Journey to Remember -- The Advice and the Truth

                                                     The Advice and the Truth

It was 8.15 when i actually woke up. I took off my bedsheet from my face and saw Rahul sleeping aside me.. I had to give him a sound to get his sleep away..."Its time da,,getting late...get up dude!!!" I told him as i took my brush, toothpaste and towel..."Ya da,,i ll be ready..."He replied..
We got ready by 8.45..Its really a peculiar thing to be noted when 2 guys stay in a room, they can be ready with every stuff within 20 minutes max, but when 2 girls are together in a room, even an hour is not enough for a single girl to get ready.
In the next 10 minutes we reached the college,, actually we had rushed to the college...As i was allotted the class room in mechanical department and he himself was from mechanical stream we were a lot happy to be in the same block,,though we were in different classrooms..We had decided to meet at lunch and tea break...
I bid bye to him as i entered my class...As usual, or as i had decided,, i took the third seat from last..Most of my classmates had already arrived,,hardly four or five of them had come after me..Ram was the one who was sitting to my left and Rakesh was on my right..I had known their names after a formal introduction with them...Engineering Physics was the first class and it was the duty of Mr. Shashi to make us engaged to the subject related stuff...After a brief talk on the types of waves..
"What are ultrasonic waves??" He asked..
Pin drop silence, as teachers say, was witnessed in the classroom...
"Can anyone answer??"He asked again..
"......" persistence of silence..
"Second row first one,,,can you answer??" He asked as he pointed towards the girls row,, i was a bit relieved..
"They are nothing but acoustical waves but with frequency higher than 20 kHz.They are highly energetic..They show negligible diffraction due to their small wavelength. Hence they can
be transmitted over long distances without any appreciable loss of energy." There came the reply..
I was shocked to some extent to see someone answer such perfectly even in an engineering college, though with girls, this was quite obvious..I turned my face just to see who it was and i was surprised to see that it,, was her...The same girl for whom i had given the change, and the same girl who had paid me in canteen for lunch..
"Very good..Sit down..Give her a round of applause" Mr. Shashi congratulated her..
The class gave her claps,,i dont think she noticed me,,but i was watching her for some time from then...
Then after a period of 1 hour and 30 minutes,, Engineering Physics and Engineering Graphics got over...
It was time for snacks break..I had told Rahul to meet him in the canteen, and so i decided to leave the class..Just then,,
I saw her crossing me along with a few other girls,,In a minutes time my mind told me to give back the 30rs which i had borrowed from her..
I checked for the change in my packet...And then..
"Excuse Me!!!" I murmured..
"Ya,,hii!!!"She replied as she turned over.. I realized she had recognized me correctly..
"Thanks for the help..."I told as i put my hands inside the packet to take single 20rs and a single 10rs note..
"Oh fine.."She replied as she took it..
"I didnt expect you to give that back,,anyways dats ok..,, but i had given you the token,,right??"She quizzed me..
"So???"
"You need not pay me,,just buy me the token",,She told..
"But am not going to canteen now,,"I lied..
"Its ok,,get me the token, whenever you find time in canteen"...She replied softly...Gathering some courage I asked her,,,
"Mmmmmm,,fine,,can we go to canteen now??",,I teased her,,as I knew girls in this college would never spend time with a guy that soon...
"Hey are you kidding me,,I just didnt want that 30rs from you,,i told you to buy the token only for that reason,,not for coming with you to the canteen..."She replied in a soft tone...She seemed smart..
"And i dont believe in taking back money from friends.." She added...
"What friends??" I was quizzed..
"Yup,,,i see everyone around me as good friends,,,and i always like being a friend too" Her eyes showed me how friendly she was and now i got the answer for the reason behind having a decent number of girls around her in such a quick succession,,,
"Hey,,thanks a lot for that..." I tried to be as formal as possible..
"No thanks between friends..."She added..
"Ope,,Sorry for dat thanks.." I replied..
"To be elaborate,,no sorry and no thanks between friends.." She added as she went past me..
She seemed so friendly with her talks that even the almighty would die for her friendship if he prefers to talk to her for a minute,,

I was feeling very happy to have two best friends within 2 days as the college had begun...

I had firmly believed on the lines,
Life is an awful, ugly place to not have friends around you...

