CHAPTER 5

Author's note :
              Hey guys! Hope you all had a great weekend and had a glorious start! Check out the fifth chapter!

CHAPTER 5

A STALKER EVEN IN THE MORNING TOO, ARE WE?

We all sat on the floor on our hallway forming a circle staring at each other faces.

“So you were stalking Jason…”, started Jessica.

The look I gave her made her shut up.

“Alright. So basically he called you ‘pathetic little college girl’ , ‘crazy stalker’ and asked you to mind your own damned business. And all this within few minutes of meeting you. Ah! I am impressed!”, stated Reshma and started to crack up.

Unable to control their laughter anymore all three of my friends started laughing . I just sat there looking at them and placed my right elbow on my lap and rested my chin on my right hand waiting for them to stop.

It took them a few minutes to control their laughter and notice that I am glaring at them.

“Now enough of laughing at my expense . I have already damaged most of my pride and dignity in one night as it is and I intend to keep the rest of it intact, so,I don’t want to meet him and moreover I don’t ever want him as my ‘friend’. So WE are not going anywhere for breakfast tomorrow.” I said to them.

“ But Ray, just because you got off on the wrong foot with one of them doesn’t mean that they are all bad guys. We spoke with all of them and they all seemed pretty nice to me. Sure they may flirt with all the girls,”, Jhansi stated glancing at Jessica, “but that’s what all guys do. Let us all go tomorrow and then decide whether we want to be friends with them or not. But first, we must go and get to know them. They are our neighbors after all.”, she concluded with such certainty thereby ending the conversation.

We all went back to our rooms.

So my fate is sealed and decided.

I have to go tomorrow to meet the guy whom now I greatly dislike. But maybe Jhansi is right. Maybe his friends are not as bad as he is.

There is only one way to find out.  I must go tomorrow.

With that thought I laid on my bed staring at the ceiling until sleep consumed me.

The next day I woke to the noise of wood cracking somewhere. I got down from my bed and stretched my arms out. I walked to the door that opened to a balcony facing the next house.

When I opened the balcony door, I was greeted with the sight of Jason doing pushups on his wooden balcony. So that’s where the noise came from. Hmm…I was so busy embarrassing myself yesterday that I didn’t notice his sculpture like perfectly chiseled worked out body. Though I could not see clearly from afar I bet he has gorgeous bed hair even in the morning.

Suddenly he stopped doing his pushups and looked at my direction and said, “A stalker even in the morning too, are we?”.

Only then I realized I was staring at him with my jaw open. I quickly shut my mouth , shook my head and ran inside my room.

Oh, please someone kill me. This boy is going to be the death of me.

“Ranina are you awake?”, knocked Jessica.

“Yea, Jess. What’s up?” , I answered without opening the door.

“You have 30 minutes to get ready. Then we are leaving for The Diner to meet with Jason and his friends. So hurry!”, she answered .

“Do I really have to come Jess?”, I pleaded her.

“This meeting is basically for you to meet Jason’s friends. Plus you heard Jhansi yesterday. You don’t want face her wrath , do you? So get going Ray. Meet you downstairs in 30!”, with that she skipped downstairs.

So I quickly brushed my teeth , took a bath and wore a blue shirt with my dark blue jeans.

I applied pink lip gloss and completed my look with eyeliner. I then pulled my hair into a ponytail and prepared myself ,“ Let’s get this over with. Nothing can scare Ranina anymore.”, and let out a deep breath.

With that I descended downstairs.

Author's note:

Hello Readers. So what do you guys think you will do if you switched position with Ranina? Fingers crossed that she does not do anything to embarrass herself as she did yesterday. Come back next Tuesday to know more! Have a great week and plunge into February with positivitiy!

“Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.”

                                                                  - Michael Jordan

CHAPTER 4

Author's note:
              Below is the 4th chapter guys! Happy reading!

CHAPTER  4

GET OUT OF MY ROOM YOU DISRESPECTFUL GOOD-LOOKING MONSTER CREATURE!!

              “Were you Cyber – Stalking me?!?”,asked  a very angry Jason.              

“What ?!? Stalking ?I wasn’t stalking  you! And don’t you use the word stalking! I think it’s a rude and an insulting word. Besides you are not even THAT good looking in person. I can’t believe Erica has a crush on you. She can do way better!”, I scoffed.

“The Hell!! I thought you were dangerous as soon as I found my profiles on your computer but you are nothing but a pathetic little college girl.”, he said shaking his head. “Oh! And check your eyes. Nobody has ever denied my attracting features before.”, he replied .

