My Soulmate

Chapter 4 - Coincidence?

While walking home, Rimti told me about the second sweet guy. I got to know that he used to be the topper of boys' school and also the crush of many girls. I never knew all these as I was always drowned into story books. But surprisingly Rimti showed no interest while talking about him. Otherwise she is very excited to gossip.

As per our plan, Rimti was present in front of my house at 2:30. Coaching will start at 3, but it was not very far so we left half an hour ago.

I don't know about other countries but in Bangladesh coachings plays a great role in a student's studies. Dunno how much of this is true but that's what everyone feels. Thats why you can find coaching centres in every district. For example Rimti made a bad result so uncle made her admit in the coaching. Though I don't need coaching that badly as I already studied the same thing six years ago. I clearly remember that last time neither Rimti nor me took coaching classes back then, we both had private tutors at our home. I don't understand why it's different this time.

Trial class was good, maybe I had already studied so it was easy to understand for me. We started walking together after the coaching. Again for the second time that day I bumped with someone, but this time I didn't fall. I looked up and,
''I told you  girls are always so clumsy. see?''
I bumped into the rude guy  again today. But this time it was my fault cause I was not looking while walking.
''What a surprise! You guys here?'' The sweet guy was also with him. ''Do you also take classes here?''
I didn't say anything because normally Rimti speaks in such situations. But she spoke nothing so I said, "we were here for the trial classes. We will also get admitted "
'That's great. The teachers are good here.'' The sweet guy said while adjusting his glasses. ''We'll take our leaves now.''
"What's your name?" I asked him.
''Oh! We didn’t get introduced yet. I am Ullash'' he pointed to the rude guy and said, ''He is Ethar. We study in the same college where you study. What is your name?''
"I am Sujita and she is Rimti"
''Wow. You have nice names.''
I smiled and said, "your names are also good."
'Then we'll meet again tomorrow ,see you.'' we said bye and started walking home.
I stood there and thought, "we met twice today whereas we didn’t meet once in past life"
''What happened. Won't you go?'' I came back to senses hearing Rimti
"Yes, let's go."
We started walking and saw that Ullash and Ethar were also going the same way. I called them and asked,
"Your home is that way?"
Surprisingly our houses are in the same society. I live in society 5, Rimti in 3. Ethar's house is at 7 and Ullash's at 2. So we started walking together. From the big road, Society 1-4 and 5-8 are different way. So I bid Rimti and Ullash bye and started walking with Ethar.I t was a complete silence between us. I don't know what to talk about. I was walking while drowning in my thoughts so I didn't notice when I started walking on the road instead of the footpath. Suddenly Ethar held my hands and pulled me in the footpath.
''You shouldn’t walk like that in road.''
I was looking at him surprisingly. He looked away and said,
''A..I have a younger sister so I am used to telling her like this.''
I smiled at his hesitation. He got shy and said,
''Why are you smiling? Look, road no.5 is here. Now, I'm going.''
He started walking fastly saying this. I started laughing at his actions.