Life is Roller Coaster Ride: Nice story --2

I was embarrassed to the maximum. I took my bag and moved along with Priya and Thivya. The same moment , Shiva called me, with surprised eyes, I looked at him and I saw Vikram standing next to him, posing as if , he couldn’t control the laughter still. Shiva spoke convincingly; don’t worry about our HOD’s comments. You prove your worth, in the next exams. Never take this to you heart and put yourself down. Though I couldn’t bear Shiva’s gyaan, I posed as if I was mesmerized with Shiva’s words. I could sense Vikram becoming restless, the moment I started listening with interest to Shiva. I was very happy. This is all I want, I thought. I was not ready to lose this opportunity.

I spoke back softly, you know what Shiva? You are my inspiration from day one. I was so amazed, how a person can be so humble despite of so many achievements and you are one among the billons. Shiva blushed and Vikram ‘s cute face went small. I continued, also , I took your seat intentionally in the computer lab, just because, I admire you so much. The moment I said this, Vikram’s face darkened badly and he excused himself and moved away. I felt a glorious victory. The moment Vikram moved away, I felt so satisfied and I said to Shiva , Ok thanks for your kind words and I moved away. Without realizing that the words that I spoke will change my life upside down, I make a triumphant walk towards my friends, feeling much satisfied that I have taken revenge on Vikram.

I really worked hard and prepared for the rest of the papers very well and I wrote well. The periodicals was done peacefully .But for the first exam paper, I scored in all the other examinations very well. Now and then Shiva used to enquire to me about my marks. The first semester nearly came to a closure with lot of colorful incidents and then the Study Holidays started. Our college was so generous and we got 14 days of Study Holidays. The first seven days, I studied like a mad girl. Then I got bored, so Priya, Me and Anu planned to meet at Thivya’s house for combined studies.

Only Priya had one Black SUNNY. Me and Anu had our good old Lady Bird cycles. So Priya picked Anu and came to my home. I waved bye to my mom and I started the vehicle. It nearly took us five minutes to start the vehicle and Priya sat behind me and Anu sat at the end. So it was triples………… Oh God!!! That was awesome. The SUNNY with heavy sound, tore the winds and moved. We shouted, sang songs and we were all flying high. Suddenly from nowhere, a BAJAJ PULSAR zroooooooooomedddddddd crossing us like a wind. The sudden drift, shook all three of us. It’s none other than, Ganesh and his two friends.

He rode the bike, front , back, left, right. I was quiet shaken. The SUNNY gave lot more bad noise and those stupid’s teased us. Anu got so scared and told to stop the vehicle, even I was scared. But Priya screamed back, if we stop, he will think that we are coward. Go Preethi…Go……it was a worse road; the highway department had piled stones on both sides of the road to reshape the road. As I feared, suddenly Ganesh rode his bike close to us and he gave a short close cut…..The next moment I lost my complete control and our SUNNY ran straight to the piles of stones. It gave a heavy screech….and banged on the stones…flat…….both Priya and Anu they rolled behind and I and the SUNNY lied twisted on the piles of stones.

By God’s grace none of us were severely hurt, but in the heights of anger , I gave a glare at Ganesh. With laughter he stopped his Pulsar near me. Anu and Priya , rubbing the dust in their hands walked slowly towards me. Ganesh extended his ugly hands…Come on Priya …Hold my hand…I will lift you up!!!! He chuckled…The next moment; out of my extreme fury…I took the hot ..sharp..stone, and gave a clear straight throw at his head. Little droplets of blood sprinkled and he shouted aaaammaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…..and kept his hands on the head…. Before he completed his shout , I took the next stone and gave a second throw….now I missed the target, It gave a hit on his BIG watch…..the glasses of the watch sprinted everywhere….His friends got down from the bike…screaming Gannneshhhh…. I waited no more. Anu and Priya stood still stuck seeing what is happening. I took the SUNNY back on stand; it was also scratched in all places, and cried at Anu and Priya to jump on the vehicle. My salwar was completely torn and my knee and ankle was bleeding. With fiery eyes and tears on it, I drove the vehicle in full speed, without knowing where we were going……

Our heart beats were beating fast and after sometime, I couldn’t drive as my hand started to pain heavily. All three of us were completely choked with uttermost fear and the scream of Ganesh banged in our ears again and again. We ran to a local hospital and I got dressed up. Thankfully Anu and Priya were not hurt at all. My beautiful dress has now become useless. I felt like hanging Ganesh. Then Priya drove us to Thivya ‘s house. I somehow hid all the wounds with my dupatta, and said hi to Thivya ‘s mom and moved in to her room. All 4 of us sat quietly. I didn’t know, how I will face my mom. She will be heart broken, if she hears about this. We sat together and cursed Ganesh with all the words we knew. Then I took one of Thivya’s new dresses and went back to my home and I somehow, escaped from my mom’s eyes without showing the bruises and made up some stories that we exchanged our dresses.

