The Miracle We Met

Chapter 34 - D Day

Time flew very fast after Chanyeol's birthday. We were back in Varanasi and busy with our works.

After confession, nothing much changed between us. But yes..we both became more closer by now. It was like we could talk on anything without thinking that the other person would judge me or would take me in a wrong way.

We were more frequent with our video calls too.. sometimes I used to have a glimpse of Sehun, Kai and Baekhyun walking around at the back. Seeing my excited level Chanyeol immediately used to changed his position that I could only saw him and the wall behind him. The only thing I could do was cursing him.

I didn't disclose anything about my upcoming presentation to him. I didn't showe him that I was busy in preparing something. He had no idea at all about it.

But after phone calls, I used to  get back straight to my laptop. I had to give a presentation and interview, study lots of things regarding it. I don't want to regret later so I needed to work hard then.

Apart from all these, I got lots of scolding from my home. They said that I should have met Darsh for at least once in my 3 day trip to Delhi. Same happened with Darsh too. He was laughing and telling me how his parents scolded him for not contacting me when I was in Delhi. They don't have any idea that we already met accidentally. Apart from these, often we used to share watsapp messages . He used to tease me with Chanyeol..and of course I didn't mind.

So finally, my D-day came. Approx 50 candidates had applied for exchange program. They were from different colleges of Varanasi but most of them were from BHU only. The panel had to select top 5 candidates. The presentation and interview took place on 26th and 27th December. Mine was on 27th and result declaration was on 28th.

Finally, my turn came. I gave my presentation very confidently. Answered max of their questions. After coming out of the panel room, I was quite confident because it wasn't that bad and I knew I gave my 100% to it.

After interview, I came straight to my hostel room.
I couldn't relaxed for a bit. I didn't call anyone nor even Chanyeol. I opened my laptop and started watching kdrama series to distract myself from result tension.

Finally, next day came. As it was winter morning, cold winds were blowing. Excitedly I went to department. I heard results would be declared after lunch infront of the main office of Science Department. Somehow I passed my time.

After lunch I went straight to the main office with one of my lab mate. Soon, we were near the notice board, I closed my eyes, took a deep breath and went near it.

On the first page, it was written that following students are required to submit their documents by tomorrow, in the office. These students should assure them that they have their passports and visa with them. Other details will be provided tomorrow individually to them.

As I moved on the next page, names were like,
1. Preetika Poddar
2. Arryana Mahapatra
3. Kushagra Singh
4. Md. Arif Siddqui
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5. Jyoti Verma

That's all..I didn't get my name there. I was so disappointed. I did my best. I wanted to be in that program so badly. But it didn't happen...I lost my chance. It was over now. Everything was over now. Nothing more could be done. I just stood their staring at the notice.

I came back to my lab. Silently, started doing my work. No one spoke anything to me. I didn't utter a single word. I opened a book and started writing some notes. I don't know what I was reading or what I was writing. I was looking at the book but literally lost in another world.

That day, I left my lab a bit early. I came back to room, and just laid down on my bed. I don't remember for how long I was in that position. I was just staring at the wall. I wanted to cry but still not a single drop of tears could come out of my eyes.