Do you guys like each other?

Hey Readers!!!
This is the last chapter of their school time. Next chapter will be after leap phase. Hope you liked these initial chapters.

Happy Reading!!!

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Following day, Shreya and her friends were talking to each other as free period was going on.

“Shreya” her friend Divya addressed her.

“Yeah”

“Do you guys like each other?” She asked.

“What!!! No, not at all. Why would I like that rude……”

“Doesn’t seem like it, I mean the way you and Soumik are always talking, giggling and enjoying with each other. You even sat with him for more than half of the semester.” Divya said cutting her off in between.

Shreya got shocked at Soumik’s mention as she thought they were talking about Vedant. Although she didn’t feel anything for Soumik too, maybe but her reacting in a volatile manner made them question her more.

“Then why did you guys fight with that student to sit beside each other in computer lab?”

“You only talk to us in recess and rarely in any free period. Otherwise just chattering with him. You guys even got scolded for talking in between lecture. Remember?”

The other two girls said. But she knew it was just pure friendship. He helped her settle in a new environment and she just liked talking with him, that’s all. Even in computer lab, it was because they had to sit roll number wise. About the teacher scolding them for talking between studies, it was Soumik speaking to her. She even tried to stop him. But that stupid creature got her into the mess.

She felt little disappointed at their questions. Actually, not at the question, but at Soumik’s mention. Don’t know why, but she wanted it to be Vedant. Shreya looked around and realized Vedant was absent today as well. Her face fell.

The next day, their art exam was to be held. The teacher asked all the art students to come to another classroom and get seated. They made a queue and going into the classroom started sitting. As Shreya entered the classroom, she saw Vedant already seated.

“Shreya” He called her and asked her to sit beside him.

Shreya first felt little nervous at his action but then thought “No no no, I can’t sit with him. He paints so well and my paintings are still of a third grader. What if he doesn’t like what I draw?”

Her eyes fell on Shrida who was sitting two seats behind Vedant. She quickly went there and seated beside her. In all this, she even forgot to reply Vedant.

“Why did you not sit with Vedant?” Shrida asked. “Actually today I wanted to sit with you.” She replied with a thin smile. After sometime, the exam ended. Shreya completed her drawing and looked around. She noticed that Vedant was sitting alone. She felt immediate guilt. “Shreyaaaaaaaa why are you so stupid? He must have felt bad. You should have sat there or at least replied to him. And what if he doesn’t like your painting? Why are you so concerned about this? Idiot.” She said in her heart.

Days passed after this, they both didn’t talk to each other. Shreya was still feeling guilty at what she did. Her overthinking was extremely bad.

“Shreya, can you give me the final exam date sheet? Actually I was absent.” Someone asked to her while she was deeply engrossed in her work. She knew who it was and started feeling nervous again. “Yeah Why don’t you…..you give me your diary? I…..I will write on it.” She replied to Vedant while stuttering. “Okay thanks” he replied to her giving the diary. She wrote and returned to him. After he left, she sighed. “What happened Shrey? Why were you so nervous? Just a date sheet. At least he is not angry at my reaction of that day.” She thought.

She realized that Soumik was not sitting beside her and understood that’s why Vedant came otherwise he never used to talk to her when she was sitting beside or talking with Soumik. She didn’t like this because Soumik was her true friend. And about Vedant, she was not sure what she felt. They never talked endlessly like friends or cracked jokes. It was just that one month when they sat near each other that they talked a lot. After that, she again sat with Soumik and they stopped talking.

“Where are you lost Shreya? I want a scale yaar. I have been asking since 10 years.” Soumik said with a dramatic sad face. She came out of her thoughts and saw Soumik sitting beside her making a pout. “Why do you always behave like an idiot? And 10 years? Fine, wait for 10 more years.” She said in a frustrated tone and got up from her seat and sat beside Shrida. Soumik found her behavior strange because she never did this before. She never replied sarcastically to him although it is common between friends but she was always sweet and calm. But today, it was a different Shreya.

