After I
reached home, walked into my room. The day didn’t treated me well. I refreshed
and sat in front of TV. The TV helped me with reality shows and music. I took a
nap later. The clock stuck at 3 and it banged trice. I walked out of my room to
check out my mom. She sat near the entrance with a plate with green peas and
she was cutting vegetables which were next to her. I sat near her.
I took some peas and ate them, she
told me have my lunch. I asked her to help me with serving the food, she came
by. The lunch was prepared and were kept on the table. After picking the plate
I sat on the table and held my hand to take the rice.
“Wash before you eat”, she said, I
usually forgot to wash my hands before eating those days. I turned the tap, I could not see a drop
dripping over it. “Ma, no water”, I yelled.
“I called a man to clean the tank so
I emptied it”, by saying she brought a cup of water and poured it over my hand
and helped me to have my lunch. She sat on the next chair and I shared about the
day.
Later the evening was filled with
funs with the friend around my neighborhood. I came home by 6.30, my mom
occupied the TV with her evening TV serials. I turned on my computer, which was
bought for me to play games. I logged into my FB account. To my surprise there
were two friend request notified me. I clicked over it, two girl name were on
the list.
“Susan Gloria”, “Jeni
Jizzles”
I could recognize the girl on Susan Gloria account, she was the girl
whom I thought as Jeni, the North Indian girl, and she was sitting on a bike, below
it showed 0 mutual friends. The next
name was Jeni Jizzles, I could see 28
mutual friends below the name. Jeni had a DP of a wet red rose.
I clicked the accept button for
Susan. I moved the mouse pointer over the Jeni’s account my fingers jerked a
moment and I didn’t accepted her friend request. I scrolled over my timeline, I
saw some pictures of Susan on my timeline. I hit some likes to some pictures.
A message popped at the bottom, it
was Susan showing “Hi”. I opened the
chat and texted back with “Hi”. The
chat started here, along with my message “Sorry”.
Susan Gloria Me
For what?
I
meant for my friend pushing you
It’s okay.
Is she your friend?
Kinda
I’m new to this school
Will you be my frnd?
I will
Tq
Like Emoji
Intro me to your friends
Ha Ha
Why?
They will intro themselves to u
very soon
Will they?
Yep, you r a grl so they do
;)
A
laugh emoji.
Bye
Bye
I ended the chat even I was still in
online, I again opened the friend request list and selected the Jeni account,
without a second thought I accepted her friend request. The next moment of my
acceptance she send a message “Hi Nithu”.
I read the message and closed the chat and logged out.
The message she sent was the one she
actually I waited for but I quit on seeing her message. I was afraid to start
the conversation with her. I went to have my dinner and after finishing I sat
with my mom, she was already in call with my dad. My dad was a teacher at a
school far from my house, so he stayed there and come at weekends. He was very
bold, brave and well versed in English. I am an opposite of him when the topic
comes to English pronunciation. After the call I went to bed.
The school started with full
schedule on that day, I went to school with little excitement and little anger
over Jeni. I reached the school and I sat on the steps at ground floor in my
block with my bag over my lap.
Madhu came near me, he started to
speak with a word, “Jeni”. I asked him, “What she told?”
“I just spoke”, he said
“Spoke about?”
“You”
“So am the topic for your
conversation?”
“I didn’t meant it but she wants to
speak to you but you avoided her last night”, he said fast.
“No one avoids anyone”
“I’m not the one to get involved”
“Good”, I said.
Classes were about to start, I said
him bye and I moved to my class. “Speak to her”, he shouted. I walked like not
hearing his words. I saw Jeni was sitting at the same place and she seemed like
waiting for me. I walked slowly to my place Jeni looked at me until I sat on
the bench. I turned to her and moved my head slowly when I saw a smile on her
face.
The smiling face had a glowing eyes
like a characters in comics. Her face had a fake smile, I hate that over her as
I had fixed a charming and smiling beautiful face for her.
“Nithu”, she said in a low tone.
I turned to her, “I just played with
you”, she said her eyes shrunk, her cheeks made very minute movement with a
pleasing face, her lips formed an inverted mountain like form and the voice she
spelt which could melt a strong rock to clay. My heart too melted for her
words, but I didn’t gave up.
“I just want you to hear me”, she
said and I just nodded to it.
Bell rung.
Mam entered the classroom, the classes paused her speech, during classes I
didn’t spoke with her. I had an inner excitement ‘What would she say?’ I kept on thinking over it for the whole time.
