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"Hyperopia: a common vision condition in which you can see distant objects clearly, but objects nearby may be blurry."

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Going to college or even at work, on a Rain Day is fuzzy and will make you feel all lazy. Henceforth, one might make a fake stomach ache, fever, terrible headache, acidity, etc excuse so that they get to spend a day inside their house with Pakodes and Special Indian Ginger Milk Tea. That would be a perfect mini-vactions for Indians.

And Moreover, come on, This is Mumbai. The City spends almost half of the year in the Rain. I am not exaggerating!!

"Come on yaar! They would have early that today we are not having classes."

Slamming the bag on the table, I sat down on the chair with my whole face being make-up with an annoyed expression.

To be honest, the day wasn't that bad. I love Rainy Season soo much that I consider it too my first love. I truly love this season, but who would want to get up from the bed at 7 am to go the college which cancelled all the lectures, instead of relaxing your body while laying on the bed and listening to patter of the water droplets falling on the roof which add up a strong rhythmic beat to the beautiful vocalisation of Monsoon winds.

"Don't get angry, man! Janvi have planned something so that we can spend time together as friends. She will brief on it when Aavyansh comes."

Nodding to what Aarya said and muttering a small 'Yes', before my eyes went towards the door waiting for that grey-eyed boy because of whom yesterday, I spend the rest of the day with a smile attached to my face, to grace us with his presence.

I have to without any choice, drift my eyes from the door to Vansh who started gossiping about why the college have cancelled the lectures of just First Year and Second Year students, as I didn't wanted anyone to grow suspicious of my actions.

"... So the Juniors of the Junior College, i.e., the 11st Standard's classes are starting from Tomorrow, but as the college have introduced a new course for the Senior College, i.e., First Year (us), Second Year, bla bla bla, they are facing a scarcity of classes. So that's why today the committee have decided to revise all the timetables of the Senior College students to see whether they can do something to adjust the fully occupied classes and also, make a new timetable for the 11th ones."

Whatever he said kind of makes sense. If that's what they are planning to do, then all of your timetables would change. I mean I know that the structure of the timetable will not change but what if there's no lecture which I share with my friends. Obviously it would be great if there would be more classes of us together, but still, the changing timetable is making me anxious.

"Here he comes."

My head was wanting to turn with the speed of light, but I took it slow when I heard Aarya indicate about his arrival.

As soon as he came, Janvi started speaking. Listening attentively to what she was saying, he sat down on the vacant chair beside me in the right direction and turned towards me. Noticing his glace, I turned in his direction, gave him me smile of acknowledgment which he happily returned back before we both turned once again to hear what Janvi was saying.

".....We come from the same college and from the same class, but we don't know normal basic things about each other. So when I came to know about how they cancelled all the lectures for First Year students, I thought that this would be a perfect time to get to know each other.

About the game we are playing, I know that you all will go, 'wtf' when you hear about this, but trust me, this game is the one of the best icebreaker of all the time."

Everyone nodded when she stopped speaking to take validation from us before speaking ahead. No one had to say anything expect me.

"To be honest, I am okay with any game until unless it's not Truth or Dare. That game is horrifying."

Truth and Dare. I think this game is the most cruel game in the whole world. If I have to be honest, then no, I hadn't had any bad experience but I have seen many people playing it, giving stupid immature dares which violates our personal boundaries and asking personal truth questions. Also, if one refuse to tell the truth and refuse to do the dare, some immature people will tease you forever. It breaches once privacy and makes a person do a thing which one doesn't wants to do.

Yes, my point of view is rigid but what can I do, it's how I think and perceive about this game and I don't think it will change, at least for now.

"Good for you, Vaish cause it's not Truth and Dare. The game which we will playing is the legendary, 'Never Have I Ever' game and after that you are also going to share the experience."

Smiling assuredly, she said the first statement while looking at me as I gave her a grateful smile. The other statement she said looking at others, made three of them groan.

"Oh no!!"

"Damn!!"

"Please!!"

Priya, Dev and Vansh were the people who didn't wanted to play the 'Never Have I Ever' game as according to them, it's stupid and..... After that whatever they said, I wasn't able to catch it or comprehend it because of the noise radiating from the mix of opinions here on our table.

"Quite Everyone!!"

Speaking in a deep high-pitched angry voice in order to shut them up which I was successful in doing, I was going to speak when Vansh spoke in between.

"It's far worse than Truth And Dare, to be honest. I don't want to play it."

"I agree that there are some things which you don't want to tell anyone but listen to me, you don't have to tell that experience if you feel uncomfortable. You can make a cross sign with your hands or something like that if you don't want to do and no one will force to tell. But be honest when you are drinking."

