I was in 9th standard when I heard about "SLAMBOOK", a whole class that day seemed to be on some secret mission passing a packet to each other. It was my turn when the packet arrived to me. "Don't forget to fill in who your crush is, question no 8" said the backbencher behind me.
"Crush" I whispered in a low tone.
" You don't know what is crush? Really! Anish ."
"Yeah, I don't know. Tell me."
"Well, you have to wait for that, pass it to the next one."
I passed it as he said to the student sitting next to me and in the whole class, my mind was thinking about "THE CRUSH" and the teacher looked at me with her sharp eyes and told me to read a lesson loud and clear in front of the class. I had no idea where I should start reading and she told me, "paragraph 3 page 54" I started reading and finished a few pages and she made me sit.
It was recess time, a playground full of students playing different games. I was sitting and watching everyone and suddenly Abhi came from behind and tapped on my shoulder.
" You don't know what is a crush?" Abhi said. "I can't believe you, you are trying to hide it from us. Look this is our secret and the whole class is participating in it, we got only a year and a half being together and you know after the 10th most of us won't be here. "
"Why would I lie to you and everyone here," I said.
" Okay. It's like a burning desire to be with someone you find attractive or liking but the feelings went unexpressed " Abhi said. " you won't believe within our class people have crushes for each other they have the same thoughts about each other, that's amazing to see, isn't it? "
"Yeah, I don't have such burning desire as for now," I said.
" Okay then if you have decided you are not going to fill your crush then you cant take part in it," he said and left.
When I was on my way back to home I was just thinking and giving my mind a refresh to form that image of a girl in my head of someone from school but Nah! nothing happened.
So as Abhi said I was not able to be part of the slam book and I was not able to find out if someone had a crush on me. Also, two people weren't part of it. They were not part of it because the only condition everyone agreed to write about their crushes was to not involve them in it. This was so as they use to complain about everything directly to teachers and in other words, we call them Class representatives (CR). They will tell each and everything to the teacher, even if you sneeze in class they will tell about it to the class teacher. So it was necessary to keep it a secret from these loyal creatures.