Episode 3
It was another usual
Thursday, Mr. Banerjee was busy with the lecture of Business Laws. At the same time,
Akshay and Simran were discussing the next lecture and its content that
particular day which was going to be covered in the class as discussed by the teacher
the day before and suddenly Akshay asked: “can we meet outside the college?”
As Simran had no
friend, she had a bit of fear in her mind about friends. So she didn’t answer
the question. After some time Akshay realized that she didn’t want to answer
his question. So he temporarily stopped the conversation for that time.
Meanwhile, Simran
was thinking about what she had to do about this, should she go or not?...
within five to ten minutes lecture got over and next lecture started and Simran
was still busy thinking about the answer to be given to Akshay about which she
was confused.
College bell rang,
it indicated that the college was over for that day. Simran started to
rearrange all her books and other stuff in her bag and got ready to go out the
class. But she had some other thing in her mind.
Akshay was seated in
the last bench and was waiting for Simran to go out from the class. But Simran
took her bag and started walking towards the last bench.
“Hey, Akshay,” said Simran
to Akshay with a beautiful smile.
“Hello!!” Akshay got
surprised by watching her at his place.
“Am really sorry for
not answering you about going outside….” Simran felt sorry for her behavior.
“Ohh... It's okay,
don’t worry about that. I just asked you casually” He gave a little smile and
answered her.
“Thanks for understanding
me, and my answer is yes. We can meet outside” Simaran nodded her head slowly.
“It sounds so good”
He laughed.
After watching him
laughing Simran also started laughing.
“When and where shall
we meet?” Simran raised a question.
“I have two, three places
in my mind” He answered the question. “What about Starbucks?” he added after thinking
for a while.
“Okay!! ….. yup.. we
can go there. It is a nice place to meet and to know each other ” she agreed
with him.
“So we will meet
tomorrow evening” he tried to make her comfortable with the time.
“Ok no problem, I
will be there at evening” Simran easily agreed with time.
It was 5:00 pm and
they were in the class room, and suddenly Simran remembered she has to catch a train
at 5:15 pm. She asked Akshay for a lift. Akshay ran towards his bike and drove
it towards Simran. Within no time Simran sat on the bike and within a few minutes,
they reached the railway station.
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Simran not in train
The train arrived at
the Delhi university station and she got a window seat. The train started to
move and departed from the station, but this time Simran was neither watching
outside the window nor was reading her book. She was thinking about Akshay. She
looked happy from her face because she had a great feeling after getting a
friend. She didn’t care about who is sitting beside her, what was happening around
her, the train was running or not.
Her station came and
she was still unaware about that, but there were lots of other passengers
coming on the train. So one of the ladies came and sat beside Simran. She
seated like someone jumped on the seat. Because of that Simran got jolted and
suddenly the automatic announcement machine announced the name of the station. She
stood up from her seat and left the train as fast as she could.
She checked out from
the station and started walking towards her house. By this time she was trying
to not to think about Akshay and she was walking fast to reach her home early.
Usually, she took her
ten to fifteen minutes to reach home but today she took only seven minutes.
She rang the
doorbell with a big smile on her face and her mother opened the door. She
entered the house and sat on the sofa.
“Hey mummy, can I
get some coffee?” she asked her mother in a happy tone.
“Yes bachcha” her
mother was getting surprised by the tone of her voice. But she didn’t want to
ask her about that, so she went to the kitchen and started preparing coffee.
Within ten minutes
her mother came up with the coffee and they drank it. Now Simran got normal and
she was back to her usual one. She completed her coffee and went to her room.
And the day passed out as normal.
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Simran gets ready to
meet Akshay
To be continued.....
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