Neel

It’s the last day of spring and for the spring fest the location is non other than my own school. It was decided 1 week before when everyone gathered to choose a place which is big enough to accommodate large number of people. As spring fest day was on weekday, the school granted all the student holiday for that day. Later that week on Saturday when the book club meeting happened, the students who were the part of club were radiating with happiness as they would be getting an extra holiday.

Today me and Dharm planned to meet at the café first and then to head out for fest. This time mom was around too, or as she said, she is sticking around because of spring fest.

When I entered the café, it was empty, only with Dharm on the counter, preparing tea, wearing a blue-white funnel shirt. When I came close to counter, I saw he is wearing a blue denim jean. Ahh, he looks so sexy he doesn’t even know that.

“The café is quite empty today.” I said as I took seat near the counter.

Then he handed over me a cup of tea and said,

“Well today is spring fest and since I am selling my coffee and snacks there, there’s no need for me to open café today. I gave everyone holiday too so that they can enjoy as well.”

The weather was good, so was the tea, and so was the moment. I won’t say things are going great in my life, but they are good. Steady I would say and I don’t want anything more than that.

“Anything particular you are looking forward in the fest?” he asks.

“I hope there are some games, how good are you at shooting?”

“Good I would say. So, when are we planning for hunting then?”

On this bad joke I smiled and we got on my bike and we proceeded for school.

The entrance of the school road was decorated with flowers and lightening. When I parked my bike and we started to going towards the school, the pave was decorated too. Everything was painted fresh; the grass was freshly cut. Crowd was already formed.

“When is your mom coming?” He asked.

“She was getting ready when I saw getting out. I asked whether she needs to be dropped to which she said she would come on her own.”

We stopped by the snacks counter.

“Are these the snacks you provided?” this time I asked.

“Yes. They hired other people for serving. And I am glad, I really wanted my staff to enjoy the day.”

“And we may see some people from our class too. I got to know that people are stopping by for the fest.” He spoke.

“It would be good; I met some already at the party in your house?”

“You met them? You saw them because they came to balcony” to which we both laughed.

Then we ran into Deepak and Sunakshi. We chatted and started going stalls to stalls. There were many games, even a small art exhibition. Deepak and Neel had shooting game competition to see who scores more in which Deepak won with a good margin.

After the game I said,

“You were right, you are good at shooting. Shall we plan hunting for next week? I will make sure to make my calendar free for that weekend.”

Deepak and Sunakshi didn’t get what I was referring to and Neel just pouted his mouth to which I laughed.

The school allowed the ground floor for usage as well. And in that the exhibition was happening. It was an art exhibition. The whole room was white with walls occupied with paintings. Sunakshi took her phone and started making story of us being here.

When we got outside of the exhibition, we proceeded to cover the whole ground floor to see what else is there. When we got to the middle of it, there’s the main stairs from which I saw two people coming down. One was the current principal and the next was Josh. When he turned his face from principal, his eyes met mine.