"You know I am interested in Sirisha and want to make friendship with her. But you saw how she is behaving with me not giving me any chance even to make some full-fledged conversation with her." Suddenly there was angry expression in his face.

"What's wrong if she is choosy about her friends especially when it comes to boys?" looking straight into his face still trying not to show her happy feeling in it Chandana asked. "Not just with you, she behaves in the same way with all the boys also. She is a conservative type and does not show much friendliness even with girls also. I am her only close friend."

"It is not so to me before. Whatever type a girl may be, she just would become my friend when I showed even little interest on her." The angry expression was just so in his face then also.

"This girl is not like that. Just forget about her and concentrate on your studies. You are not coming to the school to make friendship with beautiful girls."

"But when I saw beautiful girls like you and her; I cannot remain without trying to make friendship." Suddenly with a smile on his lips Sarath said. "Cannot we both become friends?"

Once again Chandana has to put effort to control herself from jumping with happiness. "I cannot agree with anyone if he wants to make friendship with me just because I am beautiful!" she struggled a lot to say it like that but if she wanted to keep her value with him, showing some reluctance was must. It was not the first time that he came to her and talked with her like that and he really might be feeling to make friendship with her.

"I just don't know how to convince you that I want your friendship not just because you are beautiful." Chandana really felt that his expression in his face was genuine then. "I am just feeling a sort of closeness between us both in everything and want to be a friend to you."

"Hello, are you thinking that I am a fool not to notice that I am your second preference? First you tried to make friendship with Sirisha and when you understood she would not give a chance to you, you are trying to make friendship with me." Still she was struggling a lot to control her happiness and to talk like that with him. In one way she was feeling anger on herself thinking by talking like that she might lose his friendship.

"I want to be frank with you whatever you may think about me." Suddenly his face became serious. "I agree Sirisha is the most beautiful girl in this whole school and so far among all those girls whom I saw till now. Yes, I tried to make friendship with Sirisha Just because I have felt with her also as I am feeling with you. Its not just the beauty I do prefer in girls to make friendship. How can I convince you that I want to make sincere friendship with you?" he paused for a second before saying again with the same serious expression. "I don't know how you do take it. I cannot remain without appreciating beauty. If we don't consider that Sirisha, you are the most beautiful girl in this whole school."

"You need not tell me about it and I appreciate facts." It was becoming more and more difficult to her to control her happiness and talk with him curtly "I agree with what you said, so what?"

"Why cannot we both become good friends?"

"I cannot understand one simple thing here!" keeping that serious expression just like that in her face, Chandana asked him. "Why should we both become friends? You already have enough boyfriends and are not they enough for you? Why do you want to make friendship with a girl?"

"I have no answer to this question!" with a sorrowful expression in his face Sarath said. "What you have said is right, why do I want to make friendship with a girl while I have enough boy friends? I am just feeling thrill and so much happy while talking with girls who are especially beautiful and intelligent! I once again be frank with you. First I wanted to make friendship with that Sirisha but she is not amicable. Now I am trying that with you." Suddenly then his face became quite serious again. "But I can say one thing for sure here to you. If I make friendship with someone, I feel so much serious about it. They do become my heart and life. I just want you to remember this!" after saying that he went away from that place.

Chanadan remained staring at the retreating figure of him while chewing her lower lip between her teeth frames and this time she did not try to control her inner happiness to be expressed full in her face.

***

Chandana did not stop feeling happy even after she came to home and her happiness was in the same measure while she was trying to sleep on the bed after finishing her homework and studied for sometime. She could not concentrate much on her homework and studies also because of her disturbing thoughts.

It was quite unexpected to her that such a situation took place. It was also not new to her that boys try to make friendship with her and she too just like Sirisha never gave chance to the boys to become friends to her. But this Sarath was something special and he stole the attention of all the girls the moment he entered into the school and every girl tried to put herself into his notice including herself. His showing interest like that only on Sirisha in fact made the jealousy and envy Chandana was feeling on her even more.

