"When you have to go through EVERYTHING, to get that EVERYTHING."
It's so hard to be someone when you're confused about who or what you're. Tarun is never 'Who' he thought he would be. He has a secret which he is claimed of hiding from everyone. Nei...
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It really broke me.
It really broke me, when Abhimanyu left the school, I guess, the city too. Now I think back, I use to go to school just for him, for all tenth grade. To gauge him from afar, to see him walking down the corridor. Waiting for him in the parking lot after school gets over. And not telling that to my friends. How can I? Nobody knew or know that I like...
Watching Abhimanyu entering his car. Watching him turning the ignition on. Watching his fingers going through his hair, trying to keep it at one place, but it always falls on his forehead.
I agree that I was kind of stalking him. Abhimanyu was stuck inside my mind. But I never approached him. I was shy, I still am. I always got the feeling that he tries to ignore me. Never lifting his eyes to my direction whenever we are in the same corridor. Like he wants to get away from me, he even changed his locker which was next to me, with a girl. (Yes, our school has lockers.) Did he dislike me that much? Or maybe he somehow knew that I'm... That.
He left before completing his senior year, I thought I won't be able to see him again. But here he is standing so close, yet so far.
"Come back to earth, Tarun." Graham says, shaking my shoulder a little.
"Yeah? What?"
He laughs. "What do you want? You decided?"
Oh god. I hope nobody noticed me gauging at Abhimanyu like if I was doing it. I might be looking like a creep.
"Yeah."
Abhimanyu was talking to Mahima and Anna. They were asking where he was all this time.
"I went to my home town." He didn't give much for an answer. Like he doesn't want to talk about it. Nobody ever talked to him from our group of friends. But everybody knew of him. He was that famous in school. Among teachers too. Then he moved back to his home town, for whatever reason. I heard some really bad things. But nobody ever got to know what exactly happened to him.
Abhimanyu hasn't looked at me yet. He takes girl's order than Graham gives him too. Now it was my turn. Why I'm so much nervous? I just have to give an order to a guy I like so much. I can do it.
"I would like to have a Frappe and... uh..." I swallowed. Why I'm having trouble speaking?
"Are you okay?" Anna asked.
I nod.
"And... pineapple pizza?" I said looking at everywhere but Abhimanyu. That came out as a question.
"Really, who even likes it?" Graham chuckled.
"I like it." Praful almost whispered.
"Actually it's pretty good, you should try it." Abhimanyu says too. Still looking at everyone but me. When his—not looking at me—game going be over? How can you hate someone you don't even know? Oh wait. Shit. I was doing the same thing with Praful right now.
