Being His Shining Armor

C H A P T E R: 12

Lectures were on, I was present physically but my whole concentration was somewhere else. I was totally lost in his thoughts and nothing other thing came across my mind. 

As the bell rang I sighed heavily and stood up to go to the cafeteria. 

I don't know what had happened to him before, what made him so silent, what made him mysterious I don't even understand. 

"That sanskaar boy na? I know he's too hot yet rude." I heard one of the girl commenting when I was walking towards the cafeteria through the corridors. 

All of a sudden I felt my whole body burning... burning in anger. How can someone judge people when they don't even take initiative to talk and later comment something ill about them? Like seriously?! How?

I wish I would smash their heads in the near by walls. These comments makes me more frustrate and nothing else. Getting a cold coffee to calm my veins I sat on the bench taking small sips. 

He was mysterious on his own ways and I whenever mom had told me a little bit of his childhood, he doesn't seem to be like this before. He had always been a happy go child according to mom but I guess something terrible had happened which made him change this way. 

People don't change all of a sudden, they change because of one drastic moment which happens in their life and one such person was him, Sanskaar. 

I'd seen him smiling but on a true fact not a single bit of his so called smile never reached his eyes. I'd seen it remain only blank as dark. He laughed for his sake of his own family so that they would laugh too. He made everyone around him smile forgetting about his own self. He loved his family more than anything and his actions makes it clear. Maybe because of his father died made him change? Might be, I have no idea.  

"Lost in thoughts?" A sudden whisper near my ears made me jump on my place. I looked towards the right to see ragini sitting with a smirk spread her face. 

"Hey." I tried as much as to be normal and get a little out of these thoughts..

"You totally forgot you've gotta friend Miss. Gagodia." Forgot? Then what about her? She hangs on with every boy as possible leaving me behind and now when I'm with my friend she's saying this. Not done. 

"Forgot? Is that you or me?" I told sarcastically while she left out a dry chuckle. 

"Is that something to do with that cold hearted boy ... Oh I mean, Mr. Maheshwari?" My eyelids shut off in anger in the moment when she commented. Ragini, don't trigger me me do something and trust me I won't regret for what I did. 

"Nothing to do with him Miss. Gagodia. Just let it go." I tried my very bestest not to vent my anger on her but if she's going to test my patience then... I don't know.

I stood up and was about to leave but she held my wrist and whispered near my ears. 

"Running away from me will not help you girl. He's manipulated you well enough." 

That was the breaking point of my patience. At that moment, I was blind in anger and nothing else. Her words about him kept on ringing on my ears making my muscles stiff and my face go red. 

I turned and pulled out my hand from hers making her wince in pain. Do I care? Nope! Definitely not this time. 

"What do you know about him that it made you speak about him in such a way ragini? Have you ever talked with him nor took initiative to talk with him instead of commenting and uttering nonsense?" I yelled holding both her shoulders firmly and that very moment the whole cafeteria turned pin drop silent and all their gazes fixed on us. Ragini looked too shocked to even answer the question I asked for.