Love at Last Sight (18+)

Chapter - 17

Author's POV:

All the senior guys around 60 members were invited on stage. All of them picked up one rose each from the tray where all the roses were being placed.

Each guy has a spotlight shredded on him whenever he starts to handover the rose and once he gives the rose to the girl, the spotlight will be on the girl that he gave rose to. Slowly the seniors started handing over the roses to junior girls whoever they found interesting.

At first Sanjana did not receive any flowers and she was okay with it as she do not want to be the center of attention as well.

Eventually, a guy noticed her and started walking in her direction. The spotlight was on the guy and he handed the rose to her. Akshath who was sitting beside Sanjana was burning with jealousy. Soon his jealousy turned into a full blown fire as there were 26 other guys that handed roses to Sanjana.

Sanjana smiled and politely said thank you for every flower that she received. "Fuck her politeness. She is smiling and even thanking all those mother fuckers", Akshath thought to himself. All his friends along with Sam, Tara and piggy started to observe his reaction.

"I think he will literally burst into fire balls or just blow fire out of his mouth", muttured Piggy to Jay who was sitting beside her and Jay confirmed nodding his head.

"Okay guys, thank you so much for your support. Now the girls who received roses, please come on to the stage", announced the hostess.

All the girls that received roses started moving towards the stage. Sanjana hesitated a bit but with a little push from her friends she went on to the stage all well.

"Okay miss what is your name? Because its clear that you got the most number of flowers today", asked the hostess holding up the mic to Sanjana.

"My name is Sanjana and I am from engineering course", replied Sanjana softly. "Wow, even your voice is beautiful. Okay so now you will be crowned as MISS ROSE. Please come to the middle of the stage" Said hostess to Sanjana.

She was given the miss rose sash that she wore on stage along with a little crown.

"Now the panel will be asking you all girls few questions. Please give your opinion on it for MISS FRESHER selection", announced the hostess to all the girls that received the roses.

There were around 12 girls and they had to pick a number from a glass jar where they will be asked questions according to the order of the number that they picked.

Sanjana's number is 3. She was quiet nervous about the whole ordeal. Girls were asked 3 questions each.

Now it was Sanjana's turn. "What do you think is your greatest strength Miss Sanjana Saxena?", asked a panel member.

"Umm I think empathy and kindness is my greatest strength",replied Sanjana. "Everyone consider empathy and kindness as their weakness but you are considering it as strength.can we know why?", asked another member.

"Empathy is where you detect and understand someone's emotional state and understanding their perspective by imagining ourselves in their shoes so when you do that, the person will feel accepted, validated in turn building trust.

In this busy life if you are taking out your time and making someone happy, I would definitely consider it as my strength. And if you are being kind, you are not loosing anything in your life. It just strength your relationship and makes you feel satisfied so I consider this as a powerful anti-depressant", replied Sanjana feeling nervous even though she stand by her answer.

"Wow you have such a great understanding of these and explained them so well", said one of the panel members and asked another question.

"You talked about empathy. So how do you differentiate sympathy? Are the both same?", asked another panel member.