As Ajay walked towards her, her heart beat got louder. His every step were echoing in her ears. When he came near her, he just passed by her and sat at the available empty seat at the back and so did his friends.
Even though she got surprised, she sighed and thought, "of course, he doesn't remember me. All I have to do is stay as a stranger and keep my distance from him." At the same time she also feelt little disappointment.
She calmed herself and sat silently. A teacher came to classroom and he started his introduction by congratulating the students for being selected as the students. As the class went on, Sehanna was looking outside the window. Outside was a slow breeze and calm atmosphere. It looked so refreshing like there was nothing wrong with the world. As she was in her own world, Sehanna felt someone staring at her and became restless.
She couldn't wait for the class to end. It will be lunch break soon.
The bell rang and the teacher went out the classroom. All the students rushed towards the cafeteria. "I need to get out of here soon. If I go to cafeteria, we may run into each other. I better go somewhere else."
Thinking like this she went towards the door. Suddenly a girl came infront of her and they crashed into each other. Sehanna tried to avoid her and she started falling back.
Someone stoped her from falling, supporting her to stand still. He is holding her from back with his hands on her waists. She came out of the shock and looked up to thank the person who held her. She was surprised again to see the person holding her. Curse her bad luck for the person holding her had to be none other than Ajay. She couldn't help laugh at herself. So much for keeping distance.
When she looked at him, their faces got closer and they were starting at each others eyes.
Sehanna thought, "Oh, he has gotten taller than me and he looks slightly different from back then, he sure grew up a lot."
At the moment Ajay's friends were also watching everything.
Ajay took his hands off of her calmly. Sehanna stood still and said, "Thank you."
Ajay looked sarcastically at Sehanna saying, "I didn't know that a girl from Avrav family to be this clumsy even though they are so good at martial arts."
Sehanna thought in her mind, "what?" and said out loud, "What has that got to do with my family? I just lost my balance." She defended herself furiously.
Then again Ajay insulted her by saying, "What? You are acting like this to get attention from us? Guess what? You successfully got your wish."
Sehanna was so shocked again by his behavior "What's happening? His personality has changed so much that he is far from that kind and soft spoken kid that he once was. But it's a good chance. With this, I can stay away from him."
Thinking like this she yelled at him angrily, "I don't need any attention from anyone, rather I hope you stay away from me. I don't like guys that are self centered like you."
Ajay got pissed off by her words, he frowned his eyebrows and said to her angrily, "Don't you dare judge me when you know nothing of me. I don't want to mingle with a girl like you who acts for the attention either. I have seen many like you. So don't pretend like you are any different and you better stay away from me."
Sehanna was even more shocked and thought, "what happened to him? He has changed so much that it feels like he is entirely different person". Her heart started beating even louder. Many thoughts were running through her mind. She asked herself "Is it my fault that he has changed so much? Is it because of what happened back then? So it's my fault after all. Nothing good will happen if I stay close to him. It's only better for him if I stay away from him. Also, I don't want to remember what happened back then again and again". Her heart was in turmoil. Her mind was like a rollercoaster recalling many bad memories. She desperately came out of it and said to Ajay, "you are being rude for a while now and your behavior doesn't suits your face at all."
Honestly, Sehanna was very angry at him more so at herself but because of her stubborn nature, she didn't want to lose to him.
If Ajay was angry before, now he was furious. He took a step towards her and tried to say something like, "You dare to.."
Boys who were watching this got surprised and one of them was Dhruv Agni. He stopped Ajay before he completes his sentence and calmly said, "okay, calm down you two".
He stared at Sehanna curiously and said, "It seems like there actually exists someone who can talk back to Ajay in this school. Interesting. Very interesting."
Another boy called Rath Bhumi came to Sehanna and held her hands by his, tilted his head and smiled, "of course you are brave. After all you beat us all five in the exam and got the first place. Be my friend. I think you are fun to be with." Sehanna became restless.
Dhin Varuna is the only boy who can control these guys that are his friends. He came and took Rath Bhumi's hands off Sehanna saying, "Rath stop it. Can't you see? She is uncomfortable with you." Rath was disappointed.
Dhin looked at Sehanna and smiled, "Sorry about that,. Since Ajay is competitive in everything, he couldn't accept that you beat him at the entrance exam. The other guys are just curious towards you, they mean no harm."
Sehanna calmed herself and thought, "At least one of them is a gentleman."
With a low voice, the last of the five who was a silent just like his name called Moun Bhanu, "Haaa.... I had enough of this. I am hungry so let's go already." He looked at Sehanna and got irritated.
Ajay sighed and told the boys, "Let's go". He and Moun went out of the classroom.
Rath smiled at Sehanna and said, "see you later Seha". After that all the five of them went outside.
Sehanna gave a sigh. Mari Seths came to her. She was pretty shaken up by the event and said, "are you okay? It was scary when they surrounded you like that".
Sehanna smiled "I am good, you are worrying too much".
Mari Seths said furiously "You don't know about them right? That's why you talked back like that".
Sehanna become curious. "Who are they anyway?"
Before Mari could answer, Sehanna's stomach grumbled. Sehanna was hungry. She pated her stomach.
Mari held her lunch box and grinned, "Why don't we talk about them while we eat?".
Sehanna replied eagerly, "Great, let's go to garden".
Both of them went towards the garden that was located inside the university. Sehanna took out her phone and typed few words and sent a message and kept the phone back in her pocket before continuing with Mari.
At Avrav household,
Phone blinked indicating that a message has been received. Shashi opened the message and after reading the content he ran to kitchen where Kaya was like a thunderbolt.
He showed her the message and asked in fear, "what did I do? Why did she text me like this?"
Kaya looked at the message which said, "You are dead" and asked him, " You tell me. What trouble did you cause now?"
He was like a abandoned puppy. He was ready to cry and asked, " Why do you guys always blame me? I am such a good guy. I did nothing wrong. I even helped Sehanna by getting the number one place in the exam".
Kaya who was cleaning a plate, dropped it by the sudden revelation of Shashi. While the plate shattered on the ground she glared at Shashi and yelled, "you did what?"