Please note : All the characters in the story are completely fictional, not referring to any person or place or personality.
Meet
with C.S’s parents
Both entered into house and saw C.S’s father
talking on phone. As soon as he saw them, he disconnected the call and walked
to them.
“Hello uncle”, both wished him.
He just nodded with a puzzled face and called
them to take their seats.
“Uncle, I am ...”
Before jai completed, he said with irritation
“yeah, I know. How can I forget you? How can I forget who spoiled my son’s life?
I still remember everything”.
He tried to hide his anger and said
“anyhow, why are you here?”
Before any of them replied, he said “Hmm,
let me guess”. He acted for a second as though he knows everything and
continued “oh ok!! I got it. You both are getting married and you want to
invite us. Am I correct?”
When he finished, both Jai and Vignudha looked
at each other and soon Jai laughed indignantly and said “what a guess uncle!
You still haven’t changed”. Jai stopped laughing and looked bitterly into his
eyes and said “we are here to meet C.S”.
When C.S’s father opened his mouth to
oppose Jai, he got a phone call. As it is an important call, without speaking further,
he gave a serious look and rushed out.
Vignudha asked her, “Aunty, C.S?”
Suddenly her eyes filled with tears but
she managed to wipe it away and said “He left home two years ago when your
uncle denied him to join you”
On hearing this, Vignudha’s heart filled
with joy. At the same time she felt guilty thinking how C.S stood on ‘His’
side. Jai too felt the same and appreciated him with his inner voice.
“It’s been two years...” she continued.
“...He came home. He is living in a flat which is far from this city. He even doesn’t
want me to go to his flat. But at least I’m glad that he is taking care of our
business up on my request. And also I’m very much impressed by that girl. She
is really taking very good care of him. I’m sleeping peacefully here just
because of her. In the beginning, I don’t know whether to trust her or not. But
after they got married a year ago ...”
“What, married??” both cried out at a
time with a shock.
“I know you got to know nothing about
his marriage. It might be really shocking for you. But it happened all at once
in a very short period of time. Actually he doesn’t want to take a choice at
that time. You very well known that he likes Chandana and of course she likes
him too. When her ...”
“Chandana!!” they both again exclaimed
looking at each other, “Chandana and C.S got married?”
“When her parents had fall-out to her
decision to support ‘Him, she faced...”, continued as she heard nothing “...lot
of trouble with her family. They even tried to force her for marriage with some
unknown person. He can’t be able to tolerate it. He tried to convince her
parents that they should be proud of her. Finally he convinced himself that it
is a waste of time and proposed her for marriage in front of her parents. Chandana
is ...” She observed a kind of anxiety in their faces and said “anyhow, I am
sure he will be happy with your return. He is still waiting for you, go and
talk to him.”
They left the house with huge unexpected
sort of happiness.
When they got into car, Jai said with
utmost excitement, “I still can’t believe that C.S left home and even got
married.”
“Ok. chill”, Vignudha broke his words”, it’s
really good news, but firstly we have to reach him as quickly as possible”.
C.S and C.S
C.S. who is he? Can’t they move further
for something without him? Is he really going to play an important role in their
lives?
May be he is.
C.S, Chandra Sekhar s/o. Ram Sekhar is like
a head-buried in a book type of character since from his childhood. He doesn’t
know anything except studies. He doesn’t even watch movies, T.V, cartoon etc., His
habit and hobby is also the same, ‘Reading’.
