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Past Day
Life had not made me very happy with its shocking incidents. But I learned many things from my past. Days were going as usual 'BORING'. The same thing happened everyday. Mom shouting to wake up. It was 6:00 A.M, and I could hear Mom's shilling voice, "Sushantttt..! Wake up beta it’s your school time ", "Coming Mom”, I replied. I was like transformed into a robot. My days starting from listening Mom's voice and ended by doing my homework. I could hardly get time to meet my friends and play with them. I was frustrated from my life.
One day I returned home from school, Mummy was waiting for my arrival as usual. I was very tired, soon I realized that Mummy’s eyes were swollen. I went to grandma and asked her the reason. Grandma said that, mummy’s friend had died last night. I was also very shocked by knowing this as she was also our family friend. That day I was slight upset and I went for my tuition class half an hour before. We had a very strict teacher at school named K.P Singh. He was my tuition teacher also.
I parked my cycle in the parking and was waiting there for my friends. Soon, I noticed that a girl was watching me from her window. These things were new to me so I tried to ignore her.
After few minutes one of my friend came, he was Vishal. I told him about the girl. Vishal suggested me to ignore her after all it was our age of studying. So, we went inside our tuition. (After tuition got over) We came out of our tuition, I again noticed that she was watching me.
I took my cycle and went home. “She was cute, she was sweet”, I had started thinking about her.
I was feeling very happy whenever I thought her. Next day I went half and hour before, I saw at the window and I noticed that there was no one. I felt sad. But just the something happened that made me very happy, she had come to that window. She was in a light yellow dress. I was blank, I didn’t knew what to do? The next day I went 1 hour before the tuition time, she was waiting there for me, I was watching her and she was watching me. The same thing happened every day. We didn’t have anything to speak. We passed few weeks just by watching each other, then I tried to find information about her. I came to know that she had a brother, her father, and her mother in her family .I had a friend named Neeraj, Neeraj was her neighbor. After talking to Neeraj I came to know that she was in a great pain. She was suffering from Bone Cancer and she is very depressed, Neeraj also said that she doesn’t talk to anyone. The truth had made me emotionally enervated. I started feeling pity for her. I continued to reach my tuition one hour before to admire her. The same thing continued but she didn’t knew that I know her truth. I prayed for her. I wanted to talk her, tell her everything what I feel for her. I wanted to give her a tight hug. She had hijacked my thoughts and imaginations. My imaginations were like, we both are standing together facing each other, drowned into each other’s eyes, a slow wind blowing and teasing her hairs, my hands on her waist. And her hands lying on my face covering my face as if it was protecting me.
My friends laugh on me when I tell them about my Imaginations. I was planning to meet her at her school time. But this plan had also failed when Neeraj told me that, she doesn’t go to school due to her disease.
My exams dates were very close. So, due to exams I thought to delay this for few days. I left tuition classed for few days. At the last day of my exam I went to Neeraj’s home for some games, “She waited for you every day”, said Neeraj. I was silent and didn’t replied him anything. “What happened”, Neeraj asked. “Where these things will take me? Is it good”, I asked.
“Do you like her?” he asked. I was shy to tell him but I replied with a long “hmmmmm”.
I had many questions in my mind. “But, how will I meet her?” I asked. “Maybe you can meet her in her brother’s marriage, her brother is getting married next month”, he said. Though this was not easy but I made myself ready for this herculean task.
Exams were over and I started tuitions again. On the first day I went soon, I was waiting for her to come on window. That waiting time was piercing me. That day she didn’t came. I left thinking about her and entered into tuition class. After class when we came out I saw that she was coming out of her car she didn’t even looked at me. I felt disgrace and soon I left the place. My Grandma always says that whenever you feel disgrace or ignored by anyone, leave them as they are happy without you, so let them enjoy. I finally thought to forget her and concentrate on my studies as study is my first priority.
The next day at school. “Sushant”, someone called me. I turned and saw that he was Neeraj “where were you, I was searching you in the canteen”, he asked. “I was in class”, I replied.
