Is This Love? ||One Shot||

Is This Love?

New school means a start to a new life. My life indeed had a fresh start a few months back since I started going to my new school. Around after one week after I had started school, I had made real amazing friends and was having too much fun and I was sure by now, that I had the crush on the cutest guy in our class, Mayank. I still have a crush on him by the way, but I'm not sure whether it's just a crush now. I have a crush on him, not only because he looks cute, but because he IS cute. According to me, well, I am probably the ugliest girl in class, and he doesn't taunt me about that, like the other guys who have made fun of me at least once. Anyways, Mayank was the first one to start talking to me. He asked me whether I was about to join the English tuition in which the teacher had mentioned that two girls from my previous school are going to join the classes. Unfortunately, I wasn't the one. Mayank is really fun when he is around. He makes me laugh with his this, oh-I'm-so-clever behavior. He is looks so happy and satisfied with whatever he has. Sometimes I wonder if he really is happy. Like mujhe hi dekh lo, I am a person who shows that she is happy and cheerful, but then she has deep dark secrets hidden in her heart.

I love talking to him. He doesn't make me feel inferior. His smile.. Aah! Makes my heart drop down to my feet.. That cute expression on his face when he his listening to what the teacher is saying with the back of my pen in his mouth. Yes! I was the one from whom he asked for pens. "Shreya ek pen de na!" He says, and when I give him my pen, he puts it into his mouth, unknowingly, and roams about in the class. I feel this is yuck (but at the same time, very cute too), and I contradict him and shout on him, and all he does is, smiles and wipes the pen on his shirt and keeps it into his pocket. He asks me then, "Tu jaanti hai ki mai pen muh mein lunga toh kyu deti hai mujhe?" And I start blushing furiously and change the topic.

My friends call me Shreyu, pyaar se, and when one of my friends call me by this name, he is like, "Arre Shreyu! Manisha ne Shreya ko Shreyu bulaya!" and I run after him with my water bottle in my hand.

It's like, when he smiles, I automatically start grinning and his smile makes me want to be the reason for his happiness. Today, when I told my best friend about this , she was so excited about me liking Mayank and she asked me since when do I have a crush on him.. "Around six months.." I said and she shrieked loudly and started dancing around the class. I have no idea why she was so happy about this. "I have read in a psychological study in a magazine that if a crush lasts more than four months, you are already in love!" She told me excitedly and hugged me tightly. No. This couldn't be true. I've had had huge crushes on Hollywood actors for more than about two years, doesn't mean that I love them. "Arre budhdhu! It's different with actors!" Diksha told me when I contradicted her. "Shreyu baby you are so in love!" she danced around the class announcing it in front of everybody. I blushed the deeper shade of pink and when everyone was staring at me, waiting for an answer obviously, "She's talking about Taylor Lautner.", I said. That very moment, I turned to look at Mayank, and he was smiling, as if he knew who the real person was. My mind went numb, but I couldn't do anything about it since the English teacher was entering the class.

Later in the afternoon today, while solving a stupid sum during the Mathematics class, I felt someone's eyes on me. I turned to look who it was, and saw Mayank turning his face back to his copy, and I was sure that he was the one.

I am in my room right now, thinking about all those fun moments we've shared. The mere thought of him is making me blush and smile like an idiot. "I have read in a psychological study in a magazine that if a crush lasts more than four months, you are already in love!" Diksha's words are echoing in my ears. Am I in love with Mayank?

~*~

Finally the boards were over and dad had decided to make me continue class eleven in the same school. Almost all my friends had got admission in other schools and I was alone here, with very rare known faces in my class. But I was completely unaware of the fact that it would be so much fun even without my friends. Can't believe that this is the same school in which I've been studying from the past seven years. I made some really awesome new friends here and one of them is a girl, and I don't think that she's a 'just friend' of mine now. She is a real fun-loving, kind hearted girl. I've never seen her whining over anything, or being sad about anything. She is ever cheerful, ready to make anyone smile who is sad. I had been the first one, who had started talking to her, and she was a bit shy, and I think that was very cute.

But now we are like, very good friends. We've many things in common. I love the way she used to tell me about her fantasies about her favorite Hollywood actors. "There aren't any drool-worthy actors in Bollywood!" she tells me. And guess what? I think she has a crush on me. Every day, after the bell rings for the last unit to be over, and while we're heading out of the classroom, she keeps looking over at me, expecting me to say a bye, and thinks that I don't know that she's looking at me; and I like an idiot, don't say a bye just coz I want to see that cute pout she makes in a Pch!' and leaves for the bus stop.

Oh I think I have a crush on her too. No.. I don't think, I'm so sure about it. I take her pen into my mouth just because I want to see that oh-so-cute angry expression on her face. The fact that those Hollywood actors are the reason for that beautiful shade of pink on her face makes me jealous. I HATE it when those idiot boys in my class make fun of her, makes me wanna punch them hard. I would stab them in their heart if I would get a chance.

Anyways, I love spending time with Shreya. I love to be around her. I've had many girl friends, like girl and friends, not girlfriends; from my class but I've never felt the way Shreya makes me feel. She makes me feel happy. She makes me feel different. Today, in the afternoon, while I was checking my newsfeed on my FB wall, I came across this picture. "Based on a psychological study, a crush only lasts for a maximum of 4 months. If it exceeds, then you are already in love." , it said. I immediately started my calculation. I have had crush on Shreya since June, and it's January now, it's been seven to eight months. Could I really be in love? But then I chucked the thought thinking that it was just a stupid pic, when my mom came inside my room. Mere parents ki love marriage hui thi. This was the chance. I could ask mum about how everything happened between her and dad, and I did. She told me how she had been a new student in the class and dad had become real good friends with her and one fine day he came and proposed her and tab se leke ab tak, they are together. This couldn't be a co-incident, could it? Maybe it's destiny.

I'm still in my room now, thinking about all those moments we've shared. And holy shit I'm blushing! Gosh Shreya is the first girl who has made ME blush. But blushing is a girl thing. Stop blushing Mayank! I don't know if what's happening to me is love. This could be an infatuation too. But then.. Ugh! I guess I should sleep now. Empty your mind, don't think about her. Empty your mind, DON'T think about her. But I can't stop thinking about her. I've got to know the answer to this. Am I in love?

-x-

Done 😆 This piece of work can definitely not be compared with the other AMAZING write-ups I have read in this forum, but still, just thought of giving it a try.

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