After …2 days, my mom called me, and told me Vikram is on the phone. I was shocked, but my mom’s face looked happy. I feebly said ‘Hi’. He asked me, do you have the graphs. I got confused!!! Whhhat??? Garaph??? Then I looked at my mom, and said, yah yah , I have it….you can collect it whenever you want??? And he replied….Ok fine Preethi, I will collect it today evening at your home. Then I hanged on the phone. I gave a smile at my mom. She sighed!!! Vikram is as sweet as her mother and she moved towards the kitchen.I stood still without knowing what to do…. I couldn’t believe that Vikram is coming to my house.

I ran to my wardrobe and my eyes started to hunt for the best dress!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I have never been so excited like this in my life before. All of a sudden, I thought that I should intimate Priya and should tell her to come to my home this evening. I immediately gave her a ring, and narrated her about call with Vikram, even Priya was so excited. It was around 4.30 PM, by this time, I have already tried all my 11 best dresses and I was not satisfied with anything. Finally I choose a lavender shade salwar kameez. Then I combed my hair nearly 10 to 15 times, but no matter what, I felt little disappointed with the hairstyle. Exactly at 5.15 PM, the calling bell rang, I rushed out and I was completely shocked and all my excitement dripped down in a second. Three pretty females stood at our step. hmmmmm…yes….my three best friends..Anu..Thivya…and Priya.I never expected Anu and Thivya to join me that evening. All three of them looked stunning in their beautiful outfits and stylish hair styles. The jealous feeling, engrossed me and I was completely down. My mom screamed…Oh Pretty ladies and hugged all three of them. I felt very bad, as my mom didn’t complement me at all. Its ok, I convinced myself posing a fake smile.

As we were chatting and laughing, our calling bell gave a cry again. Before I couldn’t get up , Thivya ran to the door and with a beautiful smile she gave a warm welcome to Vikram and Madhav. Both of them gave a surprised look at all four of us and Vikram gave broad smile to my mom and handed a sweet box. Vikram looked very handsome in his causal T-shirt and Jeans. We all sat together on the sofa and my mom excused herself to the kitchen for preparing the Tea. Vikram hardly looked at me as he was busy answering and smiling at my other friends.

Madhav interrupted…..So Preethi , how’s your bruises? We were all shocked! How did they know about this? I made him to lower his voice, so that my mom shouldn’t hear this? They understood the situation and conversed something on labs, Engineering Drawing paper, Graphs etc. Finally Vikram said, we have already drawn the sketch for Ganesh. None of us couldn’t understand what is ‘sketch for Ganesh’?. We were all shocked , when Madhav explained that they have planned to ambush Ganesh and beat him down and disappear without making Ganesh to realize that who did this all. I screamed back that I will not allow this to happen and silently and carefully, Priya narrated all the incidents that happened on that day and both the guys had a hearty laugh, when they heard about the throwing of the stones. Madhav told us that this has spread like a wild fire and many of our college mates were talking on this hot topic. Finally we convinced them not to take any steps on this matter further and to drop this issue to its own silent world.

My mom served snack and Tea and on the whole, I would have spoken to Vikram just 3 or 4 times. I felt irritated with my friends, as they took all the opportunities where I was supposed to speak. Finally, at 6.30 PM, Vikram and Madhav got up and immediately all my three friends also packed up. I felt so annoyed. But I had no other choice but to be a silent spectator. I stood near the gate, waving good bye to everybody and Madhav geared his bike and Vikram sat behind him .Just before some seconds to accelerate, Vikram pushed a book into my hands and sped their bike sped away. All my girls followed them waving their hands at me.