I dropped my pen, I bent to pick up, and she too bent for helping me.
Accidentally our heads clashed, “SORRY”,
she said with the same face which melted me. My fingers wished to stretch her
mouth and to ask her to smile always but my anger didn’t allowed me.
She rubbed her head, I took my pen.
I didn’t rubbed my forehead, the pain made me to feel her. The bell rung, it
was break time. I stood up, she stressed, “I
told I want to talk with you”.
I sat, she started a long speech
then.
“Look, I’m Jeni Sugaina, I didn’t
want to play with you or lie to you, you the one who showed a girl and told me
she was Jeni. I initially thought you were playing with me, but I knew you from
my 9th grade”, she gave a pause and pronounced my name like a
magician raising his hand, “Nithish”
and put her hands down.
“A
boy of head weight, doesn’t like girls and many other blah blah stuff, it is
what others say about you so I wished to know true about you. I just named a
fake name Ellina. Okay…. Well I know you are mad at me, let’s leave the topic
here and be friends. I won’t lie you anymore. FRIENDS?” she extended a hand for
a shook.
The content she spoke was little
elaborate and I found difficult to follow the flow she went up, but now I
wanted to shook my hand with her. She was not a lie. I held my hand for her to
shake.
My eyes were very cheerful when I
saw a smile over her shiny face after a long time. She delighted to be my
friend back. She turned here and there, up and down with a delightful smile
over her face. I liked to see her moving her head here and there but she did it
for once and it lasts for a moment.
“Let’s go”, she said and stood,
without waiting for my reply or action, she pulled me and made me to stand.
We walked on
the grounds together, Susan followed us slowly and blocked our way by
stretching hands. “Friends again?” she asked.
Jeni held her cheek with two finger
gently so that the pinch may not pain. She didn’t freed Susan from her gentle
pinch. “She is my loving dearest worst and naughty friend, she lives next to my
house and she joined here this year”. After giving a big intro over her, she
freed Susan from her fingers.
Then I could realize, how mistakenly
I had seen Susan for Jeni by a bag. Jeni might have helped Susan by carrying
her bag and Madhu must have seen it. When I searched for the particular bag
Susan caught into my sight. My mind questioned “Where did the name Ellina came from?” in parallel I built the words,
“You are friends?”
“Yeah, from childhood”, both said
together and hugged each other. I just reacted normal but they were in abnormal
state. It looked weird for me, will anyone hug for saying that they were
friends? I imagined the same situation with me and Madhu, this scenario made me
to feel uncomfortable. I shook my head rapidly to get out of the imagination
within two seconds.
“We will find a seat”, saying she
searched around and pointed to a bench under a tree and continued, “A place for
us”. To her misfortune a pair of love birds sat at that place. “There’s a
place, we can occupy it”, Jeni said by resting her wrist on Susan’s shoulders.
“My friend will be waiting for me so
am leaving, you will have extra space now”, I told, following my voice the
walking girls paused.
“SPACE? Do you think you as a burden
for us?” said Susan and gave a staring look, she didn’t ended her line, “Look
Nithish, we are friends so you can stay with us”.
“I wish to but Madhu, my friend will
be waiting for me. I’ll meet you later”, I said
“Very similar”, a laugh followed for
Susan, “Saying BYE while online and
closing the chat when someone say Hi”,
with a voice with high and low. My face became pale, I couldn’t open my mouth.
“Shu”, said Jeni with a bold voice to Susan. Jeni helped me by cutting the
conversation, “Bye, see you at class” and pushed me.
I walked from that place and those
girls stayed there. After a minute walk, I found Madhu. I neared him, he gave a
welcome with a slap at my back. When two girls met hugs could be seen, if two
boys met only slap sounds would speak a lot.
“Lost?” he asked.
“I knew every corner of the school
then how can I?” I said with a slap to his back.
“Have you talked to Jeni?” he asked
by knowing the answer, he knew that I will talk to her.
“Yes, we were friends again”, I said
with smile and pointed the place where Susan and Jeni were sitting. “They will
drive the whole school crazy, my boy”
“Are they?”
Madhu pointed some boys standing in
group staring over those girls. I got something in me, an anger which I hadn’t
felt before. I bit my teeth, eyes grew red, hands tremble to break his jaw but
I controlled them inside myself.
“Come with me”, saying I walked
towards those boys, I could recognize a face it was Kathir and other faces were
not familiar to me. Kathir was standing at the middle of the group, with hands
over his friends but his eyes fixed towards Jeni.
