COLLEGE - UNPLUGGED

5. Confessions

Anjana :



After the period got over, I was so thrilled. Coz, it was lunch break. I was so hungry and was ready to devour the canteen. I closed my books and was about to stand up to go, when something hard hit my head. It happened in a fraction of a second that before I could realise what was happening, I fell down on the floor.

"Anju" All I could hear was the scream of my gang who surrounded me except Aishwarya.

"Are you okay?" Praga asked me concerned as she lifted me up. I nodded in yes and shruthi gave me water.

"How dare you throw waterbottle on my friend?"

I heard a loud shrill when I was drinking water. I knew it was Aishu.



There wasn't much crowd in the class as it was lunchtime. Few were there. My gang and I turned to see the scene.

There stood a boy, who received a good dose of scolding by our professor sometime ago. What was his name? Ah, maddy.



Well, that's what he called himself and I don't remember his full name.

That so called maddy exchanged his glances towards Aishu and me with a sorry expression. I looked clueless because, I didn't know why the heck that mad guy threw the water bottle on me. It would have been an accident, perhaps. Err, I don't know.

But, what amazed me was how Aishu knew that that guy was behind this.

"Stop acting and answer me." Aishu said sternly and that pathetic expression on his face just vanished and he looked at her with attitude.

Aishu glared him back. Meanwhile, I took that waterbottle and walked to his bench to keep that on the table. That's when my eyes met a pair of familiar one. Him.



I wasn't shocked to see him there. Because, he is my classmate and obviously he would be there in my class. But, I felt a kind of weird because why should he stay here instead of going for lunch. There weren't his friends here and I guess they went for lunch except him. As for that mad guy, Vijay and him aren't that much close. I was confused but I managed to hide it and I placed the waterbottle.

"Mmm.. You okay?" I heard his voice for the first time.



I shifted my glance upwards towards him.

"Yeah." I said and left there hastily, totally amused with the happenings.

"Hey, see it was an accident. I was supposed to throw that at this girl" he said pointing Praga. Shruthi giggled while Praga threw daggers through her eyes at him.

"Why?" Praga asked him.

"Woah! Don't act, lady." Maddy said scornfully.

"What?! How dare you call me a lady?! You gorilla! " Praga screeched.

"Whatever. Anyways, coming to the point, I was supposed to throw that on this girl, but accidentally it ended up falling on her. Am sorry girl." He said looking at me. I didn't react because I don't know what to react.

"This started with you as you threw a pen at me." He said to Praggy who was looking at him meekly.

"Look, it was accidental." She said.