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 To all those WholeHearted Lovers,

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who try hard in LOVE,

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 Acknowledgment and a
Note to Readers

Being my debut book, “The company of Girlfriend,” is and

will always be very close to my heart.
In the Journey of becoming an Author, there are many well-
wishers, who knowingly or unknowingly helped me, supported
me, improved me & boosted my confidence to be an Author.

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I am thankful to:

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Dear God. I can’t give any limited reason to thank him.

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Because his blessings are limitless in my life.

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My dear readers, for supporting me with so much love. It is

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because of you that I am getting to do what I love to do – telling

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stories.

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I am delighted to dedicate this book to My Lovely Girl, who
made me an Author from a Common Man. Love is an Ocean
of unfathomable emotions, is what I have learned from her! I
felt her Invisible Company always around me while writing each
and every line of this Romantic book. Without her presence in
my life, maybe I would have never become such a Passionate
Author. Dear GIRL (anonymous), you will always be holding
a very special place in my heart!
My sincere thanks to my lovely parents, my dear friends
(alphabetically) Amit P, Kiran K, Nikhil T, Rahul H, Ritika
N, Yash B, and many more for helping me in some way or
other.
Without you all, it would never have been possible.
Thank you for purchasing this one!
Happy reading!
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 Table of Contents

Acknowledgment and a Note to Read ers

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Prologue........................................................................... ix

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Introduction ..................................................................... 1

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The first day of ITT Training .............................................. 3

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When Mahi & I became friends!!!..................................... 6

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Our Sweet Friendship! .....................................................11

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We always wished to sit together… .................................13
Together WE! ..................................................................17
The First Touch… .............................................................19
The Drama.......................................................................22
Chummeshwari Performance! .........................................31
When Boys talk about GIRLS!...........................................33
The Sports Day ................................................................36
The Mysterious Call .........................................................38
The ITT Exam Day ............................................................43
The OTT Training Begins ..................................................48
Do You Like Me? ..............................................................54
The Pre-Wedding Photoshoot..........................................57
Drama Made Us Cry! .......................................................66
When I kept my Hand on Her Waist. ................................71
Gurudwara ......................................................................75
The end of OTT Training ..................................................78
Last Second Day Of OTT… ................................................82
My last meet with Mahi ...................................................85
The New Phase Of Our Lives ............................................95

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The Diary .........................................................................98

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The Voice Calls ..............................................................106

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Mr. Chetan Bhagat in Nagpur ........................................109

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Girlfriend’s Best Friend ..................................................114

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The Car Date! ................................................................116

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Jan 12: The Exhibition in our College..............................134
MUMBAI - The Final Chapter .........................................145
I Miss You Mahi !!! ........................................................155
I Called Her! ..................................................................158
My Cell Rang… ...............................................................163
Present-day ...................................................................170
The End of Our Friendship or so-called Relationship ......175
A Few Days Later ...........................................................180
Epilogue ........................................................................183
 Prologue

20th January 2019.

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‘Dad, I want to tell you something,’ I said to my Dad. It took

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me a whole day to gather so much of courage to finally tell him

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this thing. I am still not sure what should I say to him. And from

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where to start. I am afraid a lot. It’s the matter of my girlfriend,
or a close friend, who never accepted that she is my girlfriend nor

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I did. But we are even more close than that. Oh God! I am

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puzzled.

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Dad and I are out for a night walk. Its 10:15 PM. And chilling
weather of Nagpur, being the month of January. I have worn my
sweater cum leather Jacket.
Though the thing is very intense, I have to tell my Dad anyhow.
If I don’t tell him now, then Mahi can get into a big trouble. Oh
God, where did you stuck me, I had never imagined that I have
to ask and tell Dad this.
‘Yes, go on.’ Dad gave me a signal to carry on. We kept walking.
We reached around 100 meters away from home. I stayed silent.
How awkward it is yaar? How can I say my Dad so easily?
But it’s enough, now or never.
‘Dad, I got a call from Mahi’s Mom.’ I said it so fast as a vehicle
running at the speed of 120 Kmph. Is it a joke to tell your Dad
that your would-be girlfriend’s Mom called you? I started to
breathe much faster than before.
‘What?’ He acted surprised. And how won’t he be? I am such a
stupid.
‘Yes, Dad.’ My voice got low. I started losing confidence. I got
speechless.
‘Okay, what did she say?’ He questioned normally, with a little
bit curiousness. I expected some strong reaction from him.
Anyways.
‘She wanted us to visit them at their home,’ I answered.

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‘Oh! Wait. What had you done so?’ He asked in a normal tone.

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‘Nothing much, just wrote her a normal letter, in close friendship.

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And now her Mom got to know about it and made an issue of

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it.’ I started feeling relaxed. Because my Dad started behaving

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like he is my friend.

