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123 Days With
My Love
Vivek Kasi
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Dedication
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I like to dedicate this book to my parents who taught
me that you don’t know what you can be until you
give it a try. I also dedicate this to all my friends
who entrusted me with this book.
Finally to all the SELFIES with love.
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Waiting
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Typing ....(on the screen)
By glancing at my screen, I could feel the
adrenaline thrust creating ripples in my veins. My
fingers started tapping the chair that I was sitting
on resembling a driller that wanted to pierce
through the land beneath it. The whole room
equated itself to a library and the sound of my heart
beat started resonating with the strike of the
second's needle of the wall clock above me.
It's been 123 days since I had proposed her and
now I am waiting for her reply just as tense as a
student holding up his nerve for his results. Each
and every bit of my brain and heart were
preoccupied with questions that were clouded
around me.
I couldn't hold on to the nerve anymore and
thought of leaving my phone aside and rest myself
till I got a notification. So, I just pushed my legs onto the table before my chair and made myself
comfortable by taking a hefty breath and closing my
eyes which were relentlessly waiting for a message.
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As the eyelids were moving closer to each
other, my brain shifted my whole being into the time
that I had seen her for the first time. Although it’s
been 3 years it still had the same fragrance of
memories just as yesterday. As all the emotions that
were tangled with her started dragging me in, I
slipped myself into the ocean of reminders and
glimpses of her beauty.
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First Meet
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It was 1st august 2013. I entered the main gate of
NIT Raipur with a great passion and a million
dreams in my eyes. The main block was humongous
which took me nearly a minute to stare from one
end to the other. I then got to know it was one of the
oldest colleges in India that was built in 1956 and it
was an all in one block. So, the students from first
year to final year stay at one place which filled me
up with diversified thoughts.
After the joining we were allotted the hostels
based on our places and ranks and I found my name
listed in hostel-d. It really shattered all my dreams
about the hostel life and made me realize that it was
not something that movies would illuminate in their
films. The outer appearance was ghostly and the
interior was quite moderate and had a decent finish
with a set of terrifying bathrooms. As I was a
person from south India, the food in Raipur tasted
so vague. It had neither salt nor chilly powder in it
which equated to diet of a goat. The only relief was
that it had non veg twice a week. On that day I used
to recover all the weight that I lost in that week.
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With all these dreadful situations running
along that one thing which made me happier was
that I could make a set of good friends. My
roommates were Suman and Rakesh. Suman was a
moderate person with a hefty smile which could
drag a person’s attention and Rakesh was short and
had a freaky attitude with the highest enthusiasm
levels. Along with them the others who were in my
batch were Arun and Ajay who stayed next to my
room. Arun was a trustworthy person who could
never break any promise whereas Ajay was an
extrovert who talks so frankly that sometimes it
might hurt.
Some classes were taught in Hindi which made
me a little furious, as I was very little familiar to
Hindi. So I used to sit with Suman and we used to
talk for the entire session that the lecture was
taught. The only relief that I could get from staying
at a place like this was the time we played UNO
which used to start around 11 after our dinner with
my batch. One day as everyday we were playing
UNO but, Rakesh has won three games in a row.
Now, the game was going quite intense. I sat beside
Suman and could see something strange was
happening with the cards that Rakesh was playing.
So, I paid a little attention to the pillow that he was
sitting on and I could find some cards buried in
them. I climbed on him and dragged those cards out
upon seeing which everyone jumped along and beat
him for his betrayal.
It was 19th August 2013 just a normal day that
again started by my mom’s call in the morning I
was too dizzy to wake up from the bed so, I attended
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the call in half-sleep I heard my mom shouting that
it was already 8 in the morning and I was late for
college which would start in 45 minutes. So, I
replied okay to her and raised up from my bed and
quickly went through a shower and got myself ready
in time.
As it was 2nd week in the college I couldn't
have many friends and this city's food made me
nauseous and everything here resembled hell. As it
was my first time to stay at a hostel I must have felt
like that. Because everyone other than me were just
fine with all this stuff.
As I was making my way to the college through
the ground I heard a person shouting ''stop there''
and waving his hand towards him. I had understood
that he was calling me and as I got there I was
encircled by 5 persons who don't have any
resemblance and all I could figure it out from
gazing at them was that they were my seniors.
"What's your name?" the person in the blue
shirt is asked.
"Ved Chandra" I replied.
He got really mad at me. It might be because of
my attitude in replying to a senior. But I really
didn't encounter anyone of them in those two weeks
so, I literally had no idea on why he was raising at
me in such a loud and punishable tone.
"Don't you know how to address a senior?"
The person standing beside me asked.
"Sorry sir I do" I replied
The conservation took around 10-15 minutes
and I gave them a full introduction of myself and
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got to know all their names. As a lecturer was
passing by, he ordered them to go to their classes.
Finally, I felt relieved as they left me alone and
thus made a run to my class as I was already late by
15 minutes. After the forenoon session, we all had
lunch where we got a chance to eat curry which has
no salt in it and Dal which equated to coloured
water. By finishing our meal myself and "Sathvik"
the only person I knew from the first day of my
college made our way to the physics lab. There was
a printed sheet that was kept on the notice board
stating the respective batches to be formed by the
students. As he was in a different group he rushed
for the chemistry department and I entered the lab
and as we had already completed a lab in the first
week, sir ordered us to form the same groups as of
that day and retain at our places with the
apparatus.