“She was out of town”, he said. “Who”, I murmured. “The window girl”, he answered. “I am trying to forget her”, I responded. Smiling slowly he asked me “why?” I was feeling very angry but I calmly replied “yesterday she denied me”, I answered. “She was out of town from last few days, she went for checkup”, he mentioned. I accepted his words and finally decided not to lose her, after all she had started conquering on my mind.
Finally the judgement day was back. It was the day cum nightmare for most of us. It was Report card day. I with my mother and father went to school for the report card. We went to my class where our cards were being distributed. We waited for my turn, I was worried, I was blank and couldn’t imagine anything. “he had not studied this time”, my class teacher uttered. My father was silent but mother asked about the division and marks. Teacher feebly said that I stood 4th this time.
“who stood 1st ?”, I questioned. “Prashant”, teacher said. That asshole Prashant has took the first position, I was feeling embarrassed because that idiot was sitting behind me. Prashant was my biggest enemy in the class, he always tries to downgrade me. Whole class knows how illegitimate that fellow is. I was promoted and was happy. Classes were shut for few days due to Durga puja and Diwali.
Durga puja was one of the favorite festival. It is the biggest festival of Bengali community.
As I live in Jamshedpur(state Jharkhand). Durga puja is celebrated grandly here. There are fairs in many places. Idols of goddess durga are worshipped. Every year I with my brother and his friends travel many places and fairs. I still remember the days when I took too much time for buying cloths. My brother use to call me choosy boy, I too agreed. I remember that day when we (I ,brother and his friends) were going for rove in Jamshedpur. I came to know with my brother that the boys had took beer,cigarette and whiskey to make their journey evergreen. That evening (approx. 6:30 p.m) I reached to my brother’s home. “ Vinay” , I shouted while parking my bike. He opened the door. “ why aren’t you ready?”, I asked. “ we are going at 11:00 p.m”, he replied.
“isn’t that too late?”, I murmured. “this time we have planned to travel whole night”, he said. “has he become mad”, I thought in my mind. Then I made a phone call to my father and told him that we are going at 11:00 p.m . “vinay said that they are going at 11”, I told. “tomorrow ?”,father asked. “ no… today”, I replied. I was very intimidated and was praying for everything to go smooth. “ ok but call me at the time you leave” , father replied. I got some confidence and a great relief. Sumit is a friend of my brother and that night he was also going with us. That day I met sumit first time. Finally it was 10:00 and we were waiting for the suv. At 10:30 we all got into the vehicle and was waiting for the driver as he was the neighbor of vinay. We all were sitting idle and had nothing to do. I too didn’t had any option except hearing all useless talks and agree them.
Finally we left at 10:35 p.m. vinay took the front seat and I with sumit sat on the last seat. The first destination was Telco ( name of a place in Jamshedpur), we the first excitation bomb was about to blast on Telco. The glare and extravagance was seen from a far behind. There sumit bought 8 bottles of beer as they were eight.
“Do you want?” sumit asked. “who me ?”, I questioned . I was standing with vinay so I was confused whether he was asking to me or vinay. “I am speaking to Sushant Sharma”, he replied in a jokey way. I was silent and was looking at my brother. “ What happened, say yes if you want or say no ?” , vinay said. “ Sumit take one for me also”, I said gently. Though I hadn’t drank any alcoholic beverages before so I thought to had it as everyone was saying that its like heaven.
We took half an hour at Telco and then we left from there for the next place.
Our planning was to drink at midnight. We then went to Birsanagar, it was the place where the chief minister of Jharkhand lives so the fair was to be an extraordinary one and truly it was very pleasant to go there. We travelled many places. Nearly at 3:00 a.m. we reached Adityapur the place which is famous for the best puja pandals. There we all ordered Dosa,it was already 3:00 A.M. so we decided to go to highway and capture some selfie.
The weather was cool and slow wind was blowing, there we had few selfies. We all were very tired and wanted to sleep. We returned home, “ I will wait for dawn then I will leave”, I said to vinay. “ it will be too late so you should sleep here”, vinay replied. I was very tired and was feeling very sleepy so I agreed with vinay. The overall experience was very fascinating.