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‘Oh, so you wrote a letter.’ He looked skywards and kept

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thinking something. I don’t know what. But something much

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tense.
‘Hm,’ You know, this hm is the best word to pass the turn
without saying anything, and nor your thoughts come out of your
mind.
‘Beta, how did her Mom sound?’ He asked. What type of
question is this?
‘She sounded low, dull, angry, and a bit sad.’ I answered the
way I felt her tone.
‘When did she call?’
‘At noon. I tried a lot to tell you, but I couldn’t. I was afraid and
a bit nervous too.’
‘Hm,’ Oh, my trick on me. Clever Dad.
‘Dad, we should go to her home. I wish to go. She is in a
problem.’ I said in a deep voice while looking at Dad. I don’t
know why I am saying this. Might be I want to meet her. I am
worried. I wish to go.
We are now very close to our home.
Dad didn’t say anything after that. We reached home. Dad acted
normally as if nothing happened. Smiles, chuckles, laughs.
It is a typical love story, which I am delighted to share with you
dear Well Wisher. What happened before this, after this, did boy
got to meet that girl again? Full of suspense, this story is the story
of two lovers, who loved till the moon and back. I am very happy

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Introduction

‘Yaar Goldy, I am not interested.’ I said with sad expressions.

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‘In what Bhai?’ Goldy asked.

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‘From tomorrow, I have to go for ITT training. You know CA

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Bhawan is six kilometers away from here. And I have no

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interest in it. I have heard it is of very boring types.’

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Goldy Mishra, a thick-skinned, very healthy person, a bit taller

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than me, might be six feet, is a very good friend of mine. We

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both were at my house. It was 08:00 PM. My CA intermediate
exams were over and we were chilling up. The results of this
exam were yet to come, but as structured by ICAI, after exams,
and before its results, students were needed to undergo two
trainings, first one is ITT (Information and Technology
Training) and the second one is OTT (Orientation Training)
each of 15 days. And if any student skips even any of these,
then he/she won’t be allowed to do the three years of article
ship.
Goldy always cheered me up when I was upset or nervous. He
was with me since 11th grade, but in the entrance exam of CA,
he took an attempt more than me and as a result became my
junior by six months. Soon, he was also going to appear for
Intermediate and was currently preparing for it.
He said it’s just a matter of fifteen days…leave it.
He added ‘A girl from my batch will join you too for that
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‘Why, is she in so much hurry to do this training?’ I chuckled.

‘Actually, she is from direct entry, and as per rules, she has to
do Articleship before exams,’
‘OHH, Elderly girl!’ I exclaimed.
‘Yes, she is done with her Graduation, and then joined this CA
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‘What’s her name, by the way?’ I took a bit of interest in that

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‘Mahi,’ Goldy told.

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‘Is she good looking?’ I asked just for knowing her. But why

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‘You only go and see her.’ He replied. Great answer.
‘Hm,’ If you could tell me so I would have felt better. You
Fatso.
‘Bro, you go and start your training freely, I will meet you later.
All the best.’ He wished.
‘Yeah. Thanks, bro.’ We shook hands.
He went to his home after saying goodbye…
I was excited about our ITT training, though it was boring, I
was happy, as I loved to learn something new. Let’s see, what
the next morning has new for me!!!

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The first day of ITT Training

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November 2018.

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The next morning, at 10.40 AM, I reached the

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10.30 AM.

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‘Hello. Can you tell me where is ITT training going to be
conducted?’ I entered the Bhawan and asked the receptionist.
CA Bhawan is a place made by ICAI, where all the CA
students were taken care of.
‘Sure, On the second floor.’ She answered.
I followed the direction she guided. I entered the ITT hall. ITT
HALL was written on the top of the door in block letters. This
hall was full with around fifty to sixty computers. As I entered,
the chilled air of Air Conditioners welcomed me. Few students
sitting there in the hall were my friends and a few were new
faces for me. Computers were kept in such a way that in all,
there were two small rows in the corner and one bigger row in
the middle of both the corner rows. Two people could sit on
small corner rows and four people in the middle row.
A few of my friends were sitting together at the back. I too went
and sat with them, at the backbenches. We were backbenchers.
I said hello to all of them and settled down. Few students kept

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on doing chit chat, a few played games on cell phones, and a

few like me kept roaming their eyes on the walls, and secretly
on girls.
Sir came to teach us Tally at sharp 11.00 AM. Sir was slow
enough as controlling us on the very first day was a tough job.
He settled down, relaxed, and started his PC. He took a mic
and introduced himself “Hello class, my name is Tanishq
Buchha and I am here to teach you all, the accounting software,
Tally.”

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roll numbers. I hope they are written on your PC as well as on

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your hall ticket.” Tanishq Sir was a short-heighted person, but

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with a very powerful voice. He was in the mid-30s. Clad in
formal dress, he had worn sports shoes.

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I checked my hall ticket; I had got the PC no. 7. Though

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Unwillingly, I went to that PC. With sad faces, we said each

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other bye and left the last benches and got shifted to our new
places. Nancy Tapdia was my partner, as she had PC no. 8,
the one beside me. We knew each other from class 5th as she
was tuition mate and she was the topper of our batch too in the
tenth standard. In a friendly way, I used to call her Nano…
But I hadn’t talked much with her. And Sir went ahead with
his boring things, till the time we students started exploring our
personal PC’s.
At 12.30 PM, the session ended along with our energy. Till
01:00 PM it was lunchtime. Yes, the lunch was sponsored by
ICAI, though from our money, anyway.
The next teacher came at 01.00 PM and he was there to teach
us MS-Office and basics. And the same above story repeated
with this teacher also. The only change was that his voice was
much lower than that of the previous Sir. It was hardly audible
up to the first two benches. Till 3 PM, this lecture went on, I
mean, the video without audio was all we could see. And at
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back at 03.30 PM to bore ourselves for one more time in a

day…After all, we have paid Rs 7,500 to get ourselves bored.
The first day went well and we understood that we students will
be required to take Pendrive along with us to see a lot of movies
and enjoy games… As Tally & MS-Office was much basic for
me and so were other courses.
I made a new group of friends. Day went well. In our batch,
very few nice girls were there. By seeing so many boys around,
I got bored. I wanted to have fun. Oh, God!

