Memories are like roses tied together to make a beautiful bunch! But it depends on us if we will only enjoy the beauty and its scent or if we will get our fingers pricked and bleed once again!
Wandering through the memory lane wondering what to add to my bouquet of memories, I decided to add some memories of my crush! Having a crush is a very common part of growing up! We seem to have a crush or two in every nook and corner of wherever we go! At a point,we loose the count! The crushes we grow, sooner or later get crashed in most cases and we don't care much! Being no exception to the law of growing up, I had quite a number of them which crashed for a number of reasons. Sometimes it crashed because I saw that the boy had a girlfriend and I took a complete, sharp U-turn permanently! There were varied reasons for my crushes to crash in every 'sometime'! So, here are two stories of my crushes getting crashed!
Once in my seventh standard I had a crush on a guy who was a year senior to me in school. Well,I don't remember his name anymore! He looked decent and smart! Being an introvert, I was never much verbal about my crushes to anyone. So,alone in my head I enjoyed the fact of having a crush on a senior. Whenever he passed by me, I, avoiding everyone's eyes used to turn around to have a better look at him! But the smell of CRUSH caught his nose and he caught me off-guard while I was looking at him, a number of times! Very soon I found him having a bigger crush on me than I had on him! Whenever our paths crossed in school, his friends used to take my name and whenever I turned around to see if someone was calling me, I found it was his friends taking my name and he was looking at me and smiling! Then it was me who caught him a number of times, while he was following me through the corridors! Everything went on peacefully and perfectly! My crush went on well for a year! I got into the eighth standard and found him land in the same English coaching class! My tutor had merged our classes! I was performing Bhangra inside my head! Quite a number of glances we exchanged but we never talked! Then I found him in my Physics coaching class also! It was a happier turn-out! Little did I know that the happier turn out was going to crash my crush! The smartest and most handsome boy I thought him to be, the DUFFER and DUMBER he turned out to be! Both my English and Physics teachers shouted at him. He turned out to be a block head who had potentiality neither in English nor in Physics. Both the teachers started having aches in their hands twisting his ears, slapping his head, dragging him out of the class holding and twitching his ear. Then came the famous MURGA punishment,our Indian teachers are so expert at imparting on students! The Murga posture of my handsome crush right in front of me crashed my crush!ALAS!....but PHEW!
My crushes went on! Another handsome boy caught my eyes who was in the very class of my ex-crush! I was in the ninth standard by then and he was in the tenth! I was a die-hard Harry Potter fan back then and was always in search of a real life Harry Potter everywhere! Then one fine day he caught my eyes,having a lot of resemblance with Harry Potter...but without specs! I decided to compromise on that part! In the ninth standard I made a new friend,Indrani, who turned out to be my best friend! Whenever I was out with her during recess and I saw him, I used to drag her around to see him, but he always managed to melt away in the crowded corridors!So many times she asked me what was I up to but I never said a word, until one day she got angry! Hearing everything she gave me a frosty-nosed look! So many times I tried to know his name but could never manage to land up with a definite one! I always had a few names on hand! So many Probability, Permutations and Combinations I did but to no avail! At last our Principal declared our school excursion and also announced that ninth and tenth standard would be going together! It was my golden opportunity for what I had and still have no idea! Yet I felt it was my golden opportunity, may be to atleast know his name! I went on the excursion! Being very choosy about friends, I never had much friends but Indrani! We were roaming here and there when suddenly I found Mr. Half Harry Potter in front of me! I wanted to see him for sometime more! "What to do?! What to do?! Think quickly Madhurima, again before he disappears!", I thought. I looked around. Indrani was going on saying ,"Why are we standing here? Let's go!" I wasn't paying any heed. Looking around, I found two swings on which fifth standard students, who went for the excursion,were pouring upon! They were all standing in Que,waiting eagerly for their turn and sometimes breaking into small fights to sit on them. Having quickly explained to Indrani what I was up to, I went near the swing and drove off the kids from one of the swings with the power of seniority! But quite obvious they were mad at me! I had my chance of sitting on the swing and relishing the moment of looking at my senior! Indrani was standing beside me,smiling! I always had the habit of riding on a swing and go as high as possible without holding the chains or the ropes; and that wasn't an exceptional moment! I started going higher and higher on the swing and was happy looking at him,who was sitting near the swing with his friends around! Indrani asked me to slow down but I reassured her and went on! But within seconds of reassurance, it happened! I had reached the highest point the swing could go! As the swing was going up in the front in full momentum, the seat of the swing suddenly gave a jolt and like an ANGRY BIRD, I flew off the swing..."WHEEEEEEEEEE"...and BANG with the biggest B! I fell on the ground with my face towards the ground! It was a moment when my two wishes got fulfilled! Firstly, my wish of flying like a bird which I had since I was a small kid! Secondly, my wish of grabbing the attention of my crush - that was also fulfilled! How? The boy who never noticed me ever for months when I had roamed around him,was looking at me very much! A mixture of surprise and shock was all over his face and also on the faces of the people around him! I forgot I had just landed with a big thud on the ground! Embarrassment overtook the pain! Indrani came running to get me up and see if I was badly hurt or not. The fifth standards were laughing their heart out! I came to know they already knew that the seat was no seat but just a plank of wooden board placed on the swing to somehow sit on it! So, they had their little revenge! I was furious at them but didn't tell them much knowing my fault. Thereby my CRUSH got CRASHED with a capital C!
