Namesake

Chapter 1

Having talked to some of the group members that were mostly infamous boys and girls at school, Tara curiously looked at a new face standing at a distance and trying to be low-key.

"Who's he?" whilst staring, she asked Mayank.

"He's my friend from 10th B."

All of a sudden, the new face turned towards her. She was slightly taken aback by a tiny smile across his face. Flaunting his cute dimples, he looked nonchalant. Mayank gestured to him to join them.

"You have a name?" She asked the boy; her curiosity was an icebreaker.

"Lakshya"

Pondering for a while, she said, "You don't seem like a Lakshya."

"What do you mean?"

"You shouldn't be a Lakshya. You should be a Sahil."

"What?" Lakshya couldn't understand the sudden imposition of a random name to him.

He further said, "It's just a name. You needn't be rigid about it."

Hardly giving any attention to his words, she added, "Besides that, you look like my dead grandmother."

"What the hell! I'm a boy."

"You're a Sahil and my dead grandmother. You're both."

"I'm a boy. How can I be your dead grandmother?"

"Likewise, you can't be a Lakshya since you give vibes like a Sahil."

Lakshya realized that it was hard to argue with her over a silly name. Helplessly, he looked at Mayank in a hope that he would intervene.

"We'd better go now." Mayank said, trying to save the situation from turning more awkward.

Mayank patted everyone's shoulder in the group to tell them that it was time to leave.

Tara with some girls was left behind. She started talking to them whilst looking at the boys leaving from the corner of her eye.

The awkward moment wasn't enough to say that it would turn into a classic love story at that moment, but something happened to her. She was sporadically looking at Lakshya leaving with brats. She found him out of place as though he were a moment of peace in pandemonium.