I was pleasantly surprised when I saw the dumb girl Sanjana suggesting the circuit building. Guess she was not dumb after all. When she said that we needed a diagram, I vouched in, and after I completed the drawing I heard Rahul say that she did not have a mobile.
But I instantly knew that she was lying as her face screamed guilty. She is very easy to read. So, she lied to him so that she could not give her mobile number. Interesting!!
After the discussion, we started leaving and I realized I was carrying her notes and I saw her going back into the library hiding from that Senior.
"What is she doing," I heard Jay asking me. "That senior right there, he asked for her number", I said pointing towards the senior.
"Oh, she is already quite popular I see", said Jay. We waited for her to come out and handed the book to her. She just thanked us and left almost running away. Maybe from the senior, I thought.
I told Jay that I was going to meet my grandpa and went ahead in the direction of my home. I reached home after a 2-hour drive. Our university is quite far from our house hence, my grandpa purchased an apartment near the Campus.
I parked my car in the driveway and entered the house.

I saw Shiv and Meera Singhania, my so-called parents in the living room. I ignored them and started walking towards my grandpa's room. "Akshath, how are you? when did you come? How is your college life?", asked Meera Singhania.
They did not give a flying fuck about me since I left home to attend the University but now she wanted a small talk. I am not up for this shit. I just ignored her and was about to leave but then another voice interrupted stating, "It's rude to ignore your elders. Where are your manners Akshu? Is this what we taught you?", Shiv Singhania started.
"You should have realized it by now that you did not teach me anything. Hell, we did not even see eye to eye for the past few years. So you should be the last person talking about teaching manners," I reacted, and in the meantime, I saw Grandpa entering the scene.
"What's going on? Why are you yelling at each other?", asked Grandpa. "Your grandson is ignoring us and giving us an attitude when asked about his well-being", replied Shiv Singhania.
"Shiv and Meera, give me your mobile phones", Grandpa asked. They looked confused and handed over their phones. He clicked on something and showed their mobile screens to them respectively.
"You see that is the call history that you had with your Son. The last time you called your son was 9 months ago to bring the file you forgot at home. Right, Meera? And my dear son Shiv, I do not even want to talk about your call history. It is showing as 2 years ago," replied Grandpa with sarcasm.
"It's not like we do not want to spend time with him Dad, we were just busy with our work," said Mr. Shiv. "You shouldn't have brought him into this world if you were that busy with your career. Realize your mistake before it's too late", announced Grandpa walking out into the garden with me trailing behind him.
"So did you have your lunch? how is your college? did you meet any girls? do you have a girlfriend now? I don't mind if you even had a boyfriend, I am broad-minded you know", Grandpa started raining me with the questions.
"Woah, stop your imagination right there old man. Yes, I had my lunch. College is great, I did not meet any girls and no I am straight", I replied to all the questions.
"So how are boys doing?", asked Grandpa. "All are good. We will come home the next weekend as we have projects to work on. I will have to leave early in the morning", I said to him.
"That's good to know. Please enjoy your college life, my boy. Don't think too much about me. I am perfectly alright. Focus on getting a good girlfriend", said Grandpa smiling at him. I smiled back and started to tell him about my college life. Grandpa asked me to review a few files and assigned a few tasks.
By the time I was done with my work, it was already Dinner time. I went downstairs and had my peaceful dinner with my Grandpa as my biological parents left for hospital.
I returned to my room and soon enough the earlier conversation started replaying in my mind. Why do they affect me so much even after all these years of negligence?
I soon drifted back to sleep.
The next day, I had breakfast with my Grandpa and started driving towards the coffee shop with my baby accompanying me.

