BEING IN LOVE

Just a poem by me!! Do leave your comments!

BEING IN LOVE

LIKE THE RICH RED BLOOD POURING FROM THE FLESH

AND JUST LIKE THE SHINY APPLE – GARDEN FRESH

SHE BLUSHES A BEAUTIFUL RED AS IF BLED

AS SOON AS HIS NAME IS SAID!

AND HE – BEAUTIFULLY BEAMS SHOWING PEARLS

 BREATHTAKINGLY ALIGNED WITHIN HIS GRACEFUL LIPS

ALONGSIDE DIMPLED CHEEKS – LOOKING LIKE A COMMA

IN A WONDERFUL ENDLESS POEM!

IN ONE SWIFT MOVEMENT THEIR HANDS JOINED,

LEAVING THEIR HEARTS TO FLUTTER AND STOMACH SOMERSAULTS,

AS THEY STAY STILL, NOTHING BUT THEIR EYES MOVED

SENDING AN ELECTRIC SHOCK JERKING THEM TOWARDS EACH OTHER

CREATING A WORLD OF THEIR OWN!

AND THEY HAVE LIVED AN ETERNITY, AND BEYOND ,

AS THEY FELL IN LOVE AND

THAT’S HOW IT IS – BEING IN LOVE.

CHAPTER 12

Author's note :

                                     **  no authors's note**

CHAPTER 12

AND I THOUGHT I AM THE STALKER HERE.

          

             “What is it with you and food and me always helping you up?”, asked the crush of my life shaking his head, smirking at me. Oh I would like to wipe that smirk off his face! But its not the time. With a little bit of help from him I managed to pick myself up and ran to the nearest restroom as fast as possible. Without falling down. Again.

            After changing into new clothes I read the text message from Jhansi asking me to meet up with the others at the entrance of the mall. Picking up my pace now that nobody is watching unlike my little trip to the restroom before, I reached my destination a little sooner.

            And the sight that awaited me…nearly had my eyes bulge out of my sockets. Is this some miracle coming true or my eyes playing tricks on me, I don’t know.

            Rubbing my eyes, I walked slowly to realize that my eyesight is  absolutely perfect and whatever I was seeing was indeed real.

              The ‘I don’t like boys and I’ll torch any boy who tries to flirt with me’ Jhansi was chatting animatedly with Anand Gupta, a friend of Jason in case you forgot and Anand in turn was laughing as that was the funniest thing he had ever heard in this world. On the other side of them were, Noah and Jessica, standing a little too close, might I add, were taking selfies on Jess’s phone.

            The whole time I could feel a pair of eyes on me ,watching my every movement, every reaction and as I traced the glance to its owner stood the ever breathtakingly looking Jason Samuel.

            Since my friends were too busy with their new friends to notice me, I made my way to him with this eyes on me all the time.

            “Where is Resh?”, I asked him oh-so-casually.

            “She and Seb went to get the car from the parking.”

            “Right, someone has got to do that.” Still feeling he is staring at me, I asked, “And I thought I am the stalker here. Alright what do you want? You have been staring at me the whole time”.

            That’s when two cars stopped beside us one behind another. He looked at Seb then turned to leave but not before whispering in my ear, “I can’t get what I want neither can you give.”

            I don’t know what he meant but sure gave me goose-bumps.

            In the car I sat at the backseat as my thoughts of what Jason said sat at the backseat of my mind and slept like a baby through my thoughts.

            It was noon and rays of sunlight peeked through the windows in my room when I woke. After having lunch I decided to do something productive and prepare myself for the next day.

            Right. Me and my friends start college tomorrow. Even though a part of me is afraid, I guess a part of me is excited too. And with that spirit I packed whatever I may need and moped around for a bit.

            Long before the day became night, and we four gathered at the hall.

            “So tomorrow we begin our college life and I hope we enjoy every bit of it as we did in school.”, said Jhansi.

            “Yeah, and lets hope that Jhansi finds a boyfriend for herself”, said Jessica to which Jhansi ACTUALLY BLUSHED.

            “You are blushing!”

            “You are already seeing someone aren’t ya?”

            “Who is the guy?!”

            “Is he good looking? Of course he must be good-looking to have gained your attention!”

