Mujhse Dosti Karoge?

Mujhse Dosti Karoge ~ 8 ~ Grade 6 Crush.

After Sister Stella told us about the speech we had to give, I had serious plans of skipping a few assembly sessions though I’d get punished for that.  Addressing a huge crowd wasn’t really my cup of tea. But that doesn’t make me a bad leader. I have led my Basketball team and the results we got were great. 

But a leader doesn’t give up. Right? So I made up my mind to get over my fear no matter how difficult it got.  I had to talk to Kaaya and get some help.

As we walked out, I caught up with Ridhay and decided to have a talk with him.

“Hey Ridhay, are you gonna tell Risha about it?” I asked, hoping he’d say yes, so that I wouldn’t have to go through the talking.

“I was going to ask you the same thing. I mean, she loves being on the council and all. It’ll be hard for me to say it alone. I was hoping maybe you, Abhay and I, all three of us could tell her,” he replied.  I wanted to scream ‘what the hell? Are you dumb? It’s a dumb idea’, but I didn’t.

“I don’t think that’s a good idea,” I said.

“What’s not a good idea?” Abhay Bhaiyya asked, joining our conversation.

“You tell him,” Ridhay said looking at me.

“No! You tell him! It was your idea!” I said.

“But,” Ridhay started but when I narrowed my eyes at him, he said, “Fine.”  I breathed a sigh of relief. He then told Abhay Bhaiyya what the idea was. For that he responded by laughing. Both Ridhay and I gave him a confused look.

“Relax! I’ll do the talking!” Bhaiyya said. I smiled at him and Ridhay looked as if a massive weight was removed from his shoulders. Was he scared of her or something? Or didn’t he want to hurt her? God knows. Why do I care anyway? I had other things to care about! Writing up a speech, for instance! Oh crap! I better find Kaaya!

“Okay boys.  I have something to do. Bye,” I said.

“Kaaya!” I yelled as I saw her talking to someone. She looked at me and gave me a grin and walked towards me.

“Ishu!” Kaaya said, pulling me into a hug. Why the sudden happiness, I thought. Did I miss out something when I was called to meet the principal? Never the less, I returned the hug and smiled at her.

“You will not believe what just happened!” she said beaming.

“Tell me and only then will I be able to tell you if I believe it,” I said.

"Kishan asked me to be his girlfriend!” she squealed, jumping like a little kid whose parents just brought her candy. I was really glad to know that he finally managed to man up and ask her.

“That’s wonderful,” I genuinely smiled at my best friend who finally had her wish come true.

“Unbelievable, right?” she asked. I shook my head and said, “Actually, that was believable. Know why?” with a smirk plastered to my face.

“Is it really what I’m thinking?” she asked with an eye brow raised.

"Depends on what you’re thinking,” I said.

“I’m thinking you had something to with this.”

“Nope, I don’t have anything to do with this.”

 Actually, I knew that he was going to ask her to be his girlfriend a long time ago. I mean, they’ve known each other since they started school. Also, they had been going on dates and I remember that long message which she had sent me after the ice-cream date they had been to. It was obvious by that message that she liked him. So I showed it to him and turned out he really liked her too.