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When Mahi & I became friends!!!

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November 2018.

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The first two days went slow, but the good

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Lavish Lakhotiya. We called him Lucky as his

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nickname. He was short in height as compared to me, but a
clever one. He spoke less, but whenever he spoke, either it was

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meaning full or full of comic and humor. Though we had met

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before this training too, we had never talked much. It was three

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and our second break of the day. Boys and girls started playing
football, volleyball, and basketball with one football, in the
garden beside the building of ICAI, Nagpur.
I had no mood to do any outdoor activities like playing,
dancing, singing, or any such type of extra-curricular activity.
Keeping myself away from the group, I was standing alone near
the gate of the Garden, finding someone lonely like me. A girl
came and stood beside me. I wished to talk to her, though I
didn’t know her, I wanted to know her.
I asked, ‘Hey, why aren’t you playing?’
She replied, ‘I don’t wish too.’ She sounded polite.
She had worn a blue top and black jeans. In her hand was a
watch with a black belt, not of any brand, but was good, she
had tied her long hairs, which reached her waist with her brown
bow and was looking simply good and pretty. I don’t know what
was the magic in her hair, but they attracted me a lot towards
her. In that garden, her hairs were flying slowly in that chilled

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wind of November and December. Lip Balm on her lips was

making her lips glow more. She was short heightened, around
half feet below from me, but she was very cute. Her big eyes,
on which she had worn specs of brown color. Her skin color
was very bright, even more, sparkling than most of the girls I
had seen. Her cheeks were soft to touch, Though I had never
touched them, I could sense that. In short, she was simple but
decent.
I wanted to play with this beautiful girl, an indoor game. I asked
her after a few minutes of unpleasant silence. ‘Interested in a

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ludo game, in mobile?’

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Without a second thought, ‘Sure, but where?’ She replied. We

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needed a place to sit. This whole world is empty for you
Princess. You just keep a finger on a place and it will be yours.

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I controlled myself.

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place. Preety and her group were always in the class only. Do
they eat our tiffin during this break? Though we never brought
tiffin here. Preety was a good friend of mine. I knew her since
the eleventh standard.
‘What’s your name?’ She asked,
‘Armaan Kapoor, and what’s yours?’
‘Mahi,’
‘Just Mahi?’ I asked for her surname, with a smile. My Flirty
look.
‘Mahi Bajaj.’
‘Good name,’ I complimented.
Oh! She is from Goldy’s batch and is from direct entry (Direct
entry means those students who join CA after completing
graduation, not like us who join after HSC). Oh God, you could
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didn’t ask her name first, but it doesn’t mean that I am going to
accept her as an elder sister. I won’t call her “Didi”. Holy Crap!
What the hell was I thinking?
‘You are elder than me?’ I asked. Also, our Ludo game was
started on my cell phone. We were talking and simultaneously
playing the game too.
‘What? Have you done an intuition class or what?’ She looked
surprised.
‘You are from direct entry, correct?’

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‘Yeah, but how do you know?’

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‘Goldy, from your ICC batch, you remember him?’ ICC was

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our coaching center where we prepared for our CA exams.

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‘Yes, I know him,’ She looked curious.

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‘He is my close friend. A few days ago, I had met him and told

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him that our training is going to start, so he had informed me
that a girl named Mahi is also going to join this training.’
‘Oh, so you are his friend?’
‘Yup, we studied grades 11th and 12th together. We were best
friends too and topper of our tuitions.’ I thought to introduce
myself. So, I said.
‘Oh, nice!’
‘When is your birthday?’ I asked, actually I wanted to know her
age.
‘November 12. It passed a few days back. But why?’
‘Just asking, and year?’ I went on asking.
‘Girls don’t reveal their age so easily.’
‘Oh!’
‘When’s your birthday?’

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‘05th March 2000’

‘1997, by the way.’
‘So, you revealed, a bit early than my expectation. You are an
elder.’
‘Yes, I am done with my graduation in B.com.’
‘So, you are my senior. Okay, Mam?’ I teased her. She smiled.
She looked more beautiful.
‘No Sir, you are my senior.’ She pointed towards me.

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‘How?’ I asked surprisingly.

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‘I haven’t attempted the intermediate exam yet, but you are

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done with them.’

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‘Yes, but I haven’t cracked it yet.’

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‘I can bet, you will get passed. Best of luck!’ She looked at me

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with huge confidence. She said with so much confidence as if
she only had given me tuitions. Her eyes, Oh my God, I want
to get lost in them.
‘How was your exam?’ She asked, either, she wanted to know
really or might be she wanted me to avoid direct eye contact. I
looked down at my cellphone.
‘Nice, I am expecting a positive result.’ As if CA was too easy
for me.
‘Good, all the best.’ She wished again.
‘Thank you!’
‘You are from which school?’ I asked
‘Nagpur Public school.’ She replied.
‘And you are from St. Xavier’s High School, right?’ She said.
‘Yes, how do you know?’
‘Intuition.’ We smiled looking at each other.