            And with that the night ended with four young hearts beating full of excitement, joy, thrilled with what tomorrow might have in the store for them.  

CHAPTER 11

Author's Note :

                               Forgive me for the late update! The next update will be in a couple days!! Enjoy!

CHAPTER 11

ARE YOU GOING TO MODEL FOR LADIES LINGERIE NOW?

            “What is this madness?”,the Knight guy hissed at the crowd. His next question was aimed at an unexpected person. He turned towards the towards the girl who was fighting with Jessica and asked, “You can’t go anywhere or do anything without being a bitch, can you?”

            “Oh please! You can’t give up a chance to pose as the perfect hero who settles all the chaos, can you?”,the girl fired at him.

            “I can’t argue with you.”, he said rubbing his temples gently. “Do me a favor and ask your friends to leave. You get home too before uncle gets involved in this mess.”

            “Here peasant, I don’t need this shoe anymore. It’s my fault I came to the mall to buy this shoe. I should have known that poor people crawl all over this place. Let’s go girls!”, said the girl nearly shoving the shoe at Jessica’s face with a despised and gestured using her index finger commanding her friends to follow her.

            SHE DID NOT DO THAT!!! What does she think of herself? That spoiled brat!! How dare she insult my friend in front of these people. Speaking of people, I noticed that the crowd disappeared when the Knight guy came in. But before I could slap that girl she moved away and Reshma shaking her head tugged at my arm telling me not to slap her and let it go.

            Thinking that they were out of out earshot one of her friends asked, “But you wanted that shoe!? Why did you give it to her?”

            “ I’ll meet the designer and get a new piece from his exclusive collection. Now shut up or I won’t get you that ear studs you asked.”, she answered flipping her hair and walking away.

            “I am so sorry that she caused this much trouble for you. And I must apologize for her behavior toward your friend. Excuse me but I gotta go.”, said Knight and left the place following after the girl.

            I looked down at myself and Reshma spoke out my exact thought, “What the hell just happened?”.

            We have made fun of Jessica a lot of times and I know that she always takes everything in a sportive and funny way. But this, this is not fun. This is utter and pure humiliation. People in Greenville never humiliate anyone just for fun. This is cruel. I am afraid to even look at Jessi now. She is raging with anger and if one of us said even one wrong thing she may snap our head’s off. Literally.

            It wasn’t easy to cool her off and with the mall security tailing us for ‘creating disturbance’ and behaving in an ‘anti-social’ way, it was extremely difficult for us to control her. The security repeatedly asked us to leave and got an earful from Jessi.

            “I am supposed to leave like this?”, she said waving her hand at herself up and down. “Is this place supposed to Charlie and the Chocolate factory? Cause I’m not leaving this place covered in food. Let me clean myself and change into new clothes then leave you man-bear!!”

            The security followed her when she entered into a shop to buy herself new clothes to which she said, “What? Are you going to model for ladies lingerie now? Is that it why you are following me? Just get lost! I know how to get out of this goddamn place!!”, and stomped her leg.

            The security turned red in embarrassment, opened and closed his mouth a few times and left without saying another word.

            I was enjoying watching the security squirm and smiled to myself. Only when Jhansi nudged me to go change my clothes did I remember that I too was covered in food.

            I looked frantically searching for Jessi when Jhansi coolly replied, “She left for the restroom a long time ago.”

            This must be the fastest time I have ever bought a shirt and dashed to the restroom which was on the other side of the mall. I was walking super-fast on that tile floor and that’s when my phone chose to ring. I was holding my new shirt and handbag in both my hands and was juggling with them to find my ringing phone.

            That’s when I collided into a rock like chest and fell right on my butt. 

                                 **too tired to type a author's note **

CHAPTER 10

Author' note :

                      This is chapter 10! Oh and before I forget, delayed wishes for all the gorgeous ladies reading this post, Happy Women's day! Let our success make all the sound!

CHAPTER 10

YOU ARE MINE. AND MINE ALONE.

Jessica watched the pair of shoes like a hawk, like a lion would watch every movement of its prey she slowly treaded forward and in a neck breaking speed before any of us could notice, she turned around and grabbing Reshma’s hand she disappeared into the crowd.

