Tara, Aarav and I got into IIT Madras. Yesterday we reached here. Tara and I share the same room in dormitory. It's a two-sharing room. I am still in my bed. The sun hasn't rose yet. I am very much excited about today as I am going to meet my new friends. I hope the atmosphere here would be good enough.
The alarm clock has rung. It's 6:00 a.m. I woke up and turned off the alarm. Tara is still sleeping. Last night when I was writing my dairy, she is busy talking to her boyfriend. Getting up from my bed, I folded the blanket. I meditated for half an hour and went to take a peaceful bath.
I got myself ready and sat at my table. I called my parents to have a conversation. I started talking to them and in the meantime Tara woke up. It's just 7:00 am and we have so much time for the classes. I hung up my call. Tara asked me to choose an outfit as it is the first day of the college.
"Tara! That pink dress would be a perfect fit," I said to her. She said that would be perfect and it would be twinning as I am wearing pink dress already. She went to take bath. This is the very first I am going to share a room with my best friend for four years. We used to stay at each other houses on holidays but not more than two days.
I turned on to some music on my phone and stared writing my daily planner. Tara got herself ready. Now we are ready for the first day of our university. We are so excited for this new chapter of our lives. We locked the room and went to have breakfast.
Last night we met some people in the dining hall. They are from other departments. We completed our breakfast and returned to our room. We took all the necessities and came out of the dormitory. Our class is so far from our dorm. We have to reach there by bicycle.
We hopped on our bicycles and started riding. We reached to our block. Aarav waved at us. He came to us and asked- "Saanvi, why didn't you pick up my call?" I asked Aarav why did he call me instead of Tara. He said that he had called both of us and neither of us picked his call.
Tara said that we have kept our mobiles in our bags so we couldn't answer them. Tara took her mobile from her bag. There are three missed calls from Aarav. "Hey you! Have you gone crazy?" Tara asked Aarav. He said that he wanted to know where we were.
I opened my bag zip but I couldn't find my mobile. Tara called my number but we couldn't listen to any ringtone. I checked my whole bag but I couldn't find it anywhere. I think that I have forgotten it in my room itself. I told them that I should go to dorm again to get my mobile.
Tara handed over the keys to me. They said they will wait until I get back. I told them not to wait for me. Instead go to class and make new friends. I came to my room and found my mobile on my bed. I don't remember how I had forgotten that.
Today is my first day of college and first day of my period. I told Tara that I'm on my period. So we rode our bicycles slowly to reach the university. It's 8:20 already and I need to head back fast so that I won't be late to the class.
I managed to reach the university by riding the bicycle faster. Our class is on the second floor. By riding the bicycle faster, I am left with no energy. I have no appetite since morning and I ate less. I need to climb all the steps myself to reach my class.
I feel dizzy but somehow I reached the first floor. There is only a floor left to reach my class. I started climbing the steps again. My eyes are closing. I could not see anything. Everything is dark. I feel like falling. Someone caught me from falling.
Slowly I opened my eyes. This face sounds similar. What! he's Ritwik Khanna. He is holding my waist and I am in his arms. He slowly released me and asked – "Little Girl! Are you okay?" I said- "Thank You for your help" and started walking faster.
Little girl again? Do I look like a little girl? I think he is out of his senses. Can't he see properly. But he doesn't have any spectacles. I think his eye sight is completely fine. How could he remember me? Did he see my photo in the rankers list? Then he should have remembered my name? Why is he calling me little girl? This boy is driving me crazy.
Ritwik is walking behind of me. Is he following me? Why God? Why should Ritwik Khanna come here instead of any other university. There are four sections in Electronics and Communication Engineering. He shouldn't be in my section.
I reached to the entrance of my class and turned back. I could not see him anywhere. Thank God, he is not our class. Tara and Aarav are already sitting talking to other fellows of our class. I went to Tara and sat beside of her. Few girl fellows came to us and we introduced each other. A girl named Sheetal called my name. She is our deskmate now. She asked- "Saanvi, have you seen Ritwik?"
What is this stupid question? I already saw him twice. He rescued me both the times. I lied Sheetal that I have not seen him. Tara asked Sheetal why she is particular about Ritwik. Sheetal said he looks handsome in the photos and wanted to meet him in person.
Everyone in the class is looking at the door. They say there he is. Who the hell is he? Who's is coming? Is the principal coming or the HOD? I too looked at the door. He is Ritwik Khanna. Everybody is shouting his name. Sheetal says he is so good looking and already she has a crush on him.
