Chapter 22: I flunked

 

I was down in the dumps; I was lost and was wrecked within. I wasn’t alive nor was I dead but there was something which did not allow me to fix the situation, the faith. She wasn’t ready to listen to me but she chose to trust someone over me who was a complete stranger. I just wanted to get sloshed but being a student you don’t get luxury to get wasted on break-ups. So in pain I went to have tea at Vidhyarthi Bakery. The bakery where the enchantments of Tea and butter bun will overpower your will and freedom. The place where I discovered the most innovative burger, “Deem Butter Bun”, a bun heavily dosed with butter with 2 half pieces of boiled egg squeezed in the middle; I just have three words to portray it,

Amazing Amazing and Amazing

I was miserable and when you are disheartened you must do the thing you like the most, I eat. So you can distinguish how sad I was lately . But let me tell you a thing very undoubtedly that if you know Deeps then you would know that it’s impracticable to rupture relations with her; in fact it’s impossible unless she does not want to stay in relation with you; in that case you will never even realize that you are no longer Deep’s friend

It was about 30 minutes into our first break-up and out of the blue my phone rang. The phone was flashing “Deeps”, I was infuriated and anxious so I just answered the call,

“Hello”

“Hi”, she spoke

“What is it ?”, I acted as if I am in rush and not interested for a conversation

“What are you doing”, she asked in a pale tone

“Please come to the point”, I was already annoyed

“Nothing I just wanted to have a chat in general”, she said

“What !!! We just broke up half an hour before and you are behaving as if nothing has ever happened !! I nearly screamed

“No no that’s different and this is different”, she tried explaining

As soon as I heard that my brain stopped working and there was blood in my eyes, I was unable to speak, the only thing I could do was to hang up.

She tried calling me a zillion times but I did not answer. I wanted her to know that this relation can workout only if it has 2 way communication, there is no and there can never be 1 way. She then called out to NM who later came and discussed it with me. I still did not talk to her and wanted this condition to get matured in her head. Evening I called her up and asked what is that she wants and things were back on track like usual.

*************

It was a lab exam, the final lab exam. Situation was nervous, I was unruffled and Deeps was routinely panicked and petrified. In every examination we both used to be exact opposites but I guess my cool and her panic always worked out for each other. We went in and waited for the further directions. The procedure was straightforward, you go in and choose your destiny, pick up a chit from a stack of chits and that will determine your try out of the day. And I don’t know why Deeps always argued that I and Apsara always got easiest experiments all through our engineering !!! But I guess this was Deeps luckiest day. She picked up and the instant she opened it she was all cheered up as if some one has gifted her diamond necklace. She looked at me, we exchanged looks of contentment, a look which told us both that we will come out with flying colours. I started with my test, it was quite uncomplicated and easy. I had to connect the wires and had to keep changing parameter ‘A’ and make a note of the resultant parameter ‘B’ and then I had to draw a graph. On the other hand Deeps got the easiest one in which she had to connect wires and show the basic sine wave output in CRO,

The wire connection was a piece of cake, so I was confident that she will get through it before me. But people say that if devil possesses your wits then how much ever simple thing you are aiming at, you will always do the opposite. I was very much confident that I had to vary ‘A’ and assess ‘B’ but I do not know what happened, I told myself, Lets do the reverse, lets Measure ‘B’ and note down ‘A’ and I continued.

After a while the in-house evaluator came in and when she saw what I was doing she was struck with horror, she said you are doing exactly opposite of what you should be doing. As I was possessed by the evil spirit; instead of listening to her, I enlightened her why “what I am doing” is correct !!! She heard me and heard me one more time and left with a Go-To-Hell look. This wasn’t it, now the external assessor came by and he saw my set of connections and said the identical thing which I must tell you that external evaluators NEVER do. But how could I had paid attention because to me both of them were out of their mind,

And they call them teachers …. Huh

I completed my experimentation and I was about to go for the viva (the last step of the entire procedure) and I saw Deeps, under attack by her experiment,

That’s weird!!!

