The alarm barked for another minute, seventh time this morning and lastly I was on my feet as I was interrupted by the stupid creepy device called Alarm clock. The warmth of the sunlight coming from the window burned my left portion of face . My situation was the same as any other morning. I could barely move as I slept too late in the night, or you can say quiet early in the morning, the head was bursting out of pain and I got stuck at the exact spot.
As I was settling back my senses my cellphone rang, I drew my cell from under the pillow and picked the call without even opening my eyes, a familiar voice came from the other side, and it was vidya.
“Where the hell are you” vidya spoke in a low tone. “Make sure you get your ass here before the mentor, don't get late on the first day” and the cell beeped. Vidya Bakshi was my friend from Delhi, we were in the same school and she is among my very few friends from the other sex.
I just woke up, but couldn't afford to fershen up or even wash my face, I grabbed the t- shirt on top of the pile of clothes which I was about to arrange and place in my wardrobe, but hell yes I was just about to.
Well I made it to the class before my Mentor does, But the college seemed a bit like the old high school,
I didn't get the college kinda a feeling, “Maybe Bollywood masala films made me fantasies a bit more about college “i thought.
I stood on the door of the room i was searching for,
“3rd floor 305” I repeated again glaring at my class schedule, and suddenly I saw vidya, sitting on the first seat from the corner, I entered the classroom with small steps and sat next to Vidya.
As I was looking around, I saw some faces turning towards me,they all stared me as I appeared like I had some kind of out of world element and certainly it didn't feel good.
And suddenly a big fat guy entered the scene out of nowhere, he was a lean thick guy with big spectacles a photo frame size glass each on the either side of the spectacles frame.
“Hello everyone I am Rajiv, Rajiv Bhatia”he said exactly the way denial craig delivered James Bond in skyfall.
“I am your class mentor, and your mathematics professor” he said adjusting his collar cuffs,
And certainly I met the origional alquaida of my ideology, The math tutor, directly he went to the podium opened his laptop and was indulged in the god damn machine within seconds of his appearance.
“Get ready for the attendance.”he finally spoke breaking the dreadful silence.
“Avishek”he said.
“Fuck, roll no one, first seat in exams and Ohh I would fail”i thought.
“Avishek Singh”he repated.
“yes sir”i said out of nervousness.
“You are roll no. one” he said and confirmed my death
Bhatia carried the attendance, and suddenly I saw some heads turning towards the door, a girl hurriedly made her way and sat next to me.
“Astha Bakshi” , Bhatia called, to which she replied waving her hand. She was wearing something I didn't knew it existed, but it looked perfect, Now Bhatia started telling us about the glorious past of college and the present reputation, which according to him was splendid. Everybody was keen in his venture, i on the other side spent the rest of the lecture admiring her.
“And really,I have got a problem with my girls department, I just get attracted to every second girl, this one’s fuckin new. I just don’t know but, I need to choose my way with her” I said to myself, as we left for the next lecture.
“I ain’t attending anymore lectures, ” vijay screamed.
“Come on yaar Vjay, you’re not leaving any soon. This is our first day in college” Vidya interrupted. Vijay suddenly turned but couldn’t speak, Vijay Agarwal was the guy from jaipur and was short, skinny, and had a kid like face. We knew him from our school in delhi, vidya and vijay both were in same section and I was in another, I never knew he existed in the same school till the final exams when vidya introduced me to him.
“The next lecture is in 305, physics”, vidya screamed as forcing her way piercing the crowd downstairs and we followed her lead. We entered the classroom and sat in the second row.
“Thank this stupid bithch, we are first to enter the class” Vijay spoke making sure, Vidya didn’t hear him. I was searching for the girl I saw in the last lecture “Astha”,i found her nowhere and believe me her pretty face would have helped me attending a few more lectures. We encountered the ugliest looking professors with no lady teacher attending us for any lectures, and I was in a mental trauma after the first day of college. This was the first time, I missed my school. The morticians attended us for the next 3 hours. There were some more of the interactive sessions in the next lectures. I was just smiling looking around, even at the worst faces I could look upon. I didn't knew the reason maybe I was too happy by getting a few more years to pass on in a new campus in a big city. We introduced our self for the trillionth time and the last lecture ended and I felt relived.