There is a boy behind Ritwik. I don't know who he is but he belongs to our class. Few girls went to Ritwik and tried shaking hands with him. But he refused. The other boy shook hands with some of them. Sheetal wanted to try but after seeing them she is disappointed.
Ritwik is coming next to me. He sat in the bench beside me. Sheetal, Tara and I are sitting in the same bench. Tara is sitting in the middle. Sheetal wants to shift her place to mine and asked me if I can change. I am very happy with that.
Sheetal and I stood to exchange our places but the professor came in to the class. Everyone of us stood and greeted him good morning. We sat and the professor gave his introduction. His name is Ranganath Sastry. He has been teaching Mathematics for thirty years. The first class is maths. He asked us to give introduction one by one.
Tara, Sheetal and I are sitting in the last bench. Tara wanted to sit in the front bench but I rejected. Ever since my early school I have been sitting in the first bench. I want to experience sitting in the last bench so I told her to sit in the last bench when I came to get my mobile.
Everyone started giving their introduction. Aarav completed his introduction. He is sitting in the same bench as Ritwik. Only five people left. Sheetal, Tara, I, Ritwik and the boy sitting beside him. It's the boy turn now. He said his name is Ajay. Next Ritwik has to speak about him. Sheetal is too much excited. While Ajay is talking, Ritwik stood up and said he want to get some water.
Professor gave him permission to go out. Ritwik took bottle from his bag and went out. Why did he want to go out at this time when he is the next person to give his introduction. Is Ritwik Khanna reluctant to talk about himself? Whatever it may be, I am not willing to know anything about him. But Sheetal is totally upset.
Now it's my turn to introduce myself. I stood up and gave my introduction. By the time Tara and Sheetal completed their introduction, the bell rang and the first class completed. Ritwik came to the class after the professor left.
It's break now. Sana and Kriti who are sitting in the front bench came to Ritwik and asked his number. Ritwik didn't even look at them. Ajay said them that Ritwik is not willing to do so. Ritwik nodded his head. Why did Ajay have to tell that? Can't Ritwik say that? Ritwik got too much attitude.
Sana and Kriti returned to their place. Ritwik asked Ajay to go out with him but Ajay opposed. Ritwik went out. Ajay said hello to us. Sheetal wants to ask Ajay why Ritwik is not willing to open up. Ajay said – "Ritwik don't live with his parents and he doesn't want to talk about them."
Sheetal wants to ask the reason but Ajay said he doesn't want to disclose any other information. Ritwik came to the class. Aarav and Ajay are good friends already. Sheetal is being good friend to us.
Today's classes completed and it's evening already. Sheetal, Tara, Aarav and I went to cafeteria. Tara bought me some chocolates. This girl knows how to lighten up my mood. Today I don't feel like having periods. I am surrounded by happy faces. Everyone around me is so kind to me.
Aarav bought some soft drinks and Sheetal bought some cakes. All of us ate them, chit chatted for so much time. Tara said Aarav that we need to leave now. He said bye then. I asked Tara why she said Aarav to leave. Tara asked – "Saanvi did you forget something?" I asked her what's wrong.
Tara said that I had no watch on my wrist. How could I not sense that? I asked Tara if she couldn't find now or earlier. She said that she noticed just now. Tara said – "I don't want to let Aarav know that you had lost your watch. That's the reason I told him to leave." I hugged her for understanding my situation. Tara is truly my guardian angel.
Sheetal said that we need to search for it everywhere. Tara said she will check in the dorm. Sheetal will check in the corridors and rest rooms. Tara asked if I can walk to the class otherwise she will go to the class. I told Tara that I can go myself.
I went to the class and checked every corner. But I couldn't find it anywhere. I sat on the bench with sad face. I am thirsty. I need some water but Tara took my bag to the dorm. I laid my head on the shoulder. Someone is coming to the class.
"Little Girl, take this water" told Ritwik. Why did he come to the class? I wonder why he is talking to me when he is reluctant to talk to other girls. I told him that it's fine. He opened the bottle cap and gave me the bottle. I drank water through it.
Ritwik took a book from his desk. A photo fell down from it. I took the photo and he dragged it from me and ran away. Yeah! That's the reason he came back to the class. It's his family photo. He has a sister too. He looks good in the photo. He left his bottle with me.