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Time was up. The teacher and students started coming into the
lab. And she went back to her place. We enjoyed each other’s
company more than the game. Time flew and I defeated her in
the game.
Mahi became my friend today. And from here, this beautiful
Journey started. It is rightly said that the most amazing people
in your life meet you unexpectedly. And so was Mahi in my
life.
When she was sitting beside me, I was able to smell her

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perfume, it was the main reason, why I was getting more and

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more attracted to her.

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Our Sweet Friendship!

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ext few days, we kept meeting and talking. Either, in
class, or at the canteen during lunch breaks. Mahi was

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a nice girl. I started noticing her. Our talks increased
day by day. We started spending more and more time together.

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I liked her.

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Our eyes started meeting commonly. She was also good at

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talking and at mannerisms too. Yes, I was judging her, though,

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I shouldn’t. But I am choosy. I choose my company after

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thinking a lot. My Mom says, it’s always better to have 2 good
friends, who are ready to help you at any time and show you
the right path, rather than 20 friends, who won’t even look at
you when you need them the most. We became good friends.
And inside, I knew that this friendship is going to be a long-
lasting one.
But I was at my young age and sexual attraction was a basic
thing. But it was nothing more than it. Normal talks that we
did with each other daily. That’s it. The best thing about her
was her hair because I always dreamed of a girl, who should
have the best hair, a long and a straight one, and she had that
long one.
She was often feeling alone as being older than us, she had
hardly one or two friends in this training. But the good thing
was, I was her best friend there, whom she accompanied the
most. After all, I am also a fan of Emraan Hashmi, how would
I let it happen that I like a girl and she doesn’t! Yes, I like her

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& she was also attracted to me now. She had sent me a friend
request on Facebook and a bit chatting had also started.
In this training, our status changed from strangers to friends on
the third day, and from friends to close friends in later days.
Now she knew many of my friends and batchmates. She was
now comfortable with me, Preety and lucky. But more with
me… I can say so because our eyes used to meet daily atleast
20 times a day, we had started liking each other, though we
didn’t accept that fact so early, as hardly a few days had passed,

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but it was true that we had a crush on each other and the whole

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batch slowly came to knew that, we are now good friends.

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This friendship was the purest one. It didn’t contain any selfish

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motives and even it wasn’t just for fun. But because we liked

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each other’s company, we became friends. We knew our limits

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and we maintained them always. We not just friended each

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We always wished to sit

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CA Monali Thakur Singh Mam, a young energetic

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lady, with very long hairs, even longer than Mahi, who

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has very fair skin and was Punjabi, who was to teach us

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the new subject, Computerized Audit.

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During her first lecture, she saw me and Nano sitting together,

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and all the rest students too sitting with the same partners. On
the next day, again she found out all of us sitting with the same
partners. She asked us the reason why are we sitting together
today and we blamed management. She removed this rule from
that very moment.
‘Listen Dears, please sit with random faces, I am bored of seeing
you sitting with the same people daily. Leave your places and sit
with new people whom you don’t know and explore them.’ She
declared. In my stomach butterflies started to fly.
Wow! Now, we can sit with anyone, I thought. And, Mahi and
I looked again at each other. She was looking at me, which
means we are thinking the same thing.
‘Come on, be quick, I have to teach you too. So, get up quickly.’
She ordered.
No one moved even an inch. Everyone was not like me, who
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‘Okay, you guys are slow. Let me help you. Sameer, you sit
with Ram, Harish with Priya...’ and much more. She said after
waiting for one minute since her previous command.
But it was not so as Mahi and I had thought. It meant that
Mam would fix our places initially. Stupid me…
She made me sit with Preety. Oh, no…! Sitting with her was
a bit boring, because, she has a habit of a bit extra talking which
I hated. I was sad, not because Preety was over-talkative, but
because I wanted to sit with Mahi.

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‘Shall we go at backbenches, I want to sit behind, I am bored

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with sitting on the second bench?’ I asked Preety. She had no

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choice rather than agreeing with me.

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So, I and Preety went from my place to the backbench of the

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middle row. The middle row had a place of four computers and

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the two besides it had only two computers in a row. So, I thought

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that we three would sit together, by this nor Preety would be sad,

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and I would be happy too; hopefully, Mahi too would be.
‘Move fast, Mam is not watching us.’ I said to Preety. So, we
changed the place. But, bad luck! Monali Mam caught us, she is
sharper. She made Preety sit with a boy called Juneed. Preety gave
me such looks of anger as if I had surrendered her in an animal
zoo. I wanted to laugh at her, but I controlled. Meanwhile, I was
happy, because now it was time to call Mahi besides me on the last
bench of the middle row. I signaled her to come. She was already
ready with her bag in her hand. But this time I told her to ask Mam
to change the place.
‘Mam, can I sit beside Armaan?’ She said in such an innocent
voice that no one could have declined her. You know, if you
would have asked me to pick you up from your place and bring
you till here in my arms, I would have done that too.
She confirmed from Mam and Mam replied that yes.
I was happier now… rather than before (Chuckles)…

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Yippee! I was sitting in the company of my Girl…

‘Finally, together.’ She whispered in my ears.
‘Yes, I am happy,’ I told my feelings.
‘Me too.’ We smiled and twinkled.
I looked at Preety. She brought her hand close to her face, and
showed me her fist, as if she was going to Punch me after class. I
started to laugh but soon kept a hand on face to hide my smile.
‘Your friend seems upset, because, you are with me here.’ Mahi

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looked at Preety.

