Tales of the Heart

2. Manasamadhanam poyi ente macha

3rd person,

it's Monday morning and class XIIA is very noisy.

"ughh eth ethina ethre sound undakkunath " Sajeesh sir the PE teacher says as he enters the classroom irritated.

"vayyu ullathu kondu " said Ayesha in a low voice but everyone heard. Sir gave her a hard look.

everyone settled down and faced sir except Stephy who kept looking at Abigail, Miva notices this and tries to hide her smile and nudges Stephy, he turns and sees Miva looking at him with a smirk.

" Paagal girls," he thinks to himself.

sir told everyone to get their water bottles and go to the basketball court. the court is quite big with bleachers. After making all the students jog for 15 mins sir gave the ball to play the match. everyone who wanted to play was divided into 2 teams by Sajeesh sir and the rest were seated on the bleachers. That included the ape gang too.

The match started with the team captains Saranya and Adil fighting to gain possession over the ball. Adil gains it and dribbles the ball past Saranya, and some defenders and shoots a shot at the hoop scoring 2 points for the team, running to his court, Mahi dribbles the ball and passes to Navin, he misses the shot and passes to Saranya who scores 2 points for their team too. The game continued and adils team was leading as of now. Stephys game was poor today bc Stephy's head isn't in the game and rather somewhere in the bleachers. he keeps glancing at Abigail throughout the game and suddenly the ball gets passed to him by Alfin but he loses it as Sreya steals it from him and shoots a 3 pointer into the Adil's team's hoop.

Adil goes up to Stephy, "EDA NEE ENTHU NOOKUA KORAYA NERAM AYALLO NEE ANGOTTU NOKUNNU.... KALI JAYIKKANAM ENNU VALLUM NINAKKU AAGRAHAM UNDO " he notices that Stephy isn't paying attention to what he's saying but looking at someone on the bleachers. Adil looks to see what he's looking at and sees Dima, his heart stops for a split second and suddenly his heart felt heavy.

Adil looks at Stephy's face and sees him looking at Dima longingly, but little does he know that Stephy is looking at Abigail who's sitting right next to Dima. The girls were taking pics and posing on the bleachers, Adil sees Stephy's eyes travel down to Dima's legs or so he thought. He feels annoyed and his jaw clenches and his hands ball into fists. But Stephy was staring at abigails smooth waxed legs. He felt some indescribable feeling.

Stephy notices Adil standing next to him and he suddenly realizes where he is and what's going on. he quickly glances at the bleachers and sees that Abigail is looking at him. their eyes meet for a split second and they both quickly look away from each other.

Abigail felt insecure for a moment but she ignored the odd feeling she got when her eyes met with Stephy's and looks at Nichu who looks at her with a questioning look. Abigail shrugs and Nichu thinks to her self "huh weird lol".

Adil decides to not say anything more and just continue the game. This time Stephy tries to focus on the game but he keeps getting distracted by the girls laughing and specifically abigails laugh. Stephy shoots to the hoop but misses the shot . Adil notices that Stephy keeps looking at the girls and he gets angrier by the moment, Adil passed the ball overhead to harshal who scores 2 points but they end up losing by 6 points.

They all go back to class after PE.

Everyone's exhausted and Stephy stands in front of the AC and lifts his shirt to wipe sweat from his forehead. Abigail sees his well-defined abs and the sweat dripping down his body and her eyes go wide. she blushed and looks away hoping no one saw what just happened.

Meanwhile, Adil is extremely annoyed by this and he sits in his seat drinking water and looks at Dima and sees her and some other students laughing at some joke. He looks at Stephy and his thoughts travel back to that day 6 years ago...