EMOTIONALLY ATTACHED

3. Her First Kiss

Warning :- Pehle hi bol rahi hoon... CHILL... I know what I have written. Keep your nerves calm.✋🏻 Breathe in, Breathe out. 😶‍🌫️

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Anuj entered the classroom and looked like nothing had changed. The ambience felt so intimidating even in Anupamaa's absence.

He thought of occupying the same bench he tried on yesterday and there was no one there this time. He placed his bag there. All the eyes turned to him and all the hands stopped working. He looked around, picked it back up and took it to the last bench. Opened his notebook and read something his mind didn't even interpret.

"Hiii... ", Devika passed him a smile.

He looked upset and said a faint hi.

"What happened!!??", she asked.

"Apart from your bestie does anything else need to happen too? Isn't that a tragedy big enough!!", she curled his lips.

Devika pursed her lips to hide her smile. "And... What did she do...!?"

"She threw me out of the GD round... Unhone mujhse jaanboojh ke aise sawaal pooche jahan main fumble karoo aur gadbad karoon... How could people even look into those big scary eyes!!! She asked me to look into it!! I would prefer being thrown to a tiger instead!!", he frowned crushing the pen in his hand.

"Easy man!! Relax!!", Devika tried convincing him.

"I am sorryy I know you are her friend just don't tell her I said so... Varna vo mera jeena aur mushkil kar dengi. Please Devika...", he requested.

"Relax I won't tell and you don't need to be afraid of her... She is also a human... Not some werewolf...", she laughed.

"She isn't less either... And that's easy for you to say... You are her friend... I am not... She hates me for no reason!!", he complained.

"Well... I say na... You relax... Sab accha hoga..."

Anupamaa, Vanraj and Kavya entered and occupied their seats. Teacher too entered soon and the class began.

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Anuj walked out in the corridor and a few looked at him with lit up eyes.

Look... Is this the Anuj??
He heard some faint murmurs.
Oh my god... HE! I never thought he could make the cut...
He wondered what is it even about but didn't care.

He hadn't made any friends - it's his second day. He tried looking for Siddhant but he couldn't find him either and that just made him sad. He didn't trust Devika much because she is Anupamaa's friend.

A boy of their class walked to him wished him congratulations and walked away. He wondered at what. Passing by the corridor he saw a few students checking the list. He didn't wanna see his failure but he thought he should once and it'll be easy for him to hate her even more.

He placed his forefinger tip at the last name of the list. He thought he should check from bottom and the chances of finding his name, if any, would be better. But with every name his finger passed, his hope dwindled. The list was about to end and his eyes had welled by the time his finger finished the list. He removed his finger, removed his spects and wiped his tear and gave a rough glance to the doomed list for the last time and turned. Suddenly he thought he saw something and turned again. His name was on the top of the list. His eyes widened and he rubbed them to be sure it's not a dream. The list had the score list of all the office bearers of the society as to who has scored whom how much out of a hundred.

"Are you... Anuj Bharadwaj?", a random girl asked as she saw his finger there.

"Y...es...", he said hesitantly.