Life time Memoirs 9

Meanwhile, our final terms were approaching us, we folks were busy studying. We boys did heavy studying, cricket matches and sleepovers. Now the exams began, 1^st one Sciences; least prepared for it but the best it went, 2^nd one was Maths which was classic as usual, 3^rd one was my best friend English, up next was my enemy by birth Hindi but interestingly this time it was pretty much a piece of cake for me. Then were social science, environmental science cool as ever, then came moral sciences the mind boggler, computer science the ‘ms-paint’ job….!!! Lastly was the physical education exam, any one of the following was to be done; best of 3 shoots in football, best of 5 shoots in basketball or a kho-kho match. Finally, the day of result came, I was in a total jeopardy at least I thought so, but no I was completely safe. I topped the class, I wasn’t as happy for topping as happy I was for beating her. I beat her by 3.63%; I scored 96.63% & she scored 93% (approx.). She was happy both for me and herself and our entire group, she wasn’t biased at all. We had set the record of having the whole group scoring above 90%.

The assembly began, the award ceremony was scheduled at the conclusion of the assembly and it was surely full of surprises especially for our group or at least I expected it. It began with the sports man of the batch, no one from our group so why bother naming the extras (you should have seen me while I wrote this part cause, I had this evil grin on my face). The next announcement was for someone who has been the most active support to his peers, teachers and everyone around the school and interestingly it was awarded to Dhairya, I mean that was like totally cool and awesome. Next was the award for the brightest entrant in this batch and the award was actually shared by two people, out of them actually one was not at all a surprise, actually more of an expected name, it was for the new tiger in my hill…..!!!! The award was shared by Anamika from 4^th C & Priyadarshini from 4^th B a.k.a our class. The bookworm award was again given to someone else, I won’t mention her name cause it’s no use (not from our group…!!! LOL). Then it was award for teacher’s buddy, and this was awarded to Shivani, now that’s what I am talking about, then was the award for omnipresence it was shared by three people Mansi, Abhivyakt and someone else from some blah blah class…..!!!. Then came the most awaited awards of all, the all rounder of the year; nominees were – Manisha from A, Mahen (which is supposed to be me) from B section, Abhilasha from C and Jyoti from section D, Raman from E and lastly Kavya from F.

And the winner is……………………… (I was dying of tension and I nearly died)...............

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Life time Memoirs 8

Kavita mam was totally overwhelmed with the reform in us. But still sitting with her was walking into Treasure Island surrounded booby traps, Oh jeez…!!!

A week later I entered the auditions for Boogie Woogie (a very popular Indian format of a dancing realty show for different age groups every season), then I cleared all rounds and straightaway went into finals of it. Ultimately, my costume got me itches and ticks, and my dance got me third prize and 25000 cash prize. But I had to pay a price I had lost about 15 days of my preparation time for the 2^nd cycle tests, so I just had 3 days to study for it. And finally the god won against all the beings, I topped the exam with 98%, I was literally on a roll….!!! Dancing champ – Mahen, kho-kho champ – Mahen, basket ball champ – Mahen, academics champ – Mahen, in sum total I was the all rounder the whole school would love to look up to. Priya was realizing that she is being out done and is lagging behind so she must be jealous and might try anything and everything. At least I thought so may be because I was jealous of her as she beat me right on the first week of her schooling here. Moreover she had achieved a VIP access to the group created by me 2 years ago which entertained no newbie, it was strictly us 5 but now 6…..!!!!! she was nearly as good as me, but still opposite to me for instance I was rude, she was polite, I was short tempered, she was very patient, I applied brute force for most of the things, she ushered love and got things sorted out, I used to play around with people’s minds to make things work out, she used to work hard to get things going, I mean to be honest she was specifically better than me and I was feeling insecure I guess, because though I was the junior school celebrity still, there were privileges of being Priya not as many as of being Mahen but still nearly as cool as being Mahen, you see….!! Neither she had any ill feelings nor did I but just because of this complex I used to fight with her, I was so busy fighting her blindly that I never saw her goodness and never tried befriending her. Though many a times she showed interest in friendship but I ignored it like an idiot, I was repenting but still I had the ego of a man and I was busy fighting with her, she was least bothered now and didn’t even cared to fight back. Our fights reduced to negligible numbers; instead she began talking to me politely and respectfully but me, oh me!! I was still the rowdy rude dude.