            “I thought I heard her shouting ‘You are mine. And mine alone.’  Gaah. She should belong to a barbaric tribe!”, exclaimed Jhnasi making me laugh.

            Just when I started to talk my stomach growled in hungriness.

            Jhansi just laughed, “Come lets go to the food court and get something to eat. It would take them a decade to come back anyway.”

            After a few minutes we were returning to that shoe shop with Jhansi drinking her strawberry milkshake and I was holding my french-fries in one hand and the vanilla milkshake in the other, it seemed like Jessica was pulling something from someone.

            It seemed like there was a fight going on and a crowd started to form around them. Some of them even started filming them, some even cheered ‘CAT FIGHT! CAT FIGHT!’.

            Everything was in chaos.

            All I could think was, ‘We just came for shoe-shopping! What the hell is this?’

            Only when we got a closer look at Jessica’s face we were able to see the nail scratches on both her hands. Her hair was flying all around, blood coming out from her hands and bruises started to form already. She was a total mess.

            Reshma was trying to hold her back but in vain. Immediately we rushed to the place and heard their arguments clearly.

            “It is mine, you pathetic blind creature, I took it first!”, shouted Jess at the girl fighting opposite her.

“Oh look at you peasant! The cost of your costume doesn’t  even compare with the cost of my headband! Let it go this instant!!”

“What will you do if I don’t give you this? Huh?”

“You will hear from my daddy and I will destroy you!”

By this time, me and Jhansi managed to reach the center of the crowd right infront of the fighting girls, one of them being my best friend.

Immediately Jhansi sprung into action and started asking people who were recording to stop.

I was just standing there helpless holding both the milkshakes and fries in both my hands looking back and forth at the two girls.

“Hey Resh! Do you wanna see a cry baby who cries to her daddy about all her problems? Well, here is one!”,Jess said pointing her finger at the opposite.

“What did you say?!? Lemme show you who is the cry baby bitch!!, the other girl said and grabbed the strawberry milkshake from my hand and poured it on my best friend.

“EWW!!!I hate strawberry!!!YOU!?!!”, shrieked Jess and grabbed the vanilla milkshake from my hands and swung the cup towards her. The other girl saw this coming and slapped the cup to her right side.

That is, right on me.

My hair, which I washed just a few hours ago was now dripping vanilla milkshake.

Without giving any second thoughts, my hand worked and in a matter of seconds, cheese and sauce was dripping from that girl’s head and her hair was beautifully decorated with French fries.

And before she could retaliate a loud bold voice interrupted us, “Stop this!”.

Everybody stopped moving and looked at the direction from where we heard the sound.

Jhansi was standing there with a familiar person.

Remember, the guy from The Diner ? Mr. Knight?

It was him.

Author's Note :

                 I may or may not update next week or there may be a delay in update. Please bear with me!

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women. 

                                                                     Muhammad Ali Jinnah

CHAPTER 9

Author's Note :

                      It's been a long time! I know! I updated chapters 9 and 10 please make sure you read them in order. 
                      

CHAPTER 9

  LET THE LORD HAVE MERCY ON US ALL.

*THIRD POV*

Jason was sitting on the sofa watching a football match when he heard his friends shouting and coming out from the kitchen. Anand was mumbling something about always a liar while Seb threw a juice bottle at him but he caught both the words and the bottle effortlessly.

“I swear you have ears of a wolf!”, exclaimed Anand.

“Well, what can I say, it’s a gift. Now, who was lying?”.

“Who other than our best friend Noah. When Seb and I asked whether he likes that new girl Jessica, he refused. But then when Seb asked for her number, he got territorial and refused to give.”.

“Dude! From the way you two were texting all night I had say you two would be madly in love within couple months.”, said Jason standing up and walked toward the door to attend his now ringing phone.

Jason could hear, ‘I told you so!’ and ‘No freaking way!’ in the background.

            He went to the porch and spoke on his phone and after completing his call, he saw all the four girls from the neighbouring house getting on the car and driving away.

            His mind started working. Early morning. All four them, in a car. He knew in that instant they were headed to the mall.

            He smiled to himself and headed inside his house.

