You And I

1. Bad Beginning.

Shivani's POV

As I walked through the alien corridor, I felt many eyes on me, making me feel uneasy. I was welcomed with a round of whispers... "Who is this girl?" "She's beautiful" "Hot!", etcetera etcetera.

I walked across looking at the room numbers—31...32...33......38...Just one more! And that’s it. Room number 39, XI-B. This is going to be my classroom for the next one year. I looked at my watch. Good! I was just on time. There were still some five minutes until the class started.

As I blindly made my way to the door, I banged into some guy and before I knew it, I was on the ground with his entire weight on top of me.

“Aaaah...” I screamed as he halted a few centimetres away from my face on the ground. What a great start of my first day at my new school! Note the sarcasm.

He soon stood upright and I stuck out my hand to him, gesturing him to help me up. To my utter annoyance, he started dusting off his clothes, ignoring my stretched out hand. I got up on my own, fuming from the inside. No guy had ever treated me like this before!

Infuriated, I blurted out,

“Can’t you see and walk?” and heard my words being echoed. He spoke the same words, almost at the same time. Wow.

I saw that his eyes were fixed on me. He was like..staring at me. This further increased the intensity of my anger. So I spat out,

“What?! Why are you looking at me like that? Don’t you have the etiquettes to say sorry?”

“You banged into me and now you’re asking me to say sorry?” He said through gritted teeth. I hate this guy already.

“Excuse me? I banged into you?”

“Of course!”

“Please, we both know whose fault it is!”

“Of course we both know whose fault it is...Yours! Admit it!” He yelled crossly.

“No one has ever talked to me like that!”

“Oh cool. Now I’ve done the honours!” He smirked. Ugh.

“What the...” My voice trailed off when a girl rushed towards us, pushing the guy slightly and exclaimed,

“Caught you, Satwik!!” She was soon followed by another girl. I think I caught their attention because one of them spoke,

“Hey, I didn’t see you.”

“Hi,” I said with a weak smile.

“I don’t think I’ve seen you around. New here?” The other one said.

“Yeah, I’m new. First day.”

“Oh, hi, I’m Sonali,” the girl said.

“Nice to meet you, Sonali.”

“Hmm... I couldn’t quite catch your name, sorry?”

“It’s...Shivani,” I said, grinning. Silly me not introducing myself.

“Oh kay! This is Kia,” she said pointing towards the other girl who have me a smile. “And this is Satwik, whom I’m assuming you already know,” she said,  gesturing towards him.

“No I don’t know him and I’d rather not like to know him,” I said, not looking at the guy. Satwik.

“And why’d you say that?” Sonali said. But after casting a look behind me, she hastily added, “Save this for later... Ma’am is coming!”

Before I could register properly what she’d said, the three of them rushed inside the classroom, leaving me standing there alone. Before I could enter, I found “Ma’am” standing next to me, who asked,

“Why are you standing here?” Wow. What a good first impression I have created, I thought, as I answered her,

“Actually I’m new to school and I was just cross checking if this was the correct room!” I know, stupid excuse, but it worked.

“Oh... You must be Shivani Mehta. Come on, get in!”

On entering the room, everyone stood up to wish Ma’am. She introduced me to the class and then instructed me to find a seat for myself. I looked around the room to find that the only seat vacant was the one next to Mr.Dasher.

Least interested to sit next to him, I asked Ma’am,

“Umm, where should I sit?”

She glanced around the room and said,

“Look, there’s a vacant seat,” pointing towards the one I’d not wanted to sit with. That boy, who made my blood boil....Satwik.

How worse could my first day possibly get?

(A/N:)

Hey guys. So this is the first chapter. This is based in Mumbai, India. Comment how you find it? Oh and don't forget to vote!

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