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‘She is just my good friend, like you, not my girlfriend, don’t
worry much.’ I was still looking at Preety and was trying to

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Preety and looked at Mahi.
‘Yes.’
Till the time Mam settled everyone in their new places.
‘Oops! There’s one problem.’ I said
‘Don’t say anything about this place, we have done a lot of hard
work to reach till here.’ She warned.
‘Sorry, but yes, it is related to this place. My PC is not
working.’ I looked serious.
‘What? Don’t say that,’ her smile left her face.
‘Don’t worry, let me try,’ I gave her consolation.
‘It’s not getting started.’ I told her.
‘You take mine PC. But sit with me only.’ She kindly said.
Yes, I am sitting beside you only, and not going anywhere dear.
‘And what about you?’ I said looking at her face.

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‘I will see your work and will learn from that.’

‘No please, it’s not so that I can’t sit with you but I want you to
do the activity too.’ I felt bad. I did so hard work and what do
we get? Oops!
‘Then what should we do now?’ She asked.
‘Mam has one extra Laptop. I will borrow it. Don’t worry, we
will sit together.’
‘Ha ok, till the time, we will share one,’ She pleased.

E
We were enjoying each other’s company.

O R
The effect of this lecture took place on all rest lectures too,
except Tally as we had created a personal company on each

M
computer, so now we would sit daily together.

A D
She was an early comer than me and as usual, I used to come late

E
but before teachers. She used to catch a place for both of us.

R
The fact was that, for her, I too had started to come on time. I
wanted to spend more and more time with her.
Later that evening, ‘Hey Preety, sorry yaar.’ I texted her.
‘Hm,’ She replied.
‘I am sorry.’
‘Just go and sit with her only.’ She typed.
‘(Link)’ I sent her a link to a video song. “Chalo jane do, ab
chodo bhi,” from the film Bhootnath.
Though I felt bad for her. She really wished to sit with me, but I
wished to sit with Mahi. Later, she texted me an emoji. I too
smiled.

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Together WE!

I
already told you that Mahi used to come earlier daily, but
now she also had started holding a place for both of us. We

R E
started enjoying one another’s company. The teacher had
not arrived yet. We were sitting in one place together.

M O
‘Would you like to listen to music?’ She said.

D
‘Yes, you have earphones?’ I asked.

A
‘Of course.’ We shared the same earphones. I wished the

R E
earphone’s wire to be so small so that I could be very close to her.
I had never touched her, but this brought us closer. I want to
see your eyes by removing your specs. Can I?
Many songs became a part of our long ITT journey and a few
among them were:
1. Chala Jaata hoon of Kishore DA
2. Chahun main ya na from Aashiqui 2
3. Aankh Marey!
Faculty came and he started teaching. Mahi’s beauty was
attracting my attention again and again. I wanted to look at her,
stare at her because she was the first girl, with whom I was
getting more and more close.
But now people had started noticing us, like we were always
sitting together, during lunchtime we ate together we came early
and used to move most late after class.

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Krishna, a batchmate, started taunting me and slowly Preety

also became frank about us that we are coming closer. She also
started to tease us.
Mahi was elder to us by two and a half years and hence all used
to call her Di, but how could I … I didn’t want to make her my
sister. She’s my MAHI.
Hum ek dusre se aap bolke hi baat karte the, but we were not a
couple, so I started to feel a bit awkward.
But sooner we decided to get shifted to tum.

R E
During the ITT practical, we both were sitting together and

O
Falguni Rathi came to our place and talked something with
Mahi about ITT practical. She said ‘Mahi Di, practical do

M
na?’

A D
‘Mere paas nahi hai, tu kisi aur se maang le.’

E
‘Armaan se maang ke do na,’

R
‘Suno, aapke paas practical hai kya, isse chahie,’
‘Aree waah Di, humse tu karke baat aur Armaan se aap
karke…’ Falguni said.
(And an awkward silence).
Since that very moment, we started saying tum… And that
brought us more closer.

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The First Touch…

'Y
aar!’ Mahi murmured. I was sitting beside her.
Today, we both were sitting in the corner row.

R E
‘What happened?’ I asked her.

O
(Teacher was teaching, and in mid-lecture, she got a call & she

M
got busy with it.)

D
‘I am feeling cold. Do something otherwise, you will be eating

A
my ice cream.’

R E
‘You are already soft like a cream.’ I tried on her.
‘Very funny! Please do something.’ She asked me.
‘Okay, let me eat my ice cream.’
‘Shut up.’ She sounded serious. A hot ice cream. Still very
tasty. ‘You think that I am kidding.’ She kept her leg on mine.
Oh my God! Our first touch. I had not thought that she would
be so soft to touch. But her legs were so cold like a cube of ice.
She was shivering.
Our position was so that I was sitting near the wall and she was
beside me at the entry of a small cabinet. It means she was at
my right. So, no one could see us.
I took out the remote from my bag and turned the AC off. I
didn’t looked at her, as if I am sad because of her.
‘You have your personal AC remote?’ She asked.
‘Yes, I have paid more. I am in a luxury class.’ I answered.

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‘Oh really! You thief!’

‘Oh hello, it is my personal remote, and don’t tell anyone.’
‘Oh, from where did you get it?’
‘My home too has the same brand’s AC conditioners.’ I looked
her a second or two and then moved my eyes from her.
After two minutes she said ‘Sorry, I shouted on you.’ She kept
her hand on mine.
‘It’s okay.’ I smiled.

