"Pfft" A snicker escaped Fluke's lips as he stared at the big red 'F' on Ohm's answer sheet. 5/100 was written in the marks column.
"What's so funny?" Annoyed, Ohm tried to smack him but he dodged the attack.
"Behave! Or else I won't tutor you," Fluke said warningly.
"I am sorry, Khrab," Ohm waied and apologized immediately.
Seeing this Fluke smiled internally.
Neither of them knew that these tutoring sessions would be the start of their strong friendship.
Time passed in a blink of an eye. The duo was now in sophomore year.
Ohm and Fluke had become good friends with the latter always helping the former with the studies. As someone who felt like teaching someone as a better way of grasping the topic, Fluke continued to tutor Ohm.
Most of the time, they would go to an empty classroom to revise their lesson. Well, mostly Fluke would be the one revising the lessons while Ohm would laze around.
"The set of possible microstates can be presented by continues set of phase points. Every point can move by itself along its own phase orbit. The overall picture of this movement possesses certain interesting features, which are best appreciated in terms of what we call a density function p(q.p;t)." Fluke read out loud and was about to explain it to Ohm when he realized that the latter was fast asleep with his earphones plugged to his ears. Sighing internally, he pulled out the earphone from Ohm's ears. "Giant!!!"
Ohm woke up with a start. "I wasn't sleeping." He lied. "I was just taking a break by listening to the song."
Fluke didn't say anything, which made Ohm feel guilty.
"You should listen to it too. Come here" Ohm took one end of the earphone and placed it in Fluke's eyes. "This is my favorite song na. I am sure you will like it too." He pressed the play button.
He had brought himself a Walkman from his savings and he loved it. It was a trend to own a Walkman those days.
The song started playing.
The voice belonged to that of a teenager who was singing about his one-sided love.
No matter where we look,
we will only see you.Know the truth once more
Her scent has long since
we met in our dreams,
slowly fading away.Every time she sings her song,
wherever, whenever,
only she can check
which way to see but ... youI just want to focus on
her face regularly and talk every day.
I just want to enhance her
enough to close my eyes.Whenever she cries, criticize
whenever it reaches her.
Only she can control which way
she looks... But youThere's only you.
Only You want to know
that I miss you every day.
Only You, looking into your eyes,
will know that
no one is waiting for anyone.The duo was lost in listening to the song that they almost jumped when Auan slammed the door open.
"The ground is empty. You two can use it now," Auan said before running away.
In the era were phones and computers were yet to take over the youth, most of the students engaged themselves in outdoor games. It was not easy to find empty lots in the university.
"Actually, I am not feeling quiet well. How about we do not practice today?" Fluke acted weak.
The intra university sports meet was coming up. It was compulsory for every faculty and every batch in the faculty to take part in the events.
It was at times like this that faculties like Architecture, which had low number of admissions due to high cut offs in the qualifying exams suffered. As there are only a few students, all of them will have to take part in at least one competition to represent their faculty.
Fluke had never been the kind that liked sports. He was the nerdy kind that hated sweating. But all thanks his idiot friend who screwed him up by registering his name for the badminton competition in the sports meet, he had to practice badminton every day after class.
Of course, Coach Ohm was always there to supervise his practice.
"No excuses, tiny! We need to practice," Ohm dragged him to the locker room.
Changing into their sports wears, Ohm led the sulking Fluke to the ground. When it came to sports Ohm was very knowledgeable. He had made it his mission to teach Fluke how to play badminton.
He handed the badminton racket to Fluke and kept one for himself. He then picked up a shuttle cork and started teaching.
"When you are serving, you need to keep the shuttle cork below your waist level, like this." He demonstrated. "You must hit the cork of the shuttle first and the clubhead must face down." He hit the shuttle cork with the racket, sending it flying in a perfect arch. "Understood?"
Fluke nodded.
"Then, give it a try," Ohm handed a shuttle cork to Fluke.
Fluke started practicing serving diligently. But his physique that was not used to playing sports was not supporting his diligence towards the mission. He got exhausted pretty easily.
However, Ohm was a pretty tough coach and didn't let him laze around much. "Straighten your posture! Eyes on the cork!" He kept reminding Fluke.
After almost two hours, Fluke was fully drained. "I am not going to practice anymore!" He declared as he threw the badminton racket on the floor in frustration. He sat on the ground to get some rest.
"Okay. Let's stop for the day." Ohm agreed. He was very surprised that Fluke had actually practiced for so long. It had exceeded his expectations. "Let's go home, then." He offered his hand for Fluke to get up.
Just as Fluke was about to take his hand, he pulled his hand back and ran it through his hair.
"Childish," Fluke tsked and turned away.
"Aww, is tiny sulking?" Ohm teased. "I was just messing around na," He ruffled Fluke's soft hair.
He loved annoying Fluke. He always found Fluke's annoyed face extremely cute.
"Come let's go," He offered his hand again. This time, he didn't dare pull it back. He knew that if he did, Fluke would definitely kick him.
Fluke got up with the help of Ohm. They packed up everything and headed to the locker room to change.
After a quick shower, they changed back to their uniforms.
By the time Fluke was done, Ohm was already waiting for him outside the locker room, leaning against wall as he listened to the music with his earphones plugged in.
Fluke tapped his shoulders.
Ohm looked at him and took off the earphones.
"Shall we go?" Fluke asked. Ohm nodded and they started walking.
"If you had been half as enthusiastic as when you are playing games and listening to songs, when it comes to studies, I am sure that you would definitely be able to get a good score in the tests." Fluke commented as they climbed down the stairs.
"Really?" Ohm chuckled. "But what to do? Studies doesn't give me the adrenaline rush that these games or songs give me. It doesn't make me happy either."
Fluke rolled his eyes. His friend had interest in everything out than studies.
Ohm hooked his arms around Fluke's neck, "Then again, with a tutor like you here, I don't think that I wouldn't be able to pass those tests." He smirked.
"That's so sweet of you to say," Fluke unhooked Ohm's hand from his neck and pushed him away. "I am going home!" He quickened his step.
"Hey, wait! I am also coming!" Ohm didn't rush. He just had to keep his normal pace to catch up with his friend. Quirks of having a pair of longer legs.
"Go away! Don't follow me!" Fluke sped up yet again.
"Ai Fluke, I swear I will listen to your classes na. I won't listened to music when you tutor, I promise." Ohm chuckled as he jogged to catch up with the little bunny who was running away from him.