29th March, 2024

"Oye Aar-" "Does this class look like a fish market to you, Yukti?" Ronika scolded Yukti as she sighed aggressively and went back to her seat as I slumped back on the last bench.

"Miss Ronika Trivedi, THIS IS a free period! At least we can talk to her right now!" Falak called her out and everyone supported her as a commotion started in the class.

"DO YOU ALL WANT ME TO COMPLAIN TO RITU MA'AM?" Ronika aggressively hit the duster on the table as everyone started shouting at her more as if they didn't care about budhiya's anger storm.

"omg shut UP everyone! We can talk after a week so why this commotion!? If I am accepting it then why not you all?" I shouted, a sense of misery and command mixing with my voice as everyone went silent and started doing their own work.

"Now that's how you handle a class" Yash quietly taunted as Falak gave her a high five under the bench as I just took out my book and started studying.

Ab tum log soch rahe hoge ki Aarohi Govind, Miss Topper is in the last bench?! And Ronika is the monitor?!

Kaise?!

Well to know that, Let's have a recap to...

27th March 2024

"But miss this is correct-" "Now you're going to teach a teacher how to teach? How funny is this!" She laughed like the witch she is as I saw my best friend roll her eyes on her.

'Yeh budhiya pakka holi event ka badla le rahi hai mujhse' I also internally rolled my eyes at budhiya as I tried to convince her that my answer is correct and that I actually deserve 6/6 rather than Ronika who wrote absolute rubbish and still got a 5/6.

For context : Since Miss Budhiya was taking up a free class of ours (i don't even know why-), She gave us a 6 marker question about US hegemony.

"Why did you cut a whole mark just because I missed a single keyword?" I argued as she gasped like I said something sinful.

"Don't you know that a single missing keyword can put your whole answer down in a drain?" She said as I remembered how important are keywords to her.

"Miss I know that keywords are very important but a one full mark just for a single missing word is absur-" "I found a grammar mistake!" She shouted as she stood up abruptly.

"I swear I read it three times before I submitted this to you and I can guarantee that there is no mi-" "You wanted to challenge me right?" She shouted as I backed off a little.

"N-no why would I challenge yo-" "okay then, let me use grammarly and if there is ANY single grammatical error.. You won't be able to talk to anyone during school hours until next Tuesday." She said, sending a smirk towards me.

Me being the atyant (too much) confident kid, I said, "Sure you can! You are not going to find any!"

Back to present.

And later she found that I spelled 'organization' in US english and she HATES words in US english, she says that it's 'unethical'. ('Great' minds think alike, indeed)

(Su : the fact that the error finder in docs also corrects organization to organisation- 💀)

And here I am, being fully ignored by my own classmates. 'God i hate her so much.' I thought as I saw Ronika madam shoot a glare in my direction.

Great, just great!

April 1, 2024

"Happy April Fools Day Aarohi." I sighed as I waved papa a bye and entered the school being almost empty since most of the main subject teachers went on a training session excluding English and optional subjects in our school, which meant I wouldn't see budhiya today.

Chalo aaj ek cheez toh achhi hui!

When I entered the school, I saw the students of 12th huddled around the notice board. 'Must be the results of our Saturday test.' I thought as I made my way towards the board as I saw a notice dated today that said:

This notice hereby announces that due to most of the student's absence today, class 12th students from all the streams would sit in the Mini Auditorium.

- Mr. Ramesh Shukla
Head of Management Department

I sighed as I made my way towards the auditorium.

At the Auditorium.

I got a seat on the top most row, right next to the path in the middle as I kept my bag to reserve it and went towards the nearest water filter to fill up my bottle.

When I got back, I saw girls and guys sitting next to each other, laughing and giggling their lives away. 'Hayeee kash mera banda bhi aaya hota, usko side mein bitha ke gossip karti uske saath.' I thought as I suppressed a smile and got back to my seat.

Sitting back down, I noticed a bag next to mine as I just shrugged and got my books out and started studying.

"Ms. Govind?" Someone (obv him, iss naam se sirf 1 he bulata hai but my brain has a slow processor guys, kya kre.) called me out as I turned back to look at them and I swear my eye popped out of the eye sockets.

Bhai yeh kya witch craft hai?? Maine bula liya aur Akshit aa bhi gaya?!

I was chatting away with my classmates as I saw Ms. Govind obseringthe auditorium and trying to suppress a smile. 'What is she thinking about? her crus- main kyun itni tension le raha hun?' I sighed as I went back to the conversation.

"Chalo main chala apni bandi ke pass baithne!" Samarth said as we saw her girlfriend waving at us and we al laughed and went towards our respective seats and that's when I saw her sitting next to MY seat.

Coincidence? I think not.

I went towards my seat as I called her, "Ms. Govind?" and she looked like she saw some sort of ghost in front of her.

"Oh- uhh h-hi! You scared me there! Hehe.." She nervously giggled as she asked, "Tum kaha baithe ho?" to which I replied with "Here only."

"So if you may-" "Oh right right-" She stood up from her seat to let me walk in. I took my seat and had my books out on the adjustable desk of the chair. "How come Mr. Topper is sitting at the back of the class- well auditorium in this case!?" She inquired.