R E
Though her hand was cold, but she was hot, Sizzling hot…!

O
She kept it for three seconds Her hand was like chilled ice
cream, which I wanted to have in every season, whether winter,

M
summer, or rainy…!

A D
That made me chilled, but deep inside I was so happy, because,

E
now we had moved a step ahead. Butterflies started to flutter in

R
my stomach.
Slowly, I moved my hand back, though I wanted to hold her
hand, I thought I shouldn’t be so fast. I got a bit nervous too,
though no one could recognize my state of mind at that time. A
dual minded thought process.
This brought us even closer.
I didn’t know that were we falling in love, or we had started
liking each other or it was just an attraction, but whatever it was,
it fastened up our heartbeats.
After two minutes... ‘Who the hell turned the Air conditioner
off?’ Everyone started to search for the one who had the remote
and we two were just looking at each other and blushing.
After a few days. Now, the teacher used to keep on teaching,
and below the tables, our hands were always joint.

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Many times, when we were alone and in no mood to listen to

songs, we would play the game of thumb, in which you have to
press the opponent’s thumb under your thumb.
We enjoyed playing that game.
What we enjoyed was each other’s company!

R E
M O
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The Drama

H
alf of the ITT training was done. Seven days had
passed. Monali Mam’s lecture it was. A volunteer

R E
came from outside.

O
‘Mam, some important announcement is to be made, can I?’

M
He asked.

D
‘Yeah, sure.’ She permitted.

A
‘Hi Guys, Umang 2018 is going to be held at CA Bhawan on

R E
23.12.2018. This opportunity comes once in a year for all CA
students to come on-stage and show up their talent. All of you
can, along with your friends/batchmates, and take part in
activities like dance, singing, drama, etc. You can perform
either in a group or individually too.
Please register yourself with me or my team members Hrithik
or Sonali, as soon as possible. For any queries, you can contact
me at my cell number: 85025*****’
‘Thank you!’
I didn’t bother about that announcement much.
Later, in the evening, a few boys and girls were preparing for
the dance. They were my friends and therefore asked me also
to join them, but I refused because I knew that I was not too
good at dance. And, I knew that even if I will join them, they
will not take Mahi in the group. She was not much familiar with
my batch mates. I wanted to act in a drama. The dance was not
my wish. After all, it is my dream to be an actor.

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That day went well. So that evening I decided to perform a

drama. I wished Mahi too perform along with me.
Preety was standing with me. She was a good friend, and also
showed interest in drama when I asked her.
That day, I thought a lot about the script. I wanted a powerful
script, with a nice message.
The next day, I got a good script, in which a boy lacks self-
confidence, fears to raise his voice, against injustice, even
though he was not mistaken, and is the very emotional one, he

E
doesn’t care about his rights, he has nothing to do with

R
anything. He is a dumb fellow. Later, he meets with a girl, who

O
changes his life, who teaches him to fight for himself and his

M
rights from society, that girl was always there for him, who

D
always used to motivate him, boosted him up to buck up and

A
be confident. She, later on, became his girlfriend. The boy’s

E
family consisted of Dad and Mom, along with his elder brother

R
and he had one loyal friend too.
I made up my mind to play the lead role of the character. I
wanted Mahi to perform my girlfriend’s role in this drama.
Therefore, I read before her the whole script next day.
‘Will you please play that challenging role Mahi? Please!’ I
asked her when we two were alone in the lunch break, sitting at
my desk.
‘I wish to do but…’ She looked willing to perform but puzzled.
‘But??’ I raised my eyebrows,
‘I have to ask my parents.’ I relaxed. Oh, Mahi, you just scared
me for a second.
‘OH! So, what's the big deal? Will you inform me within one
or two days, right?’ I asked her with a sigh of relief.
‘Will try,’
‘Best wishes.’ I wished her luck.

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‘You know that I too wish to participate in Umang this year

with you, but I have to ask them. My family members are a bit
orthodox; they won’t agree so easily.’
‘Okay, you try for me.’ I replied.
‘Ha baba…’ She said smilingly.
That day I kept on thinking that will her family allow her to play
that role or not? Will she agree to be my on-stage Girlfriend or
not? Will she manage to convince her family? I remembered she
had told me that her Mom had not allowed her to go on the trip

E
even with batch during Intermediate. What if she says no? Let’s

R
see, what’s going to happen tomorrow.

O
That day went well. The next day, I had reached Bhawan

M
before then her.

A D
‘Hey, Congrats, I am in. My Mom gave me consent.’ Her face

E
was shining like a bright moon. Mahi entered the class, came

R
to me & gave me such a good news.
‘First, have a seat,’ I asked her to sit.
‘Oh, yeah,’ She settled herself beside me and we shook hands
and congratulated each other. Even such a tiny thing brought
us in a jolly mood.
‘Great Yaar, you made it finally. I am very happy.’ I was tensed
a lot thinking why would I be participating if she doesn’t play
the role of my Girlfriend. I breathe a sigh of relief.
Now I was busy gathering my team. No sooner, I gathered a
team in a few days. In my team, there were Mahi, Preety,
Lucky, Nano, Jack, and a Senior whom we had approached to
play the role of Dad in drama. He was a bit fatty. I narrated
them the entire script and they were impressed with it and they
appreciated me.

