Good People: Love Story with a Difference
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Chapter 3
Medhavi
was a distant number two topper in the class. Though she competed ferociously
to bridge the yawning gap of marks between her and Shaan, she failed every time.
So her only aim now was not just to match Shaan but also to beat him.
She was
hell of an ambitious woman. Only being beautiful was not enough for her. She
wanted to prove to every student and every professor in the university that she
was the brainiest woman too. Most of all she wanted to prove it to Shaan who
she thought was her fieriest competitor in studies as well as in looks.
She
could do any thing to do it. She even wept endlessly the day the examination
results were declared, year after year. Shaan- her archrival always overtook
her. She did not relish being overtaken all the time. She was angry with Shaan
and she washed her anger towards Shaan by the tears gushing out of her eyes.
On the
other hand Shaan used to admire her secretly. He all the time thought of
befriending her but felt shy.
Then
when she was in the final year of the college she finally decided to befriend
Shaan. When you cannot beat the enemy, join him and she did.
One day
she saw Shaan walking in the corridor of the college alone little lost into his
own thoughts. She posed as if she did not notice him and collided with him. She
pretended that to be an accident.
She
acted startled and sheepishly said, “Hey Shaan. I am so stupid. Couldn’t see
you coming. I am sorry. Hope I did not hurt you. Did I?”
Shaan
said, “I should be asking that question to you. I was a bit engrossed in
something and did not notice you. How silly of me?”
“No. I
am perfectly alright.”
“Same
with me. Let me collect your belongings lying all over the floor.”
And Medhavi
deliberately touched her fingers with those of Shaan. Shaan felt a pleasant
shock; Medhavi could always do that to any of the male species. She was so
beautiful! She was brainy too!! A heady mixture of beauty and brain no male
could ever resist.
Shaan
was handsome too in his own ways and Medhavi could not escape the sweet
sensations though she wished to only pretend to begin with. But it was really
happening now and she could not resist. No female could resist Shaan. Shaan was
all brains! He was handsomely smart too!! A heady mixture of brain and
smartness no female could ever resist.
“I
always wanted to meet you privately,” Medhavi said. “But we will meet this way,
I could not have imagined. I am mighty thankful to this collision.”
Shaan
agreed. He said, “I am glad too to meet you this way, just me and you. In our
various classroom sessions meeting you occasionally was not the same.”
Shaan
took initiative, “Can we go have coffee?”
Medhavi
nodded in affirmation. “Yep, why not?”
Then
they went to the college café together.
College
café was the only place in the college that was visited most by the students.
Students preferred to spend their time here more than in their classes or in
the library. Here they had the advantage of studying the opposite sex in a more
congenial environment. These studies were far more interesting than the drab
lectures on the drab subjects by the drab professors in the drab classrooms. Many
gossipy love stories developed and bloomed here. Many ended in tragedies. In
short the café was a hot joint. It used to be crowded throughout the day. Getting
a solitary table in this kind of crowded venue was a very difficult job.
But for
Medhavi it was easier than it was for the other students. She was the most
beautiful girl around and her charms worked with everyone. The café manager
would always oblige Medhavi by somehow arranging a corner table. Today also she
could easily manage one.
Shaan
and Medhavi settled on a corner table. Shaan called the waiter and ordered for
coffee for two and some snacks to go with coffee. He would need to pay more for
using the waiter service. Normally all the students used the self-help. It was
the special occasion for Shaan and he was wiling to spend.
While
sipping the hot coffee Medhavi put up her proposal to Shaan, “Can you help me
in bridging the yawning gap between your grades and mine? Though I am number
two in the class after you, it feels as if I am at number ten because of the
huge gap between your marks and mine. Don’t worry. I am not eyeing for number
one position, that’s always yours. All I want is to achieve a decent number
two. I need your guidance. Is that OK with you?”
Coming
from Medhavi, he had no hesitation to accept this proposal. He thought to
himself, “Wasn’t I looking forward to become your friend already? You are so
beautiful and intelligent.”
Expressly
he said, “Medhavi, it’s done thing. OK with me.”
Medhavi
asked, “When do we start? But not in your hostel room. I will not like to go to
boys’ hostel and I hear that the meeting hours are restricted. Good thing that
I am still a day scholar. Can you come to my place? My parents live nearby.
Just one or two hours every day? Hope I am not asking the moon. I am sure you
can do at least this much for me.”
Shaan
had no objection to this kind of arrangement. He nodded, “Yes. Sure.”
“Shall
we start tomorrow?”
“Yep”.
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