, her sister is a Docter and the youngesst daughter is a Engineer" See it's like we are perfact family.
Ding-dong,ding-dong,ding-dong
Bell rang,and it ended my trail of thought.And we stared singing our morning prayer.After singing the Morning prayer , they started speeches.I signed inwardly, now this is the part which i hate the most about assmebly and i guess that's never gonna change.
"Hey,Ashna see that guy on the right hand side row of your's and 5th guy from the start."Sana said in a flirty voice. My eyes followed her direction and found the guy.Woow..the guy is something. Although only side of his face is visible from my direction, since he is away from me and he is talking about something with his friend. He is having a fair skin tone,pointed nose,thick eyebrows,maybe honey brown eyes..i wish i could see him poperly just to get an idea what colour his eyes are of but nevermind. he also have a angled jaw and little a bear on the sides of his jaw. Usually it's hard too pull this look off. But on him little shades of beared looks sexy.Oh did i tell you about his hair, my it's a beautifull mess with the shades of black and few shades lower from dark brown. As if this was not enough to get a girl hooked ,he smiled.And at that moment,my heart literally stopped.I cann't help but stare at him. His smile is unlike others,it's Addictive. It was like the first rays of sun breaking the dawn, slowly it streached to his whole face. Somehow, seeing him smile made me smile.
"Babe, stop ogling him."Sana whisphered near my ear mischeviously. With a Giggle she added,"He might see you.".As if on cue, that Guy looked at me. He stopped smilling and is looking straight into my eyes. Looks like i am bursted and then i did something i never do...I blushed at him.After seeing me blush, he chuckled and winked me and turned head back to the stage of our assembly hall. I am now grinning like a 5 year old girl who just got her favorite chocolate.I am a big certified idiot.
"Looks like you nailed the hottest guy of our school."Sana whisphered. "Yeah right. This was really embarassing Sana, he caught me staring at him."i told Sana."You mean when ,you was in middle of oungling him.Ya babe!" and started laughing. I tried my best to get annoyed by her but i misreably failed and joined her in laugh.
"ATTENTION!!!! GET READY FOR NATIONAL ANTHEM." our school captain shouted in the mike.We both stopped talking.This the best part of our morning assembly.They start with the thin texture with one instrument (flute) playing and form the secound phase they add Santoor, Piano,Tabla,Violin,Guitar,Sitar,drum and a little base . That's what our music group do.They create the master pieace of A. R. Rahman Sir 's melody of ANTHEM. While they play this music,all the students sing NATIONAL ANTHEM in Sync.
After ending of ANTHEM, we all moved to our respective classes.
As soon as we exited assembly hall,"Ssssoooo....."said Sana i turned around to face her and asked her,"What so?"."Oh dear,stop acting innocent..you know what i mean."Sana says to me with a little mischevious in her voice.I have no idea what she is reffering too.I gave her mine What the hell man ! look and asked her in a bored tone"Care to enlighten me, Sana." She looked me briefly as if she is making out do i really have no idea what she is talking about or i am bluffing.After split secound later, she said,"Assembly.hot-Shot.Mr.Sinfully Hot"Sana said with a chuckle. Obviously she would have seen me getting red after hearing Mr. Sinfully Hot.i blushed deeply.The Devil started laughing,at my misery ."Uh-Ah-Umm..."i replied to her comment well not an intelligent answer.But what do you expect from me as soon he comes well i cann't seem to form a sentence."GET IN CLASS PRINCESSES"Mr.Ramesh Mehra said to both of us with his cheerful voice.He is our physics teacher.I must say,he's one of the best teachers in the world. unlike other teachers he is having a sence of humour and teach us with the hilarious examples.For Example,once we had a doubt in Motions in 2D now, don't get me wrong i am in 10+2 and just so you know i aslo have to prepare for jee mains exam (which is conduucted on the national level basic in INDIA for engineering students.And have the syllabus of 10+1 and 10+2 standards course).So he gave the problemto solve which is, 'Selena Gomez after finding Justin Beiber cheating on her throws Justin from the top of the tower having height 30m.At the same time a Selena Gomez fan saw Justin falling so she threw a Tomato towards justin with acceleration of 3 m/s after 2 sec after his fall. Will the tomato hit Justin? If Yes then ,at what time Justin will get hit by tomato.?'(Dear Reader,if you don't understand why that question is funny. seek a Science student out. And if by chance he also don't find it assuming hen he or she is propbably didn't study well. See it's not my fault! )
