alockdownstory

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Chapter 1.The beginning...

Navya

Writing pad? Check. Watter bottle? Check. Hall Ticket? Check. Chits? Check! I am not sure though if i will be able to copy with the help of chits. I dont know what happens if you get caught copying in boards. I have heard that its a huge thing. I will decide that on my journey, if i will use them or not. For now i have to catch the bus which will leave in like..OH MY GOD! 5 MINUTES!! I really have to rush! 

Oh hey! Forgot to give you an intro. Well this is me Navya,always in a rush because well i am always late. I dont know why this happens to me. I mean i always plan to do everything so perfectly that i end up getting late. But somehow this sudden rush excites me in some way. I am not saying i LOVE to be late, but this rush to get somewhere makes me run after something and not just aimlessly wander around with all the perplexity in my head. Like even if its just for sometime,for a girl who doesnt know what she is going to do..it feels adventurous. Luck are those who have figured out what they are gonna do i life. As for people like me,we will reach there some day. Until then i guess you just gotta go with the flow.

Anyway, I run as fast as i can and trust me with such a huge body its difficult to run. I run through the lanes, the unfamiliar ones which look like a maze to me. Left,right,left,right.. and i get to the bus stop finally just to see the bus go by. Now i have to take an auto. All autos are occupied..so difficult to get autos here in Andheri. The place where i used to stay until 3 weeks ago..it was easy to get autos there. I see a car coming towards me filled with 2 or 3 guys. The one sitting in the front is my new neighbour Avi.. And i am beginning to get a panic attack. I dont want him to see me or anybody i know from my locality. I just dont want to. It is just so difficult to fit in a new place with new people. It has always been scary for me. I take a right turn and go to a shop nearby pretending to buy something. I turn around to see if he is gone but i turned around just too soon. He sees me and i get a call..actually pretend to. Thats always saved me from awkward conversations or in situations like these. He doesnt care to look back or stop the car and ask me if i needed a ride. Chuck. I can see a bus coming..its crowded like anything. I might have to smell too many armpits..yucks.

And my exams finish! Been waiting for this since so long. Now i can sleep peacefully and bingewatch all my favourite tv shows. Students all around me are screaming and hugging their friends,making plans and i on the other hand am just trying to avoid as many people as possible. I see some familiar faces and go towards them. Raveena and Muskaan wave me a hi and then we talk for sometime about how our paper went etc etc.. Then they start walking towards the gate talking about a party they are invited to,totally forgetting about me. So i just slip away. I may not have many friends but i do have some self respect and i know when i am unwanted. Like always i walk to the bus stop..but then i think of doing something else. So i take an auto and head towards the railway station. I take a train just for a change. This kind of change i dont mind,but moving from one particular place having my entire childhood spent there with all the familiar faces and shops which i could call as home is daunting. The train arrives and i get on it. It is quite..too quite for a train. Just the noise of the train bouncing up and down the tracks,passing through buildings and lanes and slums. I just sit there for a while wondering what am i really going to do. All the other normals kids will be having plans to go here and there and i will just be..alone.. out of friends. I really want to call Kaavya but she must be busy too and i dont want to disturb her. The few friends i have had have moved on prety fast. Its just me who is stuck here. And now i am unhappy! Damn it! Exams are over and now i dont even have studies to keep myself busy. This boredom and lonliness is going to kill me in sometime i am sure. I want to meet up Shreya and Aaradhna. The phone is ringing but one of them are picking up. A little boy wearing partly torn clothes enters the compartment. He is selling books. Maybe i will read. I havent read anything since a really long time. Oh my phones ringing.

” Hey Kiara! Both of us are going to JimJams for Rohits birthday treat. We are meeting up in an hour,you wanna join?” “Not feeling too well, i will be at home.” I say. I wasnt invited,how could i go? “ whats up with you? Take some rest..you really dont want to be unwell NOW, that we are free from exams. See you soon! Bye.” The worst part is.. i dont mind falling sick right now. I am already so sick of my boring, non happening life. Buying 4 5 books (which will hopefully keep me busy for a few days) i go home.

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