It was time to assist her, it was already 2 hrs up in the assessment and she wasn’t even on track. I adjusted myself next to my setup so that Deeps can see me but examiners can’t. I gestured at her asking what the trouble is. She signaled back saying that she does not know how to attach the CRO chord to the CRO !!!!

What … !!! What … !!! Come again !!!! WTF ….. You are trapped at THAT !!!

Each experiment incorporated CRO so it should have been a sure thing. It was like every time you go to cook food, what do you do foremost, you turn on the burner. She did not know how to turn on the burner. And icing on the cake was her fright. She was about to shed tears when I calmed her down from far by indicating her that I will help her out. It was my Dumb Charades skills that worked out that day and I signaled her entire experiment. According to the examiner she got the most excellent output in that batch. I was reassured and now stepped forward to my viva. Both the evaluators were already pissed with me, they asked me hardly any questions which I replied confidently, both of them asked the last time, if I want to go back and modify what I have written and done, I without any faltering replied a BIG NO. So they asked me to disappear. I came out and the moment I came out I become conscious, as if I was no longer possessed by the demon. I grasped what I did but it was very late. I saw Apsara coming,

“How was your test”, she asked with a smile

“Not bad, I will flunk though”, I replied and walked away with a sarcastic smile on my face for the idiocy I just managed to pull off.

Chapter 22: I flunked

 

I was down in the dumps; I was lost and was wrecked within. I wasn’t alive nor was I dead but there was something which did not allow me to fix the situation, the faith. She wasn’t ready to listen to me but she chose to trust someone over me who was a complete stranger. I just wanted to get sloshed but being a student you don’t get luxury to get wasted on break-ups. So in pain I went to have tea at Vidhyarthi Bakery. The bakery where the enchantments of Tea and butter bun will overpower your will and freedom. The place where I discovered the most innovative burger, “Deem Butter Bun”, a bun heavily dosed with butter with 2 half pieces of boiled egg squeezed in the middle; I just have three words to portray it,

Amazing Amazing and Amazing

I was miserable and when you are disheartened you must do the thing you like the most, I eat. So you can distinguish how sad I was lately . But let me tell you a thing very undoubtedly that if you know Deeps then you would know that it’s impracticable to rupture relations with her; in fact it’s impossible unless she does not want to stay in relation with you; in that case you will never even realize that you are no longer Deep’s friend

It was about 30 minutes into our first break-up and out of the blue my phone rang. The phone was flashing “Deeps”, I was infuriated and anxious so I just answered the call,

“Hello”

“Hi”, she spoke

“What is it ?”, I acted as if I am in rush and not interested for a conversation

“What are you doing”, she asked in a pale tone

“Please come to the point”, I was already annoyed

“Nothing I just wanted to have a chat in general”, she said

“What !!! We just broke up half an hour before and you are behaving as if nothing has ever happened !! I nearly screamed

“No no that’s different and this is different”, she tried explaining

As soon as I heard that my brain stopped working and there was blood in my eyes, I was unable to speak, the only thing I could do was to hang up.

She tried calling me a zillion times but I did not answer. I wanted her to know that this relation can workout only if it has 2 way communication, there is no and there can never be 1 way. She then called out to NM who later came and discussed it with me. I still did not talk to her and wanted this condition to get matured in her head. Evening I called her up and asked what is that she wants and things were back on track like usual.

*************

It was a lab exam, the final lab exam. Situation was nervous, I was unruffled and Deeps was routinely panicked and petrified. In every examination we both used to be exact opposites but I guess my cool and her panic always worked out for each other. We went in and waited for the further directions. The procedure was straightforward, you go in and choose your destiny, pick up a chit from a stack of chits and that will determine your try out of the day. And I don’t know why Deeps always argued that I and Apsara always got easiest experiments all through our engineering !!! But I guess this was Deeps luckiest day. She picked up and the instant she opened it she was all cheered up as if some one has gifted her diamond necklace. She looked at me, we exchanged looks of contentment, a look which told us both that we will come out with flying colours. I started with my test, it was quite uncomplicated and easy. I had to connect the wires and had to keep changing parameter ‘A’ and make a note of the resultant parameter ‘B’ and then I had to draw a graph. On the other hand Deeps got the easiest one in which she had to connect wires and show the basic sine wave output in CRO,