I started speaking immediately after Vansh was done, but not in a hasty way as I wanted to make them understand that if they are thinking that their dark secrets are going to get revealed, then that's not the case. Everyone has the choice whether they have to tell their side of the stories or not.

I turned diagonally towards the right side where Vansh was sitting and giving me a weird look. It didn't took a long for me to understand what look that was.

"Water!! I mean, when you are drinking water. Be honest while drinking, obviously, the water."

"Vansh, stop it! You are playing with fire."

Aavyansh said to the laughing maniacally Vansh who was sitting on his right side. While the person sitting on my left side, who was Aarya, patted my back to calm me down to whom I immediately sent a thankful smile.

"Okay I am ready to play, only if we keep a Washroom break after one hour because damn sure, we all would need that break."

You can't stay mad on Vansh for a long time, and I am no exception to it as I laughed but immediately covered it by scoffing when I saw him passing me a smug smile.

After everyone laughed at his comment but later they seriously decided to keep the Washroom Break, we started the game with Janvi saying the first statement.

"Never Have I Ever had a darkest secret which the people sitting on the table doesn't know."

That was smart. Very smart question, but we oversmarted her by drinking the water from our watter bottle and immediately made a cross sign indicating that we don't want to revealing our dark secret.

"I see what you are doing there."

"That was a smart question, smartass."

After rolling her eyes on our move and making a grumpy sound, the game moved on further.

"Yo! Today Vaishnavi is behaving like a Spit of Fire. I am totally loving it, Babe."

After Priya said that, we both bumped our fists before moving forward the game towards Vansh, and then towards Aavyansh.

"Never I Have Ever set the whole house on fire when I was cooking."

After throwing a suspicious look at him, I drank the water and looked around to see whether anybody else have done it or not.

The reason of me passing me a suspicious look...? It's because I clearly remember telling about my bad cooking history to Priya in our Communication Skills lecture when the lecturer was 30 minutes late. I also remember how he passed me, 'oh-you-stupid-person' look cause apparently, he is very good when it comes to cooking.

"What...? No one have did it!?! I am only the one."

That's worst. I hoped at least someone else would have that absent-minded mind like me and would have screwed the dinner badly. This situation is like, 'aapne pero pe khud kuladhi marna'.

(Translation- 'beating your own leg with a hammer.)

"That's what it looks like. Now tell us what you did."

Aarya said with utter most excitement while I looked at her with a sheer disappointment before shrugging it off with a smile. I started thinking which 'Tale Of My Bad Luck When It Comes To Cooking', should I recite to them.

"It's not that I hate cooking but it's also not that I love it. It depends on my mood. But I am definitely not a girl who loves loves loves loves cooking. Basically, my relationship with cooking is little bit complicated.

So let's say, in short, I am not interested in cooking and I just learnt to make basic food just for my survival so obviously I have a lot story where I was being absent-minded.

One day, my mom told me to make rice. So I took out the pressure cooker, washed the rice, checked whether the siti of the cooker was tight or not, I also checked the lead of the pressure cooker in the end, but I forgot to do something.

And that was...... I forgot to pour two glasses of water inside the pressure cooker. AND BOOM!!"

After choosing one from the millions of the disasters, note the sarcasm, I told them the most recent happened phenomenon with my dramatic expressions and voice.

I told them everything. How luckily the cooker didn't blasted itself and how I ruined the rice which I guilty of since then, expect the part where my mother scolded the hell out of me. Well, it's embarrassing to tell your friends about the part where your Mother Lion tires your flesh up when you did a mistake.

The scolding were soo horrible that whenever I remember that night, I don't get scared of that cooker incident, but get scared of what happened next.

"Ohhhhhhhh!!!"

"Your dramatic voice and expressions was far more dramatic than the story."

The moment Janvi was going to say that it's my turn next, her phone rang as she excused herself for attending it not before telling us to pause the game or else she will kill us.

After she went outside, Vansh started making strategies of how to annoy Janvi on the context of the threat she made before leaving, while I glared Aavyansh just for him to pass me a cheeky smile. This guy!!

He definitely knows where, when and how to use that cheeky smile of his.

As soon as Janvi came, we started the game and I asked them the question I was very curious of.

"I am really really really curious about this so don't think of lying. So here comes the question, Never Have I Ever found someone in this group scary or intimidated to approach at first."

Silence swept over the table when I completed my sentence. It wasn't an awkward silence, but was a funny kind of silence.

The situation felt humourous when they all looked at me at the same time. But the humour was snatched away by the shock as my whole body drowned in the waters of tremendous shockness.

