Solving mysteries

-Chapter 5-

^^Tarun Rahane (Sumedh Mudgalkar)^^

Naah I still hate him.

~Siya's pov~

In a few days of the regular boring school and me passing comments about how I hated him after the supervisor incident, it was the time of the year when all the classes in the school started preparing for the annual concert. I was really looking forward to this as last year I got to participate in my favorite activity and it was a blast.

This year 9th grade had the dance department. We had different forms of dance like Indian Classical Bharatnatyam, the tap dance, the western hip hop, Japanese flower dance and the Chattisgarh dance.

Out of all these options we had to decide which one we were most interested in and then give auditions for that dance. I decided to give my auditions for two of those dance forms Tap dance and Bharatnatyam. In the Bharatnatyam auditions, we had to set our own steps on the spot, which I did and I got selected I this one as well, but I didn't like the attitude of the people actually choreographing the dance. Besides, Veronica was one of those choreographers which was another reason for me to leave the dance.

To give you a brief description of who exactly Veronica was here's a really short and sweet description of her attitude: B*tchy. That word describes her personality very.... accurately. She was the nosiest of all the popular people in the whole school. She'd always want to know what other people were up to in their personal lives and then she'd go to her friends and make fun of their misery.

So, after I announced that I quit the Bharatnatyam dance, I went in for the tap dance auditions.These auditions were held right beside the Chattisgarh auditions and I saw Rohit there. Sending a small glare towards him, I went in for the audition.

"Why are you here?" Divya teacher asked me as she looked at me with an surprised expression etched on her features. "Because I wanted to audition for tap dance?" I wanted to state but it came out more like a question. "But shouldn't you be in Classical?" She asked and then I presented my reasoning in front of her.

"Very well then." She said and signaled the girl beside her to show me the clip of the dance from which we had to perform a few steps. The dance consisted mostly of jumping and kicking. 'Is this really tap?' I thought to myself as I completed the steps.

I got selected! I was really bored after this so I decided to go and talk to Anna in the free time. When I entered her class I saw her sitting with Tarun, Sachin and Rohit, laughing about something. I slowly walked towards them, and sat down on a desk nearest to Anna. Tarun was the first to notice me join in and he waved at me even if I was sitting right in front of him. I smiled at his childishness and waved back.

Somehow for Sachin I was always invisible. He was in our class before shifting to the other class because of one girl taking Environmental Sciences instead of Mathematics. At that time, he came and talked Nikki about all the anime drawings she drew and he wouldn't even utter a single word t me even if my drawings were on point and perfect. I'm not saying that Nikki's drawings weren't good but I couldn't understand the logic behind him ignoring my existence completely.

This time at least he acknowledged my presence and smiled softly when he saw me sitting there. He continued talking animatedly to Anna, so I started a small conversation with Tarun.

"Hey, do you draw too?" I asked him. "Nah, you see I haven't started watching anime yet." he said. "Neither have I." Rohit said joining in to the conversation. I was surprised at first, but then I nodded and a comfortable silence settled over the 3 of us.

That was until Tarun decided to start playing a game of catch catch with us. "Heads up!" He yelled and threw the pencil box towards my face. Me being a sloth, I was too late to react and the pencil box hit me right in the middle of my face. "Owww!" I glared at Tarun, while rubbing my nose. I quickly got up from my place and with a loud war cry started running towards him with the pencil box in my left hand. His eyes widened in realization when I'd almost reached him and he started running ahead.

He had an advantage here as his long legs helped him in gaining speed really quickly. After a round around the whole class, I threw the pouch at him with all I had. Too bad the pouch went and hit Rohit on the back of his head. He turned around really slow to add the dramatic effect and then actually smiled and joined in the running and screaming. By the end of this all three of us were on the floor laughing. Sachin and Anna were staring at us as if we were crazy. We couldn't stop till there were tears in our eyes. Tarun got up and helped the two of us to get up. We talked for a while and getting to know Rohit was really fun. I realized that getting to know him was really fun.

It was time to leave the school in 5 minutes. When we were walking down towards the exit while talking to each other. After we said our goodbyes, I started walking home. 'Maybe he isn't that bad. Naah I still hate him.' I thought to myself while walking.

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