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Chapter 6: THE 'TOP' TROUBLE

RING RING RING RING

I checked the watch and it was 5 minutes past 12. I hurried up to pick up the phone. Somewhere inside my mind I prayed to God that its Naina's call.

"Hello" I said.

"Hello..." a voice of a male answered. All of a sudden I got disappointed and a nano-second later, I got excited that at least someone called me.

"Happy Birthday hero...." he said again.

"Ohh.....Apurv.....Thankyou yaar." I replied. I never expected a call from his side. Now let me tell something about Apurv. Basically, Apurv was my school class-mate. Also, he was my bench-mate from 3rd standard. And what more, he was my best friend. But still, I don't know why I didn't use to share my personal affairs with him. Although, I'd figure out a satisfactory reason for it:

My school life had different dimensions. School was a place where I was a 'hero', mainly because I was good in studies. So I never wanted to tell my school-friends, my problems and to appear like an under-confident boy.

We talked for over 15 minutes. He asked me if I am celebrating my birthday for which I refused. After the call ended, I went to sleep. I was thoroughly satisfied, because at least someone called me up tonight.

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AT TUITION:

I was not at all interested in celebrating my birthday. I guess all parties are more or less the same. People come, eat and go. Thats it. But on the urge of 'Karun and company', I decided to give a mini-treat to them. I called up Karun to escort me to market.

We bought some snacks, colddrinks, icecream etc. and beheaded for tuition. Karun appeared so excited as if he'd got a free subscription of penthouse for a year. Basically, after spending 4 months with him, I'd figure out that Karun was a different kind of boy.

First of all, I noticed he had absolutely no interest in girls which is an expceptional case for a boy. He had his own world and opinion of looking things. I'd never seen him frustrated or tensed. Although, he was a bit irritating sometimes, but nevertheless, he was an appealing boy.

It was nearly dark when we reached tuition. In winters days are short. As soon as I entered room, I experienced three different kinds of smells or better to say 'perfumes', one each from Giya, Rini and Rupal. They were dressed in a way that it was their birthday not mine. I took the farthest seat from the girls.

"Happy Birthday ...!!!!", all of them screamed.

"Thanks." I replied and shook hands with each of them simultaneously flinched my nose. I am not sure, but I guess I had developed an allergy with perfumes.

"So lets start, where's the cake??" Giya said looking at me.

"Ohh god, we forgot to get a cake." Karun howled. I also got surprised how I forgot such an important thing.

"Anyways, doesn't matters....lets open this large coke bottle and sing birthday cheers." Rupal said. I blessed her intelligence. Its not everyday you get to hear such intelligent things from a girl.

So Karun stood up and shook the coke bottle vigorously with his hands in a fashion which reminded me of something I would not like to mention here. But if you've got it, my job is done. He did it in such a way that it got spilled up on all our clothes, walls, floor. I thanked god for Nitu Di was not in here. Otherwise, she would have fired us from here.

Everyone sang the birthday song. And then the so-called 'mini-party' started.

The next half an hour went gossiping about one another. The best thing was that none of us mentioned 'Naina'. I looked at Giya, she was my first-crush. I saw her for the first time on my first day at Nitu Di's tution. Giya was a year senior to me, and thats why I respected her a lot. She was not so-stylish as other girls, but she had a nice toned body radiating a healthy luminescence. Her best feature was her long-long hairs and her mesmerizing eyes.

"Hey Himanshu.....!!!" Rini who was now sitting beside me whispered in my ear as she noticed me staring Giya, "What are you looking at??"

"No na.....nothing."

"Ohhoo....really?? I don't think so." Rini said again with such a tone which reminded me of my mom. She liked to tease me for Giya's name.

I spoke nothing.

She stood up, "Hey friends, I have got one latest news for you people......".

As soon I realised she's gonna tell this to everyone, I reacted instantaneously. I don't know why, but my hand reached her top to hold it and made her sit again. She got annoyed and started to pull my shirt. Others started to laugh.

"Now this is enough...!" I said and stood up. She acted quicker than me and ran outside the room towards the main gate.

"You.!!!! Wait I m coming." I shouted and ran to chase her.

I was at least half-a-metre away from her when I stretched my hand to catch her. More unexpectedly, my hand caught her top again. I don't know how it happened, but due to our momentom, we couldn't control ourselves and hit the main gate and fell down. My hand was still holding her top which I noticed was torn away all round exposing her whole back including her pink-coloured bra.

For a while, I got shocked and stabilised myself to understand the situation. Why such nasty incidents occur to me always?? Rupal, Giya reached to Rini, who by now, appeared totally numb after this. Giya gave her 'dupatta' to cover Rini, while Karun was standing besides me trying to understand and figure out how it happened.

I cursed the 'textile industry' in my mind for manufacturing such a bad-quality fabric which couldn't stand even a minor strain of my hand.

While I was planning a rubbish to file a 'court case' against textile-industry, suddenly, I saw someone approaching me. What worse, it was my mom. I was spellbound and frozen up. I felt like I have gone in 'coma'. I tried to move, but my feets didn't respond.

Before I could react, my mom got the idea of the situation. It had appeared like I have committed a 'rape attempt' against Rini. Giya, Rupal took Rini inside the room while Karun and me were still standing out there to wait for some reaction from my mom's side.

Karun opened his mouth, but before he could say anything, I heard my mom saying:

"COME HERE RIGHT NOW......!!!!"

.............................{Rest continued in Chapter 7}