As we neared them, they started to
look over us, I went a step forward towards them. “Jeni for me, pale girl for
you”, said Kathir to a boy with a curly hair with rough skin, I haven’t seen
him before ever, he might be from other group. Kathir said in a high voice so
that I could hear him.
I walked near them and made an
action of sniff but I really didn’t have a sniff. After a fake sniff I walked
towards Jeni, my path followed in a shape of L. Madhu tailed me in same path
but few steps lagged. I neared Jeni and Susan, I could hear the girly smiles of
them.
They look surprised as I returned in
short. It was a small bench, only three can sit on that bench. I asked Jeni to
move, Susan moved to the extreme right and Jeni too made some space for me. I
sat, a little gap was between me and Jeni. My tailing boy Madhu had no room.
On seeing Madhu, Susan suddenly
moved to very most corner and made some space. Jeni occupied that space and I
too moved a little. Madhu got some space then and he sat there.
I felt uneasy to sit in the normal
position so I adjusted my body and rested a hand over Jeni to make my position
comfortable. Then I turned to Kathir, I could smells his anger in him, my anger
vanished when I saw his anger. I hadn’t felt Jeni’s touch over me and it’s all
because of my anger.
Jeni was looking at me in a funny
way, then I realized my hand over her. I took my hand quickly and turned to
Madhu, with a smile. I could see a smile on her too. I took a deep breath and
turned back to her.
“What’s up, you came back?” Jeni
asked.
“Um”, I filled my line with a filler
while am thinking.
“I just got a doubt and he told me
to ask you”, Madhu interrupted my thinking, then I had to think another story
for his line.
“Any boy thing?” Susan words
emerged.
“Hey! He just kidding”, I said and
continued, “Susan he is Madhesh and he is my friend”. Both looked at each other
and smiled and exchanged Hi.
In the next word Madhu called, “Sue, how is your blue
American Tourister”.
“It’s up, in my class Madhu”, Susan replied him. My anger was
teased by Susan and Madhu at that time. Jeni gave pressure on my lap with her
fingers to stay calm, her little fingers understood my feelings and supported
me.
“So you, guys knew each other”, I said with a foolish face as
I thought of introducing. “I knew him”, Susan said.
I looked at Madhu his eyes was fixed focusing over a
particular direction, I knew it was Jeni. I felt uneasy with his looks, but he
was the one who told me about Jeni initially at that time I had promised him to
help.
I turned to Jeni to check if she was looking at him, but she didn’t
even turned to him. Later Susan said that she texted with Madhu the day before
and she was exaggerating the words spoken by Madhu, his idiomatic speech
attracted her a lot.
She was the first person to speak
about his words and she was the first person that I knew who understood Madhu
words. She then started to speak about the idioms spoke by him last night and
she was telling that he was awesome. I too appreciated but I don’t even knew
those meanings till now.
While they were discussing I tried to change the topic, but
everyone except me were seemed to be interested in the topic. Susan told him
about Jeni and their friendship. I read Madhu’s face he had a face of
pronouncing words.
I came to a conclusion that he was definitely going to say
about the friendship we had, but to my misfortune, he said,
“Flowers from same tree”, then Susan giggled and nodded
rapidly with a great smile. I was late that time too, I smiled for that line to
show others that I understood. I found the same expression on Jeni’s face too.
Susan asked me to explain the line told by Madhu, I smiled. I
felt difficult to search meaning, immediately I gave my ear to Madhu for
meaning. He acted crazy at that time. He said a word, which cannot be spelt in
normal talk.
Then I need to manage myself, “Flowers from same tree”, I
said one more time.
“The roses you guys pluck were from same plant uh?”
Susan stood and came in front me and pointed her right hand
to me and her left hand to her belly. She burst into laughter. I got anger over
her. Jeni pressed my elbow with her forefinger to notify me to stay calm.
I smiled then and I took it as a joke, “Okay, you got me, I don’t
know what you guys are speaking”. I asked the meaning and she explained, I wonder
why people uses complex words even they knew others can’t understand.
“I knew about you, Madhu told a lot about you”, Susan said. I
liked her, she just teases as she was naughty. “Chill up guys lets go to
classes”
Madhu moved to his class, Susan walked rapidly in a funny
manner she took long steps, it seemed like hopping. Jeni pushed me from back
and hurried, “RUN RUN”.
We neared the class, the hopping idiot hopped inside the class.
