Everyone was chattering continuously including me, the sir called out to the next boy......

"Okay okay kids!! Shuu!!" He pointed a finger on his lips. Some of them did listen to him but the others continued anyways.

"Okay kid, now tell me in this- room who do you think, I mean in your opinion who is the cutest??"

The boy stood up,

"Hey isha look here" my friend called out to me.. "huh?" I replied back, turning my whole attention to my friend towards my right....

"I think ____ is the cutest" the boy said...

"HEY!!!! WAKE UP YOU LITTLE PROBLEMATIC KID!!" Shouts my mom pulling my only blanket covering me..

"Ahhhhhh ommaaaaa, whyyyyy" I start screaming back at her, trying to grab the blanket and started crawling away from her so that she won't pull my blanket.

..... "Go and get ready, your dad will drop you off at school"

"Huh???" I got startled by her saying that word called SCHOOL!!

"what? What do u mean ma, it's lock down and the covid is still out there" I say that doing some dramatic actions with my hand..

"Yeah , yeah stop with your rubbish and get ready, i rather send you to school that let you rot at home" she says pulling my blanket and started folding it.

I got up on my knees and started my dramatic act... "But ma, don't you care about your child?? What if I get covid?? I would have to say in the four walls of hospital and cry all day loooong!!! They are going to keep me some sort of I don't know those things called salines and an oxygen mask around my faceuu"

"Stop it Isha, me and your dad had a long discussion about this" she say slaming the folded blanket on my bed "and you won't get covid unless u wrap up your face with a mask and don't go near anyone who is sneezing or coughing and you'll be fine. Stop with your dramatic acting"

"But maaaaa- I tried to convince her but suddenly I heard my dad's voice saying "B are you ready?"

I sprinted towards my bathroom leaving my mom there "yes in a minute!!" I shout back..

A minute tf, I didn't even get my self out of bed ughhhhhh. I don't want to go there.

"You should have gotten up when I said you so" my ma shouted back...

"Yeah, yeah okay maa" I replied back but in a frustrating tone...

...****************...

After a while I got my self ready wearing a red hoddie which is sleeves and the sleeves were till the shoulder and a blue jeans, hair tied up in a pony, and white shoes.

"I'm ready" I said watching my dad looking at something in his phone. "Eat some breakfast" "I'm not in a mood for some dad, lets just goooo as you all are abandoning meeeee" I say dramatically

"It's just school your not going to die" "I hope so that i don't " I whispered,

...****************...

"All right take care isha, and if anything happens be sure to call me, keep your phone near you" "Okay okay dad I got, I'll be fineeee- see you later byeee"

Dad gave me a last look and went off on his car, I look up the school or if I find better words to describe it, it is exactly not a school but a built in apartment. I stood in the middle of the road and wow it has 5?

 5! Floors....

It has two gates which are both covered by the posters of the topper students, I laugh a little, like there is that slogan 1ST! 1ST ! 1st! Ranks are conquered by our NARAYAN institute...

it pretty much looks like a free pass to hell to me.. I take a look at the time in my watch it's 9:45 obviously late, but I don't care enough.

I don’t even see a watchman here, who tf will guide me now? Whatever I roll my eyes and enter into that so called damn school or maybe an apartment... I started making my way inside and towards my left there are stairs? That lead to nowhere? What? Black stairs that kinda seem to be connected to the floors but I don't think that's the way inside.... towards my right are the actual built in stairs...

I started walking up the stairs and was stopped by an unfamiliar voice,

"Hey, kid" and old man called out to me, not to judge but he's bald in the center of his head,

'Are you the new student"? He asked

"Um- yes sir I am" I said,

"Wait ill take you to your classroom"

"Okay sir" I replied and started following behind him...

The school started 6 days ago and I didn't feel like going to school after taking a whole nap of 2020. I'm in 8th grade! woowowo

 I pretty much slept through 7th, and also got rid of that dream of being a senior and guiding the junior....

