With an utter lack of self-confidence to show myslef to her on the lunch break and I am thinking of a way to impress her.The school ended and next day when I am carefully listening to the speeches hoping to listen to her speech, I suddenly heard someone singing "Why this Examination di" on mike and I am suprised and my mind is demanding immediate action because I am the owner of it and I wrote it and someone is taking credit of it now and song ended ,the person who sang the song suddenly said,"I would like to welcome Reyansh on to the dais".
I went to the dais hesitatingly and saw that it is none other than that Camel girl. When I went near to her,
she said in mike , "Give a big round of appluase for Reyansh",
and she gave me mike to speak something and with a sudden onset of clumsiness I looked at her and asked her clearing my throat,
"What is your name?"
she replied, "I am Rashi" ,with sparkling eyes.
I said "Rashi, you are Beautiful" and handed over the mike to her and left the dais without looking at anyone and without turning back. There is utter silence in assembly and when I reached my last-to-second place I felt that, how stupid I am to announce what my heart says about her infront of everyone.
Assembly ended and everyone dispersed to their classes.When we reached our class my classmates asked me with a wide grin, "Do you know her?, the one who sang the song".
I replied, " I will get to know her". Maths class started and Sir scolded me for that song as well as for telling the fact that, "Rashi is beautiful" and class ended. In the interval time Rashi came to my class when I was about to get-up and go searching for her.
Rashi asked with sparkling eyes, "Are you a stupid?"
I asked, "Why?"
She reminded me of what happened in the morning.
I said, "But, I stated a fact".
She smiled and asked if any teacher scolded me for what happened.
I said "Maths sir was angry because of the song you sang".
She asked, "What is Maths according to You?"
I replied,
"M – Mental
A – Attack
T – To
H – High
S – School Students"
which I read somewhere.
She laughed and left the class. I wanted to follow her to her class but the bell rang and the interval ended.I waited till lunch break and when I saw her I enquired about how she got that song which I wrote yesterday. Rashi said that my English mam gave it to her , Of Course without reading, which I wrote with utmost care half-of the time. Rashi found it a bit funny and sang it in the assembly. I am expecting a compliment from her for the song and
she asked, "What is your percentage in 5th class?"
Ears that turned to red because of embarrassment as I hardly passed the 5th class with border marks.
I said with a weakened voice, "I got around 85 percent".
She started laughing for some time and said that English mam told her about my previous year's percentage. I pretended to have a fake smile as if trying to laugh it off. I am happy that she knows a little bit about me now. I asked about her percentage and came to know that she was the topper of her previous school.I lost hope at that moment and thought that she would never like me and would think about me as an idiot forever.When I reached home, I was determined to become Topper at least in my class. But there were many times when I planned to become the topper.