My Destination, My Bondita (3)

359 - Tales of One-Sided Love & His Goddess, She Was!

One-sided love. 

It was a beautiful, yet scary thing. 

It was something that was full of butterflies, yet full of dread. 

"What's wrong with me?" Mallika wondered, as her eyes kept landing on Batuk during class. 

She just wanted to keep seeing him. She was getting a blissful feeling just by watching him. It was strange, creepy, stalker-like behaviour! Yet, she couldn't help it. She couldn't help the pull that she was feeling for him. 

Batuk was busy -- lost in his own world. Today, he was sitting behind his girlfriend Surabhi. Since Bondita wasn't here, Surabhi and Mallika sat together as the only two girls in their class. 

Batuk was so envious that his Big D took Bondita out on vacation! How lucky she was! She got to take time off school and go to nice places, and here... he was stuck with his notes! 

But... there was one thing that Batuk knew for sure. 

He loved his nephew more than anything! 

Yes, he wanted a nephew, because he wanted the child to be just like him. He wanted to be a Super Chachu! And he believed he would be an amazing one! 

His eyes landed on the back of Surabhi's head and he pouted, extremely bored during class. She was writing something in her notebook as the teacher was teaching in the front of the class.

Mallika on the other hand, he noticed kept on turning around once in a while, angling her face. 

Batuk frowned. Was he a threat to her or something? Why did she keep on looking at him?

Mallika didn't find his jokes funny, she always insulted him! He didn't like her at all! Yet, one time she cried, and Batuk couldn't help but feel soft-hearted for her. Maybe she wasn't so bad... but her ability to insult was horrendous! 

Batuk glanced across the room, to Vikram who was sitting in a corner. 

Vikram was his and Bondita's best friend. Except, the problem was that Vikram and him weren't on talking terms. And Bondita wasn't here. So Vikram was growing closer to Mallika!

Another reason he wanted to dislike the girl!

Well, the reason that he and Vikram weren't talking was his own fault. He was the one who tried to separate Vikram from Manika, by telling her that she should stay away from Vikram for his own good future. 

When Vikram found out, he had stopped talking to Batuk completely. And it hurt Batuk quite a lot, that Vikram wasn't talking to him. 

"Bloody hell," Batuk groaned under his breath, "What's with everyone in this world!" 

Mallika turned around and gazed at him, "What did you say ji?" 

"Nothing to you," Batuk shot back. 

Mallika bit down on her lip, her heart aching slightly.

Of course. Why would he speak to her? 

Her love was one-sided. 

And since when did one-sided love ever win?

--

That afternoon, when Batuk got home from school, he noticed a bright blue jeep right outside the haveli. It was probably imported. 

Batuk's eyes widened! 

Did they get a new car? 

His Baba probably got it! No way, could his Kaka have such great taste. And his Big D was away with Boudi... and Som Dada, who just started practicing medicine at the local hospital? No way! He would probably find a bland vehicle to purchase if he did at all!