I sat on my bed, thinking, how my evening was spoiled. I took the book given by Vikram, it had his name on the top ‘ Vikram ? the MAXIMUS’.I thought he should be Russell Crowe’s fan. I flipped through the pages and suddenly I noticed ‘VT’ written in one of the corner. My wild imagination overpowered me…Oh??What is this VT?Vikram ..Thivya…no no ..no..What can it be??? Or maybe Vikram is impressed with Thivya…Oh God…..I couldn’t calm myself….Somehow…I laidback down…and I didn’t have any strength to flip the pages and see any more shocks. So I closed the book and threw it on my table with a bang…..a very very tiny card like thing…flapped out from the book. Staggered, I took that and gave a close look at that.

It’s a very tiny beautiful card. The cover was in sky blue color and from inside the cover, popped a pretty card…..It had a girl with a long hat….with a writing quoted at the top as ‘ U R CUTE GIRL’.

I was flying higher and higher and higher!!!!Suddenly Butterflies were flying around me. With color full dreams I had a pleasant sleep that night.

The next day Priya gave a ring to meet at KINGS BOOK STORE. It’s the famous book store in the town. My dad dropped me in the shop and headed away. Thivya, Anu and Priya were already waiting for me there.Today also , all there were dressed very beautifully and stylishly. The moment I entered there, something gave a strong hit in my eyes. It’s one stupid fly, and I squeezed my eyes and my friends helped me to sort it out. My eyes became red and most of my kajal had spread out.

Suddenly Thivya yelled, hey they are here. I turned back and saw Vikram , Madhav and 2 other boys. I gave a shocking look at Priya. Priya coolly replied, on the way back home yesterday, they told us that we will meet in this book store today. Just for surprise, we didn’t tell you. I felt like killing Priya. I was wearing a normal salwar and on top of that my eyes are reddened and my kajal is out. Oh God! What a pathetic day!!!I immediately moved to the stationery section. I didn’t even say Hi. Vikram’s two friends nearly rotated me to see my face. I somehow turned the directions here and there, to avoid them. My mind was so worried, thinking what will Vikrams friends say? What a girl with ugly eyes? Oh they will insist him to choose either Priya or Thivya or Anu instead of me. I couldn’t control my thoughts. It was building up like a ocean. Suddenly Vikram came straight to me and alleged, hey preethi …What happened to your eyes?? In a shock, I muttered, nothing…I got hit by a fly and I moved away.

I didn’t speak at all, as I suffered from all kind of inferiority complex and after one hour I reached home.

I sat still looking at my fan and our telephone rang……Neutrally, I picked and said Hello!!!! From the other end came a soft voice…Hello ….is Preethi there? I am Shiva! Her college mate!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Hesitantly I replied, Yes Shiva, its Preethi here.

Oh Preethi!! So how are you? I heard that you were hurt!

I am fine Shiva; there were some minor bruises, nothing to worry about.

We had two to three more conversations about exams and practical’s before the call was done.

I sat on my bed, thinking, why Shiva and Vikram interact with me unconnectedly?

Why Madhav always seams with Vikram whenever, there is something to deal with me?

I couldn’t understand the whole picture at that point of time.

Sipping a yummy coffee, prepared by mom, I started to prepare for my exams vigorously.

Gripped with exam fear, we were all back to our exam halls with hall tickets and collection of stationeries. Luckily, I didn’t get any chance to face Ganesh that day and with sincere prayers, I started to write my paper.

That after noon, I met Ganesh face to face. His forehead had an evident stitch. Cold Vibes filled with hatred crossed between our eyes. I headed to our bus, and sat along with my friends. The days moved on with exams, holidays, combined studies, whole night studies etc etc. The exams were done and the semester holidays commenced. I left to my native along with my parents. I had a good time with my grandparents. I missed my friends, I missed Vikram, but something or the other kept me occupied.

The first day to our second semester, was colorful. We hugged each other, expressing how we missed everybody and continued with our casual chats and gossips. I heard from Priya, that they had a get together with Vikram and his friends twice during their holidays. I didn’t react much to that. Within a couple of days, we got our results and much to my glee, I scored the college First rank for the Year 1 CSE. It was Shiva in Year 2 CSE. No idea about Year 3 and 4. Many known and unknown college mates congratulated me. We all moved to our computer lab and I occupied the same machine, this semester as well. I opened some programs just for name sake and I was busy chatting with Priya. Abruptly, Priya shook my shoulders and urged me to see the screen saver. The screen saved moved left and right … …..’CONGRATULATIONS PREETHI….U DESERVE IT…..CHEERS…SHIVA’.