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Life time Memoirs 7

I was thunderstruck, even my group was. They began defending me, they said things like, Mahen would never do this Priya; Mahen isn’t that kind of guy; he would never steal from anybody whatever may the situation be and all these kinds of statements were going around. I was trembling with fear, I was so scared that I couldn’t utter a single word properly, then with a lot of courage I came up with a statement, trust me on this Priya, I know I do everything possible to trouble you but not this, I haven’t stolen anything from anybody ever…!!! I am not lying, I beg you to trust me, please Priya trust me….!!! Then I don’t know how I said it but I said it, in fact you should check Nitish’s bag, he was the one who was rushing out of this room when I returned from the science fair. But I realized that it was all in vain because I could see her eyes go red with rage, she with a very scary tone said ‘let me think’, by that time Abhivyakt, Dhairya checked Nitish's bag and found out the hundred buck note, but before they could tell that to Priya, she slapped me real hard, at least I thought so it was not me, she slapped the table that hard, I was relieved to see that, she turned to Nitish and said you idiot whatever may be between us, but still he is one of my best friends, one of my  mates, I know him very well and he would never ever do that. As soon as you named him I knew that it would have been you. Just get out I don’t want to talk to you. And remember no one calls my friend a ‘thief. Almost everyone was gone only we six were left in the room. But Priya was still angry, she turned to me and I don’t know why was feeling a bit scared, may be because of her temperament which was even higher than me, then again I heard a thunderclap, and this time it was not the bench it was me only, on my right cheek. Abhivyakt, Dhairya, Shivani, Mansi all were left jaw dropped and I was shocked, I didn’t understand what had just happened. She then angrily yelled at me, Mahen; you idiot how on earth you thought that I will trust that shit head and blame you for theft I know you are a bit of a loser and dumb head but you aren’t bad at heart, though you are a rouge guy but still would never cheat on your friends. We still fought, but now we both understood each other and these fights were merely for fun and we began sharing a bond of healthy friendship. It was as if we had accepted each other, but still we fought funny isn’t it.

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Life time Memoirs 6

You’ll automatically get your surprise after the assembly, said Kavita mam. After the assembly, the class began, yes began and it began with Kavita mam’s surprise and at that moment you should have seen my face, I would say it was the only moment when Priya and I had agreed on the same point, that we were scared to death…!!! Kavita mam began, since you both look so excited, I’ll tell you what your surprise is, your surprise is that you both get to sit together with each other as bench partners for the rest of the year..!!! You’re happy aren’t you?? She said gleamingly. It’s like I was begging for death rather than sitting with her and she was literally in shock..!! I mean sitting with her…!! That’s so shit aaaaarrrghhh…..!!!!!! But Kavita mam’s words were like a line carved on the rock, non erasable and rigid. It was the ultimate verdict. Priya was crying so badly because she didn’t wanted to sit with me, we apologized, begged literally but she was so rigid. We were literally praying so hard that even lord Shiva would have been pulled straight away down to earth but Kavita mam, was totally reluctant, she denied even reviewing her decision.

Now began the real deal ‘sitting with Priya’ WTF, sitting together, oh!! Jeez impossible. I mean “I….. Should sit with her……!!!!” it was the thing I hate the most. But now I was totally helpless, I was in a tragic situation. That day, we didn’t talk to each other at all, next day we again resumed fighting, fighting for sitting towards the window, fighting for sitting on the outer side, fighting over notes submission, fight for space on the bench, fighting over place for bags and almost everything. But nobody was getting disturbed as we were fighting within ourselves and no one was getting involved in it. Kavita mam was happy about it, that we had begun getting along, though I never understood her definition of things but I always knew that she has a long term purpose in everything she does. Well our fighting started reducing with the half yearlies approaching, and as I said Kavita mam was pretty much satisfied with our progress. About a week before the exams began, I was sent to participate in a CBSE junior school science project fair and presentation. The teachers, had given some important tips for the forth coming exams because the next week so student will come to school as they will all be home studying for the exams. I returned somewhere at nearly the end of the second last period, that was a Saturday so the last two periods were of physical education, and hence everyone was gone, playing something or the other in playground. I entered the class, just then I saw Nitish rushing out of the class, I then borrowed the notes that teachers had given regarding exams from him then I left. Nearly at 13:45 hours when everyone was coming back to the class to pack their stuff and leave for home, first people to enter were our group. We started packing stuff when others began coming in, Nitish also entered just then Priya realized that she had lost her 100 rupee note, that she had brought and kept in her bag as she had to go to the doctor on the way back to home. Just then Nitish exclaimed that I was in the class when no one was there (he was actually right cause I was taking down notes, but then after about 10 minutes I had left). He said Mahen must have taken them as he was there when no one was there in the class, he was pretending to take notes from me, and already he is pretty much against you Priya isn’t he….?? He must’ve done it to simply trouble you or maybe it’s a prank on you.

