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Riah

Another morning and Riah woke up, dressed herself up, tied her pleats ,wore her uniform, pulled up her socks, buckled up her shoes and walked herself to the bus stop. Riah was a studious girl at school and hence she always preferred studying self help books while waiting for the bus ,but today something was different ,she was anxious and certainly was not in the peaceful and calm mind she was always found in. She was fervently shaking her foot sitting on the pedestal .Trie ,her best friend came up to her and asked if everything was alright ,Riah turned towards Trie to answer but before she could utter a word her eyes widened she stood up, her lips dried up and she stood there as a statue and watched.

He was a transfer student ,moved to this city because of his father’s profession ,well heighted ,chiseled guy dressed up in perfectly ironed uniform with a decent haircut,Trie knew what was happening, Riah liked the newbie but was extremely shy to talk to him, she was not one of the hot ladies of the school ,she had braces on and her dark circles further encouraged her fear of refusal.

Weeks passed by, months passed but even today Riah felt the same butterflies she felt the first time she took sight of him,she somehow managed to ignore all those emotions as infatuation.

It was the PT period and everybody left the class,but she had to complete her SOPs before coming Thursday for her college admissions so she decided to remain in the classroom and complete them.While writing she dropped her pen,bent down to pick the pen up,but before she could pick it up, he already held them in his hands,she got back to take complete glance of him,her heartbeat stopped for a second,but before she could comprehend anything,he hinted her to make space and shift for him to sit next to her. He proceeded to say” I thought you would speak up!”,she didn’t understand,he hesitantly asked ”Trie told me that you like me?!”,she flushed with embarrassment and wondered why even she ever agreed upon being friends with Trie.

“I fell for you hard all the time,everytime you came up with your crisp comebacks at those debate sessions, everytime you lead the entire team to win that Olympiad ,everytime you spoke for the welfare of the malnutritioned,I fell for you,but was too scared to let you know,you were the popular kid all way long,but when I told Trie about you last night at the slumber party she told me about your liking and I........” 

Once he spoke his heart out he quickly felt embarassed about what he just spouted and looked away,both of them were now staring the black board.They both now knew what the other felt, their shoulder’s brush against each other and now they sat in silence which was not really awkward.

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Dawn

It was 5:30 in the evening, they decided to meet , she knew that if they spoke she’ll fall for him all over again ,it had been 3 months since they spoke. She waited for him to arrive, pondering over what all she would speak to him she looked and rubbed her shoes onto the ground whilst standing beneath the only banyan tree of the college, ”hey’ how are you”- a bold yet charming voice murmured, she looked up to see him, he was oozing with charm ,her eyes widened and her voice shriveled .”wassup” ,she spoke, cringing within with the choice of her words. ”all good you tell me” he said. Pointing towards the little pedestal she said, ”lets sit and talk”. Both sat under the tree and they spoke ,they spoke and spoke hours passed by ,the sun settled within its horizons, a maroon colored sky lit itself with a bluish hue and she was seeping more into his manly eyes than ever before. whatever he spoke seemed insightful and mystical to her ,burying all the emotions down her throat she uttered ”chalein?” but deep within she wanted time to stop by she wanted the sun to remain where it was, she wanted to gleam into his eyes forever but shortly a voice murmured “haa chalte hein”,she leaves but doesn’t look into his eyes before leaving as for her she knew all of that was futile and at the end shell only have her heart broken.