I was ….I did not know what I felt, but for damn sure, I was disturbed with the way the things were moving on with Shiva.

Our routine classes started to move on. The boring class was brought to an end by the circular brought by the office boy …….” COLLEGE FEST” for three days….. Sports, competitions, awards and honors, special guest….blah…blah….blah….. God only knows, to what extent we were all excited. I enrolled myself for the singing competition. Our P.T mam selected me and Priya along with 8 other girls from various departments to invite the dignitaries.

The first day of the fest was all about, inaugurations, speech by various dignitaries, achievement summary and similar stuffs like this. I brought all my stuffs to get dressed up. We were in the 2nd floor for dressing up. We were waiting for our senior girls to drape the saree for us, as both of us were naive. Our seniors did the job well and all the 8 of us looked pretty in the various color combinations of silk sarees. Out P.T mam urged all of us to be there in the reception at 10.30 AM sharp. The other six girls rapidly completed all their dress up, make up etc and moved downstairs. I was not satisfied with the hair style. It was the fourth time; I was changing my hair style.

Our P.T name knocked the door violently and screamed at us to move to the reception. It was already 10.15 AM. Priya rushed out and moved along with our P.T mam, and told me to join her immediately. I took few more minutes to complete the hair styling and now, I was quite satisfied. I took my bag and moved out of the room. The whole corridor was completely empty. I couldn’t walk much comfortably as this saree is really a new stuff to me, as I was wearing the saree for the second time in my life after my school farewell.

The steps were at the end of the corridor. Somehow, I adjusted myself and walked fast and to my dismay I heard some footsteps. It was Vikram; he stood near the steps and gave a smile at me. I didn’t know what to react. I stooped my head and walked slowly. He leaned himself on the wall and stood folding his hands and looked straight at me, with a little naughty smile on his face. I started sweating like anything. What on earth! He is doing here? The moment I crossed him, he gave a mild whistle and I literally forgot how to walk. I felt, that I will jump directly from the second floor of the building. He kept on whistling mildly some song and walked behind me. Thankfully, all the 8 girls were standing in the first floor. I rushed to them, and disappeared in between them. The first day was a grand day and I felt elated with the way, Vikram roamed around me. With pleasant dreams, I had a wonderful sleep that night.

The next day, were full of competitions. I have enrolled myself for the Singing competition. Being a decent singer, I practiced a lot for the song “Every Night in my Dreams” by Celine Dion the title track of the movie Titanic. It was 2 PM when the singing competition started. To my shock, the students behaved like anything. They screamed liked jungle animals, whenever a student started to sing on the dais. Without any knowledge about the college atmosphere, I made a blunder mistake by enrolling myself for the competition. I approached the volunteers to remove my name from the list. But they convinced me that, it’s all fun and don’t be bothered about it. The girl doing the MC, roared on the mike.

“The next contestant, is Miss. Preethi!!!!

She is the only contestant from the first year….Guys give a loud applause for Preethiiiiiii”

God! For the first time, in my life, I heard such uproar. I trembled and I was literally about to cry. I thought, I will act like I have fainted and can escape the situation, but nothing worked. Trembling with fear, I took up on the stage. There was pin drop silence suddenly, and the silence made me to tremble more.

I kept the mike close to my lips, and started the initial hum, …………………...the whole crowd roared with laughter and some screamed and some mimicked like a goat…cat…donkey…..horse….dog….etc etc….I closed my eyes firmly and continued my singing. Somehow, I dint expose my trembling, I was on properly on my note.

I gave a pause and sang the second couplet in the high pitch,

“You’re here there’s nothing I ll fear, and I know that my heart will go on”…..

The crowd also shouted with the same pitch as I sang. God only knows, how the judges will decide. By God’s grace, I completed the song and slowly I opened my eyes and to my utter shock, I saw Vikram standing on the Chair and putting his belt around his neck and posing as if he is going to hang himself because of my song and all his friends were shouting and clapping their hands like anything around him. With complete disappointment, I came down from the dais and moved to my friends. Many congratulated me. I did know that I sang well, but Vikrams behavior completely brought me down. The M.C girl congratulated everybody and announced that the results will be declared the next day. We moved to the pantry, Vikram came straight to me and congratulated me. I gave an unforgiving stare at him and tried to move away. But he blocked my path and stood still…

Hey Preethi! Don’t you know manners? You have to say ‘Thank You’ when, somebody congratulates you!