Me and that uncle or sir I don't know, reached 2nd floor and he turned towards right, that's where ig are the classrooms,

It was a narrow path, where the washroom was there towards the narrow path, left side, next to that 3 rooms ig, which are classrooms, he stared leading to the middle room and opened the door

"Excuse me sir, there is a new student" He said holding the door for me, obviously to make my grand entry........

I walked inside the room filled with blueee benchs, with 5 unknown faces and 1 known but just consider it as unknown and I don't know if I should say its a good thing or a bad thing that all are girls. The benchs were arranged in 4 rows with every student sitting in the middle 2 rows, one in a bench. Out of the corner of my eye is where the sir is sitting on a bench, black glasses, checked shirt with dark blue jeans, why tf am I even considering these???

"Go and sit anywhere" said the sir..

I made my way through that one familiar face and got seated in the last bench.....

Just right infront of the cool damn AC!!!

"New kid, once bring your physics notes" He said, and i don't need a damn person to tell me that he was saying about mee...

"Okay sir" I whispered in a low tone barely heard and started searching for that physics book...

I got the book and but did I write anything yes I did my name and the class and a few words maybe?

I gave it to him and he started ruffling through the pages..

"That's all the work you wrote?" He said,

"Yes sir, I did but this is the new notes which I kept recently and that's what i brought" I know it's a lame answer but what am I even supposed to do when they kept this class early in the morning??? At 9:00 am....

"Fine go and sit" He said and I snatched the book and went back to my desk, that sir left the class and ig his period is over...

All the student started roaming around, it's break period ig.....

I looked over to that one familiar face but it acted like I was the unfamiliar one.....

...****************...

For the next few day no one bothered me and I didn't care to bother them...

"hi?"

I looked over to the person who called out to me, she wore a white gown, lol just like in the movies of the ghost. Doe eyes, mole under her lip and more important she has the longest hair of all of us....

"Um-hi"

"Mind if I sit here?"

"Na, all your yours" I said looking at my phone...

"Your name is Isha banshee right?"

"call me Isha its better"

"oh! okay isha?"

"Uh-huh"

"Is that a yes?"

"Hmm"

"I'm haritha by the way"

"Ohh, nice"

"Are you always like this?"

She has a damn nerve to be chopped out by me... cool down Isha, when someone is trying to talk to you, you have to be nice, okay? You need some friends stoopidd, i took a deep breath.

"Um- no it's just that I'm not in a good mood right now" I say turning my phone down and gave her whole attention... I think I scared her, she backed off a little when I moved forward...

"Ohh okay, is that your friend over there?" I looked over to the direction she was pointing, standing still and was talking to someone else..

"Hmm, maybe" I say kinda, rolling my eyes a little...

"Listen am I disturbing you?" She looks at me a bit confused

"No your not continue im listening"

"You know amuyla right?"

"No I don’t"

"Ok never mind, look over to the girl dressed in red, she's amuyla"

Amuyla ? She's skinny, chocolate skin,messy hair, red bindi and mainly the topper..... and this girl who approached me is h, who's close with her

"Oh, whats about her, isn't she your friend?"

"Yes she is but-" she looks down, little sad

I didn't pay for this shit!!!!!

"Okay now tell me what's wrong?"

"You see that girl who is a little fat?"

"Hmm"

"She's Tanvi"

Tanvi? As she said, she's a bit fat, big eye brows, mole on her nose, 2 braids and she looks like she is a big lier....

"Okay?"

"She stole her from me!! Me and Amu were a perfect pair and she came in between us!!!! I love her but that tanvi stole her away!!!!"

"Huh?" She looks like she's about to cry but what in the actual shit is this??? And what am i even supposed to do?????

"She came between us!!! Please don't say this to anyone..."

As if I have someone to say this shit to...

"Ok ok cool I won't say it to anyone"

"Hmm, thank you, your the only one I can trust, here"

"Okay"

...****************...

