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"Oh! It's you the idiot," she glared.
I was seeing her...., no staring at her. If there was ever a
competition for stalkers, maybe I would top the list.
Her face had this cute & curious expression the kid has the first time
he's allowed to use a pen after years of using pencil in primary school.
Being close to her with shoulders almost touching while being doused with
the Jasmine smell from her hair and feeling the warmth of her body, all these
made me forget to respond, it took effort to remind myself to breath, which I
was holding till then.
There was an infusion of scents, the pleasant scent of new books with that
of sweet jasmine, it was driving me nuts.
I was in a situation, where, if it were movie by this time a soft melody would be played in the background.
When I tried to react my throat felt dry & all I could manage was a
small frog like croak, which wasn't audible to her (Thankfully).
"What are you starting at, you clumsy idiot"
Clumsy, is like antithesis of me, that comment should infuriate me, but no it
didn't.
Then I heard a sound, which I swear, felt like a soft titter.
Coming back to senses my first thought was to check if my mouth was open,
that would make it classic gawking scene. Fortunately I was not gaping at her.
It's not like I've never sat beside a girl, in fact my bench mate had been a
girl ever since I was a little guy. But this felt different, this was
different, with her one loose strand of hair grazing edge of my shoulder &
giving me goosebumps, I felt as if for the first time I'm sitting beside a
girl.
It's about the time someone would label me dumb if I didn't give a reply.
I cleared my throat so I didn't sound like frog again, "Well, I'm Ravi,
& regarding idiot, yes, you can find many here, but I’m not."
"Lemme give you a tip, next time you want to stare at someone either
use shades or try to be subtle."
There was no longer any anger in her voice, just few soft giggles, which
might just be my imagination.
"I'm not staring, you kinda remind me of someone."
"Cliché pick-up line, too bad it's been banal & won't win you any
favors."
Beauty & brains, a dangerous combo.
"No, you really remind me of someone."
"Oh, you remember that girl you bumped into this morning, or is that
you are so clumsy & collide with so many people that you can't actually
remember anything?"
Suddenly I felt a knot in my throat not knowing how to respond, I like witty
quips, but not when I'm at the receiving end, that too not when the person at
the other end is a gorgeous girl, whom I started liking the second I saw her.
Before I replied she started again like, with a triumph in face as if she
just won the debate over me, & said, “But thanks, I was a little nervous
about the new place, but I think I can deal gracefully if everyone around here
is as stupid as you are."
Whoa, this girl is not giving me time to recover, being the class topper,
idiot & stupid, are the words that were never used on me, but she was using
them as if I've name tags which read 'annoying idiot', 'super stupid'.
Even that was not the problem, I'm not usually saint like, quite contrarily
I get piqued with a moderate effort, but suddenly I felt like anger is something very alien to me, I should be mad at her by now, but all I
want to do is smile while being close to her.
What are you doing to me, girl?
I'm not making a very good first impression here.
I tried & sported calm face & replied with composure, "Welcome
aboard, hope you like it here, it's a great place, but tomorrow when you come
please don't get dunked in body spray, it's making my mind go blank just like
yours."
I've no frigging idea why I said that. My mind is trying to mess up my
relationship even before it started.
She gave one final fierce gaze, & sat upright as our maths madam was
leaving.
She put the books back in backpack; A unique backpack, a bright shade of pink with a big picture of Casper on it. Pink I can understand, but Casper, Seriously?
I wanted to ask 'What are you a kindergarten kid?' but thought better of it;
I might tarnish her impression of me which is already hanging way below the ground
level.
Just as the madam left & before the next instructor came, trouble came
running towards me.
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