With much disappointment I came back to my room and sat on my bed. Tara asked if I could find my watch anywhere. I said no. Tara said that she couldn't find it anywhere on the way back to dorm and in the room also. I was about to burst into tears. Tara came and hugged me. She said – "Don't worry Saanvi, we will find it tomorrow. I already said to some of our friends to search for it."
What if Aarav gets to know? He will be upset. Tara comforted me in all possible ways. I need to find it anyway. Tara looked at the bottle and asked where did I get that. I told her its Ritwik's bottle. I didn't tell her anything about the steps incident and about the photo. I said her about him giving me water.
Tara asked if Ritwik knows my name. I didn't say her that he calls me little girl. I said her she handed over the bottle and went. Today I took a lot of pictures with my friends and posted them in our family group on WhatsApp.
Tara and I went to dinner after having bath. Sheetal joined us for dinner. She brought some sweets which were made by her mother. We ate them and told her to thank our dearest aunty.
We came back to our room and I had a conversation with my parents and grandma. I want to talk to Krish but he is super busy. Mom told that Krish isn't talking at all these days. He is fully focused and locked himself in his room. I didn't tell my mom about the watch. I don't want to make her feel bad.
I started writing my diary. Tara is busy talking to her boyfriend. She saw him in the evening and talked to him for almost an hour. What else is there to talk? I don't understand these lover chit chats.
Dear Diary,
Today I felt so happy and a little bit sad as I lost the watch Aunt Lakshmi gifted me. I felt happy as it is my first day of engineering. I made new friends. We clicked a lot of photos. Tara, Aarav and Sheetal comforted me. I didn't feel any cramps today. I saw him again today. He looks suspicious. He doesn't make contact with anyone but talks to me like I'm his friend. I doubt if he knows my name. He is still calling me little girl. That completely don't make any sense. I saw Ritwik's family photo today. He looked so happy in that. I couldn't see his happy face in the class today. He is reluctant to talk to the girls of our class but he indirectly cared me. Girls in my class are going crazy for him. Sheetal wants to have his phone number. Will he give me his phone number if I ask him? I don't think so. I don't want to look like a fool. I am not interested in running after him. I need to shift my place to Sheetal's . I don't want to think anything about him. As I am on my periods, I need to rest well. I am going to sleep and write to you tomorrow…
Tara, Aarav and I got into IIT Madras. Yesterday we reached here. Tara and I share the same room in dormitory. It's a two-sharing room. I am still in my bed. The sun hasn't rose yet. I am very much excited about today as I am going to meet my new friends. I hope the atmosphere here would be good enough.
The alarm clock has rung. It's 6:00 a.m. I woke up and turned off the alarm. Tara is still sleeping. Last night when I was writing my dairy, she is busy talking to her boyfriend. Getting up from my bed, I folded the blanket. I meditated for half an hour and went to take a peaceful bath.
I got myself ready and sat at my table. I called my parents to have a conversation. I started talking to them and in the meantime Tara woke up. It's just 7:00 am and we have so much time for the classes. I hung up my call. Tara asked me to choose an outfit as it is the first day of the college.
"Tara! That pink dress would be a perfect fit," I said to her. She said that would be perfect and it would be twinning as I am wearing pink dress already. She went to take bath. This is the very first I am going to share a room with my best friend for four years. We used to stay at each other houses on holidays but not more than two days.
I turned on to some music on my phone and stared writing my daily planner. Tara got herself ready. Now we are ready for the first day of our university. We are so excited for this new chapter of our lives. We locked the room and went to have breakfast.
Last night we met some people in the dining hall. They are from other departments. We completed our breakfast and returned to our room. We took all the necessities and came out of the dormitory. Our class is so far from our dorm. We have to reach there by bicycle.
We hopped on our bicycles and started riding. We reached to our block. Aarav waved at us. He came to us and asked- "Saanvi, why didn't you pick up my call?" I asked Aarav why did he call me instead of Tara. He said that he had called both of us and neither of us picked his call.
Tara said that we have kept our mobiles in our bags so we couldn't answer them. Tara took her mobile from her bag. There are three missed calls from Aarav. "Hey you! Have you gone crazy?" Tara asked Aarav. He said that he wanted to know where we were.
I opened my bag zip but I couldn't find my mobile. Tara called my number but we couldn't listen to any ringtone. I checked my whole bag but I couldn't find it anywhere. I think that I have forgotten it in my room itself. I told them that I should go to dorm again to get my mobile.