Akshath's Baby
The weather is cloudy and beautiful. I want to have dinner outside today with my friends. As I was about to call them, I saw an incoming call from that bitch Trisha Rathore. I wanted to cut the call but my Grandpa reminded me to handle her with care as there was a huge business deal that was yet to be signed with Rathore's. It's not like we cannot operate without their partnership but with this deal, we can acquire a lot of benefits.
I reluctantly answered the call and soon came an irritating voice. "Hello handsome, how are you? ", I replied with a fine and then she continued "You know what, I came to know that you are ignoring me so I decided to put an end to this which means there is some surprising news for you. I got accepted into the same university as you for a fashion designing course", she said and I felt like she just dropped a bomb on me.
I don't want her anywhere within the 200-meter radius. I faked my congratulations and told her that I was driving and ended the call. Once I reached the coffee shop, it was already 10:15. I was 15 minutes late. As I entered, I saw Jay, Rahul, Sanjana, and another girl chatting and sipping their coffee.
My eyes fell on Sanjana and she looks beautiful. She has a good dressing sense and I saw her pushing her thick hair from her face. Jay saw me looking at her and raised an eyebrow. I averted my gaze and took a seat between Jay and Rahul.

(Consider her dress in the above picture and not her hair)

Sanjana's Hair
"Oh, you are here. I called you some time ago," said Jay looking at me. I simply nodded indicating that I would tell him later. Our professor mentioned that we have to submit a handwritten file about the project which can be no more than 5 pages.
"Okay, so how do we travel? you guys have your vehicle and if we book a cab it would take a lot of time", said Rahul. "Okay then, you and Isha can drive with me and Sanjana will be driving with Akshath", replied Jay smirking at me.
I know he would do something like this. As Isha was about to protest, Rahul exclaimed that we had to hurry up as it may rain. We got into our respective cars and started driving. This was my first time traveling with a girl. Hell, I would not even allow any girl to even touch my car.
Sanjana reluctantly took a seat beside me and fastened her seat belt. Both of us did not initiate any conversation. This girl seems to be different from all the other girls I came across because
1) She is not just a pretty face, she knows the subject.
2) Okay I take it back She is not dumb!
3) She refused to give her number to Rahul, Hmm seems a decent enough person considering the college started 5 days ago.
4) She was hiding herself from seniors due to their earlier interaction. Introvert!
5) She is like an open book and too easy to read.
6) She is shy and introverted considering that she only made one friend from her class who is none other than Pranay but tends to be more relaxed around people that she knows as she got scolded by the professor for talking in the class.
7) She doesn't indulge herself in unnecessary conversations. She only speaks when spoken to.
8) She is not the type to throw herself at every popular guy and doesn't entertain anyone even though she is beautiful enough to do so.
I found those qualities decent enough to stop comparing her with other girls. Once we reached the location, I found that I could not take my car inside the narrow alley. Hence I parked the car at a parking lot. Then we both started walking towards the shop in the alley. I got a text from Jay that he would be at the location in 10 more min as they were stuck in traffic.
As we started walking, rain droplets started to fall. "Shit", I cursed. I do not like rain and thunderstorms as it reminds me of an incident from my childhood. Never in my life had I been fully drenched and felt the touch of rainwater on my skin. Within a few seconds, it started pouring. I started panicking and hyperventilating. I was shocked and could not move.
Then I saw a soft hand gripping me and running. That's when I realized I was showing my weakness in front of someone who was neither my grandpa nor my friend. She led me to the nearest abounded shed in the alley. I was still shaking with my nerves twisting Painfully and gripping my stomach.
"Hey, please look at me. Don't look at your surroundings, just look into my eyes. Now take deep breaths. I will place my hand on your chest and we will do it together okay?", Sanjana said and I started looking into her eyes.
"1, 2, 3, ..................., 10, now look at me and just listen to my voice. Just think about it as someone throwing small water balloons from the sky or think about it as a fin whale present in the sky is urinating on all of us as it produces a large amount of pee and when it pees scientists say that it feels like it's raining", she said and I burst out laughing.
This is the very first time someone made me laugh this wholeheartedly in such a long time that too during rain which was impossible. "Who even talks about urine when someone is having a panic attack?", I asked her. "Ahh sorry about that, I did not know how to calm you down. By the way, Fin whale is the largest urine-producing animal", she said defending herself.
I just smiled at her and noticed her white tank top getting transparent and she was shivering. I took off my jacket and gave it to her. She refused at first but I insisted and she took it thanking me.
In the meantime I heard my friend's voice "Akshath, where are you? Akshath !!!! Fuck my phone is dead", came Jay's voice from a few feet away.
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