I felt my head turning into a huge iron ball even my eyes felt like glued. The only thing I can sense correctly was that I'm on a bed with hard mattress.

"It's ok, Ajiya you've been through it many time, it's ok. Try to fight....." I kept uttering words to myself.

The darkness infront of my eyes started getting lighter and brighter by each passing moment.

All of sudden there was.........

BAAM!!!!

The light was too bright for me to handle closing eyes for even a second feels like will cause me death. It's a terrible feeling.

I opened my eyes fully.

The first face I saw was of worried Angela and then of Vasam.

"Are you ok?"

"Feeling terrible."

"It's a relief that you are conscious." Angela said dramatically in exaggerated tone.

"Rest for some time until we get back to you." Vasam smiled at me.

"What's the time?"

"2:45." Angela replied. Now I know why she is sounding mad. Our classes end at 2 o'clock.

"Let's go then." I tried to sit up. Failing terribly.

They helped me to stand on my foot and then we came out of the school gate. Moving toward the auto-stand. Vasam was carrying my bagpack.

It would be so embarrassing for him to carry a girly bagpack. 

But the important question was, "How, I fell?"
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In whole journey all my mind was occupied by the past incident that I traveled while being in that unconscious state.

All those memories where playing infront of me like a film.

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"Jiya." Aliya, my cousin called me.

"How is your school going?"

"Pretty good." I answered still focusing on my homework or acting like that.

"Made friends?"

"Somewhat."

Khala was informed about my school incident as I was late yesterday. So, she asked me to not go to school for today and take rest but the thing is I want to go there. I want to meet that girl there are many questions that should be answered for my mental stability as all I can think from morning till this evening is whatever happened at school.

"Jiya, want some refreshment." She forwarded a juice can to me.

I rolled my pen on the desk and grabbed can from her in a hope that she would leave. But she didn't instead she clinked her can with mine and smiled at me. 

"Jiya, are facing something hard?" I looked at her in amaze. She was sitting with her legs on the other, on the chair next to me.

"It's nothing like that." I shrugged my shoulder and took a sip of the juice.

"You always stay quiet and never interact. From what I remember you were never a person who study too hard...... But now a days all you do is stay in room with nose buried in books." I always thought Aliya would be the last person who would come to talk about me. Somewhere in me I felt overwhelmed.

"It's just that I can't cover up with the course......." She didn't let me complete.

"I know this situation when we want to lock ourselves within us......." I was staring at her. "Because we just don't want anyone to come near the radar of our heart."

We both are of same age. Even at the exact time, date, month.

Aliya was always like this, she likes to understand other and wants them to talk to her. It always amaze me how can a person wants to gather everyone's sadness. At least I'm not like this.

"I'm right?" She gently kept her hand on mine.

I took my hand back and tried to curl my lips up and I guess I hardly succeed. Taking another sip I thanked her for the juice as I know my other word on this topic will make me weak and I'm here in Assam. Dibrugarh. Not to be weak because of my past.

She stood up after letting out a heavy sigh.

"Jiya......" I turned to her. "Ever tried some religious stuff? That helps."

I didn't respond to her and she left. I kept the can on the desk.

"Why everyone keep of giving me advices?"

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"You are here." Vasam came to me and sat beside me.

"How are you feeling?"

"That wasn't any big deal." I said playfully.

"But you don't know Avni?"

"Avni?"

"That girl...... because of whom you fell......" He left his sentence.

"Isn't her name DJ?"

"That's what everyone calls her because of her......." Again he left his words incomplete while looking in front. I turned my head toward the direction where he was looking.

That tall and fair girl was exactly in front of us sitting on the opposite side of the huge oval table of the study area.

I'm sure she wasn't here before Vasam came.

"Hi!" Her tone was more pleasing then that day.

"Hi!" There wasn't any reaction on my face except curiousness.

"I'm sorry for that day I was about to help you but everything happened as flash and you understand right?" She kept that apologetic expression glued on her face.

"I understand how your legs went out of control and came in front of me while I was stepping away." I mocked feeling all happy as her expression changed to blank for a moment as  then went back to apolozing one.

I smacked her face with my words.

She slowly slide a card toward me. The first word I read on that was. "DJ's rock" it was written in bold letters and the card was all glittery and of rainbow color.

"Please come to my party, it's my way to apologize." I looked at Vasam before saying anything. He was already looking at me. I can sense his eyes were tensed as his eyebrows were tighten up.

"Sure." I took the card and kept it below my books.

She waved me a bye and left.

"You shouldn't have accepted it." Vasam huffed.

"Now the mess is done."

"You knew it's going to be a mess still accepted her invitation?" He turned to me with curiosity written all-over his face.

I shrugged my shoulders and went back to study.

"How can I tell him that it's really what I want to try? To be someone like her? Daring? Bully? Evil?"

"The mess is not done, it's just a start." Vasam too started to study as I didn't pay attention to his remark.