Tara handed over the keys to me. They said they will wait until I get back. I told them not to wait for me. Instead go to class and make new friends. I came to my room and found my mobile on my bed. I don't remember how I had forgotten that.
Today is my first day of college and first day of my period. I told Tara that I'm on my period. So we rode our bicycles slowly to reach the university. It's 8:20 already and I need to head back fast so that I won't be late to the class.
I managed to reach the university by riding the bicycle faster. Our class is on the second floor. By riding the bicycle faster, I am left with no energy. I have no appetite since morning and I ate less. I need to climb all the steps myself to reach my class.
I feel dizzy but somehow I reached the first floor. There is only a floor left to reach my class. I started climbing the steps again. My eyes are closing. I could not see anything. Everything is dark. I feel like falling. Someone caught me from falling.
Slowly I opened my eyes. This face sounds similar. What! he's Ritwik Khanna. He is holding my waist and I am in his arms. He slowly released me and asked – "Little Girl! Are you okay?" I said- "Thank You for your help" and started walking faster.
Little girl again? Do I look like a little girl? I think he is out of his senses. Can't he see properly. But he doesn't have any spectacles. I think his eye sight is completely fine. How could he remember me? Did he see my photo in the rankers list? Then he should have remembered my name? Why is he calling me little girl? This boy is driving me crazy.
Ritwik is walking behind of me. Is he following me? Why God? Why should Ritwik Khanna come here instead of any other university. There are four sections in Electronics and Communication Engineering. He shouldn't be in my section.
I reached to the entrance of my class and turned back. I could not see him anywhere. Thank God, he is not our class. Tara and Aarav are already sitting talking to other fellows of our class. I went to Tara and sat beside of her. Few girl fellows came to us and we introduced each other. A girl named Sheetal called my name. She is our deskmate now. She asked- "Saanvi, have you seen Ritwik?"
What is this stupid question? I already saw him twice. He rescued me both the times. I lied Sheetal that I have not seen him. Tara asked Sheetal why she is particular about Ritwik. Sheetal said he looks handsome in the photos and wanted to meet him in person.
Everyone in the class is looking at the door. They say there he is. Who the hell is he? Who's is coming? Is the principal coming or the HOD? I too looked at the door. He is Ritwik Khanna. Everybody is shouting his name. Sheetal says he is so good looking and already she has a crush on him.
There is a boy behind Ritwik. I don't know who he is but he belongs to our class. Few girls went to Ritwik and tried shaking hands with him. But he refused. The other boy shook hands with some of them. Sheetal wanted to try but after seeing them she is disappointed.
Ritwik is coming next to me. He sat in the bench beside me. Sheetal, Tara and I are sitting in the same bench. Tara is sitting in the middle. Sheetal wants to shift her place to mine and asked me if I can change. I am very happy with that.
Sheetal and I stood to exchange our places but the professor came in to the class. Everyone of us stood and greeted him good morning. We sat and the professor gave his introduction. His name is Ranganath Sastry. He has been teaching Mathematics for thirty years. The first class is maths. He asked us to give introduction one by one.
Tara, Sheetal and I are sitting in the last bench. Tara wanted to sit in the front bench but I rejected. Ever since my early school I have been sitting in the first bench. I want to experience sitting in the last bench so I told her to sit in the last bench when I came to get my mobile.
Everyone started giving their introduction. Aarav completed his introduction. He is sitting in the same bench as Ritwik. Only five people left. Sheetal, Tara, I, Ritwik and the boy sitting beside him. It's the boy turn now. He said his name is Ajay. Next Ritwik has to speak about him. Sheetal is too much excited. While Ajay is talking, Ritwik stood up and said he want to get some water.
Professor gave him permission to go out. Ritwik took bottle from his bag and went out. Why did he want to go out at this time when he is the next person to give his introduction. Is Ritwik Khanna reluctant to talk about himself? Whatever it may be, I am not willing to know anything about him. But Sheetal is totally upset.
Now it's my turn to introduce myself. I stood up and gave my introduction. By the time Tara and Sheetal completed their introduction, the bell rang and the first class completed. Ritwik came to the class after the professor left.
It's break now. Sana and Kriti who are sitting in the front bench came to Ritwik and asked his number. Ritwik didn't even look at them. Ajay said them that Ritwik is not willing to do so. Ritwik nodded his head. Why did Ajay have to tell that? Can't Ritwik say that? Ritwik got too much attitude.
