After Tenth

Chapter 9

Will it be a 10 or a 9 ?
Will it be okay or just fine ?
All I know is that you are mine
- Sanskriti Dutta

Ha Ha Ha ! Guess what is mine , which also has a number ?
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Oh god ! I was so freaked out right from the morning ! Today our results were finally gonna be out ! I just hoped my result touched the number I was always mad about ! Okay ! My favourite no.s are 10 , 15 and 100 . And now I was rather hoping that I got a 10 CGPA . Not only because it was what I wanted , but because my parents were too nervous about my result . They had a society to face , anxious relatives to snarl at and , of course answer my extra - optimistic teachers who were sure that my result would be no less than a 10 CGPA. And , my heart was only thinking of one thing - what if ...

Then I would convince myself to think positive .

Tension was in the air . After 12 pm , every 10 minutes someone or the other rang up asking if results were out . Time seemed to slow down . Results were to be out at 2 :30 pm , and here I was sweating , out of both , summer heat and nervousness .

Going online on Facebook was the worst idea ever , because there were hundreds like me , anxious , or should I say more anxious than me . And all of them wanted to know if I felt the same . Of course I did feel like them . What was I ? A superhuman ? Why wouldn't I feel like them ?
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It was 2 :35 pm already . And guess what ! The site had crashed down ! Amazing ! And some of my annoying relatives , who never in their whole life had cared to call me up on my birthday , today , had become the most punctual people on earth . Like they should care about my results ? I wanted to scream and tell them on their face " Mine . This is mine . Not yours . Okay ?" . But congratulations to me . I was born in India where you had to keep a check on your sanskaar and Sanskriti ( traditions and culture ) only when it comes to behavior , especially with elders . And all I wanted to say , to each one of them was " Screw you and your values. Don't care to wish on my birthday but now wanna know my results ! Get the hell out of here !"
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Its 2:45 pm . And then Adah texts me asking about my CGPA . And then the next thing on my mind was -" God ! Please , 10 , not 9.8!"
I was scared as I think I had screwed my PSA . And maths always gave me panic attacks.

I typed my roll number very carefully . Double checked it , triple checked it . And finally opened my result . I looked at my science grade , A1 . Okay . Maths ,A1. What the fuck ! Seriously ? It was the least expected thing ever ! And finally my CGPA . Oh my god ! It was a 10 . I don't know . The next thing I did was jump. I started jumping . And taking notice of the mini earthquake , my mom came in . The next thing I saw was that she was crying. Cry ? Why ? Mothers , and their lacrimal glands ; something I will never get and understand !

Maybe , a few things will never have an explanation .

The next thing that I did was open a 1 litre coke bottle , waste half of it by shaking it , doing the pseudo -champagne celebration thing and yeah , drink the rest by myself and then trying to give a fake drunk" thank you" speech to all my homies .

Dad came home . Seeing my room as dirty as hell ,(which is generally a normal thing , so basically the dirtiest state ever ) he went to mom to ask what had happened to me . My mom told him . And there the next thing I remember is getting a Parker ink pen from him . Even though I use only ball pens , but since he gave it with so much of love, how could I deny ?

I got ready to go for my med coaching . And as I got into the cab , the first question asked to me was " Is it a 10 ?"
And I rather ,in a breathless whisper answered in affirmative .
The most amazing thing ever happened. All the people in my cab got a 10 CGPA . That is - me , Yohaan and a guy Afaria . Yay !
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We reached the centre . Guess what ! My classmates be so great that almost everyone I knew got a 10.
Now I felt rather normal . The party mood was gone . Rather getting a 10 had become something of a matter of fact. Getting any less , would as if be a sin . Thank god ! I hadn't commited any such sins . Or else I would be murdered by their scrutinizing gazes .

Garima Shahi - CGPA 10
Yohaan Singh Rathore - CGPA 10
Amisha Bhattacharya - CGPA 10
Sonali Biswal - CGPA 10
Kethan Iyer - CGPA 10
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. Miss. Random ABC - CGPA 10
Mr. Nerdy Yet Awesome - CGPA 10

Somebody please tell me who didn't get a 10 ! I felt as if I was surrounded by crocodiles all around .

The virtually best news ever ! My school had the best CBSE result in the eastern coastal region . Seriously ! 63 10 CGPA s . And I was like - did CBSE just go tipsy ?
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After coming back home , my homies took me to some eatery for food . And that's how the day , which was full of anxiousness in the beginning , but full of bliss in the end got over.