Whoa. Does this guy have bipolar disorder? He just went from insulting me to flirting with me in one second! And how dare he call me pathetic?

“What did you say? I am pathetic? At least I am not a self-absorbed person thinks only about  himself”, I replied looking directly at him .

I am not someone who tolerates crappy behavior.  Especially if it comes from guys who doesn’t respect girls. My brother’s bruise marks can tell all the tales. Yes, I have a brother,  an year older than me and I hit him all the time if he doesn’t treat girls right.

“Well, at least  I am not some crazy stalker who invades other people’s privacy. For future reference, keep your nose to yourself, not in other people’s business. Be thankful that I don’t hit girls”.

“Get out my room you disrespectful good-looking monster creature !”, I whisper-shouted at him. How dare he talk with me like that? Who does he think he is? I had dig my nails into my palm to control myself from hitting him.

“I was going out anyways. I don’t want to waste my breath with you a second more.”, he said rudely slamming the room door shut.

I started pacing across my room and started counting numbers to keep myself throwing the laptop that was showing his face on the wall.

Shaking my head to clear my thoughts, I slowly went to my laptop and closed all the tabs. I jogged downstairs CAREFULLY this time, I might add, and joined Jhansi and Reshma in the hall. Jason and his friends were gone .

“What took you so long? Even a tortoise can move faster than you Ray! You missed meeting Jason’s friends. They all live just next door.”, said Reshma.

Great! Just great! The guy who thinks I was stalking him just lives next door. Along with his three other friends. My life is awesome and I love it!

I am being sarcastic in case you don’t get it.

I guess I was scowling at the thought of Jason being my neighbor as Jhansi asked, “Ray , what happened? Why are you scowling like that?”.

I was about to answer her question when Jessica came skipping into the room with her phone in her hand, and said “Guys! Guys, I just spoke with Noah and he said that we all could meet up at The Diner at the end of the street for breakfast tomorrow as they didn’t get to see Ranina.”

“Oh and that took you 10 minutes to come back?” asked Reshma.

Glad that I didn’t have to answer Jhansi’s question now ,I enjoyed watching Jessica squirm at Reshma’s question.

“Well…Noah was flirting with me and I may have flirted back…”,replied Jess. “We exchanged numbers too ”,she added sheepishly.

“But I came back as soon as I heard Ray come down. Oh and by the way what were you asking  Ray when  I was entering ?” ,she asked Jhansi.

“Yea, she was upset when I said they were our neighbors . I was just asking her why.” Spoke Jhansi with the question directed at me.

“Wait! You and Noah exchanged numbers ?!? It has not even been a day since you met him!”, exclaimed Reshma.

“Don’t shout at me. When a cute guy like Noah asks for your number you never say no. Besides he is our neighbor, we are all bound to exchange our numbers at some point. I just did it earlier. Now, what’s the thing with you Ranina? You look like you are about to shit yourself.” ,Jess coolly pointed out.

So I explained everything to them.

Author's note: 
                   Hello Readers! Glad you came all way long! Feel free to drop what you think in the comments section!

                    As I mentioned earlier, there will no update next week.
                   

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” 

                                                                                           ―Confucius

CHAPTER 3

Author's note:
                        Hey guys! Since I have my internal exams next week, I won't be posting next week. Instead ,I am posting two chapters ,  chapters 3 and 4 this week! Make sure you read them in order. 

CHAPTER 3 

NEED AN INVISIBILITY CLOAK. ASAP!!

I know.

Most of you would have guessed the stranger already given the state of my luck.

Yep. It was Jason Samuel , the man himself in flesh!

Laughing. 

God that could easily qualify as the most amazing music I have ever heard.

Well now, I am confused as to whether I should feel amazed or embarrassed. Amazed because of his laughter and embarrassed because …well…he was laughing AT ME!!

WAYY to make a first impression Ray! Noticing the laughter was now reducing and my friends were asking me whether I was okay, I tried to move.

Well, that proved that I took a pretty hard fall on my back. It was paining to move. Swallowing my pride I said, "It takes a great deal of pain to say that now I am paining all over!”. And just when my friends rushed forward to help me the door bell rang.

I glanced at the door in horror. This was my unluckiest day alright! I don’t know how many people are going to see me like this!

Jason seemed to register my horror and stopped my friends. “Huh, I think it’s my friends from the house. They probably came looking for me to check what took me this long to return.”he said smirking at me. I tried to glare at him and raised my eyebrow as response. The keyword being TRIED. As I raised an eyebrow a drop of sauce fell from my forehead.

Hell. I couldn’t even look angry without even embarrassing myself.