"Bhanshee bring your physics notes"

I don't know if this sir have some personal issues with me?? Why the heck is he calling me out of all the other i swear i will burn him alive with this school..

"Yes sir!!" But good for me i actually wrote it this timeee....

"Looks like you have written the notes now", he says looking at me..

"Yes sir", he handed my book over and I went to sit at my usual place but with h over here next to me.

"What girl harita? Looks like you have changer your seat and decided to sit with banshee huh?

"Um- yes sir" harita replied

"Looks like you have stared to make some new friends banshee!" Sir says

"Sir first of all she's not my friend"

Shit-, it slipped before I can even control it mannn!!!.

"Oh why isn't she?, you two look close" He said..

"Sir just because she came and sat with me doesn't mean she is my friend and-"

Shut up b!!!!, its not too lateeeeee

"And she came here cause her friend over there left her!!" I replied, I am bit angry but I don't know what has actually triggered me.

"Oh!, what happend?" He says putting his hand over his chin and getting on the bench to take a seat, looks like sir is literally enjoying this thing.... I don't know why harita didn't stop me...

"Okay sir so first of all everything was fine until harita and amuyla were sitting together but now since that tanvi has came in between harita and amuyla, hartia is mad over it and left a so that tanvi can peacefully sit with amulya" I said it, wow, I guess I have to wait for the drama to come

"Hey, go and talk it out with amulya" I said to harita, I mean she did listen to me... amuyla got up from her bench and came near to harita. My bad that I didn't notice that this girl harita, was literally weeping beside me!!

"He-hey?, why are you crying??!, I'm sorry listen, I'm sorry for saying" shit I messed it up again.....

"No- no it not your fault, it's just that I- I don't know" I tried pathing on her back to calm her and in front was a with tanvi behind her and the rest is history.....

They fought, then cried and screamed and over all this shit was going on, that sir was laughing and I don't know, he didn't now what to do other than laughing.

Great this year is going to be awesome.........

...****************...

Before 1 year:-

I still miss you....

I say staring at the wall of the class endlessly, It's been 7 months since I left from the school, I even wondered if you ever stopped being scared of me.. do u even remember me?

I just scoff it off, and look over to my buddy who us just chilling around and talking with some girls!!!

"Hey you know you are the prettiest one I have ever met" my buddy says

"Aww and your the handsome guy I never knew I needed" the girl says holding his hand....

"Umm, am I not pretty naveen?huh?" The other girl says completely showing that she is jealous,

"Sanvi~, your the most generous and gorgeous person I ever know.." he says!!!! Putting his hand on her shoulder!!!!

"I'm going to miss you a lot naveen, as from tomorrow we're going to have online classes and we can't see each other face to face" a girl says

"I'm going to miss you too, but remember if you ever need me just remember that I'm just a phone call away. Got it?" Naveen says

"Yes!" Both the girls say

"YOU KNOW WHAT BUDDY, YOU CAN DO YOUR LITTLE KITTY PARTY SOME WHERE ELSE!! I say in a little frustrating tone....

"Sorry ladies I need to go and catch up on my friend over there he's-" saying he looks over to me " just having a hard time" and starts walking towards me, I was standing near the window of the class, leaning over the glass....

"Yooo!!, whats up dudeeeeee"

"You know what just go away and get over that kitty party!!"

"Kitty parties over noww, and I guess I need some bro- party over here" He says opening the window and slides his hand out of the window.

"Yeah yeah, now that they are gone you had to come here??"

"Dude get over this grumpyness of yours" He takes a deep breath and starts again "it's about that girl isn't is?" He says looking over to me...

"Dude-its- I mean-, uhhh, I really don't want to bother you about her again but-"

"Chill dude don't get so worked up,I won't bite" He says laughing.

"I know it doesn't make a lot of sense, how can I even forget her when we never talked?? When she don't even know i exist but I do know that she exists"

"Love can come in all forms your know? Even tho you people never talked"

"Yeah, the Mr love expert is saying" I say Sarcasticly

"Yeah, yeah someday I'll find my love too" He says a little furious

I laugh back at him....

