A Story - 3

Episode - 3:

Some more Intro sessions and Freshers party:

Few days got over, these days I hardly talk to Kayal and other girls. One fine(!?) day I was caught by seniors that I am escaping from the Intro sessions. So I had to give my intro to seniors again. But this time I did not meet any ghosts.

I mentioned that I feel shy to talk to girls as my weakness while giving my intro.

"Oh! Shyness is your weakness?"

“Yes, it is”

“What are you doing to overcome of it?”

“Hmmm…, Nothing”

“Ok, I tell you the way to vanish your shyness. Who is your favorite girl in your class?”

“Kayal… Kayalvizhi” – I mentioned this name without thinking of anything.

“Ok, you do one thing, take her to the juicy and ask her the meaning of *** and ************” – I cant mention these words here as they are censored.

“Ok” – I need to find out the meaning first I thought in my mind.

I got to know the meaning of the words from my friends and I got shocked what would have happened if I would have asked her.

Next day morning I was sitting in the class room. Lecturer did not come to the class so we thought of going to the canteen.

“Hi Kayal” – I called her.

“Hi Sankarlal”

“Can you come with me to the Juicy?”

“!?”

“Actually seniors asked me to take you to the Juicy and they may be noticing whether I am taking you or not”

“Oh! Ok, let me call my friends also” – I could make out that she was not happy to come to juicy but she had to come with me. Anyhow I am happy to take her though I am disappointed for taking other girls.

We were walking to the juice shop.

“Ok, say something about you” – She started first.

“I am Sankarlal and my friends call me as lal. Hmmm, my native place is Salem. And you?”

“I am Kayalvizhi, friends call me as Kayal, I am basically from Kerala and I know Malayalam, Hindi and English. Actually we were in north for some time so I know Hindi very well.”

“Oh! But I know only Tamil and not even English”.

“Oh! Is it? Then how come you are talking to me in English?”

“Yeah, That’s why you can find a lots of mistakes rite?”

“Hmm, yes, don’t worry, you will learn English”

“:-)” – I just smiled her.

We reached juicy and we had some juice. After that she did not talk to me, only those girls were talking within themselves.

Some time in Next day again I called her to the Canteen. This time none of the seniors asked me to take her anywhere. But still I took her to the Canteen saying seniors asked me to do.

“Can you come with me to Canteen?”

“Oh, I have some work”

“Oh, but seniors asked me to take you to the canteen this time”

“Again? Ok let me call my friends”

“No, this time they asked me to take you alone”

“Oh, ok. Come let’s go”

This time we talked little more. Many times I did not understand what she was saying, but she herself somehow made me understand. She told me that she sings well, dances well. She also asked me that why seniors asking me to take her to canteen. I told her that I mentioned shyness as my weakness, so they are asking me to take you to the canteen.

“Why only me? And why not others?”

“Because I told them that you are my favorite girl in our class”

“!!” – She did not say anything but smiled at me.

Classes got over for the day so I went to the telephone booth to make a call to parents. Phone ring was going on and I was holding the receiver.

"Hello" - My father said.

" "

"Hello" - Again my father said.

"Juice was good"

"Dai, what!? What juice!?"

Then only I came out from thinking of her and the juicy.

"O..h..!, N... nothing-ppa, here juice was very good in the mess" -

"Study well..." - Again same dialogue from my father.

"hmmm OK" - I told something and cut the call and started walking back to hostel. Suddenly it was started raining so I had to wait there for some time to rain get reduced.

But, rain did not stop so I started running from there. I reached near to my hostel, there were two guys holding umbrella and mug and pouring water to the trees. I could not believe myself. They are my class mates Nikanth and Rajneesh(Class Rep). Rajneesh was holding umbrella top Nikanth's head and Naikath was pouring water to the trees in front of my hostel.

Let me introduce about our Rajneesh here. He is our CR(Class Rep). He was behind our class mate Sophi until he came to know that she has a boy friend already. The funny thing is, there was a super senior who was behind him. Super senior means, he was a boy so we never understood their relationship. I reached them and asked.

"Dai, are you mad? what are you guys going?"

"We are not mad but out seniors. They asked me to pour water to the trees, then Rajneesh told them that its raining. So they asked Rajneesh to hold an umbrella top my head and they asked me to pour water to the trees" - Nikanth said.

