The Last Goodbye

Chapter 13

On the Monday Morning with the audition being held, the next day had been quite hectic for Divya. She had spent the whole day multitasking. She had got a plan ready for the Spotlight and as well a few ideas ready to pitch them to Madhav for their social event. All she needed now was Ms. Jain's approval along with Fatema's and her teammates to start working on it. As she walked down the stairs towards the first floor she realized it was already 3pm and surely all the lectures for the day would have been done. 

 When Divya made her way towards the staffroom, she was all of a sudden pulled into a classroom by someone, her heart thudded at a strange speed while a loud scream escaped her mouth. She knew the peons and the helpers lingered around the corridor at this hour and surely someone would come and help her, her voice increased even more as she heard the door being closed. Her eyes, she had them tightly closed, afraid of her wits. 

"Divya shh, it's us." She heard a familiar voice. With a deep breath she opened her eyes as she saw Aman, Rishi, Dev, Asuthosh, Madhav who was picking up her diary and going through it along with two more people one of whom she recognized as their Juniors. 

"What is all this, I was so scared." Divya hit Aman on his right arm tightly making all of them  wince. She surely had a good hit every time she did that. 

"We need your help, this is the fourth time we will be going in to talk to ma'am and she won't really listen to us... we want you to talk to ma'am about the IV. It's important its already January now if we won't buckle up now then we won't be able to make it." Rishi explained at the speed of Rajdhani as Divya tried to keep up with him. But all she could understand was that they wanted her to ask maam about the IV and that it's already January. As if she didn't know that. 

"Alright I won't... but don't you dare do this thing again." She glared at each one of them and then looked at Madhav who was still going through her diary.

"Madhav, that's personal." She snatched it away from him and held it tightly in her hand. It was surely personal but he wouldn't understand even a single thing. It mostly included quotes that she had written, a few notes on her books that she was writing etc. etc, yet she was conscious to show it to others, especially to Madhav. 

She looked at him and took in his being. Since morning she had been successful enough to stay away from him with the fact that he was out for some meetings, and that the curation and the Marketing couldn't work in the same room and hence they had shifted the curation on the third floor for the day where she accompanied them to look after the process while marketing was working in the health room much to her delight. But then here she was back to square one with her heart doing those crazy things, and Madhav being the sweet friendly person that he rarely was. 

"Those quotes are amazing." Madhav said his eyes dilated as he stared right into her eyes making her heart beat loudly. It seemed as if he was looking right into her soul to find out each and everything that was going on in her mind. 

"Thank you." Divya muttered avoiding to look into his eyes as much as possible. She  couldn't comprehend  what the hell was that, that feeling that she always felt the moment the two of them would always have eye contact . It wasn't just now but always. Earlier she had never paid much attention to it, but now she could see a non understandable pattern to it. She quickly took a deep breath and rather shifted her attention back to the other boys and instructed, "You guys come after five minutes I will talk to ma'am about it." 

"Thank you Divya!!" Aman and Dev squealed as she walked out of the room, without even sparing a glance at Madhav. Whatever that happened out there made her scared, she thought it was better to just stay far away from him as much as possible. As it is he would irritate her to something or the other and she would insult him, he would insult her back giving a topic for others to talk about.