"Bro!" I say

"Hm?"

"Why not lets go and find out where she is and we can join there???"

"Eh? But bro do you think we can find it out? You don't have her number or anything, I mean you don't even know anything about her, all i know is that you love her."

"Yeah, dumbass you know what??? girls are excellent at stalking and i think I know the right person who can get us there" I say smirking

He laughs, "I hope she don't run away if she ever saw you"

"Why'd say like that?" I say confused

"Because from according to what I have heard from you about her always includes her running away for you!" He laughs

"She might have done a little bit"

"Yeah, so what's the plan"

"Come over tonight and we'll see"

"Alright!!"

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I was lying on my bed in my room staring at the wall, having no clue what I'm going to do next..

I did say naveen to come over and we will figure something out but i have no idea what I'm going to do, I was thinking of asking laya for some help,as i was thinking what to do, when i heard footsteps coming my, if I had to guess who this is supposed to be, I think it's a girl as i can hear heels sound...

"Annaya, what are you doing over here?" She asks

"That's the question I was supposed to ask diya. What even are you doing over here?" I say, getting up from my bed.

Diya is my mother's brothers daughter, she is just like a sister to me even tho I have no one.

"What I meant to say that every one in the house is preparing for karthik annayas wedding and her you are sleeping like a sloth!!" She says folding her hands

"Just tell me that you were tired of doing the stuff you were told to do diya!" I say looking at her,smiling,

"Uhhh, I am tired of getting these things, those and the other what ever stuff they are saying" she says taking a seat on the chair

"Soooo, If i had to say, you came her just to escape?"

"I guess-"

Before she can even complete saying another fellow came.

"Yeah, yeah, mom ill bring that!!" Ishaan said, "dudeee they are literally eating mee. I bought oil an hour ago but now they need it again!!"

He said closing the door.

Before I can even reply 2 others came

"Hey, don't tell me you all left us!" Laya said

"It definitely looks like that" said charan

"Call harish too, why leave him behind?" I said

"Nope!" Ishaan said popping the p

"Why" diya asked

"He's in between the aunties and we'll get stuck if we go inside" said laya

"As you all came, come and get yourselves seated"

"Yeah, I'm really tired" said charan

The whole room slowly turned into chaos as one by one they all started playing ludo as it is the family game. My phone stated buzzing in middle and i started to take a look at my phone

Chief:-

Naveen:- Open, before I kick it down. Arav:- Kick it down, and I’m making you sleep outside.

Naveen:- Joke’s on you, I brought a tent. Your backyard is my new home now.

Arav:-Great, now I gotta start charging you rent. Hope you like high prices!

Naveen:- No worries, I’ll pay in monopoly money. Hope you like going bankrupt!

Arav:- Perfect! I’ll use it to buy your tent and evict you.

Naveen:- yeah yeah, come and get me before I freeze

Arav:-Bro, it’s August. Anyway wait up, im on my way.

I keep my phone down and started walking down the hallway and

"Aarav!!!, go and get some oil, we ran out of it"

"Don't aarav I told that idiot ishaan to bring that but he's nowhere to be found" my aunt said

"Its Okay aunty ill bring that" I say

I go out and drag my buddy with me ignoring his pleas of don't want to go. After a while we got back and I brought him up to my room and everyone greeted him and we both settled down.

"So- what's the plan?" He asked

" I don't know" I say

"Then whyd call me over???"

"So that we can figure it out"

"Ughhhhh aarav!!!!"

"Any worries?" Ishaan asked after finally giving up on ludo

"Yeah this dude over here is in lov-" I slammed the pillow over his face.

" Yeah, economic crisis!" I say hurriedly

"Releatioship crisis!!!" He Shouts back

Shit!

"Wha--" said diya getting away from the ludo

"Oh my god! Really?! Arava?" Said laya, closing the ludo.

