EPISODE 6 NEW BEGINNINGS

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The next day started fresh, My alarm rang and I woke up, my mother had made me a table coffee, I stretched myself and took a deep breath before I drank the coffee. Then I looked at the sunshine outside the window, it was blissful. I went to the balcony had the rest of my coffee, While I was having my coffee, I started thinking to myself, How can one day change your past, Till yesterday I was worried because I was the reason for the death of two people, But now I completely forgot about that and started moving on. Maybe that’s my character, when I find a something new, I forget about the old ones. This time the new one is that I’m going to join college and meet new friends and the old one was that I killed two people.

I somehow try to convince myself that, only a part of the reason that they died is because of me and other part, they were responsible for that. I know I am cheating myself thinking like that but I had no other choice, I just want to run away from my past. I left the empty coffee cup in the balcony and went and had a bath and got ready to go to college. My mother made Chapatti and paneer for breakfast, I told my mother that I would buy lunch in college canteen.

I came out plugged in my earphones and switched on some music and started walking towards the college bus stop, My parents didn’t buy me a bike, Safety was their first concern. I reached the bus stop and sat on a seat that was empty. My player started playing, “Tum hi Ho...” song, which got me thinking about Kriti as it was her favorite song. I then realized Kriti was still in my heart and I could never let her go out of it.

 The college bus came and I went and sat next to one of the free window seats and leaned my head on one of the bars, looking outside the window I continued and started about the moments that I had with Kriti. The first thing that came to my mind was the first time I met her in school, The charming cute little smile , the bold and charming attitude, Her first words to me, “is she always this boring?”, All these thoughts started to prick up my love hormones.

 One other moment came to my mind, We were watching a movie together and I had long and rough day, I was not interested in watching that movie at all, I went there only because Kriti wanted to see that movie, She knew this too, after an hour or so my legs felt a little short so I stretched myself and accidentally I happened to hit the legs of an aunty sitting in front of us, I don’t know what made her day horrible, but she decided her to take it all on me. She stood up immediately and started shouting at me,

“How dare you, is this why you people come to the theater, just to hit on someone? What gives you so much pleasure in that? ANSWER MEEE”.

I got shit scared and I almost pooped my pants, which is when Kriti stood up for me and said,

“Aunty he has a girlfriend, He has no need to touch your legs, Even if he wanted to he would have touched mine. Don’t take up the anger on someone else, Take it up on the person who was to reason to it. You yourself know that he is innocent”. The aunty crossed her mouth and walked away. Kriti was a strong girl, Very strong. After the movie kriti said to me,

“Kunal, when there is no fault in you, you shouldn’t be scared to speak the truth, speak the Truth no matter how much it hurts”.

The bus reached college and I had tears coming from my eyes, I don’t know if it was because of the air that hit  me when I was leaning on the window or  was it because of kriti, But I was sure at this point, that no one can substitute Kriti in my life ever again. The bus reached college, I got down the bus and the bus left, I looked up and there was banner saying, “ Welcome to P.S.College of commerce”, Maybe the seniors designed it for us, It was a pretty good welcome, My father managed to get me into a good reputed college, Now it was up to me to design my future.

I walked inside the college and looked around, Towards the left side of the main building were Petals, Grass,  a white fountain splashing water inside it’s rings, Students sitting in groups and chatting while others were writing, towards the right side was a another building, I guessed it was the auditorium, and next to the auditorium there was a playground. I went to the reception and asked where my class was, they directed me to go to the left and take up the stairs and the second room in that floor was my class. I went to my class and sat on one of the middle benches, I put my bag on the table and then I put my head on my bag and started to sleep. There was nothing else I could do, I didn’t know anyone there and I didn’t want to socialize much now , as I couldn’t take the thought from my head that, If Kriti were alive she would be sitting next to me now.

Bell rang and students started sitting in their seats, the teacher came after a few minutes. She was going to take Math, I am already upset that Kriti is not there with me, and the first period itself was Math. She didn’t even mind asking us to introduce our self’s, She moved straight to the subject, It got me even more pissed off. While the class was going, Two students were talking to one another, Probably introducing themselves to each other, The teacher saw them and asked them to stand up and started shouting at them, saying, “you people are coming here only to make friends, hang out in bars and pubs and party, What else would you do if you are from a high class family”. That’s it, I felt Irritated with her shouting, I stood up and Said to her,

“Mam, teachers like you focus only on completing the portion, Irrespective of whether we understand or not, You walk into the class knowing that this is our first day in college and straight away start taking the subject and you expect us to listen? We will try to socialize, it is human nature, it’s not our fault, it is yours. You should have allowed us to introduce ourselves so that we got to know each other. Don’t blame us just because we paid a lot of money to get into this college, we paid so much because you asked for that much.”

I said this and stood starring at her, I didn’t mind what she would think of me, Maybe because I am more mature now or maybe because I was Reminded of Kriti’s words,

“Speak the truth, No matter how much it hurts”.

Then the teacher apologized to the class and asked us to introduce ourselves, two students stood up and introduced themselves and by that time the bell rang and the teacher took her book from the table and walked away. No need to say, everyone liked what I did and by the end of the period I made a lot of friends, people came to me and introduced themselves, I also formally shook hands with them.

Not everyone got my attention except one Girl. She seemed special, I didn’t know why though, she came and introduced herself as Preethi. She seemed special, I didn’t know why, maybe because she was the first girl to introduce herself to me after Kriti. I felt a spark!

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