Sana and Kriti returned to their place. Ritwik asked Ajay to go out with him but Ajay opposed. Ritwik went out. Ajay said hello to us. Sheetal wants to ask Ajay why Ritwik is not willing to open up. Ajay said – "Ritwik don't live with his parents and he doesn't want to talk about them."
Sheetal wants to ask the reason but Ajay said he doesn't want to disclose any other information. Ritwik came to the class. Aarav and Ajay are good friends already. Sheetal is being good friend to us.
Today's classes completed and it's evening already. Sheetal, Tara, Aarav and I went to cafeteria. Tara bought me some chocolates. This girl knows how to lighten up my mood. Today I don't feel like having periods. I am surrounded by happy faces. Everyone around me is so kind to me.
Aarav bought some soft drinks and Sheetal bought some cakes. All of us ate them, chit chatted for so much time. Tara said Aarav that we need to leave now. He said bye then. I asked Tara why she said Aarav to leave. Tara asked – "Saanvi did you forget something?" I asked her what's wrong.
Tara said that I had no watch on my wrist. How could I not sense that? I asked Tara if she couldn't find now or earlier. She said that she noticed just now. Tara said – "I don't want to let Aarav know that you had lost your watch. That's the reason I told him to leave." I hugged her for understanding my situation. Tara is truly my guardian angel.
Sheetal said that we need to search for it everywhere. Tara said she will check in the dorm. Sheetal will check in the corridors and rest rooms. Tara asked if I can walk to the class otherwise she will go to the class. I told Tara that I can go myself.
I went to the class and checked every corner. But I couldn't find it anywhere. I sat on the bench with sad face. I am thirsty. I need some water but Tara took my bag to the dorm. I laid my head on the shoulder. Someone is coming to the class.
"Little Girl, take this water" told Ritwik. Why did he come to the class? I wonder why he is talking to me when he is reluctant to talk to other girls. I told him that it's fine. He opened the bottle cap and gave me the bottle. I drank water through it.
Ritwik took a book from his desk. A photo fell down from it. I took the photo and he dragged it from me and ran away. Yeah! That's the reason he came back to the class. It's his family photo. He has a sister too. He looks good in the photo. He left his bottle with me.
With much disappointment I came back to my room and sat on my bed. Tara asked if I could find my watch anywhere. I said no. Tara said that she couldn't find it anywhere on the way back to dorm and in the room also. I was about to burst into tears. Tara came and hugged me. She said – "Don't worry Saanvi, we will find it tomorrow. I already said to some of our friends to search for it."
What if Aarav gets to know? He will be upset. Tara comforted me in all possible ways. I need to find it anyway. Tara looked at the bottle and asked where did I get that. I told her its Ritwik's bottle. I didn't tell her anything about the steps incident and about the photo. I said her about him giving me water.
Tara asked if Ritwik knows my name. I didn't say her that he calls me little girl. I said her she handed over the bottle and went. Today I took a lot of pictures with my friends and posted them in our family group on WhatsApp.
Tara and I went to dinner after having bath. Sheetal joined us for dinner. She brought some sweets which were made by her mother. We ate them and told her to thank our dearest aunty.
We came back to our room and I had a conversation with my parents and grandma. I want to talk to Krish but he is super busy. Mom told that Krish isn't talking at all these days. He is fully focused and locked himself in his room. I didn't tell my mom about the watch. I don't want to make her feel bad.
I started writing my diary. Tara is busy talking to her boyfriend. She saw him in the evening and talked to him for almost an hour. What else is there to talk? I don't understand these lover chit chats.
Dear Diary,
Today I felt so happy and a little bit sad as I lost the watch Aunt Lakshmi gifted me. I felt happy as it is my first day of engineering. I made new friends. We clicked a lot of photos. Tara, Aarav and Sheetal comforted me. I didn't feel any cramps today. I saw him again today. He looks suspicious. He doesn't make contact with anyone but talks to me like I'm his friend. I doubt if he knows my name. He is still calling me little girl. That completely don't make any sense. I saw Ritwik's family photo today. He looked so happy in that. I couldn't see his happy face in the class today. He is reluctant to talk to the girls of our class but he indirectly cared me. Girls in my class are going crazy for him. Sheetal wants to have his phone number. Will he give me his phone number if I ask him? I don't think so. I don't want to look like a fool. I am not interested in running after him. I need to shift my place to Sheetal's . I don't want to think anything about him. As I am on my periods, I need to rest well. I am going to sleep and write to you tomorrow…