Ram Sekhar is very proud of
his son for always concentrating on education rather than anything else. But
his mother encourages the boy to play or to distract from studies or to take
some rest. But he never cared nor tried to understand his mothers support. He
is always first in his class. There is one girl named Prasanthi who is just like him and gave a
best competition to him. He got 98.5% in SSC and 98.7% in intermediary
education. With the same attitude and character, he joined in Engineering. The
only difference is that he needs to stay in hostel for Engineering. Actually,
it doesn’t matter whether he is staying in hostel or at home. Because he will
study in his room, comes down only to eat and go to college by bus, what
exactly is happening in the hostel. He doesn’t want to waste his time even in
bus journey, so he also reads in the bus. He won’t eat food much. He will have
no interest at all to eat. That’s why his mother always worried about his
health since childhood. She started to feed him up with a nutritious food to
balance his strength and study. After he joined in engineering, he has no one
to care about like his mother. During first year, every student will feel fear
of seniors or nervous for something. But fortunately no one wants to intervene
with him or tried to rag him. Siva, Aswitha and Neha are just like him from the
entire class who are called to be as ‘study materials’. In the first year, for
1st and 2nd semesters, he got 96.8% and 97.4%
respectively. Sekhar’s father had no
satisfaction about the percentages, even though he is the college topper. He called
Sekhar, and scolded him for scoring less percentage than compared to 10th
and 12th standards. For that, C.S felt
very miserable and tried studying even more Time than before. With the same or
even more effort, he managed to get 98.8%in second year 1st semester.
Continuous reading with less nutritious food contents etc., made him weaker day
by day. Since when he entered in to 2nd year 2nd semester,
He frequently suffered with one or more health issues. But he never cared for
anything and continued as before. He wrote five among the six semester exams as
usual but for his last exam, he felt some kind of dizziness, blur and fainting.
He drank bottle full of water before entering into the examination hall. As
soon as he took the question paper, started writing answers as he was feeling
strange. He wrote half of the exam with such a speed and suddenly took a halt.
He can’t be able to see clearly at his paper. He looked around which became
blur and cloudy. He rubbed his eyes but of no use. He became frail for every second.
He even can’t be able to move and his voice became negligible. Then it became
dark around him and he slept.
Now it is up to your imagination that what might
have happened to him.
Watching Sekhar sleeping in the middle of the exam
shook the others. Invigilator had noticed nothing until a girl called out that Sekhar
was sleeping. Not a single one got a slight thought that Sekhar might have
fainted. It looked as if he was slept rather than fainted. Invigilator had
struggled to wake him up. In due course, he woke up as though he had just woken
up in the morning. He looked around with uncertainty.
Invigilator yelled, “Do not sleep. Write your exam
else sit properly.”
He hadn’t had slight knowledge about what that
person is saying.
“Why I am here? Why can’t I go to sleep? What
exactly is going on here?”
Several questions had risen to his wits.
He looked around and realized that he was in an
examination hall.
“What the heck..? I am in exam hall! Which standard
examinations I am writing? 10th? 12th? ”, he gazed enquiringly at everything and
everyone.
He observed some papers in front of him.
“Do these papers belong to me? Can I check them? ”.
With some hesitation, he opened the booklet and also
saw a question paper. He observed every inch of it.
“What? It’s B.Tech 2nd year 2nd
semester paper. Am I studying 2nd year in this college? But it
seemed to me that I know nothing. Hey there is something under this desk. Hall
Ticket? I think it’s me in this photo. Chandra Sekhar? ”.“Oh god, what’s
happening here?? Please help me. Please let me out of this.”
He prayed to god in silence and sat there asking
several questions himself with a mix of frustration and confusion until the
completion of exam time.
After some time invigilator collected booklets from
everyone. He too gave the booklet and took all the belonging as the others did.
He came out and stood there for a while hesitating to take a step. Everyone was
walking away talking about the exam. He was expecting someone to talk with him,
but no one came to him. He moved to the edge of the corridor near the steps and
had a look. He was on the third floor which was last. He saw many other
students coming out of the classrooms while he was descending the steps, but he
seemed to know none.
When he took a turn in the second floor, he saw a
girl who is speaking to two other girls. When he saw her, instinctively his
face filled with joy. His frustration and all of his doubts got faded away. It
seemed to him that she was the only person he knows until now and was the only
person capable to answer all his questions. He tried to convince himself that
he knows her. But he doesn’t know any details of her, not even her name. Then
how can he confirm that he knows her? He asked himself the same question and
wants to try his luck. He stepped forward towards her.
Since he came out of sleep, he saw 60+ boys and
girls, but he can’t recognized anyone expect her. Why? Is she special to him?
Has she played a crucial character in his life until he lost his mind? Why he
strongly believed that he knows her? Who
is she?
‘Chandana.S’, she is Sekhar’s classmate and his Inadvertent
love pursuit.
