Impressive

Hey Readers!!!
I thought the school chapters might be a little boring. So, I am uploading the remaining two together. So that, from tomorrow, I can upload the chapters which are after the leap. Please be patience for them. They will surely be more engaging to read. 

Happy Reading!!!  

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Next day, during third period, the music teacher entered the class.

“Vedant, I want you to participate in the upcoming inter school music competition.” She said.

“What!! But he is arts students. So how can he participate? Anyways!! Who cares?” Shreya thought and got back to her work.

She did not pay attention to further conversation. After the teacher left, Soumik said to her “Did you hear what he just said?”

“No. Why? What happened?”

“He said – I knew it I will be selected because students in music are not worthy enough. So it had to be me despite I am from arts.”

Shreya was surprised to hear this. How can he disrespect others? It’s fine if he got selected but him defaming others is wrong.

“This should not have been said. I think we should complaint to the class teacher.” Shreya said to Soumik.

“Ummm…..leave it.”

“No it’s not good to leave him this time. This will only give heed to his attitude.” Shreya told everything to Shrida who was also surprised hearing this because even she did not hear him saying this. “Did he actually say this?” She asked.

“I didn’t hear him myself. But Soumik told me and why would he lie to me?” Shrida nodded and agreed.

Soon all the periods passed and now it was the class teacher’s period. Shreya and Shrida went to Shilpa ma’am and told her about the matter.

Shilpa ma’am got angry hearing them and called out Vedant in front of the whole class. “Vedant” She exclaimed.

Vedant got up from his seat a little shocked and came to her desk.

“What did you say after music teacher left the class?”

“Ma’am, what?” He could not understand which thread was being pulled.

“If I hear you saying something like this again. I am not going to spare you. For time being, just apologize to all the students in the class.”

“But ma’am, what happened?” He reacted.

“What happened? Why did you show your attitude in the class? It’s fine if you are selected for a music competition despite being an art student but you have no right to disrespect others.”

She turned to Shrida and asked her to repeat what he said. Shrida did so and hearing her Vedant was shocked because he did not say what all he was hearing at that time. But the teacher was not ready to listen to him and at the end he apologized to everyone and got back to his seat.

The next day during recess he came to Shreya and Shrida who were having lunch with some other girls.

He said, “Why did you both lie to the teacher? I did not say all that to anyone. Okay.”

Shreya felt strange to hear him because she thought yesterday he must be saying that to get out of teacher’s grip but why is he explaining himself today.

“See if you actually did not say anything then we apologize, but Shreya told me all this and I felt you were wrong.” Shrida replied to him.

This time he got angry and said “Shreya, next time you want to complaint about me first confirm to me what I said or not. And how did you even hear me saying something I didn’t?”

“Look, I was busy in my work just like Shrida and Soumik told me you said those words addressing music students so I told her.”

“You should rather focus on yourself than passing on rumors and complaining about others when they are not even included. And for Soumik I don’t know what problem he has with me. He always wants to cause trouble to me. I would have confronted him today but I really don't care about him. Let him continue his cheap tactics to demean me.” Vedant said and left from there.

Shreya was feeling somewhere guilty now. She should not have taken sudden actions. But in her jealousy, she got overwhelmed and caused trouble to him.

Although it happened because of Soumik, she was not ready to believe that he could lie. She confronted Soumik after recess, replying to which he just said that it could have been miscommunication and apologized to her but he denied apologizing to Vedant. At this, Shreya was sure there is enmity between both of them.

Days passed, students were shuffling their seats and changing seat partners but Shreya liked sitting with Soumik as he was the one who made her comfortable in the new school so she continued sitting with him only.

She also apologized to Vedant. But still she did not talk to him much due to his rude nature. She also noticed that he used to be absent from school often, like much more than normal. But she didn’t know the reason and never dared to ask. She remembers once a student asked him about his birthplace and he shouted on him angrily as if it was some secret information not to be revealed.

Now came the day when students were shown their marks for their first term examinations. Shreya was both scared and excited to know the results. With each passing period, all the subject teachers announced the scores to students. Shreya was very happy with her marks. Shrida asked her to show her marks when Vedant came and stood beside Shrida’s seat. Shreya showed her that she had got an A in each subject. Shrida showed her scorecard to Vedant. “Damn, she got an A in all. This girl is something.”

Shreya felt a little awkward at her action but then Vedant said with a smile “impressive”. She had never seen him praising anyone. She was surprised and could not say anything but later felt stupid that she could have at least smiled or said thank you. Why was she behaving weird?

More days went by, but Vedant’s word was struck in her mind. She tried to ignore it and focus on her studies. But somewhere his smiling face was time and again coming in front of her eyes.

After few days

Today, she came to school in sorrow because Shilpa ma’am had told everyone that she will fix their seats for upcoming month as there will be no exams in it. She thought she will not get to chit chat with Soumik. Soumik was very sweet and polite towards her. He had no attitude. He always used to share about his culture and life to Shreya. Shreya also enjoyed talking to him in free time.

As soon as Shilpa ma’am came to the classroom, she started telling them to change their seats one by one.

“Vedant, last bench third seat.”

“Shrida, last bench fourth seat, behind Vedant.”

They both sat to their respective seats. Firstly, Shreya was sad for not being able to sit with Soumik and secondly, she had to sit behind this boring, rude and attitude full person. Soon, all sitting arrangements were done. Shreya was sitting with Nikhil and Vedant was sitting with Pooja.

Classes started. All four of them started interacting as they were seat partners. In these days, Shreya saw another version of Vedant. He talked more and laughed often. Now he even cracked jokes which she only saw him doing with Shrida. She enjoyed his jokes. Sometimes she just wanted to hear him speaking endlessly.

One day, the teacher was explaining a poem. The poem had a single line repeating after every stanza. Just when the line used to come, students recited it in unison and giggled. The class was enjoying the poetry. Meanwhile whenever that line used to come, Vedant used to turn towards Shreya and recited the line looking at her. On the other hand, whenever he used to turn, Shreya stopped speaking and just looked at him with a smile on her face. Later she felt stupid at her reaction. During the recess, Vedant was talking to Shrida and joked about her smiling at him.

“What’s a big deal? I was just smiling. No but why was I grinning too much like an idiot?” Shreya face palmed thinking this.

“Yeah why were you smiling like an idiot?” Vedant asked her laughing slightly.

“Sunn liya???” Shreya exclaimed.
(Heard???)

“Kisi ko smile karte hue sunte nahi dekhte hai Shreya” He replied. Shreya felt more stupid now and without replying just left from there.
(You see someone smiling, not hear them.)

“Yeah yeah or baar baar dekhne ke liye turn kon ho raha tha? Saari galti bus meri hi hoti hai” she said to herself coming out of the class.
(Yeah yeah and who was turning again and again to look? All the mistakes are mine only.)

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See you in the next chapter. 
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