When You Are With Me

8 - New Life

Every season of life wants to earn happiness by becoming an idiom, every flower of the flora world wants to spread its petals and spread its fragrance by becoming furnished, the sun wants to drive away the darkness and share the light with its rays, in the same way, human beings also share their beautiful behaviour.

A smile approached her lips. Recalling that he is such a boy who loves and respects his mother a lot.

As the teacher was writing the notes on the Blackboard, Bondita in a low voice whispered to Celicia-- who was sitting next to her with a frown while copying the notes seriously.

"This Boy's name is Shyama right!" She implored. Her Sakha babu has taught her Hindi and English well, so she was able to speak both well as Bengali.

Celicia shot up a glance at Bondita with a pout, "No! He is Shiyamanand". A trance poured through her faint voice like she was going to lose something.

"Okay" Bondita smiled meekly, getting engaged back to her work while Celicia kept secret glances at Bondita and Shyama.

Classes after classes, Soon the bell rang. All the folks sighed with relief after the heavy lectures. Most of the British maidens gazed at Brown fur Indian maiden with introspective eyes as it was rare to see Indian Girl's in the school. Packing the pen, registers and Books, all boys ran out of the classroom with the newfound siesta like one gets from the phantom, peeking stolen glances at the new girl in between.

Shyama was a studious boy. She noticed it throughout the class. Well, an introvert too, who speaks very less. Celicia was an extrovert and received two scolds throughout the class for not paying heed to study to which he downed his face.

The new maiden in the class herself was studious. He noticed that.

Celicia took out the small lunchbox from her bag, peering at Shyama who was engrossed in his book, thinking something.

Meanwhile, Bondita bounced at her meekly and cooed, "You didn't introduce yourself. What should I call you?". She turned to notice her and said with a grin, "Celicia".

"What Cel? Cell is used in the torch. Is that your name?"

"No no... Celicia! It means Heaven, The moon" The spindly boy with heavy specs-- Shyamanand turned to tell her from his seat. Celicia passed a soft smile to him whilst he just ignored her gulping a little.

"Hi! Shyama...nand. Nice to see you here too" Bondita said softly as he looked at her eyes deeply. Celicia raised one of her brows.

"Too! Do you know me?" He asked timidly. "You must love your mother a lot right? Yesterday, I saw you from the window of my hostel room. You and your mother were having an emotional conversation. The way you were talking to her left an imprint on my mind" She said softly.

A pout reached his lips. He resembled a terrified introvert child.

Glancing at him, Celicia opened her Lunchbox, "I have prepared sandwiches for ye. Would ye like to have it?" She offered it to him.

"Study well from next time." He said and ate it from her hand, giving a subtle smile.

Bondita looked at them amused bemusing. They seemed like good chums. And the boy-- more of like her SakhaBabu. Unpredictable, but a good one.

How did the study come in between eating sandwiches?

"Leave that. How do ye get admission with such a delay?" She asked.

"My Sakha babu... I mean my guardian got me here"-- 
"Oh, well... You are a Bengal right?" Shyama interrupted with a stuffed mouth. She nodded.

"Good to know that. I used to hear Bengali songs back in India. My Maa loves them. I have heard that Bengalis are very selfless too" He explored with a grimace.

"Really? Where did you hear that?" Bondita implored curiously.

He kept his index finger over his jaw slyly. "Because they eat fISH and their exclamation is... ISH," He said with a laugh in an attempt to be her friend with a joke. Celicia gave a bemused
grin not understanding what he meant.

While Bondita gave him a blank expression with knitted eyebrows. He coughed before bestowing an immediate apology. "Sorry" He downed his eyelashes.
Lonely again.

Bondita pressed her lips together before cracking up in laughter.
"Ishh!" She laughed.

Shyama gazed at the new maiden with administration and a small smile. Her brown dazzling fur and smile were making him feel pits in stomach.

Celicia reluctantly noticed his reaction and stuffed the whole sandwich in his mouth to get his attention.

"What are you doing?"

"I don't like the sandwiches I prepare! You swallow them all" She snapped with gritted teeth.

"But It tastes good!" He exclaimed.

"Really? That slaps" Celicia spontaneously downed her eyelashes with red cheeks.

"I am considering you and you wanna slap me! You will also--" He thinned his eyebrow. "Slap means rocks within... silly! I will too not" She told.

"What you will too?" Bondita inspected. "Nothing", Both halted her.

"It's getting late already. I think we should leave now. My Mom must be waiting for me" Celicia packed her bag.

Shyama and Bondita too did the same and the trio walked out of the class while talking more to each other.

"Where do you live now? And back in India?" Bondita asked as they matched the pace of footsteps while walking through the corridor.
"Now in Hostel. In India at Bhubaneswar, Orrisa" He said and whispered to himself, "Maybe in Future your heart".

"Bhubaneshwar! The heritage site? My Kakasasurji was very interested to go there, he said when I and
PatiBabu" She paused realising what she had said.

"Kakasasur! Your Pati! You are married?" He cried with astonishment while the British girl walking next to him put her hand on his shoulder.

Bondita glanced at him expressionlessly. "No! I was. I am not married now", and murmured to herself, "Maybe will be in the future to him''.

She thought and walked past them suddenly. To her trance, She heard some muffled cries from somewhere.
Bondita paused to take a glance at the one who was crying.

Little she wasn't aware that these crying sounds were going to take her to a different zone. Maybe someone was waiting to make her experience a different phase of life. Which Anirudh and Bondita weren't aware of.

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To Begin with my apologies for the delay. In addition, One more chapter with promo is waiting to get uploaded the next day if readers allow me. And Conclusion- things are gonna take a steady twist.

Sorry for the Selfish and ish. It was just for entertainment.

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Any thoughts about new characters? The characters who are introduced in chapters 7 and 9 are going to be there throughout the book as protagonists.