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*RANINA POV CONTINUES*

It was a warm sunny day. The sun smiled upon us kissing our skins ever so lightly. The winds gushed past us whispering gossip tales. And under the clear bright sky, we laid, soaking up all the warmth. “There you girls are! I have been searching for you four since forever!”, complaining, my brother joined us too.

“Always the drama queen, Nate. We just left you half hour ago.”, replied my friend Reshma.

“So what? Hey Ray, are you ready for shoe shopping? I have been wanting to buy this cute shoes, wanna come with me?”, asked my brother.

            What the hell!! My brother want to buy cute shoes?!?!What dimension am I living in?!!

            “Ray! I’m gonna kill you now!!! Snap out of your day-dreaming mode this instant!”,someone shouted in my ears.

“Gahhh. My poor ears!”, I said covering them.

“I have been talking to you for the past 5 minutes ‘bout the new shoes I want to buy and you were day-dreaming!!!”, said an angry Jessica.

“Oh thank god, it was you talking then. I thought it was him.”, I replied swiping my forehand with the backside of my hand.

“Him who?”, enquired Reshma.

“I thought it was Nate speaking.”

All my friends broke out laughing. Even Jhansi who was driving hit the brake suddenly to laugh.

“Your – your brother – and cute shoes?!?”, said Reshma and broke out laughing. Again.

You would have known that I tend to day-dream. A lot. And my friends always wait for those moments like vulture to embarrass me whenever and wherever possible.

“Okay, Okay. Enough. We are here.”

            The parking was almost full and we had to walk back a long way to reach the entrance of the mall. The mall was ginormous but also beautiful. The whole mall was decorated in Pirates of the Carribean  theme and there were people dressed as pirates welcoming us.

           

           There were many small stores in that 5 storey mall and it took us all a long time to reach the shoe shop that Jessica wanted to go to.

            And the scene that greeted us there was :

                        Two young girls of our age were fighting over a shoe with the salesman.

                       

                        A group of ladies shouting at each other surrounding the high heels section.

                        

                        A silent cold war going on between 2 friends to decide who should buy that single super-cute pair of pink shoes.

                        

                        A group of little girls grabbing each other’s hair and trying to scold each other in words that were too big for them to pronounce.

                       

                        A group of moms of the above said girl group, mimicking their daughters , minus the hair grabbing but swearing at each other with words their daughters cannot speak.

                        The sales girls scattered around all over their shop not knowing how to control the chaos and they were shouting among themselves in the noise.

            

                The four of us saw this scene.

          

                Three of us took two steps backwards.

             

                Only one took a step forward, her eyes scanning through the shoe racks and then her eyes narrowed on one pair of green shoes.

     Let the lord have mercy on us all. All I could say is that a devil is out in the form of Jessica Smith and that she is ready to face any battle to win that shoe.

Author's Note :

                Hello Readers! Hope you liked this chapter!!

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.                                                                                                 Muhammad Ali Jinnah

CHAPTER 8

Author's Note:
    
            Hey Guys! Hope you all had a great weekend. Sorry for disappearing last week.I had my internal exams that time. Anyways here is this week's chapter!Enjoy!

CHAPTER 8

I AM A QUEEN. AND QUEENS DOESN’T FALL BACK FROM BATTLE.

After chatting for sometime we all decided to part ways.

On the walk back to our home Reshma started the conversation, “I like the boys. Yeah, Jason and Sebastian maybe a little bit sketchy and distant but I don’t think they are bad. What do you think Jhansi?”.

“Yea, I don’t think they are bad too. It will be good to have some friendly people  when we go to college.

“Well I hope you have learnt your lesson today.”, stated Jessica to Jhansi.

“And what lesson would that be?”, she asked with her eyebrow raised.

“Not everybody likes strawberry. Hot guys like chocolates. I can’t believe you fell for my trap today!”, Jess replied and started laughing.

“You little criminal minded oompa-loompa!! Stop! I will show you who fell for whose trap now!”, she followed after Jessica who had started running.

Reshma and I reached our home and fell on our couch watching both of our maniac friends bicker at each other.

What great best friends we all have! But I know I wouldn’t be here without them here!

I know one thing for sure.

Whatever things life may throw at us , I know we will stick together and look out for each other. To hell with guys! We all love each other with all of our hearts!