"Well, I am not really interested in optional classes you see, and during these classes I either complete my question banks or pyq sheets which can be risky doing in front of the teacher, right?" I ranted. She was all silent and just looking at my face.

"Ms Govind?" No reply. "You know, It's not good to stare at someone's face for so long?" Again zero reply. "I know main handsome hun par aise he dekhte rahoge mujhe, toh pyaar ho jayega aapko." I teased while tapping my pen on her desk. She blinked, once, twice and back to reality.

(I know I look handsome but if you keep staring for too long, you might end up falling in love.)

"Oh sorry sorry. I didn't mean to, it's just you aren't really open, but around me I've noticed how you just talk non stop." She smiled embarrassedly rubbing her ears which had turned a shade of pink.

"Han bas comfortable sa lagta hai." I replied shortly. "Waise the question applies to you as well! How come you are sitting here?" she sighed before answering, actually before telling me the whole Ramayan.

"Man, that lady hitler! But why does she target you so much?" I questioned further keeping my books aside. "Even I don't know. Maybe she is taking out past life revenge or something." She shrugged.

At this point the whole auditorium was filled with high and low chats and whispers. That's when Mr. Shukla received a call and left after asking us to read the chapter quietly. The sound grew louder but low enough to be restricted within the auditorium walls.

"Such a boring day!" She slumped back. "I know, actually more as the 2 fun elements are missing." I replied. "True, they would've made this time pass within a fraction of seconds with their goofiness." "True that!" I added.

15 minutes passed by and all I did in those few minutes were:

•Tried solving an equation

•Passed a smile to Ms. Govind

•Continued with the equation

•Again passed a smile to her

•Started the next no.

And the loop continued till next 30 minutes. The 1st period was now over.

As the students shuffled their seats to be comfortably seated with their friends I just sat observing a certain mystery by my side.

Fun fact: I have never looked or observed any female in my life ever.

Her coal black hair tied back with a cute rubber band, few strands falling on her chin to which she kept on tucking behind her ears that drew my attention to the earrings with a cat on it, fixed on her earlobe. Her eyes that dazzles up in the sunlight, is not completely visible at the moment as she is wearing specs. Not to mention her habit of rubbing her ears everytime she made a mistake while solving some pyq of CUET.

(Su : aur yeh mahapurush bolte hain that he's not a simp-
Hum andhe nahi hai Akshit-)

'Akshit-' Also the- 'Akshit stop staring at her, you creep!' I came back to my senses as I realised that I've been staring at her for too long now. But the moment was good until-

"I'M SO SORRY I'M LATE" I heard an annoying voice and we didn't even had to look back at her to know who she was as she approached Ms. Govind. "Uh I'm sorry but didn't Ritu ma'am asked you to sit alone? Why are you not obeying it and ALSO you're seating with a guy? Go and grab a different seat, right now!" She commanded as she sighed and was about to get up when I thought enough was enough.

"Uh Ronika.. first of all you are not an official monitor. Second, she is the one who grabbed a seat before you so you don't have any rights to move her from the seat. Third, Ritu ma'am is currently out of station and it's the whole school's class 12th sitting in the auditorium, it's not just 12-H1 who's sitting here. And lastly, why does it bug YOU that I'm next to her? The whole auditorium is having the same arrangements, why don't you go and yell at them?" I concluded as I saw everyone was speechless, including her and Mr. Shukla who just came back from the call as I proudly continued my work.

We saw Ronika bring her head down in shame and walked towards an empty seat as I saw Ms. Govind covering her mouth and laughing. "She deserved that, didn't she?" I whispered to her as she nodded her head in agreement.

Justice : served!

The class continued and by 3rd period every single student were just done. A hustle among each group could be heard. "They should just give us a half day today!" Ms. Govind stated.

"Hmm, you are right. No one seems to be paying attention in the class anyways." I replied jotting short notes of 'Human reproduction'.
(Ps: Please do not judge guys.)

"What are you doing anyways?" she asked peeking in my notebook. And I was quick enough to close it as I didn't wanted her to think of me as a creep because I was highlighting some points from 'Female reproductive part'.

"Aree, itna kon sharmata hai yarr! Padh he toh rahe toh and it's important to learn all these anyways." she just shrugged. "Still it's a little awkward." I added putting my books aside yet once again to have a conversation. But I couldn't as-

"Dear students, I would like to inform you all that due to lack of teachers and students attendance we are declaring half day for a week from tomorrow onwards. So you can leave after the recess bell." Ms. Joshi informed reading out the notification she just received.

Everyone cheered but were silenced by Ms. Joshi as her class was still not over.
"Seems like if I would have wished for him today, he would have been mine too." she muttered.

'Wished for him? That means she definitely has a crush on someone.' For some reason my heart didn't appreciated this new information.

"Kuch kaha aapne?" I asked but she denied by shaking her head and drawing her attention back to the class. The recess bell rang which meant school hour was over for today.

♡

Sushi's note: Hey readers, hope you liked and enjoyed this chapter!

What do you think, will this concept of 'Aarohi's crush' affect Akshit?

The drama is yet to come.

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