"Your hiding secrets from us now huh?" Said charan hitting me with a pillow.

"So dude what's his story? Naveen?" Asked ishaan

"Start with the first time he saw her!!" Said diya, excited.

Everyone literally was so interested in listening to this love story, as they all pushed me back and circled around naveen.

"Sooo, it all started on fine day- hindi class as long as i remember, as our aarav is best in the educational field" He said Sarcasticly

"He did forget to do some homework and mam was about to punish him but the bell rang and he was taken out with the mam to her next class and there was seated the love of his life. He sat in front of his girl and heard her giggling and squeaking with her friend. Same class but different section"

"So this dude fell for her laugh?" Asked charan.

"Well i guess so, isn't it aarav?"

"Don't ask me" I say hiding in my pillow

"Didn't know boy in love would be soo shy" said diya

"Whats the problem here?" Asked laya

"She don't like him?" Said ishaan

"No, no no, it's just that our boy has scared the hell out of her and even tho if he's not that scary, and every time he tries to approach her she ran away. And soon he left the school and he still wants her but the problem is that he don't know her number and we have no contact with her"

"No problem, aarav do u have ig?" Asked laya

"Okay now we're helping bro to find his lover info" Ishaan said

"I'm in guys" charan said

"Me too" diya

"yes, laya I joined in this year may" I said

"You don't have her number right?" Laya asked

"Yup, that's the problem" I say

"Hey, arent you ladies too good at stalking?? Can you all find her?" Naveen asked, thats exactly what I wanted her to do...

"Well, let me check with the possibilities" laya said

"All he needs is her number that's it" naveen said

"Umm, now that it's lock down the classes are done in zoom!" Laya said

"What does that have to do with her number?" Asked diya

"Hmm, exactly, you can't just get her number from zoom!" Said charan

"No, that's not it, ishaan pass me my phone" laya said

"Coming right up" Ishaan said

"Aarav do you know any of her classmates names?"

"Hmm, yes I know a few" I said

"Say me one of their name who is more active in class and is talkative" laya said

"I would say abdul is the most talkative and energetic in class as long as I know" I say.

"Okay now, give me the number of that head of yours who manages the group charts and all" laya asked

I look up into my phone and check for the heads number.

"It's ××××××××××" I say

"Okay that's great" laya said typing something in her phone

We all gathered around laya to check what she's doing, I see that she has messaged my past head saying

Good evening, ma’am,

I hope you’re doing well. This is Abdul, and I wanted to inform you that this is my new number. Could you kindly share the Zoom meeting links with me here?

Thank you for your time and help.

"What are you even going to so what those links laya?" Naveen asked

"Listen if we get a hold of those links we can login to that meeting where his crush is there and ask for her number to add in a group or something as that too in the name of abdul" laya said

"What if the person named Abdul is already present in that meeting??" Charan asked

"We will just change it to another student who's absent! Smiple and we all have to do is wait for tomorrow morning so that the meeting can start and so does our boys love story" laya said

"Never knew you were this smart" ishaan said

"If she was that smart she would have know the difference of putting salt instead of sugar in curry" diya jokes

"Yeahhh, I remember that day, it was too sweet!" Charan jokes

"Ahh, come on, it was just a small mistake that's it!!"laya says

"Laya" I say

"Hm?"

"Thank you very much this means a lot to me" I say to her

"Do a love marriage aarav and that's going to help me a lot!" Laya says

"What you have a bf!!?" Ishaan says

"Yes she does, and she just don't know how to confess to our parents as no one in our family did love marriage"

"But you were meant to marry meeeee" ishaan say jokingly

"Yeah, yeah, i don't want to date a joker" laya says

"I'm not a joker" ishaan says

And then the chaos continues and naveen gently nudges me gives me a you happy look and I give him never in my whole life i was this happy look.