After the diner episode we all decided to stay in and watching movies and  eating junk foods. We spent the entire day indoors quietly and went to bed early.

The next day morning when I woke up , only one thought was looping in my mind.

I am going to college. In a day.

Besides staying away from my brother and parents for three years and I now also have new responsibilities and have to take care of myself and protect myself. Even though my friends are here and know about my panic attacks, they have never seen me having one. The panic attacks always comes during nights and I had my brother to take care of me in such times.

That is the reason why he chose a college near our hometown. So that he could go to college daily from home and come back to take care of me. I too had planned to go to the same college, but I wanted to be independent. Plus my friends were coming here , so I wanted to come study here.

Now, I am all alone. With no one knowing how to take care of me during the attacks.

This thought instilled fear in my usual bold and confident self. 

My trembling hands reached for my phone and dialed the number I knew by heart.

My brother, Nathaniel, answered the  phone in the third ring, “You ugly faced devil, speak only if its utterly important else cut the call”, responded my brother in a sleepy voice.

“You master the arts of answering phone calls ,Nate”, I replied.

“As I said , cut the call if its unimportant.”, came the reply.

“I am terrified , Nate”, I said in a low voice.

“Did you look at yourself in the mirror this early in the morning?”.

“Nathan!”, I whispered swallowing a sob.

“Hey! What happened? Did it come again yesterday?”, he asked seriously. I call him as Nathan only when I am extremely sad or extremely terrified and about to fall apart.

“No, but I am terrified of what will happen when it comes? How will my friends manage me? We are barely 18. They can’t even take care of themselves , then how will they take care of me? I am going to be a burden to all of them. It’s so stupid of me to even think that I can live independently. I can’t even survive! Let alone live!! Please come and take me back Nathan!”, I completed in a single breath ending with a sob.

“Shh. Shh. Stop it Rani. Remember that you have survived far worse things and you can survive life too! Damn you will live one hell of a life that everyone will be jealous of you. And you are not a burden to anyone. Don’t ever think of yourself like that. You are Rani, a queen. That’s how our parents wanted you to be. Always keep that mind.

And your friends, they will do anything for you, to take care of you, and about that I am very certain.

Now calm yourself and take deep breaths as we practiced. In and Out. In and Out. In and Out.”

After listening to my brother’s talk and a 5 minute breathing session later , I cut the call.

Maybe I can survive this alone with the help of my friends.

Maybe I can try to be independent.

But I should put in effort from my side first. I am a Queen. And queens doesn’t fall back from battle.

They plan, practice and fight like fire.  Except my battle isn’t with my enemy but with myself.

After lying on the bed for few minutes , I woke up and got ready then went downstairs for breakfast.

Reshma and Jessica were already up and were watching TV lying on the sofa.

“Morning guys!, what ya doing?”, I asked them  and settled next to them .

“Oh, we were just waiting for you guys to come downstairs. Jessi wanted to do some shopping before finally we start college.”, replied Reshma switching between the channels and finally stopped at a channel showing a horror movie.

“Yea, you won’t believe what’s out in the  market now!”,Jessi waved her hands wildly in excitement. “The Gucci finally released its brand new model  leather pump shoes in green color that matches perfectly with that dress I have and Gods know that I have been saving money forever to get this shoe!!”.

“Alright! Alright! We will go shoe shopping today, ok? Happy? Get ready now.”, I said and shooed away both of them into their rooms but not before snatching the remote from Reshma and changed the horror movie to music channel.

It is bliss, sitting on the sofa listening to music uninterrupted trying to soak whatever amount of inner peace I can gather before starting the college.

After some time Jhansi came down and I explained to her about the shopping trip and we both went together upstairs to get ready.

Exactly after an hour we stepped outside the door ready to face the battle of shoe shopping and little did we know that today would be the day we would face the queen devil unleashing her wrath upon us.

Author's note :

   Hello Readers! Hope you enjoyed this chapter. I am incredibly sorry to say that I wont be posting any chapters next week. Instead I will be posting 2 chapters after 2 weeks. 

                     Have a great week ahead!

“Be spontaneous, be creative, go out and have fun, let things happen naturally.”                                                                                                           

                                                                - Conor McGregor