My brother's best friend

Chapter 13

It was early in the afternoon and the sky was clear. More than half of the VJN was concentrated in the conference area, where Sameer Maheshwari had just delivered his fantastic speech.

The moment he got down from the stage, the entire crowd rushed to him. Munna and Pandit were the first one to reach Sameer, and both hugged him tightly. The crowd congratulated him and promised their vote in his favour, while Sameer grinned widely. Karthik was glaring at him, while his group of losers were 'observing' the extremely-large crowd that gathered around Sameer. Mohit Rana didn't look too happy either, since he was busy tearing his very-long speech to pieces. The Sameer-Maheshwari-Fan-Girls or the SMFG's were sighing in adoration and some of them even swooned. The principal and the other teachers were looking at him proudly, while the cricket team's coach was boasting about his excellent personality which helped Sameer in becoming such a good 'all-rounder'.

As for the gang, Munna and Pandit hoisted Sameer up and shouted their slogans "Apna president kaisa ho, bilkul Sameer jaisa ho". Arjun had got a cricket bat, with which he was 'helping' Munna and Pandit, since he believed that a cricket bat can solve many problems. Preeti was telling her fellow classmates about how she helped Sameer in writing the speech while Swati elaborated her very important role in Sameer's future decisions after he wins the elections. Sunaina was telling her group of cronies about how she chose Sameer's white t-shirt and black leather jacket for the big occasion and Mitali claimed to have helped Sameer in setting his hair. The said person was still ogling at Naina while she was blushing profusely.

Naina's cheeks were burning and her entire body was melting under his gaze. She quickly turned her back to him and concentrated on Preeti who was telling Shipra about her role in the speech.
"Are ha yaar. Matlab maine toh itni help ki Sameer ki kya batau. Poori raat baithkar likhi aur phir usne meri speech se Sabse zyada idea liya.Main na hoti toh speech hi na hoti. Dekh Naina bhi aa gayi. Naina tu hi bata ise ki maine Sameer ki kitni help ki.

Naina had not come back to her senses yet. She simply nodded, and Preeti went back to telling her friends about the places from where she got the idea.

Sameer noticed that Naina was now talking to her friends, so he too tried concentrated on the stupid things that his friends were arguing about. He really had to thank Naina. He wondered how Naina had written such a beautiful speech. Everyone was talking about the speech, and how Sameer will help the students if he became the President, but the words that moved them, belonged to Naina, though the mouth was his. He really wanted her to take the credit, but he knew that she will never agree. He shook his head and listened to the new argument of Munna and Arjun.
"Yaar Arjun main keh raha hoon na, 'Jab tak Sooraj Chand rahega apne bhai ka Naam rahega' hi sabse accha lagega."

"Nahi Munna, dekh humein Karthik Ko target karna chahiye, warna Sunaina Ko team mein lene ka kya benifit hua. 'Hum toh baazi maarenge, humare dushman haarenge" sabse best rahega."

"Nahi Arjun dekh aaj meri baat maan le phir kal teri baat maanenge"

"Nahi Munna, baat toh meri hi maani jayegi. Tera wala bahut bekaar hai"

"Chup karo dono. Kya farak padta hai, kuch bhi bol dena. Ab yeh jhagda bandd karo" Sameer commanded.

Munna and Arjun grudgingly broke the argument, but Pandit soon interrupted,
"Sameer yeh rally kab hogi. Abhi ya ek do ghante Baad"

Sameer slapped his forehead. Before Munna and Arjun could utter a single word, he spoke,
"Rally Abhi hi hogi. Dekh woh Karthik aur uske chamche bhi jaa rahe hai rally ke liye, hum bhi abhi chalte hai. Aaj toh kaafi bheed bhi hai."

"Aur teri Puri hawaa bhi toh bani hui hai" Munna added and grinned.

Sameer also grinned and spoke,
"Ha woh bhi hai. Chal team ke logon ko bhi le chalte hai"