College Diaries.

 

   COLLEGE DIARIES

          EPISODE:59

                ...Some days later, I met Claudia at the supermarket. It was she who saw me,

"Daisy!!!", she said.

"Claudia! How are you and where have you been?"

"Dad won't let me out of the house, he says you need not cook, nor should you go out when we have Nancy to work for us...Today's he's gone for work so here I am! You know, my cooking passion brought me here!", she said with a wink. Then she talked about the dishes she's been trying her hands at and then she talked about...,

"You know my brother...he seems pretty dull these days...he won't talk much and he just acts odd!"

"Why is that so?", I asked.

"I don't know! He won't even pull pranks on me anymore...how's he at college?", she asked. I looked at her.'What am I supposed to say???', was the thought which was constantly running in my mind.

"He's fine..."

"Let's just hope for the best!", she replied.

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 It had been almost twenty-twenty five days since we weren't speaking. I was returning from my classes that day and I somehow looked inside the Starbucks which was on my way...Ethan was right there, writing something with his laptop open and a coffee cup on the table. I'll tell you a fact that I discovered and experienced myself-the more you don't want to see someone, the more they will appear to you. I had been seeing him every day. I saw him in the Starbucks, once playing soccer, once roaming around and I saw him like EVERYWHERE!

One fine day at college, as I was going the other way, I heard laughing voices coming from the seating room. I stopped and looked in. It was Ethan along with two of his friends, one was Shawn and the other one was new. I decided to hide behind the wall.

"Here", Shawn said, lighting up a cigarette and offering it to Ethan. He looked at Shawn as if he would just kill him there.

"I don't do that anymore...you know it too.", he replied. Shawn laughed and said,

"Really? Just for a girl who dumped you???!"

"Keep your stupid mouth to yourself", Ethan said, quite loudly this time.

" He's right, Ethan...forget her...you are ruining your life by thinking about her all the time...!", the other one said.

"Talking to you guys is just as bad as smoking this cigarette", he said and threw away the cigarette box out the window. Then he started to come out. I held my breath.'Where the hell do I hide? Or wait! I just act as if I was passing by...but wait! No!!! My acting level is zero! What do I do? Where do I hide??? Make me invisible!!!'.Till I completed my thinking, he came out and, guess what? He saw me. He looked at me with those brown eyes filled with hurt. Expressionless.

"I swear I was just passing by!", I said. But he didn't reply. He just looked at me for a good one minute and then went away.

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