“Let's go to the cafeteria guys. I m hungry, ”vijay said.
“Yeah, come on Avi, lets go”Vidya said dragging me to the cafeteria.
“What will you be taking Avi”Vijay asked.I kept silent, I was thinking of an alone afternoon in my room as I enjoyed it and ignored him. The guy repeated his million doller question, he understood the moment and left to the counter. Vijay bought us some sandwiches and we sat on the last table, away form the door.
“So, what are you up to now, hann”vidya said.
“Well not sure, I'll just pass time till the college gets over”I replied smiling.
“Well, that's ummh.... good”vidya replied. She seemed confused of whatever I said, but I don't blame her, this is what I had actually planned.
The next 15 minutes we discussed of how we are going to get fucked up in the three years to come, then I just finished my coke hurriedly, and stood to leave.
“Hey, where you going?”vidya asked.
“I have just got to unpack my stuff so, see you guys tomorrow.”i left hastily without even looking at her.
On my way to hostel I was looking around the campus as a kid in a candy store, I was amazed by the campus scenario, the big tall buildings and of-course the girls around I just couldn't believe it. Even with the the background I had, I managed to get admission in this college, “Lovely professional university”.
It was just very weird name for a university, but as long as it was the biggest private university in india, as they said it was, i was just happy being a part of it.
All of my happiness ruined as I realized I forgot the god damn keys of my locked hostel room. The next second, I was cursing each and every god for any of the prayers I made, well none of them was I able to recall.
Cursing myself for the thousandth time, I stopped by the name of Ankit in my contact list. I waited for a moment and tapped the call button, The ring went on to recite itself “tring tring, tring tring”, exclusively in the same order. Suddenly the ring stopped and a sound came from the other side in typical gujarati tone, and what I heard was, “haelo”.
There was an awkward silence for a second, and so I broke in, “Ankit, I forgot the key bhai” I said.
“Arrray yaaaar”Ankit reply. Well his reply wasn't surprising, ever since I met him he would mostly reply me with the same answer just by changing the pitch according to the situation.
“Just tell me where are you”i asked as soon as I was done with analyzing his telephonic skills.
“I am at the cafe, just take the key from me ”he replied in his weird tone.
“OK , i'll be there in a minute”i said knowing that it would take me 20 more minutes than a minute to reach the cafe. I ran for the stairs and left hostel for cafe. Well the way to the cafe wasn't very tough as I cursed the owners for making this huge campus which was the same size of any small village back in my state.
I reached cafe and started to scroll the whole of cafe with my bloodshot eyes searching for my monstrous room mate, and as I found him, I felt a sudden urge to kill myself immediately.
The 5”2 , 90 kg black as beard bastard was seated next to a beautiful girl, with two beauties sitting in front of him. That day I lost any faith left in god.
With the fucked up feeling, and a very fake smile,
i went on to him directly and asked “keys?” I just spoke a single word, to which he didn't even bother to reply. He was searching for his keys from his jeans pockets pushing the bulge in his jean from another hand. He actually succeed after a few unsuccessful attempts. He threw the keys to me and I garbed them , I turned around at the same moment and left immediately.
I looked for the time in my phone and it was already 3 and certainly the day didn't go well I thought. I had to rush for the keys and it costed me half an hour, and now I was on my way back to my room with heavy shoulders.
I climbed the stairs laughing on myself, the place and the scene at the cafeteria. As I reached my block and moved towards my room door, I opened the lock in a slow motion sequence and finally entered my room. I locked my door and opened the cupboard. I kept my bag and went on to my bed, sat on the bed with legs hanging on the either side of the bed. I Looked at my shoes the shoelaces were rugged and it got spoiled. The white laces turned into yellow. I looked at the laces for a minute picked the end of laces held the ends and tied them up but, It was about to get dark, and my eye shutters closed and I slept with my shoes on.