Anonymous

chapter 5

New day, still same but I hope it will be different. I can do that.

The teacher was late but when she entered, we kind of got to know why.

A guy followed behind her . Most probably the new student everyone was talking about.

He looked like every new student ever, lost.

He introduced himself, his name is ‘Niran’.

After his introduction, he took a look around the class to find himself  seat.

I wasn’t exactly looking at him when he came and sat behind me. And the class continued.

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It was lunch. someone tapped on my shoulder.

I turned around to realise it was him. What was his name again?

“ Niran” he said, as if he read my mind.

“ Hi, Kyrith”  I replied. He smiled and said “nice name”

I smiled back and not knowing what to do anymore, I turned back.

He tapped on my shoulder again asking “ can you show me the way to canteen?”

Even though I didn’t want to get up, I agreed and ended up showing him the way to canteen.

Now that i was in canteen, i also took my lunch and went to my usual place and began to chew my food at the pace of an turtle, not my fault, it tasted awful.

As I looked up, i saw Niran settling down. I didn’t realize but he had followed me and was now sitting in front of me, with a smile on his face. Weird.

I looked around to see if this was the last seat  left, which was not.

He cleared his throat and asked “ can I sit here?” which he was already doing, so I said “ you are already doing that, don't you think?” and he broke into the cutest smile I have ever seen.

It wasn’t even that funny, what  I said.

I couldn’t help but smile back.

And then he asked me “so.... tell me.”

“what?”

“what does your name mean?”

“well...I don’t know, never thought about it.”

“who named you?”

“my mom”

“you never asked her?”

“I did, she said she doesn’t know. She doesn’t even know why she chose it but she thinks she had heard it somewhere a long time ago and most probably it got stuck in her brain and when I was born, she named me  the first name she could think of.”  

“you never searched?”

“nope”

“why?”

“I don’t know, it just never occurred to me.”

“It’s a good name, if I were you , I would search it up”

“well, what does your name means?”

“Niran?”

“obviously”

“um..eternal”

“oh. Wow”

“I know”

And like that , we talked a little more as he complained about food, saying it was awful, which I completely agree with.

And then i excused myself to use the washroom, when the bell ringed and here i was , in my classroom.

I thought Niran would be here by now as most of the people had entered the class, but he was nowhere to be seen.

A little bit later, the teacher came in but he still wasn’t here.

Did he get lost? I was wondering, as the door slid open and our class teacher came in, followed by Niran.

I stared at him as he stared back and then took his seat.

I turned around when it hit me and I blurted out “did you get lost?”

It came out more as an whisper.

“yes? Because you left me?”

“I thought you would find your way back , and the bell had already rang”

“shhh, look front, I'll tell you later.”

With that I turned back to see the teacher glaring at me .

I didn’t make anymore eye contact, just stared down at my notebook.

And after a long hour of horror (it was maths) , the period ended.

As soon as the teacher left, I felt a tap on my shoulder.

I turned around to see him looking at me with unreadable expressions on his face.

I said first “why did you get lost?”

“well, because i am new?”

“are you sure? It wasn’t that difficult  of a path”

“yeah”

“hmm ok”

I don’t know why but it felt like he wasn’t telling me the whole thing.