"Echoes of Ayodhya: Love across Centuries

1. A usual day at Collage

It was a normal day in The Celestial Harmony College of Music and Dance.

Anushka POV:

Mondays are my Most favourite day of the week and yes, I know it's a VERY controversial opinion but hey, I just LOVE a good working day after a long weekend of laying in the couch all day and simply lazing around, speaking of which here comes the maths teacher.

" Good morning students I hope you had a good weekend and also, some good sleep cause I will not tolerate sleeping in class."

He said with a smile on his face. On the other side Ruchika who was sitting near me looked as if she hasn't slept in 10 years! And as if on cue, she started yawning while saying

" yaar mathematics is sooo boring I don't know how people even like it!!."

She said with a sleepy look on her face.

" That's because some people actually have brains"

I said while listening and rolled my eyes.

She gave me a shocked and fake hurt look and Said

" huh! Since when did the soft, caring and shy natured girl I met in the first year of college, turn into..... THIS!!"

I smirked and said,

" Since I met the cute raatchasi from South India"

" Hey! I'm not a raatchasi, if I was then I would have probably ate yours brains by now"

She said while laughing.

That was when the sir told Ruchika to workout a sum on the board

Haha the Raatchasi was about to be tamed.

I thought

After a long day at Collage came the Lunch break. One of the few things that actually calms Ruchi down is lunch.

I swear I don't even know how she eats that much and still looks gorgeous ( I won't say this to her face though, she is already too full of herself )

" Damn the canteen is PACKED Today, what are they even serving and I'm pretty sure that atleast 10 people here have already graduated"

I said to Ruchika while looking in AWE and laughing.

" Whatever it is I'm gonna eat it but please no maggi, it tastes like plastic when the canteen makes it."

She said while making a disgusted looking face.

As we were going to the place where they were serving a group of teachers started approaching us and told us to come to the staffroom after the last bell.

Our college is like a hostel mixed with college and students stay here for the weekdays and usually go to their homes on weekends.

After they went I looked at Ruchika while signalling her to eat fast so that we could go to our dorm.

As we ate our Lunch a little faster than everybody we asked professor Siddharth Sharma if we could go to our dorm and just rest a little.

He is our favourite teacher in the whole college, he teaches history and is also a part time shloka teacher if our actual shloka teacher was absent

As we were sitting in our dorm room I started to feel restless and asked Ruchika

" Hey, why do you think the teachers asked us to come to the staffroom?
Did we do something wrong?
As far as I know, we haven't done anything THAT bad. Even if it is, why did so many teachers come to call us???"

Ruchika signalled me to breathe and said

" Anu, don't worry, nothing will happen, ITS OK, as far as I know we are the Top students of this college, NOTHING would go wrong, now stop Unnecessarily worrying and pack your bags cause we still have classes to attend to and the class bell is gonna ring in about 3 to 4 minutes. "

I breathed deeply and started to pack my bags and we left for our remaining classes

As the day went on I started to feel more and more restless and was thinking about the possibile reasons for all the teachers to ask us to come to the staffroom.

" It can't be THAT bad.... Can it??"

I Asked Ruchika who was busy listening to history class

That was when Siddharth sir looked at me and said

" Look Anu, I get that you are feeling restless, I really do and as a member in the teachers association I can assure you that you haven't done anything wrong and we are not going to punish you. NOW, stop overthinking and please concentrate on history."

I nodded my head and mouthed a sorry to him, he smiled at me and started to teach again, history was the last class of the day and we both braced ourselves and went to the staffroom.

There our history teacher welcomed us and all the teachers were sitting in a circle with two seats in the middle which were obviously ours.

Man, if THAT isn't intimidating then I don't know what is!!

As we sat in the middle facing Siddharth sir, he began by saying

" Ok, I know that you girls are or have been pretty restless after we all came to you in the lunch period"

He said while eyeing me and I gulped

" But I assure you there is NOTHING to worry about, we are pretty sure that you have heard about the upcoming singing/dancing intra school competition. We have decided to enroll you both for the competition, that is, if you both would like to go to the competition, it is taking place in our school and about eight other schools will be participating. Don't worry you will be taught a song and dance steps, our music and dance teacher will be guiding you every step of the competition. Soo what do you say?. Are you going to the competition?

He finished while me and Ruchika were stealing glances and I let out a deep breath.

Me and Ruchika looked at each other simultaneously and nodded our heads agreeing to the competition.

" soo it's a yes?"

Asked professor Siddharth

" Yes, it's a yes"

Said me and Ruchika at the same time.

And all the teachers started to cheer for us while we were still in shock.

Word count: 1078

I personally don't like maths that much, how many of you agree with me?
Btw, are you also an overthinker like Anushka?!

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