Happily Ever After

-The New Horizons-

Exams ended and we had nothing to do. We had a month long vacation. We went for movies, to bowling arena, we went to Shubhit's farm house as well. We also did night stays and had a lot of fun.

Today is the last day of vacations. But we didn't care. We are all at my place. We decided to go to the school from here itself. Pratyush is lying on the couch while Rajat and Shubhit on the mattress and I am on my bed. Yes, I do not share my bed. I am very possessive about my stuff. We are all talking about tomorrow. And I know that it's going to be the same. Those same boring teachers, the uncomfortable desks, creaky fans and the sleepy faces. Classic first day. We didn't realise and we fall asleep while talking, each one of us.

We all wakeup the next day. Ready to go to the school, waiting for the bus.

We reach school. The same familiar faces greet us. We all sit down waiting for our teacher. Within five minutes, a lady in her mid-twenties walks in along with two unfamiliar students.

She introduces herself as Ms Aditi Shrivastava who will be our class teacher and English teacher for the session. She asks the guy and the girl to introduce themselves.

The girl starts off first. "Hello everyone. I am Ana Sheikh. I am from Noida. I am here because my father had been transferred to the city." The guy introduces himself as Jay Mehta who had come from Udaipur.

The two of them sit down and the class starts. The teacher gives us a project that has to be worked upon for the whole term. It is our Mid Term project and has to be done in pairs. As always, the five of us look upto each other. We always paired up for projects. The teacher calls out mine and Aarvi's name and asks us to help the newbies with the project. How the heck did she even know our names? And why did she ask us to help them? Out of all the others, us? But we have to do it. So we paired up accordingly. Me and Jay, Aarvi and Ana; Rajat is with Pratyush while Shubhit was pairing up with his girlfriend, Palak.

Jay came up to me to talk about the project. He has very mysterious eyes, grey-ish in colour. When we talk, we realise that we only live like, five minutes away. We agree upon starting the project from the next week. And we also decide to go out to the community centre in our locality today evening.

I wonder what's in the box for me.

In the evening, I meet Jay in the community centre. It's not too crowded. We decide on playing Air Hockey and he is good at it! His body and built shows as if he works out. After a while, we get bored so we play foosball. This is my game, he can't win it from me. We play for 45 minutes continuously and as expected, I win by 25-18. He really gave me a tough fight, I must say. It was dark so we decided that it was time to go home. We quickly exchange numbers and say our goodbyes.

I walk back home and lie on my bed there is something with this guy. He is so strangely attractive. This intrigues me a lot. Those mysterious eyes, that sad face and I did not even see him smiling the whole day. What is he? Why is he so different?