After Tenth

Chapter 2

Since Ma was bugging me and literally wanted me to get out of the house , get some fresh air and yeah of course , some groceries , I called up my best friend Adah. Adah Sharma, the prettiest girl in the school . Boys were crazy about her ,yet she gave them no attention , and I guess that is how we became friends. Okay , I am not saying that I don 't like boys or something , it was just that the boys of my school were way too stupid and didn't know how to behave with girls well. They are one of those people who think that if a girl smiles at you , she has given you the green signal ,and you can do all idiotic stuff. But that does not apply to all guys of my school. I had guy friends , of course. But not many , only three - Soubhig, Sougat and Aryan. Soubhig and Sougat were twins , and were always fun to watch. They were always fighting , arguing or teasing each other . And then there was Aryan who was the only wise and calm guy in our group . Okay ,there was one more member in our group , Tara . She was a pretty reserved person . And her silence was also pretty mysterious . But that didn ' t stop her from entering our group.
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Adah and I were going for a walk and on our way back I was going to pick up groceries. I wore my black Linkin Park t -shirt with my skinny black jeans . I looked like a human after a month. During boards I looked like a zombie. I would not even bother to comb my hair . Some mistook me to be satan, like the milkman of our area , who nearly fainted when I asked him for a litre of milk !

Adah 's boards went well , mine were good too, it was just that I didn 't want to tell anybody about it . My parents were cool outside ,but inside they were very anxious . They were more tensed than me . I found it weird , but they were my parents after all, they had all the rights to be tensed and be anxious about my results.

Adah and I were walking silently on the streets , and then we saw the paani puri waala. She looked at me with her sparkling eyes , and said ' Wanna have paani puri ?' And the next thing we were doing was standing with our bowls infront of the paani puri waala like beggars ,with our eyes feasting on the sight of paani puris. Paani puri should be the national snack of India. It was ,is and will be my favourite snack, forever.
' Oh ! It is so hot !' said Adah , pouring some sweet chutney in her paani puri. The paani puri was hot and incredibly spicy , but I just loved it. There is nothing compared to the joy of eating paani puri , after three months.

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After we were done with paani puri we walked toward the park .

' So , what are your plans ???' asked Adah
'plans of what ? Plans as in ?'
' After tenth ??'
' Come on Adah , you have always known it, I am taking science and dropping maths . '
' But that is what your parents want you to take , you never actually told me what you wanted to do .'

I didn 't say anything after that. I was totally taken aback, because actually I had never thought about it that way . My dad was a doctor , a really good doctor . People call him the angel sent by god. No wonder he was professionally sound , and was happy doing the job. When I was a kid , I had asked him for his stethoscope , and he had said that , if I become a doctor , then he would give me his best stethoscope , and right from that day , I said that I wanted to become a doctor.

But that is like , almost ten years ago . Things have not changed much , but they are not exactly the same anymore.

'You alright? ' asked Adah
' No ' I replied