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We decided to stay one hour in ICAI after lectures and practice

for drama. Sooner we began with our first scene and everything
was going well. But how could everything be well!!!
Three days had passed. But slowly, I noticed that only Mahi
and I had the most interest in drama. The rest of the member’s
interest was fast vanishing due to tough script and conflicts
among the team.
Our script and drama were in danger.
‘Armaan, I am not getting the script. It lacks humor. It will bore

E
the audience.’ Jack said. And he started throwing negativity.

R
He wanted to change the script. He was a bit overconfident and

O
a very negative person, he met me first time here only, a few

M
days back.

D
‘Armaan, dialogues are not proper.’ Preety said.

E A
‘Bhai, how will a single girl change the mindset of a dumb boy?

R
The script is incomplete.’ Lucky said and looked sad.
‘Yaar, I can’t find any unison of mind in all of us. Armaan,
please you take the control of all, otherwise, I will leave the
drama.’ Nano complained.
‘All of you have last chance, if you can get the solution to all
this, then okay, otherwise we will have to replace the script.’
Jack said in anger and stood up from there.
Our drama was getting out of my hands day by day. I was a bit
sad. I kept staring at a wall. Mahi noticed that I was very upset!!!
Later, that evening, after the lecture, Mahi came to me,
‘Listen, can I get your phone number. I will think about the
drama script that how we can save our script rather than
replacing. If I get an idea, I will call you.’
‘Sure, just remember, that whenever you call, just text me before
calling, so that I can move to a safe place, to avoid unnecessary
attention, otherwise, you know the mentality of Indian parents.’ I

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can’t describe how happy I am that you are showing this much
interest, but it is all for drama, not for me. Anyways.
‘Sure.’ And we exchanged phone numbers. I was so happy that
at least someone was there, who wanted to keep the script
constant. By the way, it was a good idea of asking for a boy’s
phone number Mahi. Anyway, we are just friends.
We went home. I was sitting alone in my living room and my
phone beeped at 07.55 PM. I was waiting for that beep only.
It was her text message.

R E
“May I call you?” I read.

O
My eagerness to talk to her increased more after seeing her text

M
message. Rather than texting her, I preferred to call her.

D
‘Hello,’

E A
‘Hi, are you free?’ that melodious voice said.

R
‘Yes.’
‘I gave a thought on the script. I have something to tell you.’
‘Yes, go on,’ I said.
‘We have to delete a few boring and lazy lines from the script.
The audience’s interest should be maintained throughout the
drama.’ She went ahead by giving me many more suggestions.
‘We have to bring the boy in such a situation where he starts
losing self-confidence and hope. There he needs support. This
girl, whose role I will be playing, boosts his confidence and
willpower & makes him strong from a weak fellow. We have to
show the audience that his girl motivates him a lot.’
‘Yes, you are amazing.’ I said. Oh my God!, Ghosh! What did
I just say?
‘Leave about me, you understood what I wanted to say, right?’
She said. Oh! You are direct to the point, like a bullet.
‘Yes, but why are kids making too much noise at your home?’

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‘Yaar, I am a tuition teacher right now, see I taught you your

lesson too.’
‘Oh, madam Ji?’
‘Yes, my Mom takes tuitions. Mom had to go somewhere
urgently, on her behalf, she asked to handle these kids, I found
it right to call you now, therefore I called.’
‘Great. I appreciate your work towards the script.’
‘Thanks a lot, Sir. And I have one more thing to say?’

E
‘Sure,’ I am always off duty to hear you.

O R
‘Would you please come tomorrow till 09:50 AM at Bhawan,
so that we could discuss a bit more about drama, face to face?’

M
She asked.

A D
Oh My God!!! Just Mahi and me. I can’t say no.

E
‘Yes sure, amazing, fabulous, mind-blowing.’ I said out of over

R
excitement.
‘Excuse me?’
‘I mean I will be there before 10,’ I covered up.
‘Okay. See you, bye.’
‘Okay bye,’
“BBbbyyyy,” She said in her usual long tone. But that usual tone
had now became a lot special for me. I loved to hear the same
BBbbbyyy tune from her in Bhawan, on-call, and everywhere.
And we hanged up.
After that call, I was blushing. I stood in front of the mirror and
kept staring at myself. The smile didn’t leave my face. I was
happy that someone was there, who was worrying about drama,
along with me. I was happy that I had made up people’s mind
so nicely that they are with me and ready to spend their time to

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come on stage. I was feeling excited, as, after such a long time,
I would be getting a chance to perform on stage.
I had my dinner; I walked a little & went to sleep. Before sleep,
while laying on the bed, I was just able to see her face along with
her voice which I had heard on the call. Sometimes, I wanted to
sleep as soon as possible, as I wanted to reach earlier in the
morning to meet my new friend Mahi, but somewhere I wanted to
think of her more, by avoiding sleep.
Goodnight.

E
The next morning, when I went cycling, her face came forward

R
and I again started thinking about drama. After coming home,

O
I drank milk and had my breakfast and ran after bath to reach

M
ICAI as soon as possible.

D
I thought that she would have been reached by now.

