FLORAISON

Chapter-6》

"Care to share your joke with the whole class if not then can I continue?" the teacher remarked in displease.

"Ye..Yess Sir!!" Shivani stutters.

After a hour long lecture from Mr. Mehta about rules and regulations, all I can remember is that he is supposed to take our Physics class.

"Atleast I will find something to concentrate on in physics." Soumya remarks and we all start laughing but silently.

"So is it your thing now..huh?" Yug's deep voice interupts us from behind.

"Laughing behind people's back or front if I may add!", he mockingly says.

I roll my eyes at him and he laughs but.. Wait a second.. What does he mean with that?

"What do you mean front?" I curiously ask him.

He laughs again and says, "Well I don't wanna embarass you but I know you got a crush on me" he sneers at me.

This time, I laugh at him. "Oh my god!! Don't flatter yourself" I droll at him and the girls laugh with me on it.

"Who is he?" The curious Shivani asks us in a subtle voice.

"Umm.. well he was my bff's ex boyfriend and right now he is one of Soumya's best friends so.." I state.

"I think I know him.." She pauses to think and then turns to Yug.

"Hey? Did you live in Malaija about almost 6 years ago?" She curiously questions Yug.

Its too clear that Yug is in a state of utter shock, the kind of look which is very rare to find on Yug's face.

"Shiv.. Shivani.. Shivani Deol?" He stutters.

"Yess.. Oh myy god Yugendra.."she jumps up on her feet. They hug so affectionately that its clear that they knew each other from before and were pretty close when they drifted apart.

Sometimes I feel like I have this habit of always looking at life as black and white or good and evil which is not how things actually are. Everyone has a story to tell and like Julie Plec once said in an interview that the difference depends on just who is telling the story. To me Yug was or is a villain who destroyed Jolene's life in so many ways and affected her ability to fall in love ever again and trust people. Because of him she even doubted her best friend. But maybe, just maybe he is not an emotion less person. He has friends who missed him and friends who know him so well and care about. Well, whatever it is I could definitely never ever have crush on him. Firstly, because he is the love of my bff's life. Secondly, he is not the kind of people I will ever be a fan of and thirdly, I am in love with someone else, even though we are miles apart.. In my heart I know I won't ever be able to stop loving that WLEC boy. Just thinking about him, I am reminded of the pain of never being able to see him again, seeing Yuvi again. Yuvraj left for school almost a week ago to Delhi. As I remember last, him and Sasha were going to give long distance a try. I hope it works out for them and I also hope that someday not today but maybe someday I am able to move on and find the love of my life too but thats not the main goal of my life right now. I just want to get out of this dreadful town of Kohlla and live independently somewhere and to be more specific Paris, the fashion capital of the world. I know it sounds so lame from the mouth of a small town girl but I have it all planned.. Someday You will see.

As Shivani and Yug catch up with each other, Soumya notices my face as it reflects my mind that is deep in thoughts of Yuvraj in Delhi at this point.

"Hey.. Is there something bothering you? You can tell me if you want, and please don't take Yug seriously at all. He says whatever comes to his mind, and also don't worry about things like I am his friend so you can't share me anything. You can talk to me like about anything
.ANYTHING." She states and looks at me very considerately.

I chuckle at her sweet speech.

"Fine fine.. See the only female friend I ever had was Jolene and you know how she can be sometimes. I know that we weren't perfect but who is? Except her it was always Aniket, Yug or Rehan and Rohan and honestly you don't seem like any of them, You and Shivani both are cool and not like those lame girls you know and I feel that we are gonna be good friends also I definitely want you meet to Aniket.. he didn't come to school today but you will see him tomorrow. I HOPE YOU ARE COMING TOMORROW?" She looks at me in hopes of a positive reply.

I mean high schools are a amazing experience of life but only if you ain't in Science section then you can actually like going to school. Infact I thought that if I didn't make any friends, I would just go to school on the Lab days but this is different.. everyone here is fun and I want to learn more about them and have fun. I just want to be a normal teenager for once.

"Well ofcourse!! I now have a very reason to attend the Physics classes both theory and PRACTICALS." I enhance the last word as I say and wink at her leading to both of us bursting into laughter but to be honest I am not good at being dirty minded but hell yeah, I would give it a try.

As the rest of the day moves along, we have the recess where I introduce Raghav to everyone and we all move to canteen. I was so worried about being alone on my first day but here I am surrounded by people and having lunch and laughing on the stupidest jokes. I haven't felt like this in so long, I never felt this free. I remember in WLEC I couldn't even talk to boys in public only inside the class and it was always formal, to be precise. All the teachers there knew my mum so either they would fill her ears or she would get to know things on her own which is why I had to always be the best self and be on my best behavior because I was a teachers daughter and also I was my mum's daughter. Best behavior meant to always be polite to elders and to be a silent girl who followed all the rules of school and had the perfect knee length skirt and a tidy hairdo. Best behavior meant that I was supposed to never talk to boys because that implied to the society that I might be involved with that person in some sort of relationship and never even think about going to parties or bunking classes and always maintain a good image so that I and my family is acceptable to the society. The only parties that I attended was with Jolene but I always got back home before 6:30 in the evening. I sometimes think how did she even allow me to hangout with Jolene and then I realized it was because of dad. In comparison to my mum, dad was the literal opposite. He isn't as uptight as Mum and never pushed me to be perfect.

And now when I think about all of this I grasp to the significance of never having this.. this freedom to laugh with a bunch of people on some stupid dirty joke and feeling inconsiderate of their gender. I am happy in this moment. I am happy around these people. I am happy in BEHS which is beyond my imagination but I just can't wait for my next day to come which isn't familiar feeling. I never had this feeling...

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