"where are you going now?" asked Niksha. She starightened up her specs and looked at me like my mother would look at me when she would ask me why I got such low marks in my test. I hated Niksha! She was the worst roomate ever. She was so uptight, clean and she judged people a lot and completely opposite to what I was. She told it to my face that she doesn't fancy me being her room mate and all but she can deal with it,l she literally called me as a challange, 'bitch!'
I even asked my warden if I could change my roommate but she was very clear that nobody can change the their rooms and the rules won't be bended for anybody even if that person was the daughter of president of united States of America. Yeah, right! My warden the forty year old physics teacher in my college just hated me. She thinks that Niksha will be a good influence for me and me staying with her might "change me for good"
Oh wait.. I didn't introduce myself! My name is Radha Kumar, I am named after the lover of a god Krishna (Hinduism) and Radha and Krishna are said to be people who happened to fall in love with each other so deeply but their destinies took them to different paths and they never ended up with each other. The love story between them was so intense and magical that it's one of the most celebrated love story in my country. I just hoped I meet my Krishna one day and live with him happily ever after. I craved for a love like those two had. Anyways, I lived in Mumbai my whole life. Mumbai is like New York of America. So you get the picture right? "The city, the traffic, the people, the pollution, the slums, the street shopping places, the malls, the sea etc." This makes me home sick. Even though I was born and brought up there I actually belong to south India to a state called tamil nadu. I am a Iyer and we are slightly different from other people who belong to Tamil Nadu. Let's not go too deep into that shall we? Let's just I belonged to the conservative and stirct part of the society who had a kind of more restrictions then others and who are sensitive when it comes to their religion and believed strongly in their roots and traditions. So my parents raised me in kind of strict way. They wanted me to be perfect in each everything, studies, sports,extra curricular activities and arts. They wanted me to just focus on my academics, so that I get into a good college in future. So, I didn't have time for friends or a normal teenage life. I mean when I got my periods, my mother just told me it just the nature's way of telling you have grown up and going to be a woman soon. I didn't even understand my own body until I reached eleventh grade. I was such an introvert who was always reading books. I couldn't speak up or I could defend my self. I got ragged a lot as a kid and I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I tried talking to my parents about it, but it was no use. They belong to a complete different generation where ragging did not even exist and where their parents told them to study hard, so that they can get a good job and support their family. ' Job and Family ', these is one of the most precious thing to an Indian and they don't care about the other thing that also do matter in life. So my mother just told me stay strong and brush them off, her famous saying " take those ugly words in from one ear and take them out of your system from the other, do not let them stick because you are unique and do not deserve all this negativity" she tried her best you know, to help me out but she was also kind of clueless. My Dad on the other hand was furious with all the other kids messing around with me so he made me change schools, and that's when I met my best friend till date Natasha. Natasha Fernándes was the one who changed me and made the person I am today. She was so nice to me in the start. She made me loose. From an introvert looser she made the extrovert miss popular.I mean come on! Being popular throughout your highschool is kind of a big deal. My parents had a hard time taking in my change, it led to frequent fights and dramas at home but they slowly accepted it and started changing with me. But it was a very slow and tedious process. I didn't loose focus on my studies, I came among the top five of my grade in board exams. I decided I wanted to do engineering and wanted to get into Indian institute of Technology(IIT) , I cleared the first round but couldn't pass through the second. My parents were okay with it and told me they are still proud of me but I was disappointed with my self. But I gave entrance exams all the other good colleges and got into one in Chennnai (Tamil Nadu) which was second best after IIT and my parents were very happy because me being a tamilian would finally live in Tamil Nadu. I visited chennnai a few couple of times, my Dad's sister lived there and I would go during summer vacations to visit my cousins.
I knew tamil and I communicate with my parents in Tamil but chennnai is a difficult place to fit into, because the people over here are much different then the people in Mumbai.
So.. That how I ended up in Chennnai, with a on going study for a degree bachelors in Electrical and electronics engineering so that I get an awesome job which make me earn a lot money and that would be totally spent in shopping! (just kidding!) and I am stuck with stupid bitch Niksha.
" I am going to Raj's party" I answered while combing my hair. She gave me that disappointed look saying "our first cycle tests are starting up next week.. When are you going to study?" I gave her a fake smile and said " chill bro! Will study once I am back!" and I left the room. Niksha sighed and said something like 'this girl is so going to fail' but I pretended I didn't hear her. She is just jealous. I missed Natasha so much, maybe I should have stayed in Mumbai
First chapter up!! Hope you guys like it. This is my first story
There is so much more about Radha but this is kind of a background check for her, so please don't judge the story on one chapter
Will try to update as fast as possible
And will revise the summary
But do comment :) I would love to hear your opinions :D