I could say she is girl rabbit in the form of human, her tooth too had a little
appearance of rabbit and her ears were sharp. I stepped my foot inside the
class room, an extended leg made me to fall over the ground. My left arm dashed
with the desk nearby and made them to swell.
Jeni helped me to stand, I stood up and saw, I could see the
evil smile over a face and you too have guessed who it was. Yes it was Kathir. The
whole class laughed at me including Susan, but not Jeni. Jeni husked me to
move.
I sat on my bench, I wanted to do something to him. When I
was in my peak anger, Jeni said, “Nithu”. I turned to her.
She pointed to my knees and said, “Clean the dirt”. I tapped
my knees and dirt over there. “Fold your hands slowly”. I followed her words, “Show
your hand”, she held my hand with her little fingers and those fingers touched
my swelled region. Her eyes were looking at the swelled region, but my eyes
were looking into her eyes.
I saw her eyes, it was curious over my wound, she suddenly turned
up to me it jerked me a little I moved my head a little backward and turned. Class ended atlast after some conversation between me and Jeni.
At eve, Madhu joined me along with Susan and Jeni. I moved
Madhu a few steps aside and asked, “Why you always stays with us?”
“What matters you?” he questioned.
“It matters none to me but to others, my class mates are
wandering behind Jeni and they are troubling me too”, I said.
“Is it matters you?” I felt difficult to answer his question
at that time, Susan called us, “Guys, are you with us?” Both nodded uniformly
and walked to them.
“I’m always with you Susan”, he added with a smile and put
his hands above his head like a sign of surrender. She smiled on his actions.
“Sunday there is party at my house and you guys need to mark
your presence there”, Susan said with a greeting face.
“Party am am in”, Madhu hasted, “Why?” I asked.
“It’s her birthday”, Jeni said and held her shoulders from
back. “Are you coming?” Jeni looked at me. I nodded and said, “Yeah am in, how I
can skip it”, and by saying I nodded to all three. It looked funny for them,
they laughed.
We shared byes and everyone separated, Madhu accompanied me a
little to my home as we had the same way for a particular distance.
“She invited me for a party, it was her birthday party, huuu”,
by saying he gave a step of dance on the ground which was only noticeable to
me. “She invited me and even Kathir”, I said with a hated voice.
“Babies never knew the venom in snake”, he quoted his line
then. It was the only line I could understand in my whole life.
“Baby? Does she looks like a baby to you?”
“Yep. Every person is a baby, if one knows his inner beauty”
“What the fuck wrong with your tongue, won’t speak words
which I could understand”, I got anger and took my cycle from stand and he too.
We rode our cycles on the way.
“I am in love with her”, he said
suddenly.
“WHAT?”I shouted with an excitement
and applied breaks, he stopped a meter away from me.
“Then Jeni”, I had a puzzle look on
my face.
“I haven’t loved her, I just told about
her to you”, he said casually. My heart bloomed at that moment, I locked my
smiles and happiness within myself.
“Have you seen her talking cheerfully, she is cute, I like
her a lot, her smile pulls me to her and my heart feels light when I was with
her. I think I love Susan”, he gave a brief over his feeling.
I moved my cycle near him. “Will she love you?” I asked. His happiness
faded in seconds, “Don’t make questions like this, it’s doing something inside
me”
“Oh ho”, I gave a funny teasing dialogue. “First love a girl
then you know how it feels”. Then my smile vanished. “I will say when I saw a
girl for me”, I said with a smile.
“What about Jeni?” Madhu asked.
I starred him.
“I could see you smiling when you are around Jeni”
He put his hand over my cycle’s hand bar and asked, “Do you
like Jeni?” I could not answer to his question. I froze a moment he shook the
cycle, I came to consciousness.
“Look she is a good girl and she is something special”, he
said and added, “She likes you a lot”.
I turned to him, “How you say?”
“My babe said to me”, he said with a wrinkle.
“Get lost you Idiots”, I said as he was making of me.
“I swear Jeni sent you request with Susan account and she
texted you as Susan and Susan told me this”, he said but I interrupted, “OMG”.
“She likes you, but I don’t know at what level she likes you.
You need to know it yourself”
I moved my cycle slowly from that place and pedaled to my
house. I opened my FB account. I clicked over Jeni’s chat and I spoke with her,
with Susan and Madhu too but messages shared with Jeni was 4 times more than
them. I ensured Susan as Susan initially, she laughed. Jeni told Ellina was her
mother’s name. Finally I got out of all confusions I had before but I had a
confusion over Jeni, am in love with her? With a puzzled mind I slept
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