E A
A few meters away from ICAI Bhawan, I saw her on her white

R
Activa. She had not seen me yet, as she was ahead of me. I
raised my bike’s speed to reach her. In scarf, I was able to see
her puff and her eyes, which made my morning even more
beautiful.
‘Good morning,’ She usually greeted me, when we used to meet
in the morning.
‘Good morning,’ I too greeted her.
‘Early today?’ She daily used to come before me and sit at a
place and asked me too to sit with her.
‘Yes. Since you invited me today!’
‘You came early for me?’
‘Yeah!’ I exclaimed
And we reached ICAI, parked our vehicles, and moved in.
Hardly a few students had come and we were almost alone.
‘Where should we sit?’ She asked.

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‘Garden, what do you say?’ I suggested.

‘No, it’s a nice place, but now students will come and might see
us together and think otherwise. Already they are talking a lot
about us.’
‘What about going on the first floor? That corner where we
used to sit.’ I asked. Here we used to do drama rehearsals.
‘That will be good.’ And we started to walk.
We were on the first floor, sitting at a corner near a window.

E
We sat on the chairs kept there. I opened the window near the

R
corner and cool breezes came running from there towards us,

O
which made the mood a bit romantic. Suddenly, I wanted to
dance with Mahi, a couple dance.

D M
She told me about a few ideas which she had thought and I told

A
her about mine too. But my intuition had told me yesterday only

E
that this script is definitely going to be changed, I am just here

R
to spend time with her.
I moved my chair towards her and she too came towards me.
‘Mahi,’ I held her hand.
She looked straight into my eyes,
‘Ha,’
‘Thank you!’
‘For what?’
‘For paying so much time and attention to this drama.’
‘Shut up, no need to thank okay, it is the duty of each drama
participant, but just we two are more aware of it.’
‘It’s okay, at least, we are together sitting here without any
disturbance.’
‘Yes of course.’

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I kept seeing her, staring her. My eyes didn’t move from her
eyes, nor her from mine.
A few students saw us sitting alone, but we didn’t bother much
as we were enjoying each other’s company.
No sooner the time was 10:25. Our friends and batchmates
had started coming now, and we didn’t want to get noticed by
them, so we left that place and moved on to our Computer Lab
as Faculty was about to come. So, we had to leave.
Later that day, we both and our team gathered to think about

E
the script and practice it. I was going to play the role of that boy

R
who was less confident and a bit dumb. Mahi was going to play

O
the role of my Girlfriend. Lucky and Preety were going to play

M
the role of my parents. Jack as a villain who used to keep on

D
teasing me and so on. We had bifurcated the roles. We made

A
up the script that how we were going to do the entry scenes, the

E
exit and rest scenes, and the dialogues of every person. Four

R
days had passed in all this.
But many views contradicted amongst us. Many a time, what
few desired was not desired by everyone. Everyone wanted to
perform for themselves and not for the team. We lacked
homogeneous thoughts and lacked unity. That’s why we finally
ended up with a change of script after wasting four days on
thinking about this script and we decided to find a new one as
this one was getting tougher to perform and lacked to catch the
audience’s interest. The team said that we need a script that
would contain a kind of humor, creating interest in everybody’s
mind. Jack took the responsibility to come up with a new script.

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Chummeshwari Performance!

T he day started well. It was Monali Mam’s Lecture. I

enjoyed her lecture the most. She was much more

R E
energetic and active rather than other teachers.

O
‘Hi, buddies! Today, before I start teaching, I wish to hear

M
something from you. Our today’s topic is social media. So, tell
me, who will come forward and tell everyone the new features

D
of the most commonly used social media app today, Whatsapp.’

E A
Mam said.

R
Mahi touched me with her fingertips, asking me to go on the
stage.
‘You want me to go on-stage.’ I said by looking in her eyes,
through her specs.
‘Yes, go and have your knowledge checked.’ She teased.
I knew those features. Mahi was sitting beside me, as always.
I raised my hand and no sooner I was in front of everyone.
Because I was alone in the lab who raised hand. Students kept
on staring me, the way I was going towards the stage where
mam was standing holding the mic in her hand.
‘Welcome, Armaan. So, friends, Armaan will be telling us all
the new features of Whatsapp.’ And Mam handed over the mic
to me. She remembered my name.
I started to tell the latest features to everyone. In between,
Parth, a batchmate, called me. I was having my cell in my hand.
He called and tried to interrupt me. Naughty guy. Everyone is

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jealous in my group that I am not sitting with them, instead, I

am sitting with a hot girl. Keep calling. I disconnected the call.
Mam tried and asked students to try in their cell phones the
feature I told. I felt like I am a scientist who invented them, not
just told them.
I told many features about Whatsapp that many didn’t know.
And everyone clapped for me and I went to my place.
‘You liked my performance?’ I asked her.

E
She thought a little, ‘I can sum it up in one word,’ She said

R
with an evil smile.

O
‘Yes, but why are you smiling like this?’ My excitement was

M
rising every moment by seeing her smiling face.

D
‘No, just let it be, it was awesome.’

E A
‘You have to say now, please.’

R
‘Okay, come closer.’ Do you want to kiss or what? But still, I
am coming.
‘Chummeshwari performance.’ She murmured in my ears. I
didn’t get those words properly.
‘Sorry, pardon, please be a bit louder.’ I said to her.
‘CHUMMESHWARI PERFORMANCE,’ when I heard
it, I was in a kind of shock. I looked in her eyes and then straight
at my computer monitor. She said and started laughing silently,
hiding her smile from everyone. It was indeed one of the best
experiences. The girl, whom I just met a week ago, says that it
was a serial kisser performance. Does she want to kiss me? I too
laughed.
Our eyes kept smiling that whole day.

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