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Life time Memoirs 5

Wow……!!!! The camp was fascinating, truly an awesome experience. 1^st activity was a water balloon fight. Oh god what a wonderful game it was but who cares we both were blindly busy tagging each other from the beginning till the end. Then was paintballing and again we wasted all our shots on each other. We both were acting like born foes and Kavita mam was enjoying this version of ‘tom n jerry’. There were many more marvelous episodes throughout the camp and honestly we spent all the time fighting with each other, now and then just fight, fight and fight. I still remember the last night in the camp, she was talking too much, she had crossed her limits and I called her ‘bitch’, she was so pissed…. She straight away slapped me so hard, for a moment I couldn’t understand for a moment that what actually happened. I didn’t know what to do….!!! Tears were in my eyes, but somewhere deep inside me I don’t know why?? But I literally felt like that I liked that slap. Funny isn’t it, honestly it is simply very idiotic but still funny.

Summers passed, first day we were all sharing our summer trips, when Priya walked in and began her story, bang!! And I cut down her speech right then and there….. there, there, there was born a brand new fight between us, right on the first day itself.

Blah!! Blah!! Blam!! Blam!! Chat!! Chat!!... on and on and on we were arguing like hell. Right then Kavita mam entered the room, she had been watching us since long, and now she really grew impatient, though she initially was enjoying the fight, but when the water went above the tolerable level she decided to intervene and then she reminded… nah…. she announced, So listen up everyone, Mahen and Priyadarshini are Mahen and Priyadarshini are hereby entitled for the special surprise for their extraordinarily nice behavior. Oh!! Shit…!!!!.... WTF…!!! I mean no god please grant me a last chance, not Kavita mam’s surprise… that is like hang till death.. No, no… it’s like being fried in an oil pan that too when I am alive… please no surprise Kavita mam… please am so sorry mam please please I beg you no surprises please….. All this was going on, in my mind. Everybody could see that I was scared to death, my face was clearly showing it and even Priya couldn’t understand that why was I scared so much?!!


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Life time Memoirs 4

The next day began with our surprise class assembly; actually it was our principal mam’s initiative to improve the confidence and cooperation between students and peers. For a moment I was like astound with only one thought in my mind at that moment ‘WTF’. The assembly was scheduled at 0810 hours and the current time was 7050 hours that meant we only had about 20 minutes to prepare for it. I rapidly recovered from the shock and prepared my part which was to conduct the whole assembly, Mansi picked up an article from our English writing section of the bbc book, Dj was going to sing a Bengali prayer though he was a rajasthani himself(now that’s what I call pure talent). While Shivani was learning the thought of the day we were all busy forcing Abhi to read out the news in the doordarshan manner. Amongst all this Priya was peacefully writing a poem that she was going to recite, her own poem gosh!!! She is a poet too…… at every single point why does she have to compete with me; academics, co-curricula’s, literature, sports I mean I am feeling like as if she is a female version of me and that is way, way freaky. Alright now getting back to the assembly thing, it was a real classic and to be honest actually her poem was a kind of masterstroke. Now only she was visible to everyone, and none else in our group was bothered about it, as if they were hypnotized. I got frustrated and out of anger I said, not bad Priya but you could have done better and trust me guys everybody had made up their faces as if I had said the worst thing ever anyone can say. She nicely replied, oh Mahen, English is not just your mate, I have it in my pocket too, and yes she did have an oxford pocket dictionary in her pocket. By the way her answer shut my mouth immediately. I said to myself, oh Mahen just jump off some cliff or jump into some well cause no one talks to you like that just then she gave me a confident look as if she was trying to say, everything has its first time in everybody’s life and you better get used to it cause I am here buddy!! Abhi consoled me, let her have her credit brother, she is just a new knight, but man remember you are the king Arthur forever and actually as a matter of fact he was totally right.

