We were all standing near the bushes and Aakash was waiting to the victim to us. Our wait was worth.
'That's him!', Aakash said. We were at canteen and Aakash was showing him. He did look cold and mostly looked kinda yo-yo person. But even had an innocent look that told he knew nothing. While we were observing, he was waving his hand to Priya as if he hadn't seen her for ages. Lasya was beside her and she was smiling too.
'Fuck him man! When see I him, I feel like putting leeches in his pant and let them suck his blood!', Aakash said and he was in a fiery mode
'Hey, I know him...I have seen him somewhere', Hari said and was trying hard to remember
'Ya, even I saw him....hey, that day afternoon at our mess, he was fighting that he wanted non-veg', Rohan reminded
'For non-veg?', Aakash asked surprising
'Yes seriously....he maybe vegetarian' Rohan replied
Our college had this rule. The person who ticks veg or non-veg has to eat that only for four-years. It's like, I ticked non-veg so I can't eat other veg ones. We are given a token everyday to everyone who uses hostel. Red colour for non-veg and green for veg. Some exchanged their tokens inorder to eat veg. Most of them were caught by doing that.
'So guys, one thing is clear "he is short-tempered" and we got to know his name first', I said
'Yup, name first', Hari said
'How can you just say he is short-tempered with just one issue? We got to know more about him.', Aakash said that with James-Bond look
'Yep, he is right', Rohan reminded me
'Hi guys! Why are everyone so serious? Anything happened?' Nithya said coming along with Vidhya.
'Ya, actually...' Rohan was saying and Aakash stopped him and said, 'no, not at all,nothing happened'
'Come on say it no... Or atleast you say it Hari', Vidhya said and it was the first line she spoke after coming. Hari was already in air as had Vidhya called out his name. Everyone saw him and Vidhya kept a shy face on seeing her. She looked cute with that expression.
'Prema entha madhuram, priyuralu entha kathinam(a song in telugu)....' Rohan started
'Stop it guys, give these love-birds sometime', I said laughing
Nithya didn't understand a word and didn't bother to speak.
'It's a love song in Telugu', I whispered to Nithya and cleared some mystery for her.
'Oh...', She said and continued, 'leave them for while and you guys say what's going on?'
'I told you na, it's absolutely nothing...', Aakash tried his maximum but didn't succeed.
'Hey, I'll tell you..' Rohan started while Hari and Vidhya were still busy looking at each other and it was as if some silent song was going on between them and it was heard only to them.
Rohan finished in telling and bell rang and everyone dispersed from there.
It was evening, all our classes were completed and we were on our way to hostel... On looking notice board I suddenly stopped walking, my eyes almost boomed after looking it. It was written "It's an invitation to all the first year students who are interested in any kind of music can enroll names for auditions. You get a chance to play with the college band if cracked auditions."
My past few months rolled before me, the day I saw Aarthi for the first time. As always I am and was a music lover. I went for guitar coaching classes in my eleventh holidays. I was a late joiner, most of them were ahead of me. I saw a girl playing violin at the corner of the room without any tune turning towards wall. I didn't mind then, slowly that tune became worse. Everyone in the class started laughing and shouted at her to stop. Then our sir shouted at her to stop and everyone bursted out laughing except me. For me she was something special, then she stopped and turned towards the class. It was first time I saw a girl that pretty even when she had tears all over her face. She was crying and I wanted to be with her but I couldn't. There was an urge running through my body to go and talk to her. My urge turned out to be a demand and I couldn't resist anymore. I straight away went to her and asked her name while the class were busy with their own instruments. She declined first, I wasn't surprised much. I tried again in a friendly manner, this time it worked. She told her name and everything about her while she was still crying. I consoled her and told about myself. After that we became good friends. Aarthi never liked music, she came there just to satisfy her mom and dad that she was doing some productive work.Our story continued as I have mentioned it earlier. After getting some control on strings, I had strong urge to become lead singer and gitarist in a band or perfectly "a rockstar". But my family-crisis and Aarthi came in front of me, so I kept my dreams locked.
'Maddy! Come on man, it's some damn competition. Who the hell would dare to be on stage when thousands are laughing at you becoming a buffoon ? ', Rohan was shouting in my ears. He got me back to the real world where I had just come there to become an engineer.
All of them pulled me back to our hostel. Aakash separated first as his room comes first and then rest of us who shared the same room.
'What happened buddy? You were staring at that notice as if you really wanted to go there', Rohan questioned
I didn't bother to give a reply as still my heart my struck in our music class.
'Oy!', Rohan almost shouted this time
'Ya, ya I am there. So, what were you saying?', I asked Rohan
'Huff! Get lost!', Rohan shouted at me and Hari was staring both of us as some drama was taking place in front of him.
'Hey sorry yaar, I was lost somewhere', I apologised Rohan
'Where?', Both shouted this time
'Nothing important, leave it. We have some work to complete na, chalo let's do that first', I said and switched our topic but didn't succeed as they caught me red-handed. At the same time Aakash came in to borrow my iron. I quickly went and gave it to him. Even he got me. He didn't expect me to give it that fast, as you all know I am a very lazy.
'What's the matter?', Aakash questioned to the point.
I wasn't left with any choice, so I narrated my story to them.
'Let Aarthi fuck herself, you are the one to decide your life. And moreover we all are free now, I mean semester exams are far from now. You give it a try, what's wrong? Will someone slap if you didn't make it?', Aakash said in an encouraging way.
'At least someone got to listen to their heart, no one gets a chance like that', Rohan said keeping some other thing in his mind.
All of were shocked at his reply. We had never seen him serious. I mean he is like "everything is fine" kinda person. All of were eager to listen to his story but he declined.
'My story doesn't suit now, I'll narrate it afterwards', Rohan tried to explain
All of us kept a face that his excuse didn't work.
'Please guys, I will tell you when time comes...', Rohan said impatiently
Each of us gave a nod not to disturb him then.
'So you "are" going to the auditions!', Hari and Aakash said pointing me
The auditions were the next day after our college completed and I was still in a dilemma to give my name or not.
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We then marched to the mess, and our gang were still involved in my auditions talk. Rohan didn't eat that day, he said he wasn't feeling hungry.
'We can somehow fuck that "random guy" out of Priya's mind', I said to change the topic.
'Hello baby, you first concentrate on how to crack the auditions!', Hari reminded me
I gave a blunt nod.
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I informed even Nithya about my auditions and she wished me luck. Then me, Hari and Aakash went to a senior to borrow a guitar for me and all through the night I was playing the guitar. My practice went on well. Soon I felt sleepy and went to sleep. I forced myself not to go into Aarthi once again. There was only one thing running through my mind "music".....