I gave a sharp reply; I don’t have to prove my decorum to loafers like you.

Traumatized with my reply…. Ok ok ….Cool Cool!! It’s all fun!! We should have those funs!

Ok …Miss. Rose! Who is the Jack?

Startled, with his question!! I grinned and questioned him!! Do you really want to know that Vikram?

He again widened his smile and retorted,

Yes Miss. Rose!!! I want to know Mr.Jack.

I sighed and pounced back ….Its SHIVA!!!! And gave a sharp cut and moved across him!

Vikram was shaken!

Both of us moved away from the Pantry…. Offended and hurt …., without knowing, that Shiva was on the other side of the pantry counter listening to our conversation!!!.

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The whole college was engrossed with the excursion fever. The next Monday, our HOD announced that there are equal entries for Goa and Ooty-Bangalore. Most of the guys shouted….Goa….Goa….Goa…..we screamed ….Ooty….Ooty….

 Our HOD sighed……and spoke……

Ok then! Let the boys take the Goa trip and the girls take the Ooty Trip…….The whole hall came to a halt……………..We were all shocked…What???? A split tour...Nooooooooo…………….All screamed….Nooo………. K…then….if you want to go together, then decide one place and let me know immediately. I have hectic work to be done for the arrangements. Shiva took the onus, he made a quick negotiation with all the representatives and finalized the excursion to  Ooty- Bangalore. The circular on the dates of excursion, accompanying staffs, amount to be paid, rules to be followed, accommodation etc orbited around every department. That’s the day…..we gathered in our college with luggages, hand bags, snacks… 4 buses moved with violent roar of the students around 7.00 PM. We sat in the last row. Standing on the top of the seats, we shouted with all the known songs. Whenever our bus crossed the other three buses, we screamed at the top of our voices. The staffs instructed to behave well every now and then but we hardly listened to them.

We thoroughly enjoyed our night journey and early morning we reached ‘The Queen of Hills resort’. Ooty gave a warm welcome to us with its scenic beauty, trembling chillness, foggy atmosphere.Our staffs instructed all the students to get prepared and gather at the local restaurant for breakfast. As decided earlier, all four of us appeared bright and pretty in blue jean, pink T-shirt, multi-color scarf around our neck, dark blue woolen caps, black shoulder bags and canvas shoes. We ourselves were awe stuck looking at our beautiful dressing. We intentionally gave a late entry to the restaurant so that everybody should notice us.

We made a proud ramp walk amidst them and seated ourselves in the corner table. Hundreds of eyes gave a jealous stare at us. After the breakfast, Shiva read a list that divided the students into 4 groups and the students boarded the bus according to the groups. As expected we were with Shiva, Vikram and co. The bus took us to all the must see tourist spots. Anthanksharis during the travel between the tourist spots, hot tea, roasted corn, fresh carrots, creamy ice creams, petty shopping, and photographs in all form of poses made our day unquestionably enjoyable and memorable.

Somehow, we gelled up a lot with Shiva and Vikrams group. It’s a group of 10 with 4 of us and 6 boys. We made an awesome team. Seriously for the first time, I admired Shiva for his perfectionism, decorum, soft language, humbleness above all a lovely care. But Vikram, the just opposite, had his charm in his own way, with his stylish look, flirts, teases, attitude, naughty talks and matchless energy.

We had our lunch together. As usual Vikram irritated me with his stupid talks, …..Preethi! I never imagined that you will be able to gulp 3 persons starters in a single go.’ I hardly ate one third of a chicken piece…..hearing his comment, I dropped it back on the plate. But he was least bothered about me being upset and continued teasing others. Shiva told Madhav to move aside who actually was sitting next to me and took that seat. He gave a warm smile and pacified me to ignore Vikram’s comments. He gave a gentle talk with me about the beauty of Ooty and the captivating chillness .His talk was so soothing, without my knowledge I started to ignore others and listen to him. He gave some weird but interesting stories on the starter dishes on the table and made me to taste almost everything. I completely forgot what was going around me and got much into Shivas talk.