"Wow!! Me!?! All of you were scared to approach me!?! That's impossible!! If that's true, then everyone has to say why did they felt so."

I was done speaking when Vansh moved forward and dramatically kept his hands on the table as he actioned me that he is going to speak so I should shut up. Dramatic much!!

"I don't know about other, but for me, I was scared to approach you and I have an appropriate reason for it. Usually I don't find it hard to approach people as I am an extrovert and I like to make people laugh even though I don't personally know them. But when I saw you first, you looked someone who is kind of a serious person. And from my childhood, serious people scare hell out of me!!"

His dramatic self turned into more dramatic when he started acting on how he felt when he met me for the first time. Acting really doesn't suits him but that's what makes us laugh and happy.

"It's my turn now. For me, it was when we met at the Station for the first time in person. You remember...?"

Laughing at Vansh's miserable act, Priya said as she looked at me, waiting for me to nod at her question. Obviously I remember how awkward our first time face-to-face meeting was at the Railway Station, so I nodded quickly and spoke.

"Of course. I do remember. I was shocked because that was unexpected."

"Yeah. The happenings of that moment were sudden. So when I saw her, I immediately recognised her and looking how she widened her eyes, I knew that she also knew who I was.

I was happy, infact very happy to see her but one thing which caught me off guard was, her eyes."

"My eyes...?"

If someone ask me which body part you are most confident about, then my answer will always be, 'My Eyes'. I am very confident about my eyes, no one can bring down my confidence in that department. Weird flex but it's true. So when she said that my eyes caught her off-guard, I grew defensive. But as she's my good friend and I didn't wanted to sound rude and change the playful atmosphere, I toned down my voice and turned my sentence into a question.

"Yes. Your eyes. I mean they are absolutely beautiful but here's the thing. When you met online or hear or read their names, you start picturing them in your head. That's what happened.

Seeing your photos on Insta, talking to you, my mind created a real image of you instead of the reel. So, I thought that you are that you are 'a good girl with a good ass' type of girl because of your cute posts and motivational stories.

In my mind, you were strong yet a soft little girl. But when I saw your eyes, my image on you totally diminished.

Your eyes, they were indifferently powerful gorgeously dangerously beautiful eyes, completely different from that image with my mind created.

It felt like your eyes were protecting you, if I use a poetic phrase. But if I use a straightforwardly Priya's phrase, you are a 'a bad girl with a good ass'. You gave that 'Don't-mess-with-me-if-you-don't-want-me-to-disrespect-your-whole-existence' kind of vibes.

So yeah I wasn't scared like how Vansh was, but yeah, I was intimidated by you."

Trying to process what she said, I smiled at her. I have heard a lot of people saying that I look like a cold person even sometimes when I smile. I have got that cold visual from my father who always looks serious even though he is not when he is with me and my brother.

"Ummm... It isn't that bad as I thought it was. Now, next is Dev."

I skipped forward to know what happened with Dev when he first saw me. I don't know why but I really wanted to know what happened with him because I definitely remember our first chat on the WhatsApp and I am sure that he isn't the kind of guy who forgets easily.

"You hurt my ego once!!"

So, I was right. He is still holding grudges against me for our chats on Whatsapp and I guess that's why he never approached me or talked to me face-to-face at the first place.

"Tell me when I don't do that."

After saying, I look at him innocently with a pure angelic like smile. But I am sure that even though my eyes looked innocent, my smile was evil. A pure devil-like evil smile.

"You have to guess it, Miss and I am sure you already know it."

He rolled his eyes at me while looking very irritated by my actions. Even though I could see a little embarrassment on his face, I didn't pointed it out and teased him for that.

Yes, we are in the same group but we aren't that close to tease or irritate each other, expect the time where I had to pull him out of his perfect world where he is the main character and everything in this world revolves around him.

"Okay whatever, Mr. I understand. Priya's and Vansh's reasons makes sense. But out of all people, Aarya, don't tell me you were scared too."

I frantically looked at Aarya who also drank the water when I asked the question. To give me a response, to uncomfortably shifted on her place before nodding.

"Wow!!"

Encouraging her to speak why she felt like that, she finally started speaking. I believe that for best friends it's really very important to know each other's first impression because it tells a lot about one's personality. Yes, first impressions aren't everything and can be deceptive but they are important as well.

"Okay so, at the first day of college, I didn't approached anyone, and you know why. My introvert ass, made me not to go and meet up people but after two days, i saw you and I wanted to talk to you but was scared to approach. Then when finally, when I talked to you, I was like- this girl is exactly the way I had imagined you to be.

