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Chapter 6 - The Childhood

After some drinks, Vihaan was under a hallucination of his childhood. Vihaan was in St. Xavier School which was a boarding school. Being a citizen of the same city, Vihaan was still sent to a boarding school because he was too mischievous and never cared of anyone. His father was a wholesaler in FMCG products. He had always taught Vihaan to never fear anyone if you are right but vihaan took it in another way. He never listened to anyone in any matter. This made his father decide to sent him to a boarding school. Vihaan had a best friend named 𝐕𝐚𝐫𝐮𝐧 𝐌𝐞𝐡𝐫𝐚. He was from Varanasi. He too was in the same school. They used to enjoy a lot. They both used to pass a lot of their time in Jakhu Hill during their holidays. The scenes from the hill are damn spectacular to watch.

No friendship is a true friendship, if your parents don't love your best friend more than you. Same was the case with both of them. Vihaan's mom trusted and loved Varun, the same way she loved her son and Varun's mom did as well. But this friendship was quite different from the other ones.

Their friendship began when they were in standard 2. Vihaan had joined the school earlier and Varun was a neophyte in the day-boarding department. Vihaan was relaxing in the dormitory when Varun arrived to get shifted in the dormitory. He got his bed next to Vihaan. That was the first time, Varun's parents met Vihaan. As, Vihaan wasn't a neophyte, he knew everything about the school and thus offered Varun to be with him wherever he go. Varun agreed and thus they both started doing things together. From going to classroom, washroom and eating in the dinning room. They both enjoyed each other's company. Varun was quite of a shy guy whereas Vihaan was completely opposite of him. Varun was quite of a bookish and fragile guy, and Vihaan was not that keen to studies and violent by nature. Varun used to make Vihaan understand whatever been taught in the class as Vihaan would always fall asleep in the classroom. Varun was like his second teacher. While Vihaaan was Varun's bodyguard. No one dared to brawl with Vihaan as he was damn too strong and never feared anyone.

Whenever Varun fell ill, Vihaan always took care of him leaving all of his work and same did Varun. Varun had migraine problem and allergy to heavy medicines. Whenever he was endorsed with heavy medicines, his body- temperature used to rise up. Vihaan used to feed him, he would help him in bath and would read stories for him at night. Varun really felt comfortable with Vihaan. His feelings for Vihaan got changed. Whenever Vihaan was near him, he felt secured and relaxed. All his problems used to evaporate just by giving him a hug. His heart would beat as if he had been running a thousands of miles.

In friendship, we give different odd names to each other. Varun and Vihaan used to call each other darling, sweetheart, baby and many more. Varun had realized that, this feeling wasn't just a friendship, it was more than that when he was just 8 years old. He had no idea that his feelings was different from others. He used to think for hours about his feelings. He had seen in movies that such feelings arises between opposite genders but he had got feelings for a person of same-gender. And thus, he decided to keep it as a secret. But, he felt really jealous whenever anyone tried to be near Vihaan. Their friendship was so popular in the school, everyone used to call them 'V square'.

Suddenly, Vihaan came back to reality when Naman shaked him from behind. Naman was shocked, he had never seen Vihaan that drunk and Vihaan was dozing because of the alcohol. He helped Vihaan to his room. When, he was helping him in his bed, Vihaan was mumbling - "I'm sorry, Varun." and he fell asleep. Naman had no idea who Varun is! He was confused that, why Vihaan is sorry to someone? He left the room.