“What happened, bro? Relax.” Shrida said while passing a scale to Soumik. Shreya herself could not understand that what had happened to her. She had started behaving impulsive on little things. She talked rudely with Soumik. She avoided talks with him and mostly sat with Shrida. Was it all because of Vedant?

Just then Anya came to her. “Shreya yaar scale dena” Shreya gave her the scale and as soon as Anya left from there, both Shrida and Soumik gave her side eyes. “What???” She reacted. “I just asked for a scale and you almost shouted at me and you gave it to her. Nice.” Soumik said to her making a sad face again. “Yeah so? Stop this drama queen behavior now." 
(Shreya dear give me a scale.)

“Accha sila diya tune mere pyaar ka……” He sang whining.
(Humming a hindi song)

“Hey hey wait. What pyaar?” Shreya said cutting him in between. “Chill yaar just joking” He said and laughed slightly. “Don’t dare joke about this again.” She said warning him.

More days went by and the semester was about to end. Shreya was very sad because she had to change the school again due to her father’s business. Just now she adjusted in this school, befriended a lot of students, made some really close friends like Shrida, Soumik and Anya and also Vedant. These were her last days in this school and she wanted to spend as much time as possible with all her friends. Now she used to talk more with them, joked and even gave sarcastic replies now. One thing which was missing was Vedant. He rarely came to school. She still didn’t know the reason. Once she thought of asking Shrida about this but immediately dumped the thought due to her overthinking. She thought what if Shrida finds her desperate and started questioning her like the girls who asked about Soumik and her friendship. Even Shrida was leaving the school after this session as she was shifting to her hometown in Odisha.

“You know Vedant is also leaving the school.” Shrida said.

“Ohh”

“What”

Shreya and Anya said respectively.

“Why are you so shocked?” Shreya asked Anya giving a strange look.

“Why won’t be she shocked? I knew it. She will be sadder that Vedant is leaving the school than for us leaving the school.” Shrida answered.

“Oh yeah Shrida told me that Anya liked Vedant. Even Vedant himself told Shrida that Anya was acting clingy around him. Kids these days. I tell you.” Shreya said to herself. “You are also one of these days’ kids. Yeah, okay fine. Now shut up.”

“No yaar I am sad for you both too.” Anya said and hugged both of them. Shrida immediately came out of the hug and hit Anya’s forehead while Shreya hugged her for a while.

“Look this is a hug. What you were doing? Wait until I tell you.” Anya said to Shrida and started throwing pens at her. Shreya was all fed up of their drama and went to her seat. She saw Soumik sitting there and again got into sadness remembering how he comforted her in a new environment and she won’t be able to talk to him after this.

“I will miss you bro. Huh don’t know when this shifting from one school to another stop.” She said digging her head into her arms kept on the desk. “I hope the new one will be the last school. Don’t worry.” Soumik replied. “Hope so” She whined.

It was the last day. They both talked about a lot of things. Soumik told her about a classmate liking her. She was surprised and asked why he not told her earlier if he knew at which he replied that the boy himself did not want to tell her. But since it was her last day, Soumik told her. Hearing all the conclusive things, tears were forming in her eyes as she proceeded to believe the fact that it was actually her last day. As the bell rang, she bid goodbye to Shrida, Soumik and Anya as well as some other classmates. She also bid good bye to the boy who Soumik told liked her. Although she knew he will forget her after sometime but due to her overthinking she will definitely feel bad for him and guilty for not liking him back.

She got seated in the bus for her last trip from this school to her home. Her chest was heavy with emotions. She felt like crying but could not in front of everyone. A lot of emotions surrounded her. Sadness due to leaving this school and friends, anxiety of joining a new school, doubt at whether she will be able to get adjusted to the new school or not, scared of what kind of friends will she make there. Amidst all this, she had regret. Regret of not being able to meet him for one last time. Going apart from him forever was the biggest misery at the moment.

“Do you guys like each other?” Divya’s question swiped her head.

“I don’t know about him but maybe I do.” She immediately answered in her mind. “I will miss Vedant the most.” She wiped the tear fallen from her eye. 

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