I came back to reality, when suddenly a plate gave a screeching bang on the floor…tingg..tang…tang…..near Vikram. Everyone laughed, and Vikram gave a cold stare at me …..I sensed the irritation and frustration in Vikrams face. We reached the Ooty’s Botanical garden around 3.00 PM. What a lovely place!! We ran here and there and the photographs taken were countless. It was an awesome day. I am sure that I will never have a day like that in my entire life… After our dinner around 7.30 PM we had the bon ?fire arranged in our resort. Some danced, Some mimicked, some narrated some funny incidents, some teased our staffs, principal and college rules. The entire students had a lovely time. Vikram took his position and started as if he is going to sing. But to my horror! He mimicked my singing ‘my heart will go on’, he impersonated me so badly, that the entire students and staffs rolled with laughter. I sat still….where my eyes laughed and my heart cried.

After one hour, everybody dispersed to their allocated cottages. I cursed Vikram with my whole heart and desperately waited for a better chance to take revenge on him.  The next morning we moved to Cunoor. We visited some parks, Rose gardens, shopping and after lunch, our bus drove straight to Bangalore. The route from Cunoor to Bangalore was absolutely awesome that we literally enjoyed every essence of it. During this journey, we all four of us sat quietly and shared our personal secrets, family problems, child hood memories……..It was a long chat but a very enjoyable chat. The journey was really great. We reached Bangalore around 6.00 PM in the evening. The Garden city gave us a lovely welcome with jam packed traffic on the Hosur road.

Around 7.10 PM we reached the hotel Imperial at Koramangala.The climate was absolutely pleasant, we watched mouth opened at the stylish and lavished Bangaloreans. After dinner, the staffs took us to PVR cinemas in the nearby Forum mall. Shiva headed the entire team, as he is the one who has planned all this. Everybody praised Shiva for his dedicated diligence. It was the first time for most of the students in a Multiplex. To avoid problems from the mischievous boys, our staffs instructed the boys to occupy the first 7 rows and then after the girls occupied the back seats. The movie “ Silendru Oru Kadhal”…………….( Tamil Movie Name). We screamed for actor Surya and the guys cherished for Actresses Jyothika and Bhoomika. Though we have seen the movie already, seeing with the college gang was a stupendous experience.

The second half of the movie moved very slowly. So we decided to play something. We saw Ganesh watching the movie with full emotions. Priya took a polo and gave a sharp hit at his head and sat silently. Since the theatre was dark, he gave a glace left and right and immersed into the movie again. This excited us a lot. We gave a hit at all our hatreds, till the two packets of polo were done. We enjoyed a lot with the comments, naughty plays, giggles …than the movie…. The next day , we were again in our uniform beautiful costumes ……and moved to the tourist spots. After lunch, our bus parked in the Brigade road for shopping. We were with Shiva and co. I was keenly looking at the collection of ear rings with a road side wala, when Vikram interrupted me….hey Preethi! Why don’t you try the blue stoned one, it will suit you. I gave a cold stare at him, and moved on to the net shop. Vikram followed me wherever I went and kept on irritating me with his stupid comments. I shopped some little stuff for my mom and dad. I shopped few more stuffs for my friends and bought some random stuff.

We took lot many photographs on the Brigade and M.G Road. Our staffs instructed us to move to the bus. Before we could reach there, Vikram came close to me and blocked my way. I gave a irritating look at him.  

Hmmm….Preethi! I want to take a picture with you! I was surprised! The whole three days we were all together and most of the pictures, we were together! But why is he asking now a special permission! 

I called my friends for the photo! But he stopped me abruptly and whispered, I want to take a picture alone with you!

I was shocked!

Before I could say No! He called Shiva and told him to take a picture of us both. It was quiet evident from Shiva’s face, that he really hated to take this picture, but he didn’t speak a word and quietly took a flash. Before Vikram completed his Thanks! Shiva took a position near me and requested Vikram to take a picture of me and Shiva.

Vikram’s face darkened, but he quietly flashed.

I gave a smile and moved away.

I laughed a whole hearted laugh with my friends, about Shiva and Vikram .

But Priya warned me, not to encourage this, as this involves the true feelings between two best friends. But I was not so serious about it that time.

The next morning, we reached our home. I gave my mom a warm hug. After refreshing, I unloaded my luggage. To my surprise I saw two bags, one medium sized pouch labeled ‘Dear Preethi ‘…

and the other one, pretty larger than the previous one,  labeled “ MY PREETHI “

……I had no clue how this came in to my bag and who had dropped it.