I am thee, I am ‘King Arthur’ and she is just a knight of my army, no match to my faction and neither to my rank or status and that is why she is not at all acceptable to me though she might have gotten into our pack of wolves.As days passed we were turning into rivals and then archenemies, fighting with each other on petty and baseless issues, sometimes she picked the fight and sometimes it was me. Hmmm…….. like about 50 no.. no.. to be honest it was 40% her fault and 60% mine. To be frank our group was sick of our fights and decided to avoid both of us they tried it for several days, then they began ignoring us when even that failed. They finally took up the idea of talking to Kavita mam in order stop our childishness. The main issue was that we both were equally good in all things but I enjoyed more privileges than her I hated it when people wanted her to be part of almost all the jobs that I am doing, I hate sharing my credits and successes with her. Kavita mam after hearing all this, when she came to the class said, this is the last week before your summers, so correct yourself both of you, because after the summer break if you both are again caught fighting then I’m going to give you nice little surprises. And trust me folks, when she speaks so nicely about surprises, you better act accordingly because if I were you I would never whish for her surprises, trust me it can be very risky and dangerous. Although I was aware about this danger so I was least bothered and kept on fighting till the last day. Now, on the last day we had a small class party and then the school had arranged for a 2 day overnight camp stay camping kind of event in the school itself, starting 6 p.m. onwards.


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Life time Memoirs 3

Now about a fortnight had passed since school had begun and though I didn’t show but I was totally pissed off with her being in my group all the time and I had to share each and everything with her…… why??? Because she was part of my group!!!!!!! After a month when I was totally sick of her presence I went up to Kavita mam and asked her to just take her away from my group. But she said, see Mahen I can’t just remove her from your group because you don’t like her, you have to understand that your group likes her and the only reason why you hate her is that she beat you right on the first day, by answering more questions than you did, tell me if I am wrong. So you have to try and adapt to her presence before it’s too late and you lose your place in your group. As a matter of fact actually Kavita mam was totally correct, I was a bit jealous and insecure towards her at that moment because she had been too intelligent for the first day of the school so that raised some issues in my mind. Well, still no one enters into a group created by me just like that, but she had given me a check and mate there too because she had done it with in a snap of fingers aaaarghhhh!!!!!!! That is the only thing that pisses me off the most.

While about 10 days before the summer breaks, Kavita mam announced a class test and that test shocked us, it was an all subject test and the results were Priya – 98%, Mahen(me) – 91%, Mansi – 88.6%, Shivani – 86%, Dj – 83% and Abhi was at 81.7%. I mean her and 1^st rank!!!!! That was the most heartbreaking thing that she had outdone us all, especially me!!! A 7% lead, now that is termed as ‘humongous’. She was enjoying the rank that was mine till a few days ago……

Now another heartbreaking scene; my friends had come to three conclusions about her –

 (i)            She had broken our pride.

 (ii)           She is a topper too.

 (iii)          This means she is welcomed to join our elite group!!!

Now this meant trouble for me because, after this incident she had got the total acceptance of my total group except me. I was like, what the hell was going on? How can she qualify the standard of being a member of my group?? How can we be ‘elite six’, it doesn’t even sound that good……. Yuck!!! I was simply pretending to enjoy the ongoing celebrations of my group but in fact I was feeling like I was the sole tiger of a hill and now suddenly from nowhere a new tiger had pranced in and was enjoying the privileges of being me!!! There itself she was family, a wolf of our pack or may be like a lion of our pride or more apt shall be calling her a queen of our alliance. What and however I was awfully certain that this is going to have severe consequences and hence I was set to prevent it from happening, at least I was thinking like that.


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