The wire connection was a piece of cake, so I was confident that she will get through it before me. But people say that if devil possesses your wits then how much ever simple thing you are aiming at, you will always do the opposite. I was very much confident that I had to vary ‘A’ and assess ‘B’ but I do not know what happened, I told myself, Lets do the reverse, lets Measure ‘B’ and note down ‘A’ and I continued.

After a while the in-house evaluator came in and when she saw what I was doing she was struck with horror, she said you are doing exactly opposite of what you should be doing. As I was possessed by the evil spirit; instead of listening to her, I enlightened her why “what I am doing” is correct !!! She heard me and heard me one more time and left with a Go-To-Hell look. This wasn’t it, now the external assessor came by and he saw my set of connections and said the identical thing which I must tell you that external evaluators NEVER do. But how could I had paid attention because to me both of them were out of their mind,

And they call them teachers …. Huh

I completed my experimentation and I was about to go for the viva (the last step of the entire procedure) and I saw Deeps, under attack by her experiment,

That’s weird!!!

It was time to assist her, it was already 2 hrs up in the assessment and she wasn’t even on track. I adjusted myself next to my setup so that Deeps can see me but examiners can’t. I gestured at her asking what the trouble is. She signaled back saying that she does not know how to attach the CRO chord to the CRO !!!!

What … !!! What … !!! Come again !!!! WTF ….. You are trapped at THAT !!!

Each experiment incorporated CRO so it should have been a sure thing. It was like every time you go to cook food, what do you do foremost, you turn on the burner. She did not know how to turn on the burner. And icing on the cake was her fright. She was about to shed tears when I calmed her down from far by indicating her that I will help her out. It was my Dumb Charades skills that worked out that day and I signaled her entire experiment. According to the examiner she got the most excellent output in that batch. I was reassured and now stepped forward to my viva. Both the evaluators were already pissed with me, they asked me hardly any questions which I replied confidently, both of them asked the last time, if I want to go back and modify what I have written and done, I without any faltering replied a BIG NO. So they asked me to disappear. I came out and the moment I came out I become conscious, as if I was no longer possessed by the demon. I grasped what I did but it was very late. I saw Apsara coming,

“How was your test”, she asked with a smile

“Not bad, I will flunk though”, I replied and walked away with a sarcastic smile on my face for the idiocy I just managed to pull off.

Chapter 21: The End

 

In current semester all classmates were separated into groups of 3 and they were asked to perform experiments in sets to save time. Anky was grouped with Shamita and Avanti. Avanti; who was a not a girl, she was a volcano. Whenever she spoke one could experience nails coming out of her jaws and hitting the person on face. She was very blunt and very valiant but she had a soft corner for Anky and never did show any ferocity on him. Anky was powerless to recognize why she was like that with him because from morning to evening he made fun of her, snubbed and humiliated her in front of the entire class and apparently this attracted her towards him !!! Avanti began to fall for Anky more and more which Anky never comprehended. Deeps on the other hand could not grasp this and in next to no time Anky and Deeps started having differences over this,

“Why is she always around you ?”, Asked Deeps

“She is not, where is she now ?”, Anky reacted recklessly

“I always see her with you, what’s going on between you two ?”

“Have you gone crazy”

They fought and she cried, they fought again and they cried. This went on for few days and nothing seemed to be working out. On the other hand Avanti commenced next segment of her plan by spending more time with Anky. Clearly she did not get any time in college because Anky was always with Deeps, therefore she decided to go Anky’s home. Avanti started coming home regularly for the explanation that she needs to gain knowledge of mathematical expressions; which sanctioned her to spend hours with him. Anky also entertained her because this way he could be well trained in his curriculum but little did he know that he is getting into an immense and grave complication. Anky never told this to Deeps because she would not have ever understood and never would have approved this. He anyways thought that it is not that greater deal and there was no way Deeps could have known about this.

