Safar...A Journey of First Love

Chapter 22 - Revision Revision

...They went to the room where the examiner and teacher were waiting. The gang settled down quickly while the teacher gave Armaan and Riddhima a few minutes to prepare themselves while the other pair was finishing their act.

Riddhima was scared; "Armaan...can we ask for an extension...I'm not ready..."

Armaan held her hand and gave it a small squeeze; "You can do this...just keep eye contact with me and remember the lines..."

"Armaan..."

"Sshhh..." he put his finger up to her lips; "...close your eyes..." she followed his instructions; "...take a deep breath..." she breathed in and out; "...let's do this together..."

She opened her eyes and saw Armaan smiling at her; she smiled back and walked onto stage ready to begin...

...They performed perfectly and the scene ended with Riddhima (Juliet) stabbing herself with a sword and falling onto Armaan's (Romeo's) dead body lying next to her. The gang and teachers all gave them a standing ovation and congratulated them.

"Outstanding..." the teacher called while applauding and coming onto the stage; "...absolutely amazing performance..."

"Congratulations to the both of you...very well done..." the examiner said.

"Thank you..." they replied together both anxious and excited all at once.

"Well..." said the teacher building up the tension; "...A*...both of you..."

They could hardly believe their ears; Armaan turned around and hugged Riddhima tightly and she hugged him back just as much; then Riddhima pulled away embarrassed.

"Thank you so much..."

"Well done...let's hope you both do just as well in your written exams to get full marks..." the teacher said.

They left the room and the gang ran onto the stage hugging and congratulating them.

"Congratulations guys!" Nikita hugged Riddhima.

"That was wicked man..." Abhi said clapping Armaan on the back; "...you guys were like professionals..."

"I know...I know..." Armaan said pulling at his collar and smiling at Riddhima.

They calmed down after a while and left the room in pairs; Armaan had his arm around Riddhima who was very happy with the grade that she had got for her performance...she stopped at the door with Armaan...

"Thanks...my Romeo..." she bent her head to look at him.

Armaan kissed her cheek; "Anytime...my Juliet..."

They smiled at each other and walked out of the room...

...The whole month passed with the gang busy in their revision; they usually did group revision sessions where they would all go to the library, sit in their corner, covering the tables with papers, books and notes. Occasionally they would get the odd whisper to keep their voices down as they read out loud trying to shout over each other.

Armaan and Riddhima sat next to each other studying a math's paper together; every now and then Armaan would purposely put his hand on the book so that he could touch Riddhima's hand; and she would blush and slap his hand away.

Suddenly they were all disturbed by an outburst by Nikita; "Aaarrrgghh! I can't do this..." she yelled.

They all looked up from their books to her with curious looks.

"What's wrong?" Riddhima asked her.

Nikita threw her book down in annoyance; "This stupid database crap...I just don't understand how to get a primary key and put the data into descending order...I mean...why do we need to put data into descending order...why can't we just leave it in the order it's in...it's so stupid and pointless..."