Like reading your book on Wattpad, my first impression on you was- Wow!! What a great writer!!

Then when we started talking, I was like she understands me and she knows what I am feeling. And after few days, I really felt comfortable with you. You could say that in the crowd, you were the one whom I felt comfortable with.

You can't count it as the first impression but after some time when I got to know you more, then I came to know how you are sweet, caring, a person who listen to others opinions too you and value them too.

I remember before our first meeting, you were reading a wattpad story in class... Haha... That was brave of you.

Because of you my college life got saved from lonely mess. Because I know my best friend will waiting for me when I leave the train. Because of you, I waited for mahim.

So girl you are really a great friend!!

And thank you for being a part in my life."

Aww. That's what all I could say with tears in my eyes showing how the words had overwhelmed me. And without thinking twice, I started talking about how much meeting her means to me.

"The first time I met you, I was overwhelmed because of your geniune compliments. No one have ever praised me for my writings like you did. So I was like, 'damn!! What's wrong with me!?!' because all I could do was stare at you with shock cause I didn't knew what to do next, what to say or what not to.

Trust me, for the first few days, I used to just come to college for attendence but then afterwards because of you, because of an amazing friend, I started coming to college as I felt like doing soo without even a tint of anxiety. The last week of the junior college without you, was hell. Seriously, worst than the hell.

You are such an amazing, beautiful and gorgeous friend.

Thank you soo much for existing."

The air got to much emotional because of my sudden outburst but I really needed to take it out. Thank God, my friends were supportive and comforted me by their sweet words and soft voice.

After I was okay, I asked Janvi and Aavyansh about what they thought, but they straight away refused to tell me in what sense they were afraid, scared or intimidated by me.

Everyone was now curious about what their own first impressions on us were. So keeping the 'Never Have I Ever' game aside, as we decided spill out all the beans about the impressions.

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"Let's come to the first crushes of my dear friends. Never I Have Ever had a first major major vala big crush. Now, spill the beans, my dear friends."

Everyone groaned when Vansh suggested that, and Dev even threw his earphone's bud across the table towards him. That throw was, 'saath samundar par'.

After the impression game was over, we again started the 'Never Have I Ever' game again and when it was Vansh's chance to say, he took the chance.

"Come on yaar!! Don't be the infamous fun blooper."

He said, while I rolled my eyes. No matter how much funny this guy is, he is annoying but that's what we all love about him. Plus, he feels the atmosphere with his positively happy fun going vibes around us which we all appreciate and are thankful off.

"I don't care about revealing about my first crush, until you all confidentially sign an imaginary contract paper of 'whatever-happens-here-would-not-go-out' and 'no-one-tease-with-their-crush-name'. Everyone sign it and then go ahead.

Oh yeah, Vansh you will sign the paper thrice. And Before you why, it's because I really don't trust your teasing self."

Priya demanded, as I mentally laugh at the scene in front of me. Vansh looked offended by her statement so he started complaining to her which soon time turned into a verbal aggressive fight.

"She wouldn't have talked about signing an imaginary contract paper if she wouldn't have cared."

Bending little towards me, Aavyansh said making it hard for me to hold my laugh. In the end, I lost as I bursted out laughing and Priya who was observing everyone on the table whilst fighting with Vansh, saw it.

"Oh wait! What did Aavyansh said to you, Vaishnavi."

Obviously, she isn't that dumb for not knowing that the reason why I was laughing and he was smiling was because of her. So when she asked me with a desperate tone and eyes, wanting to know what he commented on about her, I took the road towards teasing.

"Oh about that, it's confidential and will stay between us."

Everyone erupted in laughter after I was done speaking expect Priya who after few seconds, joined the laughing cult.

"Okay whatever!! Now spill the beans pals!!"

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No matter how much funny it sounds, but everyone expect me and Aavyansh went to their so-called decided Bathroom Break.

Turning towards the guy sitting on my right side, I flashed him a cheeky smile, just like how he did as he looked at me with his suspicious eyes.

"I would never play hide and seek with you because someone like you is impossible to find."

"Ah!!"

The way his whole body cringed at what I said, made me suprisingly satisfied. Before my mind could figure out what it was and why I felt like that, I started laughing to send away the clouds of thoughts from my mind because somewhere inside in my subconscious mind, I knew what that was. I knew what that was and I don't want to address my feelings because that will do nothing but, mess it all up.

Why I am saying that it will mess it all...? Well, have you heard about the term Hyperopic...?

Hyperopic is when the present is blurred and all you could see is your future. All you could see is your future because you have seen it before. You have seen it before, in your past.

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"When you know you can't have a future together, then it's like wasting our precious time."

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