So you see,why i love his period.I went to the last bench and sat on it as usual Sana took the seat by my side.We love being a back bencher.The period started and Mr.Ramesh started giving us lecture on Coulumb's Law. We all opened our notebook and started making notes.Then someone knocked on the door of our classroom.We all in union turned our head towards the door to see who dared to come late in Mr. Ramesh Sir's class.While he is funny, but he is lover of punctuality. When i saw the person standing in our doorway of classroom.I couldn't breathe. My heart skipped a beat or two or maybe more well who cares. My Mr.Sinfully Handsome was their standing in the dorrway like a god. The sunlight was pouring over and him look angelic and more handsome. Because of sunlight his hairs were shinning and there colour turned from feww shades lower than dark brown to honey brown colour. And he hung his backpack on one sholder and with one hand he was holding the bag and used his free hand to greet Sir. I was shell-shocked. What the hell is he doing here? Did he got lost or what? He couldn't be in our class. First, he was standing in the commerce student line which explained why i never saw him before today and Secoundly, there's no way in hell i wouldn't have noticed him if he was in my class. While i don't ogle a lot, well just a little bit here and there but he is just WOW... "Ashna Stop it!"sana said and i turned towards her voice she was shaking in silent laughter. I joined her .Sir announced ,"Ok Students, we have a new additttion in our Science Class. While i belive many of you know him but for the sake of tradtion introduce yourself to class, Foreign Minister"said Sir with a chukle and the whole classroom irrupted in laughter expect me.Did i lost something.I gave Sana my I-Don't -Know look. She explained me with a smile " After attending the first day of school ,he went to enjoy his 1 months long leave which he extended onto 2 months leave, that's why sir is teasing him, by calling him 'Foreign Minister' and today is his first day after his holiday."I chukled now that explains why i never noticed him.Ofcourse i didn't knew him. But i think that's about to change soon.I smiled inwardly.He cleared his throut and says in a stern voice,"Hi everyone,i am Kabir Bakshi.I have recently changer my stream from Commerce to Science.I am looking to work with you all." As he finished we all clapped.And few guys even hooted obviously liking the fact their friend is now gonna study with them.Looks like he is some popular kid uhh i mean guy.His eyes crinkled at the edges as if he is smilling with his eyes. Then something unexpected happen, he spots me and his smile stilled on his face ,slowly he examined my face with his eyes and he started grinding with me. "Now,Kabir go find yourself a seat."Sir said to Kabir.He nodded at him and sat in the row next to me and 1 bench ahead of mine.As soon he got himself sitted he turned towards me and winked. oh frecking hell, did i just blushed again.Sana cleared her throut.We three get back to our notemaking.Sana said,"Babe ,get a grip.I accept he is a great guy but become friends first."I looked at her and replied her "i know" with a giggle.
After half a hour or so i was rentless. Today for some reason i didn't wanted to study. And my reason is Kabir. I am dieing to talk to him. Then suddenly someone throw a paper slip on my desk. i looked up to figure out who sent it to me but everone was busy with their note-making.Shall i open it? Is it for me? What if i's for someone else? What do i do?Shall i open it or not? ummmm.... Nevermind it's on my desk if it's not for me then fine whatever it was your fault.So i picked it up.I dn't know why but my heart is pounding fast. i opened it slowly. And then i am shocked. My mouth is open and with wide eyes i read the paper slid"May i know the name of the lady who have the most adorable blush? X- KABIR" WOW....this guy is something. I heard a faint sound of chuckle.I turned my face towards the source of the sound and it's HIM.Great !Tell me how this sistuation can get better than this.Wait...did he saw my reaction oh wow now he's looking at me and raised his right eyebrow and with his eyes he silently requested me to answer his question. I took my pen and wrote at the back of the slip,"Ashna Agrawal .Welcome to our Science Group:-)"
FRankly speacking i wanted to write something witty but then after reading his meassage i cann't seem to know what to do maybe i am awestruck ..is that even a word well whatever.And i looked at Sir waiting for thr right time to throw it towards him and then sir turned towards black-board and i threw it towards himand it landed right on his groin oops i didn't intend it shit he looked down and looked back at me and i swear my face was red as apple and i don't even have guts to look at him ...wow so much for first meeting.And then after a split secound i saw him and he was shaking with slient laughter. And was on his way to write another slip.I busied myself with whatever sir is saying,i have no idea what Sir is giving a lectue on.After a minute ,i got another slip.
"Lol..that was funny "-Kabir
"Yeah,sorry about that"-Ash
"No worries,but whatever you say it was funny."-K
"Hahahahaha you are right about that.i thought it would land on your desk."-Ash
"You are a new student.Ri8?"-K
"Yeah."-Ash
"So,where are you from?"-K
"I am from Indore(M.P.)"-Ash
"Great.You have a beautifull smile. P.S.I hope i am the inspiration for your smile."-K
*i blushed and looked up at him and he returned my smile*
"YOu are a flirt. P.S it's only fair if i am your inspirartion too since you already are."-Ash
Kabir was looking at the recent message i send him another smile crept up on his face."No passing the shits in my class."Sir shouted and we both got shocked. Then Sir added,"Those who are don't think i won't know because NOBODY LOOKS DOWN AT HIS GROIN AND SMILE. '' We both looked at each other and started laughing along with everyone in the class.
Ding-dong,Ding-dong,Ding-dong
It was now break time, i put my books in my bag .When i turned back and looked at my desk i saw another paper slip i smiled and looked to see kabir just walking out of the classroom .I opened the note slowly and i am curious to see what he wrote this time..it says,"Yes,you are my inspiration.My what's app no-98987*****8 Will be WAITING for you." My smile somehow got ever bigger.It's going to be amazing.
Impressum
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