Wandering through the memory lane wondering what to add to my bouquet of memories, I decided to add some memories of my crush! Having a crush is a very common part of growing up! We seem to have a crush or two in every nook and corner of wherever we go! At a point,we loose the count! The crushes we grow, sooner or later get crashed in most cases and we don't care much! Being no exception to the law of growing up, I had quite a number of them which crashed for a number of reasons. Sometimes it crashed because I saw that the boy had a girlfriend and I took a complete, sharp U-turn permanently! There were varied reasons for my crushes to crash in every 'sometime'! So, here are two stories of my crushes getting crashed!
Once in my seventh standard I had a crush on a guy who was a year senior to me in school. Well,I don't remember his name anymore! He looked decent and smart! Being an introvert, I was never much verbal about my crushes to anyone. So,alone in my head I enjoyed the fact of having a crush on a senior. Whenever he passed by me, I, avoiding everyone's eyes used to turn around to have a better look at him! But the smell of CRUSH caught his nose and he caught me off-guard while I was looking at him, a number of times! Very soon I found him having a bigger crush on me than I had on him! Whenever our paths crossed in school, his friends used to take my name and whenever I turned around to see if someone was calling me, I found it was his friends taking my name and he was looking at me and smiling! Then it was me who caught him a number of times, while he was following me through the corridors! Everything went on peacefully and perfectly! My crush went on well for a year! I got into the eighth standard and found him land in the same English coaching class! My tutor had merged our classes! I was performing Bhangra inside my head! Quite a number of glances we exchanged but we never talked! Then I found him in my Physics coaching class also! It was a happier turn-out! Little did I know that the happier turn out was going to crash my crush! The smartest and most handsome boy I thought him to be, the DUFFER and DUMBER he turned out to be! Both my English and Physics teachers shouted at him. He turned out to be a block head who had potentiality neither in English nor in Physics. Both the teachers started having aches in their hands twisting his ears, slapping his head, dragging him out of the class holding and twitching his ear. Then came the famous MURGA punishment,our Indian teachers are so expert at imparting on students! The Murga posture of my handsome crush right in front of me crashed my crush!ALAS!....but PHEW!
My crushes went on! Another handsome boy caught my eyes who was in the very class of my ex-crush! I was in the ninth standard by then and he was in the tenth! I was a die-hard Harry Potter fan back then and was always in search of a real life Harry Potter everywhere! Then one fine day he caught my eyes,having a lot of resemblance with Harry Potter...but without specs! I decided to compromise on that part! In the ninth standard I made a new friend,Indrani, who turned out to be my best friend! Whenever I was out with her during recess and I saw him, I used to drag her around to see him, but he always managed to melt away in the crowded corridors!So many times she asked me what was I up to but I never said a word, until one day she got angry! Hearing everything she gave me a frosty-nosed look! So many times I tried to know his name but could never manage to land up with a definite one! I always had a few names on hand! So many Probability, Permutations and Combinations I did but to no avail! At last our Principal declared our school excursion and also announced that ninth and tenth standard would be going together! It was my golden opportunity for what I had and still have no idea! Yet I felt it was my golden opportunity, may be to atleast know his name! I went on the excursion! Being very choosy about friends, I never had much friends but Indrani! We were roaming here and there when suddenly I found Mr. Half Harry Potter in front of me! I wanted to see him for sometime more! "What to do?! What to do?! Think quickly Madhurima, again before he disappears!", I thought. I looked around. Indrani was going on saying ,"Why are we standing here? Let's go!" I wasn't paying any heed. Looking around, I found two swings on which fifth standard students, who went for the excursion,were pouring upon! They were all standing in Que,waiting eagerly for their turn and sometimes breaking into small fights to sit on them. Having quickly explained to Indrani what I was up to, I went near the swing and drove off the kids from one of the swings with the power of seniority! But quite obvious they were mad at me! I had my chance of sitting on the swing and relishing the moment of looking at my senior! Indrani was standing beside me,smiling! I always had the habit of riding on a swing and go as high as possible without holding the chains or the ropes; and that wasn't an exceptional moment! I started going higher and higher on the swing and was happy looking at him,who was sitting near the swing with his friends around! Indrani asked me to slow down but I reassured her and went on! But within seconds of reassurance, it happened! I had reached the highest point the swing could go! As the swing was going up in the front in full momentum, the seat of the swing suddenly gave a jolt and like an ANGRY BIRD, I flew off the swing..."WHEEEEEEEEEE"...and BANG with the biggest B! I fell on the ground with my face towards the ground! It was a moment when my two wishes got fulfilled! Firstly, my wish of flying like a bird which I had since I was a small kid! Secondly, my wish of grabbing the attention of my crush - that was also fulfilled! How? The boy who never noticed me ever for months when I had roamed around him,was looking at me very much! A mixture of surprise and shock was all over his face and also on the faces of the people around him! I forgot I had just landed with a big thud on the ground! Embarrassment overtook the pain! Indrani came running to get me up and see if I was badly hurt or not. The fifth standards were laughing their heart out! I came to know they already knew that the seat was no seat but just a plank of wooden board placed on the swing to somehow sit on it! So, they had their little revenge! I was furious at them but didn't tell them much knowing my fault. Thereby my CRUSH got CRASHED with a capital C!