They way they looked and told me was so funny. Then I left from there as I dont want to hold an umbrella top Rajneesh.

The next day early morning at around early 4.00am there was a noise "Eat the chicken", "Nikanth, eat this chicken". So I got surprised who has this much love on Nikanth, I came out from my room and saw what is going on. It was so funny. Three of our seniors took Nikanth out from his room and they were trying to feed him one of the seniors shoe. They were telling him shoe as a chicken. They were keep on telling "Eat the chicken". There was a dog sleeping on a bed and bed was Nikanth's. Since the seniors were drunken they were doing like this. It was totally funny since they were not rude to him. They were just trying to make fun of him.

Morning, I went to the class room and was looking at door for Kayal's arrival. She came and said "Hi". After the juicy incident Kayal started saying “Hi” and “Bye” to me every day. I also started going to the classroom earlier in the morning and I used look at the door for her arrival and wait for her “Hi”. I started leave from class room after she leaves so that she says “Bye” to me. She always looks at me when she enters in to the class room. But we did not talk much though we look at each other in the class room.

In these days Abitha and another class mate called P.T. Usha started talking to me to me. P.T. Usha is an athlete and won many gold medals in running's. One day Kayal and I wore blue color dress accidentally. Abitha noticed it and started teasing me for both of us wearing same color. Though I told her to stop tease me, inside I enjoyed whenever she teases me saying about Kayal. From then I tried to wear blue color often to match her. I even bought pink color dress to match her because she wears pink and white color salwar often. My friends teased me like anything for buying pink color shirt.

There was an event called SPIELMAC happens every year. This is a sports event where all three years students participate in all the games (cricket, badminton, football, chess, carom, mixed cricket, mixed badminton, tt, etc, etc). But actually this event is mainly for senior students to interact with junior students especially junior girls.

After few days SPIELMAC started for this year, P.T Usha ran in front holding the torch to start the event. My friends and I participated in almost all the games.

We had a cricket match against our senior (second years). We wont the toss and chosen to bat first. We lost wickets earlier. After few wickets down I went to the crease to bat. I scored few runs and umpire gave me run out where actually it was not out. So I had fight with umpire (senior) and came out from the ground. Seniors felt bad and called me to bat again. I did not bother anything did not feel embarrass and went to bat again. They gave me LBW in very next ball itself. It was so embarrassing to me this time. My friends used to tease me even today by saying this incident.

SPIELMAC was there for around 3 weeks. I did not get time to talk to Kayal these days since seniors catch her and taking her intro always. Final day, there was a badminton final match between one of our seniors and one of our super seniors (3rd yrs). To cheer them seniors asked our class girls to dance in front. It was just too much to treat our class girls as cheer girls. My friends and I got so much angry because they already made Kayal to cry while taking her intro, but we could not do anything other than just watching their dance since we are juniors.

There was a fine Saturday and we were sitting and chatting in our room. Our class CR came to us and told us that we have projector with us and we can watch some movie in big screen if we could get the CDs.

“lal, can you get some CDs?” – Rajneesh

“Hmm, ok. But I don’t know the shop where it is.”

“I tell you the way.”

“Ok fine then, anyhow Skele and I are going to the BHEL shopping center for hair cut so we will get the CDs” – BHEL shopping center is located 2kms away from our college and we used to go there for hair cut by bicycle.

He explained me the way to reach the shop.

“Ok, which movie?”

“XXX”

“What?”

“Some XXX”

“Oh, I can’t go and ask XXX CDs.”

"!!??"

“No, I can’t. Ask Skele to get the CDs”

“Ok, we will get it” – Skele said.

We reached BHEL shopping center, had our haircut and left from there towards the CD shop. We reached the shop and there was a man and a boy in the shop. We parked our cycle and entered into the shop.

“What do you want?” – Boy from the shop asked us because the man was handling other customers.

“Hmm Nikanth, tell him” – I turned and saw Skele was not there, he left from the shop and standing 10mts away from the shop. I got shocked, he is the one who supposed to ask the CD but he left from there. So I had to ask him the CD now.

“Hmm, XXX movie!?”

“What is that?” – Boy asked me.

“!?” – I did not say anything. I just wanted to leave from there but could not do that.

“Daddy, what is that XXX movie?” – He asked the Man and only then I came to know that the Man is his father.

“Which movie you want?” – That man asked me this time. That boy was looking at me face and was listening to our conversation.

