#2.Back to life

Our group left the camp and to be open, she was the first girl, about whom I kept on thinking the whole night. I was thinking of the loser that I was, my first proposal, class 6, if I remembered correctly. I didn’t know what a relationship meant that time, just that there should be a girl, whom I could address as ‘My girl’. Still I get amused at what I was, and what she has made me. There was no formal proposal, I told it to some of her friends, and we all know how much the news gets propelled among girls. It was a forest fire, and then, some child plays, then, meaningless talks, and lastly over. Next morning I reached my home. Got dressed up and went on to ma school. It is now that I fancy, how much I loved to be in school, in class, and bunking classes was never my way. Getting back home, mom told me that some girl had called. It was an utter surprise to me because no girl had ever called me except classmates. I took my lunch and was browsing channels in the television, thinking who could have called. Suddenly the phone rang; mom picked it up, called me saying it was the girl. I went up, took the receiver in my hand, still not knowing who called, she blurred out, it’s me! By the time, I forgot her name again (really, it was the typical me, who never remembered girls), she continued saying that I had spoiled her image and all, and perhaps it was a small thing for me, but a big thing for her. I apologized yet once (I still don’t know why only boys apologize). She chattered a few things. Gosh! she had all the topics in her bag to talk, and I liked that. She told me that all things she had told me back in camp. I fancied how matured she was. (Really, girls always get matured faster than boys). She talked for nearly fifteen minutes. After disconnecting, again a new enquiry found its way, only moms cam come up with such rhetorical queries: who the girl was, and as to why she called, as if the girl would make me a revolt and would be my girlfriend.  I told her to ease, and told her that she was a girl I met at the camp. Then I came back to the entertainment box. Days went on, and with that, there was a slight change in my daily time table, after lunch, I used to be glued to the phone, until she relieved me! This went on for about two weeks.