But Sarath's coming like that to her and expressed himself that he wanted to be a friend to her was just like making some amends to her ill-feeling towards Sirisha. It was not just that she always feel envy towards Sirisha and whenever she remembered how Sirisha helped her in her hard times she would feel love and affection also on her. But she just could not bear that all the boys being attracted towards her beauty, her being intelligent like that and her being born in such a rich family. When Sarath was coming to her forsaking Sirisha, it lessened substantially her envy feeling towards her and she started considering the situation then in a different angle.

She was revelling in Sirisha's upsetting and worrying thinking about her mom's pregnancy and she advised her to ask her mom to abort her pregnancy. In fact she advised her so to make her worrying even more. Did she do a mistake in advising her like that? Once that thinking started she could not remain peaceful and sat straight on the bed. She picked her lower lip between her teeth frames and put herself into deep thinking while chewing it.

'No, I did not do a wrong!' after thinking furiously Chandana came to the conclusion and released her lip. She has advised her so with an ill-motive but that was what has to be done exactly. If Sirisha's dream has to be fulfilled, she would have no siblings. She could lead her life happily as joyfully as she did till now, only then when there were no siblings to her to share. She did not do a mistake in advising her so. Moreover, Sirisha was not a fool to accept any advice without much thinking even it was from her close friend.

Once her heart was settled with that issue, she started thinking once again about Sarath. Did she make a mistake by not accepting his proposal to become friends immediately? What if he would not try to come to her again? She started feeling regret. She was not ready to lose friendship with a handsome boy like him and if she was lucky it may lead to anything. She could sense absolute genuineness in his face and voice also and her heart was saying he would sure come to her again. But, after few seconds' thought she came to the decision, she was not going to wait until he would come to her again.

***

"Mom, wait a sec!"

In the night of that day, Sanjana went into her daughter's room to give her Horlicks and while she was returning after handing it over to her, Sirisha said. Sanjana turned back and looked into her daughter's face when she heard her. She was not particularly trying to talk anything with her after that day.

"I want to have little chit-chat with you."

"I am afraid that you are preparing for your unit text examinations and don't want to be disturbed." Pretending some disinterest in her face Sanjana said.

"This is something very much important that I have to talk with you now itself." There was a sort of firmness in Sirisha's voice which made Sanjana feel uneasy. "Some ten minutes or so of talking with you don't interrupt my studies too much."

"Alright then. Make it fast." Sanjana could not guess what exactly her daughter wanted to talk with her at that time but it was certainly related to her incoming sibling. "I always do feel happy to spend time with my daughter and talk with her."

"I know about that mom. I know how much you and dad always love me." There was a sudden happy expression in the face of Sirisha, she got off from the chair, hugged her mom and kissed on her right cheek.

"Pour your heart. Talk whatever you want to talk." Looking surprisingly into the face of her daughter for the sudden changing in her Sanjana said and she also put both of her hands around her "I am so much curious to hear what you are going to say."

"Mom, your present pregnancy was just automatic! Either dad or you did not expect this at all, is it is not?" with gathered frowns just looking into the face of her mom, Sirisha asked her.

"You are absolutely right dear, we did not expect this at all." Sanjana said just in a casual way sighing heavily. "We both wanted to have a second child so much in those days. But when it did not happen again even after ten years or so also, we just have forgotten about it. How it has happened again to me I just cannot understand! It is just like a miracle and a boon from god! Even after all these years, at my thirty four years or so of age also, that idea that I am going to have another child, a sibling to you is very much thrilling to me." Her face was suddenly filled with happiness. "I am now feeling as much happy as I was when you were in my stomach."

"But mom, if it has not happened, I mean if you have not become pregnant again, you would not have thought about it at all, would you?" as if she did not hear what her mom has said, Sirisha said.

"Of course dear, you are right!" Sanjana could not guess at all what her daughter was going to say.

"Then mom, what difference it makes if you lose it now?" Sirisha did not know how she has put it so then as she was feeling very much uneasy to say it like that. "What I want to say is how it is if you get an abortion? This pregnancy is not expected and both you and dad do not particularly intend to have another child now."

(..........to be continued)

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