NOT THE ONLY ONES

1. MATHS CLASS

Aren't forty minutes supposed to be over long back?

I take a look at my watch and realise that it's just been twenty-five minutes.

I sigh.

My best friend Roma glances at me sideways and gives me a knowing smile. She knows about my current dislike for maths.

It's not that I don't like maths or anything. I'm a nerd afterall. What kind of nerd doesn't like maths? Anyways, my dislike is just a temporary thing.

How I wish I could run out of the classroom and do something worthwhile!

I wish I could go to the library and read something new or something old and comforting.

But here I sit in my maths class! What the use of me learning math when I'm gonna become a Doctor?

Yeah, I wanna be and doctor then I'll become a writer. That's my passion.

I love science, biology especially, I love languages... I wanna do something about it too. I love history, learning about the ancient civilisations. I love mythology.

I love books, I could enter a cave with nothing but books and live there happily forever. Well I love machine guns and bikes but I'm not a tomboy, I'm a girlish girl who believes in true love.

So yeah the overall me is really strange.

"Ouch!" I yell as Roma pinches me.

"What?" I mouth at her.

"Dreaming again aren't you Miss Jain?" She scolds.

Hell yeah! What could be better than dreaming to bear this boring maths class?

Okay I'm exaggerating it.

Our math sir asks me to stand up and demands the solution to a certain problem.

Thanks to my nerd brain I had the correct answer within seconds.

Note to self -
Stop daydreaming.

*****

The bell rings signalling the end of the period. Even before anybody had the chance to get out of their seats I was out of the classroom.

I ran out while laughing to myself because I could hear Roma shouting for me.

I tiptoe behind Roma and, "BOOOHHH!"

Roma turns around unfazed and gives me a death glare. Not the I'll-kill-you look but more of the angry mommy look.

I bat my originally long eyelashes at and put on my cutest puppy face.

Roma fakes anger again and I burst out laughing. She doesn't control it anymore and she starts laughing hard too.

Somewhere amidst our laughing I feel my tummy tying up into knots. I don't know why I but I have a sudden urge to empty my bowels.

I run towards the bathroom, leaving the laughing Roma alone in the corridor. I couldn't wait to tell her.

This feeling... ughhhh.. I'm gonna...

I reach the washroom and lock myself in the first one. I brace myself for the rushing but nothing happens.

Minutes pass like hours but nothing happens. I don't throw up but I swear the feeling was so real.

Bang... Bang. .Bang... someone is knocking the bathroom door way to loudly.

The banging is followed by my best friend's voice, "Open up Mallika Jain! What the hell are you doing in there for the last ten minutes? Do you have any idea how scared I am?!?! Just open the godamm door!" Roma's voice booms.