The Last Goodbye

Chapter 30

Hello Everyone, 

A quick question. 

Has anyone of you ever been to Rishikesh? If yes, please do share your experience with us and let me know how many places out here can you recall. 

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It was pitch dark even though the clock said it was just 7:30 pm. As Divya and the group got down from the traveler, Divya struggled with the blanket that she had opted to use as a replacement for the shawl, but soon realized what a bad idea it was as it was too big for her. She was still struggling with it when she felt someone walking up to her.

"Arey Didi what's wrong?" it was Aman she looked at him and let out a huge sigh. "Good you are here. Please help me out with this. I can't fold it." Divya gave him a big smile and handed him the blanket.

"I seriously don't understand what is wrong with me, that coordinator won't listen to me and then there are these girls, one asks for a khadi top, the other asks me to fold a blanket while walking on the roads of Hrishikesh... why?" Aman ranted while Nandini and Divya hugged each other sideways and began walking along with the group. On reaching a bit ahead, Aman handed Divya the folded blanket and said, "Ms. Jain is still not on speaking terms. I don't know how to approach her."

"Do you think I know that,it's getting me really frustrated, I don't like this at all. I am just looking for a better time to talk with her, at least with Ms. Tawadia, I am on really good terms with her, and I don't want to lose that."

Since this morning the environment around them was quite tense, Divya felt as if she had upset her mother and couldn't find it in herself to even have eye contact with the professors. From morning itself she had been trying to find some ways to go and talk with them, but then again that didn't work out, for each time someone would be there or ma'am would just walk away from there.

"Try and talk to her now after the tea? Yes?" Aman asked which Divya nodded and went ahead to have the said tea. Though it wasn't that she really enjoyed the tea, she just stood there observing how badly things were getting out of hand. Manav, Madhav and Dev were all around Ms. Jain excusing Ms Tawadia to be aside, the expression that went on Ms Tawadia's face didn't go unnoticed by Divya and she herself felt bad, she wished she could hit the boys right in their head and snap some sense into them.

At that moment it wasn't just Ms. Jain who needed their apology, but it was Ms Tawadia. She needed it the most. Since the last 2 months Divya had seen how much effort the professor had put in so that she could make sure that they all could come to this trip, so that the kids wouldn't have any problems. Divya could only imagine how bad she would have felt.

Soon Divya realized that the boys had begun to leave, she decided it was better to stay with them, Geet was as well tagging along when Divya went off to Ms Jain and said, "Ma'am I am really sorry for what all happened yesterday night. We didn't mean to hurt you all, at that moment things were so complicated, we knew we weren't doing anything wrong other than drinks, but we were scared, we didn't know how it was that we were to face the two of you. Especially Ms. Tawadia."

"That doesn't justifies things Divya, you all are coming here and apologizing to me, did you all even thought once that how Ms. Tawadia would have felt? More than that did you even thought how scared we would have been? It was 2 in the midnight and three of my girls weren't there in the hotel rooms where I was supposed to look for you, what was I supposed to answer to your parents? We knew that you all knew your limits, we as well knew that in jim Corbett you all were there in the boys room for the whole night, we didn't said anything all because we knew that you all knew your limits. But last night and the way the boys behaved today was not done."