“Hmmm…, X… X…. X.. M..O..V…I…E”

“No, it’s not here” - He showed his anger.

“Oh, ok thanks” – I started from there. I could hear that boy was asking his father about meaning of XXX. It was so embarrassing for me. All this embarrassing moment happened just because of idiot Skele

We started pedaling our cycle back to our college campus.

“It was amazing to see your face in the CD shop” – Skele was teasing me.

“ “ – I was angry so I did not speak anything.

“Can we try in this shop?” – He pointed out another shop and asked me.

“Shut up!!”

We reached our college. My friend was running to us.

“Give me the CDs” – Rajneesh asked me

“What CDs? Ask Skele” – I showed my anger.

Skele?”

In mean while most of my friends came to our room. Then, Skele explained everything what happened in the CD shop. All these people were laughing like anything and made fun of me. Finally my friends got some CDs from seniors and watched the movie through the projector.

Next day in the class room, I was thinking of taking Kayal to the Juicy again. But, seniors announced that coming weekend is the Fresher party. Everyone was so happy because after fresher’s party there won’t be any Intro sessions, no need to say “Hi” to the seniors, we can go to the bed early, etc, etc. But I was not happy because I can’t take Kayal to the Juicy again by saying seniors order.

Seniors threaten all the juniors saying “we will remove your cloths in the fresher party”, “we will beat you”, “we will make you feel embarrassing in front of your class girls”, etc, etc. They even asked us to wear more than one under wears when come to the fresher’s party. Many of my friends got scared of fresher’s party. I did not bother much about it.

The day came for Fresher’s party. We were in full formal dress with tie and funnier thing is that many of my friends were wearing more than one under wears. We assembled in front of our hostel Beryl. It was so nice to see all the guys wearing tie and formal cloths. Bus came and we entered into the bus to go to the 3* hotel where fresher’s party is going to happen. Bus stopped at ladies hostel Opal to collect our class girls. We were very eager to see the ladies hostel so we were peeping out from the bus and looking at Opal.

All our class girls entered into the bus and they were wearing saree with full makeup. Kayal was wearing dark Blue color saree again. After very first day I am seeing her again in saree. I was constantly looking at her but she did not bother to look at me.

Bus reached the hotel; we got down from the bus and stood up in front of the hotel for photo sessions. We tried to enter into the hotel after the photo session. But our seniors did not allow us to enter and they were asking us the invitation. Yes, they have given very nice invitation which prepared by themselves for the party. But our CR lost the invitation. I did not wonder that he lost the invitation because he was thinking only about CD and projector and not about Class, Fresher’s party, invitation, nothing.

Finally seniors gave us the same invitation (they stolen the invitation from our CR after giving to him the first time) again. So we entered into the hotel and were waiting out in front of the party hall. Seniors came and pulled our CR inside the hall, while taking him inside the party hall they closed his eyes. After few seconds, Our CR was screaming and shouting like anything. Then next chance was for our CCM (Nikanth). He also screamed and shouted. Then Girl CCM (Sophi) and she also did the same. People standing outside got scared and tensed. But I did not bother anything.

I became a volunteer for the next person. They also did the same thing, they closed my eyes and pulled me inside the hall, they themselves shouted. One guy was closing my eyes, one guy was removing my shoe, one guy was removing my pant(I got scared here when they try to remove my pant), one guy was removing my tie, and one guy was applying something on my face. Finally they allowed me to go and sit. I saw others who came already. OMG, I could not make out who they are, they were looking so ugly, like a jokers with lots of color powders on their faces.

I saw myself in the mirror and I was looking like a beggar. I was wearing one shoe on my left ear and another one on my right shoulder, tie on my head, one leg of the pant folded half and another one 3/4th and lots of colors on my face. We were looking good some few mins back and now we are looking worse than beggars.

There were many games, fun events happened and we enjoyed the party so much. We had nice food there. Finally we all danced there but I did not get chance to talk to Kayal or dance with Kayal. After the party got over we left from the hall to the hostel. Bus went to Opal hostel first and then came to Beryl.

I think I told my entire class girls name except two girls. They are “Bible Marry” and “Swarnakka”. Bible Marry is a calm and nice girl but we never interacted much. Swarnakka is also a good girl. But I don’t know why she played a Villan role in my love story.

After few days there was a trip to Munnar where all three years batch went to the trip.