What, Love? Is anybody kidding? He knows nothing
except studying, then how can he love someone?
He too doesn’t know whether it is love or something
else. Actually he doesn’t have time to think about these kinds of things. When
he entered into his first day of class, he saw her and had a weird and
wonderful feeling on her. He had this strange feeling never before. It’s like
he fancied and felt blissful, seeing her. But he used to see her only when he
was doing some unproductive work like entering into class, leaving the class,
when faculty makes jokes, when he had to sit still etc., He has no thought of
love but just to set eyes on her. It’s her smile and eyes, he always is fond of
and also had a soft spot for her way of speaking. It looks as if she is his
relief under pressure. This might be the reason that he can be able to make out
of her.
He cut short right in front of her. All the three
girls looking at him, but he was seeing only Chandana. She gave an expression
as tell me what you want.
“I...” Sekhar started to speak knowing nothing what
to ask.
He continued, “...Want to speak with you.”
She looked puzzled.
When he is trying to speak another word, one of his
classmates came to them, kept hand on Sekhar’s shoulder and started talking to
Chandana about exam. C.S does not like being interrupted, got angry and saw
down for about a second. All of a sudden, he twisted the boy’s hand to back and
said seriously with impulsive tone, “I am talking to her. Can’t you see that?”
Everyone got astonished with what had just happened.
Jai and two other boys, who just came out from one of the classrooms, saw them
and hurried towards him. The boy was shouting with pain, whom C.S holding
tightly.
“Hey, what are you doing? Leave him. Sekhar, just
leave him.”
Calling him with name made him to thought that jai
might have known him. C.S got hesitated for a second and left him as though he
got an order from higher authority.
“What happened?” asked jai.
None said anything.
When Sekhar was about to say something, another boy
came to him said, “What are you doing here? Let’s go. We need to hurry.” and gestured
to follow him.
Sekhar followed him in silence expecting a way out
his ambiguity.
“Hey Murali, Join us in the ground. Let’s rock.”
“Sorry guys, I’m leaving now. I’ll be back as early
as possible. You guys carry on.”
Listening to their conversation, Sekhar spoke to
himself, “Murali. So the boy whom I am following is Murali. Who is he? Why he
wants me to follow him? Why we need to hurry? Where are we going?”
“Ok, bye guys.”
“It’s just because of you, I am going home now. But
...” Murali is walking swiftly and saying to Sekhar.
He continued “... I wanted to go after two days. I
need you to understand that I want to enjoy here with my friends. This is the
last time I’m coming with you. Please tell your father that you will go alone
and don’t ask me to go along with you. Please, literally I’m begging you.”
C.S got understood nothing. With puzzled and blank
face, thinking that everything was going to be alright soon, Sekhar followed
him to hostel room. There he saw two beds, six suitcase bags in the corner and
books everywhere. Four among the six suitcases has tags written ‘Chandra
Sekhar’. As he knew that he was Chandra Sekhar, he grabbed the bags to bed and
opened all of them.
He saw the clothes and asked himself “Are these
clothes mine? Do my taste was this bad?”
He found odd combination of colour garments which
were all formal. No regular, casuals or fashion outfits. He felt very uneasy
seeing his own outfits.
Murali called him, “pack up quickly. We might miss
the bus.”
Sekhar searched his bags for something that might be
important to his sense. He found a wallet and saw ten thousand currency, two
credit cards and a photo with three persons in it. One is Sekhar and other two
might be his parents. He thrust the wallet into his back pocket and closed all
the bags.
It appeared to Murali that Sekhar is all set.
From the start of their journey, Sekhar followed him
blindly and did what he said without raising a single question. Only one thing
was revolving in his head that he was going to a place at least where he can
get answers for all of his questions. When they stepped out of the bus, they
were picked up by a car. When C.S is about to get down from car after him,
Murali said “Hey, why are you getting down? Want to come to my house or what?
Your father will kill me if you are late. Ok, bye”. He took his baggage and
left.
Finally Sekhar reached to a destination and saw a
big bungalow. Watching dumbfounded, he stood at the entrance door.
Does a person with this kind of character can play
an imperative role in Vignudha life? How can anyone think that C.S’s role is
going to be prominent?
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