We finally finished our moral science exam without being caught up by the teacher despite Darshan showing his various 'morals' every now and then.
"W, let's go to the cafè", Darshan said as soon as we got off the school bus. "But I have to go home, my parents would be waiting, and you should go too", I said. "To your home? Come let's go", he said. "V, I said go, not come. Go to your home", I said. "Come on W, don't act like a kid. You can go late one day", he tried to convince. "But they'll be worried", I said. "Then tell them you'll be late", I said and I gave him a disgusted look. "Wait", he said and started searching something in his bag, and then took out his mobile phone. "You brought your phone?", I said in shock. "No", he defended himself. "Then what's this?", I said and kept my hands on side of my hips. "This? This is a notebook, open it, write a letter to your parents telling that you'll be late today, then we'll go and post it", he casually said. "Really,  V", I said and gave an annoyed look. "Okay, don't laugh but at least smile yaar, was it that bad?", he innocently asked and I nodded. "Oops", he said and bit his tongue. "Here, call your mom and tell her you'll be late", he said and handed over his phone to me. "But what will I say? Why will I be late?", I asked. "Say anything", he said. I dialed my mom's number and mentally prepared myself to say something. "Hello", mom picked up the phone on the last ring. "Mom, Divya here", I said. "Ya, what happened? Everything's fine, na?", she worriedly asked. "Ya mom, don't worry. I just called to tell you that I'll be late", I said. "Why?", she interrogated. "Actually I'm going to the cafè with V. He has some doubts in Mathematics", I cooked up a lie. "Don't you guys have a lot of mathematics problems to discuss?", mom asked. Her voice was changed, as if she doubted something, my eyes widened. "M..mom.. what do you mean", I fumbled and that was the moment I was on the verge of being caught. I gestured Darshan to say something. "W, come fast yaar, I have a test", Darshan said from behind. "Mom, I'll talk to you once I'm home, bye", I hurriedly said. "Okay, but come fast", she said. "Ya", I said and ended the call. "What happened?", Darshan asked. "She said that don't you guys have a lot of mathematics problems these days", I said and Darshan's eyes widened with a smile. "I don't think I'll be hide it from her for a long time", I said. "Don't worry, she's your mom, she'll understand", he said and dragged me with him keeping his hand on my shoulder. One thing was sure, when I'll return home, I'll have a KBC round with my mom, and I won't be able to lie her and end up telling everything. It's not that I don't want to tell her, I want to, but I'm scared about how I'll be able to tell her, will she agree, I hope everything will be fine once I reach back home.

(Had no intentions to post it today, but I can't wait for the drama to start😩)