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Taneja Mansion 8:00 PM
TWINKLE
Life appears to be a beautiful dream when you do the things which you love! I’m in my little heaven right now!
I’m watching my favorite Tv-series ‘Tashan-e-Ishq and trust me if anyone from Elite watches me doing my live commentary that person will surely get a syncope. They will be like Twinkle Taneja can talk this much?! Perhaps if topic is of our interest everybody likes to talk about it ; but for me it should be appealing enough to my deep thinker mind.
Well sometimes I think I could make an amazing Radio Jockey. But then I leave that thought as I remember my behavior around people. Only two words can describe me in public ‘Socially Awkward’ .
Apart from watching my favorite series , I like reading novels , I like writing too and I have this intense love for psychology. That’s what made me take psychology as a subject this year! Although it was not a part of my course earlier ; I had spent a lot of time reading different psychological facts .
After sometime Dadi called me for dinner. I ate my favorite Aloo Parathas with Dadi and Dadu. My parents are no more. Actually , I grew up with Dadi and Dadu only. They both mean the world to me , especially Dadu! I love him the most in this world! He is the best Dadu! My Dadu is a famous writer too . He can literally read my mind! He knows what I want to order when we are on a family dinner , he knows if I’m sad and hiding it , he knows which will be my favorite dress , he knows when I’m not able to say something. I always wonder how!
I need to be careful around Dadu today . I mean it doesn’t matter that Kunj Sarna behaved rudely with me but I felt a little low because of that. I hope that Dadu doesn’t notice this cause I don’t want to give him unnecessary headache.
Dadu : What is it Twinkle ?
Twinkle : Umm…Nope. Nothing. I’m having my favourite Aloo Parathas.
I tried to make it sound real but I’m actually not good at lying.
Dadu : Someone behaved rudely with you ?
Twinkle : How do you always know it ?
Dadu : I’m your grandpa sweetie.
Twinkle :Let’s just forget it! It doesn’t matter to me how others behave with me when I have such amazing grandparents! Love you both so much!
Dadi : We love you too beta!
Dadu : Don’t worry Twinkle . Things will be fine .
I hope so dadu.
Next day Elite High School
TWINKLE
Guess what ?! I’m really excited!
Well I know you people have had a lot about me and my life , right ?
Perhaps , Sometimes I think my life is too boring , isn’t it ?
But then this is what I am. I don’t want to change myself because when you try to be someone else you even loose what you already have .
Okay , let’s get back to the point, so I have my first psychology lecture today which will start in a few minutes. I’m sitting on the first bench like always. Let’s see how it goes.
The lecture started , I was really engrossed in what sir was saying but suddenly he threw a chalk in the direction of last bench and then he said –
Lecturer : Last bench boy . You . What’s your name ?
Boy : Kunj Sarna sir.
Lecturer : What’s so funny Kunj ? I think you are not concentrating in the class. Come and sit on the first bench.
God! Why me ? Now Mr. Rude Sarna will sit next to me?! Why is he even present in my Psychology class ?!
Kunj came and sat next to me. Lecture went on but I could feel Kunj’s stares on me . I didn’t know what I should do . As soon as the lecture got finished , I looked on Kunj’s side and he was still staring at me. We stared into each other’s eyes for a minute or two until Kunj looked on the other side as someone kept a hand on his shoulder.
Kunj : Alisha!
Alisha : I’m sorry Kunj. We were having such a good time there but this lecturer . Well , forget him. Let’s go and have some fun.
Without even looking back at me , Kunj left with Alisha.
I had Spanish class after that which went quite well.
After the lunch there were Auditions for drama club . And my lovely girl Miss Aditi Rathore appeared directly from the airport just to give an audition for Drama club. She made me participate in this forcefully. Well the script was nice though .
Next three days were quite uneventful , except for the stares I used to receive from Kunj Sarna during psychology lectures and during lunch when I used to find him staring at me sitting with Alisha and Neil .
Now his staring is getting on my nerves. If I wouldn’t have been an introvert I would have directly asked him to stop staring at me. But I’m not that courageous may be….
Taneja Mansion
It’s weekend!
I’m still not able to understand that why would school’s the bad guy stare at me?
Think Twinkle. Think . Actually , there is nothing to think about. I never ever had an encounter with Kunj ; for him to have some personal grudges against me. Is it possible that he is seeking some kind of revenge from me ?
I don’t feel like that’s the case.
Being anxious about Kunj’s stares I searched a question on Quora :
‘Why would school’s bad boy stare at you ?’
Quora is an App to gain and share knowledge. It is a platform to ask questions. Most of the times I write answers on Quora. And I have read a lot of information about different personalities on it.
There were many answers to the question I asked.
Some of the answers said if he’s staring at you then he might be interested in you. I shivered even at the thought of Kunj Sarna being interested in me.
While some of the answers said that he might be angry at you about something or may be he is thinking something so deep that he hasn’t realized yet that he is staring at you.
These answers only made me more confused rather than making the things clear .
So I typed another question –
‘What should I do if a guy is staring at me ?’
The answers were like –
You can stare back at him , you could just ignore , you should loudly say ‘Stop staring’ . The answers made me think what can I do from all these things ?
When I was thinking what should I do about this Kunj thing , Dadu came inside my room and he asked –
Dadu : What are you thinking sweetie ? Where are you lost ?
Twinkle : Dadu. I don’t know. I mean…I just…
Dadu : Is it about some guy ?
Twinkle : Actually…Yes. But not in a wrong way.
Dadu : Come on sweetheart . I know you inside out. I know it can never be in a wrong way. So tell me. May be I can help you .
Twinkle : So , Dadu , there is this guy in my school . His name is Kunj . He is like ‘The Bad Guy’ of Elite High School. I’m not able to understand why he was staring at me. I mean it has been happening since last 3-4 days. I don’t know if he wants to take some revenge from me , or he wants to be my friend or is he even staring at me or someone else…
Dadu(Laughing) : Twinkle, What’s the point in thinking so much about this ? You know what , best way to fight a problem is to face it. So , I think you should just go and talk to Kunj face to face and ask him why he keeps staring at you. And if he’s staring at you with some bad intention then we both will see him (Winks) .
I smiled at Dadu.
Dadu : I guess my sweetheart needs a change. So let’s take you for shopping.
Yes. I like to go on shopping with my Dadu . Of course , I go on shopping with Aditi too but Dadu has an amazing choice and he takes me for shopping whenever I feel low. I just love him!
I jumped out of the bed saying “Let’s go!”
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