The story of my high school

she didn't turn up

The alarm rang on time and was ready to go to school today was Wednesday we were going to have lab in first two lecture and yes I was going to be with Niharika but what to say about luck that day she didn't showed up to school the excitement the energy was lost when I heard some girls whispering she is not going to come today ,then at that sir explained how to perform practical's how to write record book manual and gave us pamphlets in which different tests to be performed were given my eyes were searching niharika I was waiting that she would show but hell no she didn't turn up to school that day , half heartedly I listened to what sir instructed Mind was there in class but heart was somewhere else. Two to three days passed she didn't showed up neither to school nor to coaching class.

Manish asked me 'what happened why are you so out of mind these days , Is something wrong or what you doesn't seem like yourself', I just looked at him and said '' I m fine just tired because of school and tuitions'' .

After four days it was Monday she showed up in school luckily we had lab in last two hours of school we were given the test sample and were told to perform practical and get results I started the practical by proper rinsing the instruments and she seemed clueless she was carefully observing me and trying to do the practical, time passed we were given simple compound so I did procedure right and got tests results correct

I told her 'don't do it that way you won't get result'

'You didn't show up to school these days you missed quite important topics in class as well as tuitions also the procedure to perform the practicals '.

She replied ' I had been out of town for some reasons'.

Then again she indulged herself in practical and worked hard to get the results.

She seemed quite messed up and was confused

Then a voice came 'hey can you help me on this, I m bit messed up here'.

Then I showed her how to do the practical.

By that time half of class had completed the practical we were instructed to come in pair table wise so I waited until she completed it, we went to sir he told us that test was correct go and write it in record book then sir called her.

'Were you absent last class?'

'Yes sir'.

'If you have any problem in practical's you can ask your partner'.

She simply nodded and returned to table.

We had plenty time of though I decided to do it quickly by time she came to table I completed drawing the table.

She asked for my help and told me to go slow and explain her how to draw the table and all that.

She drew the table and gave back my book to me then I started writing the tests and she tried to copy then I started writing in such way that she could see what I was writing.

We got record book signed

We reached the table again clueless what to write in the manual then she searched our table and luckily we found an old lab manual she smiled and said,

'Can you write from this book?'

I searched the book and got the pattern how to write the practical she was looking at me and I was writing practical when I completed my work she just copied from it without even thinking about it

'Hey I m done lets get it signed'

'Yeah sure'

Then she simply slipped the book to its place

We went to subject teacher he signed and asked

'You both did practical or simply copied'

'No sir, we did by ourselves'

'Okay now go enjoy your recess'

We were from first 15 students to complete the practical from 30 students of our batch whereas other 30 were in physics lab.

We reached our table third time to grab our stuff.

A voice came 'thank you, you were great help today'.

'You're welcome' in a shrilled voice I replied.

'By the way I m Niharika'

'I m Nainesh '.

'See you around' and she left.

Manish was in physics lab he came to me and shared his experience in physics lab and then we went to canteen there we had lunch.

I was in good mood.

Manish said' you seem happy today'.

'What happened, I guess Niharika showed up today'

'Hey there is nothing like that'

We then decided to go on ground to play football with our class mates

We asked our fellow mates

'Can we join you all?'

He said 'why not, sure would you like to become a goal keeper' I nodded

Manish was told to be become defender

(Game started)

Opposite team player came towards the goal post and luckily my classmate jay came to my savior by blocking him the game continued Manish switched from defender to center forward and slipped goal in opposite teams goal post then match goes on the recess bell rang we summed up the game and then reached our class

We had our math's class a new sir entered he was dressed up in formal and from his apperiral he seemed very strict he came in the class and closed the door I felt like what was sir up to then he took chalk and stared speaking sir was looking towards black and as usual I was looking at Niharika and gave her a smile.

She seamed quite indulged in what sir was speaking and wrote something in the book it looked like she was deeply interested in what sir is teaching but then suddenly she passed on the book to another guy sitting two rows away from her.

His name was John he was a Christian by religion he took the book and read from it and wrote something and returned back to her, on seeing the thing written in the book she had smile on her face

Sir looked at me said 'pay attention here'.

I apologized 'sorry sir'.

He continued with the topic my attention was on the book what was written on in that, and then I tried to concentrate on the topic. Book exchange continued rest of the day of school.

While leaving decided to say good bye to her but she was busy talking to John.

In couching classes to they were talking I passed by her but she was so indulged in talking to John she didn't even thought I even passed by.

In all three lectures I observed they were sitting together after each class they stood outside the class and were talking laughing I was unable think what was going on.

It felt like my love story ended without starting only.