I had always believed to have as much friends around me as possible,,,Some would be crazy on books, some on sports,, and some other in love...But i had always been so crazy about having friends,and i loved it to the core...
With lots of such philosophies running through my mind..I returned back to the class without meeting Rahul in the canteen,,,And after a long boring 6 hours,, i came back to the room..Just then,,Rahul came in,,and we started chatting about the things..He scolded me for not meeting him in the canteen,,he told me that he had waited for the whole 20 minutes, awaiting my arrival..Then I explained about the things which had happened during the interval...He kept listening to me with his one ear as the other was busy in hearing some song..After i finished,,he told
"Dont believe girls to a higher extent,,,they can be with you for years..but for them it would not even take a minute to betray you,,Just be careful da!!!"
His words sliced mine,,,but my belief for her was much more above his words..But my sense refused me to show that to him,,,hence i just nodded my head....
Which is the truth,,his words or my belief??
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.."..

JOURNEY TO REMEMBER -- Me and Rahul...

                                                             Me and Rahul


I finished my lunch at around 1.30 and i had an extra 10 minutes to reach my classroom from the canteen. I went to the main building to check for my classroom,,I read,,
"I year Computer Science and Engineering -- Mechanical Department,MS6"
It was a kind of 3-5 minutes walk from the main building to the mechanical department. I walked seeing students just as me moving here and there, and i hoped most of them i was seeing would be my friends in the coming days..
I reached my class room,, it looked good for me,, nicely arranged desks and benches with an overhead projector placed on the bench which was meant for the staff.. I took my place in the third bench from the back,, this was my traditional place and wherever i went i chose the same place as it fell between the front benchers and the back benchers..I neither wanted to be the most studious guy nor the most mischievous guy in the class..
Just before the bell rang,, most of my classmates had arrived to the class and had occupied their respective seats..Just like me, most of them remained silent, i guessed they too were experiencing something new,just as me..I knew none around me,but i firmly believed everyone in the class would turn out to be my friends in the future..Just as the bell rang Mr. Padmanadhan arrived..He took the great Mathematics-I class,,,I felt interesting for some period of time,,but eventually i had lost myself somewhere,,then i realized that,, i had been physically present but mentally absent..
After two classes Padmanadhan finished his lecture,,and it was time for Chemistry class,, Mr. Nayagam handled chemistry for us..I was a chemistry craze,,so it was fun listening to him..His teaching style impressed me to a good extent..And it was 4.30 when the final bell rang...It was a good day at the college,,of course not a bad one...I returned back to the hostel by walk and i decided to have a nice sleep to relax myself...
It was 7 when i actually woke up..i refreshed myself,,had a bath...and stood in the veranda noticing the vehicles travelling along the road and listening to "Musthafa Musthafa" sung by AR Rahman with headphones plugged in my ears..I was enjoying his voice and composition in a mild volume..

I had always followed the quote which rightly described me with friendship.
"Friendship has no survival value, rather it is one of those things that give value to survival"...

Just then i heard someone knocking the door...
I went from the veranda to the hall and opened the door..I saw a moderate colored guy , with light black moustache,wearing tshirt and jeans standing infront of me,,
"Hii!!! This is Rahul,, I year Mechanical engineering,,Me gonna stay with u for the next 4 years,,Whats ur name??"He asked in a soft and quite a friendly tone as he moved past me..
"Heyy!! am Karthick I year CS" as i gave my hand, and we shook hands together...
"Hey,,,how was the colls today,,enjoyed ah??" He asked with much of expectation just as I was earlier in the day..
"Not to the most,,but was good..."I replied in a low tone...
He kept the two huge bags which he had with him on the shelf and he started speaking...
"Hey,,you are a lucky guy man,,,being in a CS department,,you can enjoy!!!,we are after all mechanical students,,,no girls,no love,no dating and nothing...but one thing is for sure is that we would enjoy more than u"he teased me friendly...I liked it though...

Then we chatted a lot till 11 in the night...I had understood that he had been from a poor background...his father was a load man who works at late night,,He had an elder sister and an younger brother..Though he was poor he didnt wished to expose his poverty to others,,He mentioned that he had shared it with me as i was going to be with him for the next 4 years and he believed that we were to be good friends...I felt pity for him and I assured him that i would be a good friend to him...
We watched a film on TV and slept at 2..I myself didnt believe, that i got so friendly to him,,we shared a lot, we smiled, we laughed and it was a real fun and happiness the whole night...I slept with a happy heart and a great feeling that i had got a good friend to cherish for my life...
I had never expected this friend was going to influence me in the biggest decision i had took in my life...
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