Looking amused he continued to my friends, “You guys can go and keep my friends company. I will take care of her.”

“Yeah, that sounds good. We wouldn’t be able to lift her anyways. She weighs that much.”, answered  Reshma.

Another impatient door bell.

My friends went to get the door.

Jason came near me and lifted me using my shoulders and stood me up and slung my right hand over his shoulder. He helped me toward the stairs. He probably knew my room was upstairs since I came down from upstairs.

Our house was designed such that the stairs was located at the farthest from the door,at the end of the hallway and to the left of it was the back door. Upstairs we had two symmetrical rooms opposite each other. Jhansi and I took the rooms upstairs.

Back door had access to garden area and such while kitchen was at the right side of the stairs and the dining table on front of it which was now a mess. When we open the front door there is a large hall and at the end of the hall before the kitchen , opposite to each other were other two identical rooms which were taken by Reshma and Jessica.

We even had a second floor basically used like attic and store room kind.

Now we were halfway through saving me from further humiliation from his friends. 

“Um, my room is on the right.” I said to Jason. He gave me a surprised look and said “Right.”

We reached my room and opened my door. He was looking at my room while I stood awkwardly in my own room.

“So I’ll just go and clean up myself, I guess ” I said  more to myself than to him. I took a set of clothes and went to the bathroom.

I cleaned myself as fast as I could and stepped outside .

I could hear my friends talking with some guys downstairs. Then I took a look at Jason who folded his arms across his chest in an angry stance.

I was confused by his expressions and the stupid me decided to open my mouth,”What’s  wrong? ” and folded my arms across my chest.

He simply moved aside and looked at my laptop and no! no! no! noooo!!! Please someone order me an invisibility cloak . I need it ASAP. I think it would look cool in my death certificate if my cause of death said : Loads of humiliation and embarrassment in one night.

Blast it! Damn it! The afraid me that ran downstairs to save my life didn’t close the damned webpage showing his profile.

I could feel the blood drain my face and gathered all my courage to look at him with a horrified expression. He gave me an accusing glare and asked ,”Were you Cyber – Stalking me?!?”. 

Authors's note:
                       Hello Readers!This chapter is more like a filler chapter but I hope you like the next chapter better. Keep reading folks!! I have started writing the main plot and the character-describing chapters are almost over.Hang tight readers! 

CHAPTER 2

Author's note :
                        Hello guys! I hope you all had a great first week in this year. Below is this week's update and the second chapter of the story! Happy reading!!

CHAPTER 2

CHOCOLATE DRINK AND PIZZA MAKE A GREAT COMBO !

                        One thing you all should know about Jhansi is she ALWAYS keeps her promises.

                       Always.

Let me tell you an example. We made a bet in high school that Jhansi – the golden girl who doesn’t speak back to her strict parents and always obey them – would start a fight with them and break her mother’s favorite vase and graffiti his father’s car if I – the nerdy me , a straight A student – get an E in Mathematics.

The cool me took it as a challenge and scored an E in the next math test we had. Believe me when I say it was torture when I intentionally left the questions unanswered and the looks I had to endure from the average C students when they knew I got an E…it was torture. Pure and absolute torture. Not to mention the wrath of my parents… well, I was grounded until the next exam in which I got A again.

Since I completed my task with flying colors, we all decided Jhansi should do hers next. Her father being the sheriff of our town and her mom being the head of Disciplinary Board of our town, Greenville, it was more appropriate to say her house wasn’t a house but more like solitary confinement. And to go against her parents …I would never dare to do such a thing.

But Jhansi dared.

Just because she gave us her word.

She fought with her parents for the very first time in her entire existence expressing how they never let her to be herself and when they protested she BROKE her mother’s favorite CHINA SET COLLECTION and instead of grafting on her dad’s car , she dumped a whole BUCKET OF PINK PAINT all over dad’s GOVERNMENT CAR!!!.

Way to go girl!!!

And ever since her parents have been more understanding and easy going. But mind you, this was not before she was grounded for an entire year and that she should workout everyday for an hour in that said year. *shudders*

And there are so many instances that I can tell about ‘Jhansi and her Promises’ tale once I come back from downstairs.

That is if I am still alive.

Oh shoot! My five minutes are almost up! Blast it. I sprinted to open the door without even bothering to close the Instagram tab on my laptop fearing for my life and ran downstairs.

I skipped so fast on the stairs that :

1)      It should get placed in World records.

2)      I didn’t even notice the person standing in our hall.

3)      And even better I didn’t notice that I was about to fall on floor face first since I skipped the last four steps.