On a usual day Avanti was in Anky’s place and they both were going through the current lecture notes. Devoid of any notice or hint Deeps came home with Apsara; they both decided to come home to meet me and NM. As soon as Deeps came in, she saw Avanti sitting next to Anky, she got livid and left from there in abhorrence. Anky was pissed with such manners because she did not even give him any opportunity of even explaining as what was going on. He never left his place and said bye to Deeps as she left. After she left Anky was little distress and asked for 2 min break from Avanti. Out of the blue Deeps yelled from ground floor,

“Anky I am going”, she was still not gone

“Wait”, he ran for her

Anky arrived there and she was there all set to disappear on her two-wheeler. He jumped and settled behind her on pillion seat and said,

“Let’s go for a ride”

They went for a ride. After a while he asked her to stop, she stopped the vehicle,

“What is wrong with you ?”, Anky asked her patiently

“I don’t like her and I don’t want her to come any near to you”, she said this while tears in her eye

“She comes only to get her doubts cleared, that’s all”, Anky shielded Avanti

“Whatever it is I don’t want her in your house”

For next 30 min this dispute continued and in the end he managed to influence her that Avanti can mean and cause no destruction, she can be rest assured that no bad can happen. She was persuaded indistinctly and dropped him back to the house, took Apsara and left. When Anky got back to the house Avanti was still there and was waiting for him to return.

“What happened”, Avanti asked

“Nothing, Deeps was not in very good mood”

“Why what happened”, she asked another time

“Nothing, she is not able to focus on her studies and for that reason she is cantankerous”

“Are you guys a couple ?”, she asked a question out of nowhere

Anky was taken aback with that enquiry but he got himself together and graciously declined,

“No nothing like that, we are just excellent friends”, he defended

“Ok, in that case I need to ask you one thing”, she examined the clear room

“Yes, sure, please ask”

“Anky I love you, will you marry me”, she blushed

Anky was struck with a very severe attack of a paralysis with a bolt of lightning at the same time. Anky’s most hideous nightmare had just turned into reality. The girl who he was just protecting with Deeps had just made things much worse for him.

If Deeps come to know about all this then she will eat me alive and will never listen to me because she somehow sensed it before it happened.

“Are you kidding, please don’t make fun of me”, Anky tried to dodge the bullet

“I am not joking”, she was serious

“Look Avanti whatever you feel for me, I am grateful for that but I don’t think the same for you”

“So are you saying NO”, she questioned

“Yes, Avanti, you deserve a much better guy then me”

“I don’t think so”, she started weeping

It took another 30 min for Anky to calm her down and eventually he managed to send her back home. He also talked her into that she should not come home again and stay as far as possible from him because then it will be very tough to get over all this. She seemed to be a matured lady and took things rather positively. Anky was thankful that this did not turn out to be yet another snag in his life. When this sorted out straightforwardly, he decided to tell the event to Deeps and also to let her know that Avanti will not be near me anymore,

“She proposed me”, He told Deeps

“I knew it”, she started howling before Anky could say anything

“But listen to me”, Anky continued

“Forget it Anky its over”, she hung up

What !!!! She did not even listen what happened !!!

Anky tried calling her up the entire evening, the entire week but she just wasn’t ready to pay attention. She wasn’t ready to appreciate that it was Avanti who proposed and not him !!! She was also pissed on him more because some girl in some other class had seen me and Avanti holding hands someday which was so fallacious.

“You are so with her Anky”, she was weeping

“Please hear me out, It’s not true”

“No way”

“Okay then that’s what you want”, Anky also finally gave up

“I don’t want you anymore”
Anky also could not take it anymore and was utterly annoyed because he was being accused for something which he did not even think of !!!

“Ok Deeps lets break-up, I guess this what it was meant to be”

“Yes”

And we hung up for ever