under the wraps

everything will be alright

" oh wow now I have to learn from you how to behave, bloody failure"

He said this and rahul punch him before things get worse I stop them

" stop rahul, what are you doing" I said while trying to stop him

Rudra put his cigratte in his pocket and left , right after he left rahul sigh heavily "he is not the same person I used to know" he whispered as if he was saying to himself.

"are you ok" he come with this question again checking from head to toe, "yeah I am " I tried to calm him down

" he needs to learn his lesson ",he said greeting his teeths,", " what do you exactly mean by that", may be carrying a confuse expressions and certain lines on my forehead I demanded clarification from him

" soon it will be known to you" he cut me in middle of question indirectly refusing to explain , and without any further clue he left too

I'll accept that for second I felt my back getting freezed and goosebumps all over my body

What could he possibly do , I questioned to myself as I was a sole person standing there, well whatever it is he better don't hurt him .

The next class started soon , teacher was just about to start his lecture, when rahul standup and exclaime

" sir I think someone has stole my wallet, I can't find it anywhere"

" ok , class monitor check everyone's stuff" teacher instructed to monitor

I wasn't really sure what was going on until I remember that rudra was still carrying a cigratte pack in his pocket and he will be in huge problem if teacher find out about the same , I looked in rahul's direction who smiled at me after finding out that I was starring at him

" what the hell are you doing" I tried to communicate with him with expressions and eyes, " I am doing it right", he conveyed his message with the same medium of communication , " stop this", I tried again , " I will not" he stubbornly replied .

I looked in rudra's direction who was full of sweat with every step monitor was taking towards him , but before he could reach him , I juice up all my courage and stand up " sir rahul has found his wallet , It is in his pocket"

" did you" , teacher question him for surety , rahul glanced me with disbelief and then nod positively "yes sir" he replied .

During whole lecture I felt both rahul and rudra's stare on me but I choose to ignore because that was the best I was able to do.

" why did you stop me" , he shouted at me once the lecture was over, cause he don't some out of pleasure , he do it cause , huh anyway we can't use someone's weakness this way"

I tried to explain him for my actions

"you know what vera, you are stupid, and belive me you'll regret it one day", he gave up on explaining me and left

I was about to leave too, when someone grab my arm and start dragging me in a certain direction , later I found out it was rudra, " wait" where are you taking me, I tried to question but in vain , he take me to one of empty classroom and leave my arm.

" why did you save me"

He demanded explaination

" because I feel like it ,I know you are again gonna say that It was drama and all so"

I face him and sigh , when I looked at his blank face " comeon say it already, I am short of time" I said on his face

"what" he asked

" whatever, you got a blame me this time, I am prepare so you can go ahead and make it fast, I am already used to it , I know you might got something new....."

" I am sorry", he said in a low tone, almost in a whisper

"what" I said in a desire to hear those words again not being sure that if I heard them right or it was just hallucination , " I am sorry vera" and with that he kneeled down on the floor , " I was so blinded with my jealousy and so called ego, that I forgot that you did nothing wrong to me, I blamed you for things you didn't commit, was rude with you for no reason, treat you like a trash , I thought I was entitled to grab highest rank always, and couldn't bear it , I felt ashamed and embarrassed , but all this is way too embarrassing than that, I can't bear it anymore, I don't want to hate anyone" tears were rolling down from his eyes one after another

"praachi' s brother used to study with me" he started again

"prachi's brother" I repeated his words

"yeah, he used to study with us, he was prachi's unidentical twin, he used to smoke a lot and I used to stop him every time, cause I couldn't understand why he used to smoke , he used to face the same pressure from his family as I do , I once asked him what his dream was, and he said he wants to have a long sleep, as he couldn't sleep because of his study schedule and that punk"

He smiled and paused for a while crying " he didn't woke up next day, he really fulfilled his dream, and left me alone, he killed himself with sleeping pills overdose because he couldn't sleep, he wanted to get first position but he failed to get the same , they burned him and conduct his furnel while prachi and I had to give exam that day "

He couldn't stop crying and my eyes was also filled with tears by now

" I missing him badly these days vera, I am afraid that I might end up like him, everything he used to say is making sense these days, I feel like I can understand his pain now , I feel like he is laughing at my same condition now, but I am sick of this vera, I don't want to be like this anymore"

" it's ok rudra, It happened " I tried to calm him down by patting his back but he was not stop trying so i kneeled down to and hug him and he hug me back he was crying continously.

The only thing I remember afterwards was that he kept crying and I kept saying him " that he will be ok and this pain will end soon"

Later he thank me , he said now that he said everything he felt relived I advised him to focus on his mental health first and everything will be ok soon he noded and promised to follow my advise.

I realised that evening that no one in this world is worry free everyone is dealing with their own set of share, even the one who are born with silver spoon sometimes find it hard to swallow with that spoon , as silver spoon weight more than steel ones.