Namesake

Chapter 3

"Isn't she hot?" Mayank asked.

"Who? Tara? I don't know." Lakshya replied. "Anyway, why did she say that I looked like a Sahil?"

"I don't know, but you do look like her dead grandmother." Mayank Laughed.

Lakshya said that Mayank looked like Tara's dead grandmother's wrinkled SOMETHING that was her body part. Let's assume that Mayank looked her wrinkled SANDWICH.

***

Tara had been waiting in the school library. She had told Lakshya that she wanted to talk to him.

"Hi!" Lakshya greeted and sat opposite her.

He looked around and saw no one was sitting near them. He complimented her selection of the place to talk. There was a sturdy table between them.

"Where's your book?" Tara asked, still looking at her book that she was pretending to read.

"We are here to talk. Why do we need a book?" Like always, Lakshya was acting nonchalantly; whereas, Tara was hyper-vigilant, watching her surroundings intermittently. She had never been in the school library.

"Do you want to talk or not?"Lakshya grew impatient.

"Okay! Let's talk." She looked him in the eyes and asked, "Why did you text me that you like me?"

"That was clearly a joke. How many times do I need to tell you that it was a joke? Besides that, you already have a boyfriend."

"Redhya! He is not my boyfriend. He's with me because I don't want to be troubled by desperate boys at school every now and then."

"Wow! Aren't you a mystery?"

"What's thrill without mystery?" She smiled devilishly.

***

Tara was tense; she wasn't afraid of the board examination. She had a fear that Lakshya would become a Sahil. Waiting on Lakshya, she kept on calling him.

"Why are you late?" She blurted when he finally arrived. His smiling face was her weakness, and she couldn't display her anger when he playfully started poking his fingers into her stomach.

"Relax! I was with Mayank. I had to lie to him to come here. He wanted me to stay at his house."

"Tell me what this is." she showed her phone. He'd texted her that they should meet each other after the board examination.

"Baby, we need to focus on our studies. Plus, my parents won't allow me to go outside unnecessarily."

"Lakshya, please don't become a Sahil." She said and hugged him.