The Unsolved Puzzle of my Life (Discontinued)

CHAPTER 3

It has been raining since morning. The weather is so cool and nice. Actually I like cool climate and monsoon is my favorite.

It looks like Neetu is drowning in the ocean of love. She kept talking of Varun all night. She is so eager to meet him. We reach to the college. Today we are not late.

As I enter the class, I notice Avi writing something in a book. When I sit next to him, he moves towards the corner and closes the book in which he was writing.

"Hey, hi." he says with a huge smile.

"Hi." I smile back." what were you writing?"

"It is just nothing."

"ok." I can't persuade him to say much so I change the topic "Now, Neetu and Varun are officially in relationship."

"What do you mean by 'official?' "

"When they confess to each other about their feelings, it becomes official."

"Oh."

"I'm happy for them. His proposal was very nice."

"It was my idea. It is good to know that our besties are in relationship."

"What? Was it your idea?" I ask him shockingly.

"He didn't knew how to propose. So I just helped him."

"So, are you an expert in giving advices about love?"

"I'm not an expert but I read a lot of books. So, I was able to give a suggestion."

"Okay, but how did.."

I sneeze. He is smiling at me. I bend a little and remove my handkerchief from the bag.

"Excuse me. So, you read a lot of love stories!"

"Yeah! Kind of."

"Oh I....."

I sneeze again. But he doesn't smile this time. He has a confused look on his face.

"You?" he prompts.

"I was telling you about..."

Godammit! I continuously sneeze for the next two minutes.

"Are you okay?" he asks with concern.

"Certainly not. I think I caught cold."

"Why didn't you stay back at the hostel then?"

"Actually..."

I sneeze again.😑

The lecturer enters and starts the class. Don't know when my sneezing session is gonna stop. I feel so embossing sneezing all day in front of him.

Till evening I sneezed for at least thirty times. After college, I went to my room, got refreshed and took consultation from the hostel doctor. She gave me some medicines and asked to take rest till tomorrow. She advised me to not to go to college the next day as I have fever.

The next day I didn't go to the college. I stayed all day in my room taking rest. That night I felt a bit better. But I still have cold. Tomorrow I have to go to college. I've already missed today's classes. I slept early as the medicines made me drowsy.

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Next morning when I wake up I see Neetu sitting on her bed with hand on her head. She looks a bit upset.