Does love at first sight
even exist?
Her
I heard he was quite funny on his first day. Surya and I didn't talk, but he found me by the notice board that one time and loaded me with info on the new kid.
Because we couldn't talk about anything else, not now. Not ever. He wasn't from around Bangalore, I was told. He didn't know Kannada. "And boy, did he sound hilarious in his funny English, like he's the only one who'd ever learnt the language."
Every other girl fawned over him all the time, all around campus. I'd just have to turn my head to one corner to find the boy, and a girl, and another girl. I just had to walk by him, without saying a word. Then, he wouldn't even know I existed.
Just like the rest of the world didn't.
Just thinking of his name, clutching my books to myself, my eyes burning with a fire that raged in my heart, I fought hard. Don't say it. Don't say it. Don't...
"Excuse me, Krish."
"Uh... okay. Sorry..."
He looked at me as if I didn't exist, just as I had predicted. The way he looked at me, analyzed my every pore, I knew one thing for certain. "You don't even know my name, do you?"
That didn't seem to upset him. The girls next to him paid attention to our conversation, now. Or, whatever the hell it was.
"I didn't realize you were the President's daughter."
When a second passed, and we hadn't said anything else, he spoke some more. The words that left his mouth made me wonder, made me think it wasn't possible to hate him anymore, but it was. "So, what is it, then?"
Watching him light his cigarette, I knew I hated him a little lesser a second ago, a little more, now. The inbred. Where did these people turn up from, anyway? "What is what?"
"The name."
"Whose?"
"Don't be coy."
Sighing, and rolling my eyes, I walked away, muttering my excuses once again, only to the rest of his passe this time.
Him
"So, what's her name?" I asked one of the girl's.
"Shubhadra." Lily answered. "But she's incredibly old fashioned."
Interest piqued, I think I remembered why she intrigued me all those days ago. "Uh huh."
"And boring." She added on, not sensing my disinterest in her words, but certainly up for hearing what she had to add to my information on Shubhadra. "She has never had a boyfriend, the rumour is."
Never had a boyfriend?
"She'd never go for you, dude. She's all up there with her virginal pride."
Surya was a prick for sure, but he had a point. I think it made sense now. "Thanks, Lill. See you around."
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