I took a deep breath, calmned myself down and narrated each and everything to Sneha. As I kept on narrating, her expressions kept on changing and by the end, she was super happy and excited. "Divya, tell me the truth. Do you like him?", she asked with a wide smile. I rolled my lower lip and shrugged my shoulders. "What? Tell me clearly", she snapped. "I.... I don't exactly know. He is cute and sweet and handsome, but...", I thoughtfully said. "But?", she asked. "I don't know", I snapped. "What do you mean by you don't know? Why are you so confused? Be sure, in the matter of love, you have to be either white or black. You can't be gray", she said. "Ya... I know, but I can't tell you right now. I'll tell you later", I said and suddenly opened the books to dodge her further questions. I myself wasn't clear enough about the fact that I like Darshan or not, to tell Sneha. "Hey", suddenly an unfamiliar male voice emerged and I lifted up my head. A boy stood in front of us. "Hi", I and Sneha softly said in unison. "I'm Kartik, your classmate", he introduced himself. "Oh. I'm Sneha and she's Divya", Sneha said and Kartik smiled. "By the way, how are you now? Are you okay?", he asked me. "Umm.. Yeah", I said in confusion. "They shouldn't have done it. They did very wrong that's why I did what I should have done", he said and I and Sneha gave eachother confused looks.  "What do you mean? Who did what, and what did you do", Sneha asked him. "Those three boys. Kritesh, Jyugal and who's that third one?", he tried to remember. "Darshan", I exclaimed as I saw him along with Kritesh and Jyugal standing in anger behind Kartik. Darshan looked at me and gestured me to stay quiet. "Ya. Darshan", Kartik said. "What they did with you was wrong. They shouldn't have done that, that's why I did that", Kartik added. "And what did you do?", Sneha asked with a chuckle. "I straight away went to the Vice Principal and told him everything. That's why those three are not to sit in the class now. Vice Principal punished them", Kartik said with immense pride. Behind him, the three had their faces burning with anger and I can guarantee that they'll not leave him. "He doesn't even know that he just now invited his death", Sneha whispered to me. "I know right. Poor fellow. God protect him", I whispered back and we chuckled. "What happened?", Kartik asked and we shook our heads. Jyugal came and stood besides Kartik with his hand wrapped around his neck and Darshan did the same from the other side. By now, the courage on Kartik's face had faded away. "So, you were the one who complained to Vice Principal", Kritesh stood in front of him and asked. Kartik remained silent and looked at them in terror. "Come, we'll teach you how to complain", Darshan said and dragged Kartik with him. Jyugal and Kritesh too walked behind him with anger on their face. It looked like they carried a criminal too the prison. "Guys", I called out and they turned around. "Please try and forgive him", I said and the three of them didn't reply and started walking again. "There's no forgiveness to the crime he attempted, Divya", Jyugal shouted and within minutes, the four of them were out of our sight. "God please protect that poor fellow", Sneha said. We looked at eachother for sometime and then burst out into a laughter.

(deenikawrites Nabihadz Welcome Kartik! 😂😂😂😂)