It was AND-OR gate implementation for our
group and I couldn't figure it out why others in my
group were totally involved in that experiment in
which I had zero percent interest. So, I was just
standing there and noting down the readings of it.
Suddenly in an instance, a girl made her way
into the lab and was talking to our lab assistant.
Her tone was very peculiar that pulled me to have a
glance at her. She was wearing a green churidar
and a perfect resemblance to a South Indian girl.
She had a fair skin complexion and was short in
height. Her earrings were dazzling as the rays of
sunlight striking her earrings. The first thing that
made me stare at her for some more time is her
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smile which had a power of dragging anyone to her
side.
As the professor made his way along with her
to our side I quickly shifted my eyes towards my
experiment table pretending to be a sincere student
so that I could make a positive impression. The
professor came near us and said to her "you can
join this team" and momentarily looked at us and
said, "She is your new teammate" and left.
She just smirked by looking at us as she was the
only girl in our team which might make her little
uncomfortable or so.
"My name is Diya" she introduced herself and
joined the team in no time, she got herself ready
and involved in the experiment. As I had a little
experience in associating with girls I couldn't
introduce myself. As the experiment came to an end
we were returning to our seats and as I turned back
she was standing right in front of me with a wide
smile on her face.
"You Telugu..? " she asked with an innocent
tone and in a dilemmatic state.
"Yes ...yes I am from Andhra Pradesh" I replied
with a low tone as it was my first encounter with
her.
"Thank God, I had met one... I am Diya" she
replied by stretching her hand towards me.
"I am Ved Chandra nice to meet you" I replied
by giving her a formalistic handshake in a high
dignified manner.
She took a seat beside me and was asking a
number of questions resembling herself to a
journalist who was taking my interview. I barely got
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a chance to ask her anything about her as I was
busy in just answering to her missiles. At last, as
she stopped asking questions and was busy in
writing her notes which she missed in the last lab I
was gaining my confidence to ask her FB id or her
phone number.
By the time I called her name lab in charge
yelled: "It's time you can go to your classes ".
Everyone made their way outside and I stood
numbly regretting my abilities. She shattered the
silence between us by turning back and asked me to
give her my FB id so that I could be in touch.
"It's Ved Chandra" I replied with a wide smile.
"Ok I will ping you...bye" she replied.
I was still awestruck in her trans of
mesmerizing words. By the time I revived she had
already left the corridor. So, I just gave a smile to
my luck and walked to my hostel room.
In the next two days, the only thing that I could
do was deliberately thinking about sending her a
friend request or wait till I get one from her. But
after a tranquillizing period, I just made sure about
my confidence levels by cheering that she wouldn't
find it as an offensive thing and took a positive step
by sending her a friend request hoping for an
acceptance soon.
But to my surprise, I got a notification in an
hour stating that my request had been accepted.
And there was a good evening message in the inbox
from her which really lit my face up.
"Good evening. It was great to have a message
from you" I replied to her first message.
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"It was my pleasure that I found at least you as
I was frightened about all these surroundings" she
replied.
"Me too so how’s everything going on?" I
asked in curiosity.
But putting an end to my conversation she
replied "Bye catch you later" which revealed that
she was a mood based initiator who will lighten the
things on their convenience and shut them down
when they were low. But this initiation from her of
messaging first which was very rare quality to find
basically in a girl loaded my brain with positive
input.
She was just like an encrypted device that was
not accessible to everyone and a tedious task to
understand completely. But the thing is that I really
wanted her to be my best friend so that I could
reveal every detail of her character which she was
hiding behind her sparkling eyes.
So the messages exchanged from boys hostel to
girls hostel through a quite non-moist atmosphere
alleviating not only her message but also the feeling
that was adhered to it. The beauty was every
message from her had a different fragrance of parts
of speech which were relative to her mood swings.
It was the first time I showed that much interest in a
girls mood and attitude which were unique in her.
We became good friends in no time and shared
every incident of our past. 2 hours of chat a day
became an eventual habit for us. I could come to a
conclusion that a girl transforms herself after
believing that the other person is trustworthy.
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Although it was just a diplomatic talk for most
of the time yet her messages were just acting upon
me like a tranquilizer which soothes my mood and
the only reason behind it was that she never worries
about her past and never let any mistake in the past
affect her present mood. I don't have any idea how
she was doing that and how could she rinse her
mind so swiftly.
We used to spend hours in chat but never could
get a chance to hang out with each other. Every day
two things were the same one is her smile that
automatically turns on by looking at me and the
other was my face which glows on watching her
smile. I couldn't spend most of the time with her in
the first year as for most of the holidays we went
back to our homes for being home sick. But this
didn't affect our friendship in any way but instead,
the distance made us realize how much we miss
each other's silly conversations, this made our bond
thicker and closer as friends. Never I had thought
what she was thinking about me and does she miss
me at all or not? It was just because I believe in an
old saying,
“What you sow is what you reap”
All those days in which I was distant from her
made my heart reluctant which indeed extruded all
the feelings about her in my imagination but never I
intended to show her any one of them because of the
fact that all the feelings I had about her were just a
mere respectful bliss of interest in her character.
When we returned to our college all the messages
that were paused just resumed back. It was Sunday
and the time was around 7 pm and I
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