...dekh agar tu mujhe iss test men nahi dikhaaegi toh men tujhe maths k test men nahi dikhaunga.
Not that i was weak in S.S.T, just that it was in Tamil and it was only my second year since i started learning Tamil. Quite strange for a 9 year old boy who is born into an iyer family. Yes, its me Shantanu Krishnan. It was for the first time, i talked to her, Sravyashree Mohan. Our class teacher Mrs. Savithri, made me to sit with her because i had punched a classmate of mine on his face as he used foul language against my mother...
Three years later...
8th class
Shantanu: Men nahi karunga, jo karna hai karlo tum.
Tu sunne se raha, thikh hai, truth ka question poochenge, jawaab dena padega.
Shantanu: okay: thikh hai.
On whom do you have crush??? asked Sid.
Shantanu: Hmm hmm... Ragini. A quite, dark complexioned, studious girl in our class.
Again three years later...11th class
Yaar you know what? Sravyashree tujhe pasand karti hai. Uske friends kehte rehti hai and woh bhi tujhe hi dekhti rehti hai. I didn't show my excitement outside but was smiling quitely from inside. Days went past. We were in the same class. Both had opted for science after 10th.
It was erupting. My feelings for her, i wanted to tell her, propose her. But, had no guts! So, i told Sid and he brought Sravyashree near the library on the first floor where I was waiting for her. Sid already told her why he brought her down, so when she saw me, she blushed. And that was all that happened at that moment.
Well, u can expect this, when one is of "shy" type. I was very shy. Hardly used to talk to girls. I was very emotional, sensitive and very possessive. On the other hand, she was opposite. Extrovert, friendly, but possessive. Because we are quite literally of opposite nature, we wanted to know eachother. We had numerous fights, actually more fights than love during initial period. Still, we wanted to be with eachother. The only time that we spent together during school days was the time spent in school. Every other time, we had friends with us, so no private talks! This continued for two years till school ended.
All our classmates, batch mates knew about us. Many of our juniors had a hint. Even some teachers knew. We were that famous. But, we were unique also. Studious were we, not the touchy touchy types... And we loved eachother. No crush, No infatuation. Just Love!
I was so crazy about her, that i used to cut weekly horoscopes of us that came in the Hindustan Times. During free periods, i would shift near to her bench and just talk, or even sit silently, looking at her. I used to come early to the school so that i can see her from the first floor balcony, everyday. There was this unprecedented chemistry that could show up if we step forward but still we had a gap of atleast 30 cm between us everytime we were together. The only so called physical contact that we had would be, shaking hands on birthdays and valentines days. Remembering of Valentines day, i would tell lies at home to have money so that i could give her a rose. Even 15 Rs those days seemed costly for me to arrange. I would give her, would want to hug her, want to kiss her but the only thing that we did was saying "I love you". Absurd but sweet.
In 12th, both of us scored above 85% . I was second and she was fourth in the school.
Something happened then and things changed...
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