(FICTION)
Today was the first time that i got out of the class after answering two questions. Usually i answer one question and then i am allowed to leave. When i left i took a breath of freedom. After all, answering a question when you are sleepy is not easy, right? Another tiring work that i had to do was to walk three floors down and a basement where my vehicle was parked. i reached the ground floor, exited the building and saw a guy standing there. He turned out to be my classmate with whom i had hardly had a talk. "whom are you waiting for?", i asked.
"for my friend. My vehicle broke down so i have called him to pick me up." he replied.
"okay." i said and turned to leave.
"is it really complicated or it is complicated only for me?" he spoke.
"i did not get it." i said with a blank face.
"understanding people. Is it really complicated to understand them?"
"i don't know." i said.
His friend came after ten minutes and he left. That ten minutes' talk kept me and my brain busy for the entire night. What all he said i could relate it with myself.
New to class. So called friends. So called love. "class", "friends" and "love", recognizable, aren't they? That is the reason i could relate his talk with myself. I would now like to liberalize myself and narrate that talk the way in which i could relate.
It was my first day and being a bit of extrovert, i shook hand with everyone for introduction. Lecture went well. My classmates knew me, and i knew them. Phone numbers were exchanged, with everybody's consent. two weeks later, entered four students. Three boys and one girl. One of the boys was Niket and the girl was Shabina.
Shabina entered last. Since no place was left to sit, she sat beside me. We shared my book as she did not have it. We talked. We smiled. I felt something.
Class ended. We all came out. Talks i thought would be about cricket. But for a change, talks were about something else. About someone actually.
"such an ass!" one exclaimed.
"he is. Did you hear his questions?" other said and they talked.
"were they even worth questions?"
"exactly. Hey! Look at him. He is leaving. look at the way he walks."
Talks were about Niket. His questions in the class had made him notorious in two hours among the classmates.
One week passed. Shabina and i always sat together and shared a book. The first thing that we would do in the class on seeing each other would be to look at each other and say hi with a smile. The only thing that i loved in the class. Her smile.
Niket was sitting behind me. Shabina and i had got all the answers in one of the chapters of math. Niket asked, "have you done the 5th question?"
"yes." i said.
And then one of my friends called me and whispered not to help him. Reason was, 'he is an irritating person'.
"oh! That sum? No. I did not get it." i changed my statement and from his expression it was clear that he understood it.
Shabina had after two weeks still not made any friend in our class. I was her only friend.
Everyone always avoided Niket. Bench on which he would be seated would be the only bench in our class with one student on it.
Life changes in one second. I saw a change in our class in one day.
One day when i reached the class i saw all the boys talking to Niket. It is just the other way round, i thought. I went to the class as i had some work. I saw Shabina sitting with a girl outside the class on a sofa. That girl was also in our class. As we all know, girls bond in one second. So did they. I completed my work and sat waiting for Shabina to come and sit beside me. She entered with the girl. I looked at her. She looked at me. I smiled. She did not. I offered her the seat beside me. She refused.
I was in the state of shock. That was for the first time she did not smile and sat beside me.
next what happened was even more shocking. Niket entered with all the boys of our class, talking and smiling.
That was for the time when they all ignored me. I sat alone. I still do.
Shabina and i never talked since then.
Few days later Niket was also left alone by the classmates.
Niket's talk still makes me think, "is it really complicated to understand people?"
Why did they leave me?
Why did Shabina never sat with me again?
Was it because she made new friends?
Did they find me irritating and boring alike Niket and left both of us alone?
Why did my friend ask me to ignore Niket?
I don't have answer to any of the above question and it is only because, i could never understand them.
