EMOTIONALLY ATTACHED

2. The Debating

"For god's sake Anu!! Just go out in the world with the amount of money you have and you will find every other man caring for you!!", Devika pulled back her hand almost annoyed.

"But fall for the guy... WHO HATES YOU FOR IT!!"

"Devika....", Anupamaa tried to stop her but to no use though as she had already walked out. She sighed, looked up, sucked back the tears up her eyes and took out her phone, turned the camera on, "Ah! My Mascara!!".

She checked her bag and it wasn't there. "UGGHH! The locker room!!".

She went to the girls' locker room and stepped in.

"Oh god what rush!! STEP ASIDE!!", she ordered the second she entered and she was given way.

Her hands automatically moved to the locker that was alloted to her in the first year in the top row of the first column. She heard a girl's voice, "That's my locker!!", she reminded.

Anupamaa whined and bent down to hers in the fourth column - the last row. She doesn't like this one!
'That locker was mine since day one!! They can't allot it to someone else!'

She took out her entire stuff which was a lot and turned to the girl.
"So...? That's your locker!?", Anupamaa asked huskily cocking her eyebrow.

"Y.e.s...", the girl said nervously.

"Not anymore...", she pointed to her own locker, "THAT'S YOUR LOCKER FROM NOW!". Everyone was busy looking at them.

"But... I was alloted this and I love it...", the girl voiced her opinion.

"In that case you have to learn to unlove it... Because there is a change in allotment because I SAY SO! JUST... MOVE... YOUR... STUFF... OUT... AND TRANSFER!!", Anupamaa folded her hand over her chest.

"But I..."

She felt a hand on her shoulder. "Don't argue... Nobody argues with her!! Just shift it!!", the other girl warned her.

"Thankx Kavya!!", Anupamaa patted her shoulders. "And you!! If you can't hear in a go... I can make even the dead hear me!", Anupamaa slammed her right fist on her left palm and took a fiery step ahead the girl who immediately unlocked the locker and vacated it for her.

Anupamaa set her stuff in her locker.

"My stuff must be feeling at home finally!!", she wiped her ruined mascara and applied a fresh stroke, freshened up her lip shade and smacked her lips.

"So... Kavya...!! You skipped the class!!", Anupamaa picked her bag up and Kavya wrapped her hands around Anupamaa's elbows as they walked out.

"Yeah... Was out with some important work... What's up with you! Heard you topped the class again!", Kavya remarked.

"Yeah... But that's no news now... It's the same since like forever now!! It was just an assignment!!", she took out the sheet and showed it to Kavya.

"Still... That's impressive!!"

"Yeah! Quite!"

They walked for sometime and a fresher passes by. He stopped seeing Anupamaa and waved at her. "HEY!!".

Anupamaa looks at him, rolls her eyes and walks away.

"He was saying something!", Kavya said.

"Ugh! Everyone keeps saying something or the other... I don't have time for all this... Vaise bhi... Debating Society selection ke liye group discussion hai aaj in the next 15 minutes... Don't have time for all this!", Anupamaa sighed as if getting overburdened by her work.