To avoid myself face-planting  myself onto the floor in front of a strangers and worse , my friends, I expertly maneuvered myself and changed the direction to my right so that I can balance myself with the stairs handrail.

But the idiot me forgot about the new dining table that was now standing on my landing position.  And so the entire contents of the dining table fell on me since I grabbed the dining table sheet instead of dining TABLE.

Once I heard the curses and laughter of my beautiful friends I said ,”Hello to you too guys!! And by the way great pizzas!” licking the pizza piece that fell on my face. Not to mention my other parts of the body was also covered in various kinds of foods and…beverages? My shirt was soaked in chocolate drink! 

Grabbing the half fill chocolate drink and tasting it I said,"Chocolate  drink and pizza make a great combo !!".

I was smiling to myself and taking pride in smelling mouth watering  and tasting all the food that spill on me and that’s when another round of laughter erupted from a male.

I looked up to see who the stranger was.

                        When I saw the person…I knew one thing for sure.  I am the most unluckiest person in the whole world!!

Author's note :
                     Hello Readers, how did you like this chapter? And I swear the upcoming chapters have fast-moving plots. The first few chapters are focused on describing the characters, so they might be kinda slow. So don't get bored!You have been warned!

                     Have a great week ahead!!

                   

                         “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”

                                                                               - Eleanor  Roosevelt

A NEW STORY!!

            Author's Note :                              

                            

                          Hello guys! This is my first attempt at writing a story and this is purely based on fiction!The characters and places used are purely imaginary.Any events or words used in this book are not meant to offend anyone.

                            This story will be updated here in my blog every Tuesday, a chapter per week starting from today.                

                            I wish you all a happy and  prosperous year ahead!

                            Here goes the first chapter!!

THE FALL OF THE MIGHTY GIRLS.

CHAPTER  1

I AM NO STALKER. MORE LIKE FURIOUSLY CURIOUS.

            I noticed the noise coming from the next house which was quiet and empty for the past two days. So I guess it is not empty anymore and someone must have moved in. Pushing aside my curiosity I focused on my task on my hand. I quickly locked my room door ,took out my laptop and sat on my comfy bed.

I have an important work.

I opened my Instagram and Facebook accounts and searched for Jason Samuel.

Yes, that’s my important task. Getting  to know my recent crush on social network.  Whom I haven’t even seen him in real. And no I am not stalking. I repeat do not use the word stalking.

Ranina doesn’t stalk anybody. I m just furiously curious about things and add an extra layer of curiousness if that said thing is a male human.

I am pathetic. I know.

If I haven’t seen him then how do I know him? Well,here is how. I am Ranina Andrews , 18 years old and joined in Castleford University, Computer Science and Engineering Department along with my other 3 crazy friends and we all rented a house together. Our college conducted a pre – orientation program that allowed freshers to come visit the college and ‘groom ourselves’ with the new environment a week before college officially starts.

So all four of us went there the day we came here from our hometown Greenville ,two days ago. We met Erica , Julie and some other cool girls and even a few guys there( yep, good looking too !). And that’s when Erica told us about the guy who was also a fresher there and he was apparently was the best looking guy she had ever seen and started praising him like he was some sort of greek god. But I said that she obviously has a crush on that guy and that nobody can ever be that good.

That’s  when she showed us his picture.

That was the most breathtakingly beautiful creature I have ever seen in the male kind in the Homosapiens species.

Erica I’ll never EVER doubt your judgement girl!

He indeed had the best looks and cue the drooling. God, I embarrass myself sometimes. But I am also intelligent and forethink things. That’s why I had Erica give me his social network profile so that I can see them later.

And here I am. Following the profile of a new guy in my college who I haven’t even met to quench my curiosity while my friends who are downstairs are  absolutely unaware of any of this.

Or so I hope . That they don’t know what I am doing. Else I’ll become their personal fun machine.

I was scrolling through Jason’s Instagram profile and God he looks perfect.in.every.picture. Control yourself  Ray. And stop swooning for God’s sakes.

I was so drowned in watching his photos that  I could barely hear Jhansi calling my name. Only when she started pounding on my door like a mad dog who wasn’t petted for over a week did I hear her.

”Ranina Andrews if you don’t open your door and get your ass downstairs within five minutes I’ll kick open this myself and drag you downstairs by your hair I promise you. And you damn well know that I keep my promises!” shouted an angry Jhansi through my locked room door.

I felt a shiver run down my spine.

Oh oh. This is trouble. Big trouble.

Author's Note :

               Hello Readers! Glad you came all way long! Hope you enjoyed. 

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson