one day....

it was good to be back in school again. back among the cheerful crowd. back to a 'no tension' place. back to a place which is 'far far away' from the cruel world. back to a place were friends are everything. back to the world where you do not need an expensive bat and ball to play cricket, where you can play cricket with a ball made from plastic and use examination cardbord as bat...
it was class 10. i felt different... something special. special may be because class 10 is very crucial or may be because next year i would be out of this magic world.
about me...
nothing special about me. just an average boy. a last bencher initially because i was tall. later on because i was so used to last benches that i could not imagine sitting in the first row and miss all the fun in the last row.
sitting next to me were ramu- another average guy like me, shamu- who sometimes gets irritated unnecessarily and rahul- fun loving, always cracking jokes and making everyone laugh...
in the bench next to ours were the so called 'beauties of the class'.... always in their own world. boys trying to impress them always. they were all pretty. but i dont know... there was nothing appealing in them.
it was an english class first thing in the morning. i never paid attention during english class. my mind pondering over the most weird things would travel around the globe during this class. and being in the last bench helped a lot. the teacher would never get up from the chair to disturb my wanderlust mind...
the class started...
rahul as usual was trying to play some prank on the boy sitting in front of him. i thought of giving my mind some work so that it would still be in class. hmmm ...what should do... maths!!! Of course!!! within 5 min i finished what i wanted to do... and now again my mind was free to wander about. it took hardly few seconds for me to reach the western ghats. it stayed there for some time. but was brought back by rahul who had succeeded in his prank...
then suddenly something attracted my mind. strong enough to hold it inside the class only to be disturbed by the teacher...
what a cherubic face that was. had never seen her in my class before. where did she come from??? i was not sure if it was my mind which was playing tricks on me or if she was really present. aah that pretty smile... she was really there sitting among the 'beauties of the class'. how was it that she materialised from thin air. for the next few minutes my concentration was at it s peak. never had it reached such peaks. probably she could have felt my concentration. i could have bent an iron rod with my concentration...
but you know... life is made of 'if s and but s'...
my concentration was very powerful but... there is nothing a teacher can not do.
the teacher asked "which lesson was i teaching yesterday".
that question was not for me, even if were for me, gawking at the teacher when asked any question was no new thing for me.
again. "BUT"...
i was so mesmerised by her beauty that i blurted out "Snow White"...
probably for the first time i was the centre of attraction in the class.
i am not the kind of person who would volunteer to answer questions asked by teacher.
Again. "BUT"…
That day I was doing nothing normal. My Central Processing Unit was not working. Some other Processing Unit had taken control. And it was not doing its woks, or many be that s how it was supposed to work.
so when the teacher looked at me and said "pardon me" instead of a signal from my 'Central Processing Unit' my vocal system got a 'control signal' and 'data' from 'the other Processing Unit' and my vocal system amplified the data promptly...
i said 'Beauty and the Beast'
then for a moment i felt as if i were in a laughter club, where everyone was having a competition on who would be the loudest, and who would laugh for a long time.
now she had disappeared. i am not sure if she was a ghost, a really beautiful ghost, or a character from Harry Potter 's who could appear and disappear anytime...
now the other processing unit too stopped sending signal. hell lot of 'exceptions' were being 'thrown' but no piece of code to 'catch' them. what could the poor processor do but terminate!!!
it took some time for my CPU to take control.
during the break next day i came across her fortunately or unfortunately. this time my CPU was in full control. it was sending precise signals and data...
again."BUT"...
this time there was some problem with the amplifier of my vocal system. the same system which had blurted out 'Snow white' in the class was not able to whisper the data sent by my CPU...
finally my amplifier was getting some power when everything happened...
my PL who was supposed to be in a meeting came right to me. caught me writing a story...
PL: "what are you doing???? you were supposed to finish the documentation by EOD today and you are documenting a story!!!! come back to your cubicle, from your imaginary world.".
me: "ok i am back. will get back to booooooring documentation now"
PL: "you better do that. keep your CPU busy on this documentation now. dont let anything else interrupt it"
i must say, my PL s amplifier is pretty strong(i should add an appropriate filter to my ears).