After Tenth

Chapter 11

Life is like a roller coaster ride . It goes up , it goes down. I am not on a ride that just goes up . I am on a ride which will take me somewhere I don't know . All I know is that I am gonna enjoy the ride . - Sanskriti Dutta
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We had our first weekly exams . Damn ! Tenth rank ! I felt like crying . Yohaan - rank 11 , Kethan Iyer - rank 18 . Whaaaaaat ???? Whoa ! I was in a shock as I had expected him to be in top 3 or something . He was shocked himself too ! Well Garima Shahi - Rank 5 , Sonali Biswal - Rank 4 , Amisha Bhattacharya - Rank 2 . What the fudge !!! And I was stuck with Rank 10 . Sheeesh !
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Chemistry class . God ! It was one class I never looked forward too ( and I still don't )

Chemistry class was the class were Zinc became Jink and ash became ass. Seriously !!! It was this class where sub shells were something to do with shells but orbitals didn't have the same role to play with orbits the way sub shells had with shells.

Yohaan and I were bench-mates then . We were a terrible mess together. The bench was big enough for four people to sit together , but we two had the biiiiiig bench for ourselves. He would sit like a boss, spreading out his legs comfortably . I would rather be a nerd chewing the end of my pencil trying to understand chemistry , something which never made much sense to me , until the night before the Chemistry exam . Yohaan would call me " Ratta gatta " ( the one who crams up stuff). We would sit in the break together and talk shit . We would aim grapes at the nerdy nerds who would even study in the break . Things were so different than what I had imagined. Yohaan was not the kind of bad guy , I was scared of.
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There was this girl who had joined our coaching classes . Her name was Akriti Venkatraman. Tamilian . Being sweet and friendly to her was probably my last mistake. Being happy about the fact that she would be living in my building was probably one of my other mistakes.

Kethan liked her . Kethan fell for her , bad. And when he fell for her , my heart fell too , shattering , into a thousand pieces , which could probably never be joined again . Even if joined , it would never be the same .

My love story got over before it began. I felt so sad and so bad for myself . I always had a non -existing love life . A love life is something I would always dream about . Never. Got. One. In. Real . Life.

But never mind . Men will come and go , life will go on . But Kethan ... he was different. He was the kind of guy I had always wanted in my life . I mean , falling for a guy like him felt so perfect . But it didn't feel so perfect to have my heart broken for a guy like him . I wanted him the on to join the broken pieces of my heart , not break it further .
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It was not his fault . Just the way I liked him , he liked Akriti . Not his fault. It was all my fault . I had promised myself to not fall for anyone again , atleast in 11th standard . But ...