"AARAV, ISHAAN, LAYA DIYA, CHARAN!!!!!! I HAVE BEEN CALLING YOU ALL AND YOU ALL ARE GOOFING OUT HERE!!!!" My mom came with a stick and started warning us all.

"Aunty, sorry we all will come right up"

"And naveen, since your here too can you please help us a little?" Mom asks

"Um- Okay aunty i will"

We all pretty much rushed her and there getting some stuff and finally when the night ended i pretty much slept when i just closed my eyes

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"AARAV!!!!! WAKE uppppp!!!!!" Diya started shouting and started pulling me off the bed.

"Huh? What? What happened?" Me with half a sleep, started this day with my unsteady walk towards wherever diya was taking me.

"That head of yours has kept the link to the zoom meeting and now laya, charan, ishaan, naveen and harish are all there waiting in the room"

"What?!" Wow, now I'm wide awake running along with her

I entered the room with everyone being excitedly wait for the meeting to start.

"Seriously we got in?" I say rushing over

"Yeah dude, it's quite shocking for me too" naveen says

"The genius is guiding you all, so obviously it will work out!" Laya says

"I was putting my blood, sweat and tears trying to cover up all your jobs, while here you all are stalking a poor girl" harish says

"Come on buddy, it's aarav's girl!!! So we have to put some efforts into it" charan says

"Look!" Laya says full of excitement in her tone

"We go in!!" Diya says

Laya opened her laptop and continued the meeting, we entered the class named somebody which was ishaan's idea and i have no clue how laya just agreed to it, we all were greeted with a good morning from that mam over there, as long as i remember she teaches English. We didn't waste any more time,before the mam actually kicks this somebody off the meeting, and started looking for her.

I pretty much became disappointed when i didn't see her anywhere in the meeting, naveen was kinda supportive when she was no where to be found in the meeting. Laya suggested we should wait up for few minutes, by chance if she was late. But the faith has other plans, she never came.

"Yoo buddy, do u know this person called jitendra?" Charan asks

"He is keeping all the texts like who are, just tell me please, I won't say it to anyone" said charan

" I don't know about him but I do know that he's from her section" I reply back.

"Hey, why not ask him, your girls number?" Naveen suggested

"No, bro not a good idea" I say

"Why dude the whole school knows that you love her, I mean you made the whole school know that you love her!!" Naveen says

"Fine, no point of arguing, do what ever you like" I say

Naveen got the hold of laya's laptop and started texting him.

jitendra

jitendra:- heyy, just say me who you are I wont say anyone

Somebody:- how can I trust you?

jitendra:- you can i am best at keeping secrets.

Somebody:- ohhh, nice

jitendra:- come on just say me who you are. It's not that hard!

Somebody:- ok fine, I'm aarav, and I hope you remember your senior, and i also hope that you know that I love one girl and i want her number. Can you please send it to me.

jitendra:- um, no dude, sorry I can't.

Somebody:- heyy please, I told you who I am, can't you do this small favor for your senior??

jitendra:- sorry brother I really can't say it. It's her personal stuff and i hope you know your limits.

"This dude sure has the guts to say this" naveen say getting mad!!!

Somebody:- hey, who do you even think you are huh??? Don't get yourselve too high up, i just asked for her number that's it.

I snatched the laptop before he can even send that text and naveen started cursing that person jitendra and before we all know it, we were kicked out of the meeting by the host!

"Umm, was it my fault?" Naveen says

"Yes" charan, harish and ishaan says jointed

"Nope" says diya and laya

"Okay people, calm down, it's no one's fault, we were meant to be kicked out with that so called name somebody!!" I say

"Don't worry aarav, we can figure out something else. She is not that sapovnela flower isnt she?" lays says patting my back.

"No laya it's okay even if we don't find her I'm fine, will all of you by my side what else do i need?" I say

"A wife" naveen says

"Apart from that-" I say

"KIDS!! ARE YOU AWAKE??"

Damn with that tone, I absolutely know that the work load is going to come.

I wish to meet you again~~