Embarrassment.

Stupid acts that cause embarasment.

That's what my family and friends are prone to doing in public - stupid acts that cause embarrassment. To me specifically!

Sometimes I wonder if the motto is inbuilt. Embarrass Bushra whenever we are out in public. I don't really know what to do with them. Or what I'd do without them for that matter. Even though they are slightly cracked at the head, they are my cracked pieces!

Once Karishma and I were seated in the Arabic class that was to be conducted by a guest lecturer. The rest of my friends were roaming around the campus the cracked pieces that they were. Kay and I weren't even from the same department or even shared any classes but since the whole lot of Arabic students were grouped into two groups for the two lecturers who were going to come, Kay sat with me for that day. Apparently to keep me company.

I sat there that day waiting for the lecturer to arrive with Kay cracking lame jokes when my ears caught two words that were spoken by the girls seated behind me - SL!

I froze for a second not expecting girls from my college to be reading  my book! I slowly poked Kay. "Karishma! They are speaking about my book!"

"What?"

"SL! They are speaking about SL!"

Kay highly energised spun around. "Guys! You read SL?"

Four pairs of eyes blinked with confusion. "Um, we are waiting for it to be completed."

"Oh", Karishma's lips puckered but she was quick to cover it. "You want to know the girl who is writing it? It's her. This one. It's this one. Look at this girl. Bush! Turn around. Bush!", Kay bubbled shaking my shoulders while I buried my face deep into my hands.

"Read it okay!" She more or less ordered those girls making me groan in my head.

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Karishma Kapoor! You cannot be telling anyone to read it when you have not read it yourself!

And guys have you checked out my new completed shortstory titled 'Bordered'?