Day three—
I was avoiding all those branches and twigs which were in the way, and then I heard long howl. And to say that I was scared was an understatement of the year. I quickly turned around to look what’s causing the sound but it was radio silence. All I could here was some crickets chiming obnoxiously making the dark night more creepy. I may be strong enough to escape the trap that I had got in but I feared the dark. It reminded me of my childhood where I was all alone by myself when my parents decided to attend their precious parties and meetings, they would either leave me with my nanny or would lock me up in the room which was filled with unwanted toys, what I all wanted was my both parents to embrace me with love and care and not buy me expensive things, what all I needed was warm hugs and assuring kisses. They are the most expensive thing in the world, you might have everything in your life but if you don’t have someone to share those things and moments with you, then you are too humble than those of people living off of streets who at least have something to share with someone, who share their only meals all day with the only one person who they long to share with and they not only share the food but they also fill their hunger with love.
My thoughts were interrupted by a bigger howl and it send shiver down my spine, all the hairs at my back stood and my face got drained from any blood left, right now I represented the horror emoji in the phones that now a days people use. And the horror in my face doubled when I heard a few footsteps which was all too familiar to munching on the big fat chips, crunching away the big chunks, and the sound increased it’s tendency as it got nearer. I wanted to just flee away from all this but I just couldn’t f**king move a single square inch. I tried to form any words anything that could just make sense but I just couldn’t. And when the footsteps stopped, I knew there was someone behind me and I clenched my eyes shut waiting for the inevitable to happen but nothing did. Get your shit together T, I mumbled to myself and finally turned around but yet closing my eyes but as I opened them I met with light fog and ruining cold wind, which just whistled and all the pine trees around me started to rustle. I left a sigh of relief that there’s nothing that could be that I should be scared of, so I just turned to the same position but as soon as I did I regretted it, cause there stood the dark silhouette and the next thing I could hear was my scream echoing through the woods. I screamed my lungs out, and started panicking, my breathing getting erratic. ‘Oh heavens!’ I could hear him through fits of laughter. ‘I—I can’t, I f**king can’t’ he laughed right at my face mocking me, this all seemed fun for him, I shook my head at his awful tactics. My eyes were burning from the tears that I wept in those last seconds and my throat itched from the sudden out burst. I stood up and faced him eye to eye and slapped him right across his cheek which stopped his hyena-like laughs and soon his face turned into stone cold shooting me daggers with hard glare. Good! He got what he f**king deserved, ‘It isn’t your f**king comic show to laugh on someone’s anxiety you–‘ my words were half way through when he crashed his lips on mine. I didn’t know what I felt, there was sudden jolt shooting through my body. A sudden burst of happiness or joy, I didn’t know the feeling at all but my stomach jumped at the new feeling, my heart leaped, stopping it’s beating for a moment and then thudding at lightning speed. I slowly moved my lips with him and we synced as if we had done this a dozen times already. He pulled away first gasping for air and my situation was nothing different. He looked at me, his eyes shining lighter and brighter his lips twitched upwards at the corner but his small yet genuine smile faltered as soon as he came to terms with what just happened. I forgot everything at the spur of moment but my face mirrored his emotions and my heart just dropped to the pit of my stomach when I analyzed what had just happened. Why did this happen and how? I didn’t have an iota of feeling towards him and how the hell did I just kiss this moron. ‘I’m sorry’ he squeaked, might have scared of getting his other cheek slapped, but I just shook my head not giving him any chance to apologize and scurried away to the never ending way ahead.
Back at the days—
‘Hey did you know there’s this new student, what’s his name though?’ Vinay asked to us or rather to himself. Right now, we we’re all sitting in our canteen munching away our usual lunch. ‘Kunj’ Shikha answered him with mouthful. I slowly but sneakily put all unwanted little pieces of vegetables at her lunch box but her sharp eyes narrowed at the corner and she soon swatted my hand away to which I pouted. ‘Your puppy pouts aren’t going to faze me anymore Dumbo’ Shikha mocked me while I stuck my tongue out playfully at her. ‘Yeah, woh Kunj na bahoth nerdy hai, Kya hum usse mazhe kyun na le?’ He smirked at us as if we had already planned through all this bullying. ‘Nahin yaar abh hum seniors Hain, and woh Ms. Dasgupta hume zarror iss baar suspend karegi, Mera tho last sem ka do subjects baki hai!’ she whined, and I rolled my eyes at her. ‘Exactly, last year hai humara, hume pure advantage lena chahi hai’ I suggested to which Vinay raised his hand thanking me for having same mind. And it was us two against one so Shikha had to join us. We were the ‘Trio’ that nobody wanted to mess with, we were rich popular and intellect except for Shikha she was just lacking in her academics otherwise she was a total sweetheart, at least to us. We had all similar background, where our parents cared for us less and ironically everyone called us pampered spoilt brats. You should never judge a book by its cover. Everyone used to respect us, and tried to befriend us, just for the shit our parents earned. We weren’t that rude to anyone at first, but the fame we got was just good to hide all our loveless dark empty souls. And eventually we did things that no one should be proud of, but we cared less and the detentions and suspension letters just fueled our ego even more, all the counselling that our parents hardly attended would result us in deep shit sometimes but we shrugged it off nonchalantly at that point of time. We were also pretty famous for breaking hearts, mostly Vinay and Shikha, I wasn’t the type to be loved or to love someone. ‘Anyways, today is the day, c’mon guys’ we made our way to the exit, and the person I bumped into was none other than shy puppy eyed Kunj. He began to apologize instantly, ‘Sorry…Sorry please I don’t know how it happened, one moment I am—‘ I didn’t let him continue, I just stomped on his glasses that fell along with his big ass books. The lenses crumbled into pieces under my Chucks. ‘Keep distance you little shit’ I growled at him. He was furious but scared at same time, I almost felt bad seeing his glistening eyes it was like kicking a poor puppy, he harshly wiped his tears and squatted down trying to collect his books, me and my friends just laughed at him, something in me tugged, that I need to act properly and consider others feelings but I was pulled through by my friends without letting me think further more. ‘You could have seen his face’ grinned Vinay.
As we sat in our usual spots, my cousin ran into me. ‘This is your last year T, don’t f**k up’ she announced, gritting her teeth. Uh-Oh, she knows. I just ducked my head in shame. ‘How many times I have to lecture you, bechara woh naya naya aaya hai, aur usko bhi nahin chodi tum, aaj shaam usko maafi maang, woh mera neighbor hai for god sake, he is such a little munchkin’ I gagged at her last words of endearment, Ew she just called him munchkin. ‘And don’t gag, just ask him a sorry and get with it’ she warned me, her intimidating glare would scare any beast so I just nodded at her words rapidly, not wanting to be another one of her victims.
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Okay guys, how are y’all? I know I am late but I was too busy, don’t know when my other update would be, but will surely try to post it soon. I wanted to go in few details but there’s no explicit or deep shit allowed here so…. Anyways, this is the shortest chapter, I’ll try to make it longer…. If you’d liked or enjoyed it please leave your feedbacks to let me know that I am doing justice to my story and characters…. Thank you??
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