Chapter-3
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"Ring Ring" The phone rings.
It waked Jeet up.
"Hello!" Jeet attended the call in half asleep.
"You are sleeping? Wake up. Don't you have class?"
"Ya, mom I am up now. Getting ready. Bye."
He hurried to open the door. It was open. The window was closed. Lights were on. No book was on the floor.
He held his bucket and his stuff. He went to the bathroom to get fresh up.
He entered the giant bathroom with many washbasins aligned on the wall and the cabins for doing our business are in front of it perfectly in the margin. The shower area was inside. He passed the corridor and get to the place where cabins with shower panels were set. In front of that taps were there where students were washing their clothes. He placed his bucket there and started washing his clothes.
"You look like you haven't had sound sleep." A boy asks.
"Yes, the power cut for the entire night made me like this." Jeet says after yarning.
"Power cut? I don't think so there was any power cut yesterday." The boy replied.
"What? But there were no lights in my room."
"Which room you are in?" The boy asked casually.
"Room 335 D block."
"What did he say?" The question echoed in the bathroom.
"Room 335? In D block? The one outside the building?" The boy asked with a scared expression.
"Yes, why?"
"He is gone." Echoed again.
"What happened?"
"Dude, that room is haunted. No one, literary no one dared to stay there." The boy said.
"Haunted?"
"Yes, there are many rumors about that room."
"I suggest you better change the room." Another boy advice him.
"I can't do that. I personally asked for that room."
"You are gone, dude."
"I don't believe in ghosts." Jeet says.
"Side.... make way for him." Sound from far came.
"What's that?" Jeet asks.
"Veeraj Shekhawat, or popularly known as Veer a rich, spoiled brat." One says with a frustrating tone.
"But what's the fuss about?" Jeet asks.
"Veer has his favorite spot in the bathroom as well. No one allowed to use that place. His basin, his shower area, No one allowed there. Not even when he is not around. Maybe someone made any mistake."
"We should complain about it."
"Don't you dare? His father funds the school. Teachers are afraid of him."
"I don't find him scary."
"What's your name dude?"
"Jeet, "
"Huh... Jeet (victory)! He will turn you into Haar (defeat/necklace) and will wear it as an achievement. Be aware of it."
Jeet gulps his saliva.
"Yes, better to wish not to get in his way."
"Yes...yes"
After getting fresh, Jeet took a shower and was going out.
He avoided Veer and his group all the time. But while heading out, Veer stretched his leg to make Jeet fall.
"Look, the milk spills." Veer teased.
They all laughed at Jeet.
Jeet gets up, and without saying a word walks out of there.
***
Jeet is excited. He was on the campus for three days, but all he does was avoid meeting Veer. But now he changed his room. His classes will start from today only. He doesn't have to think about that bully. He has to concentrate on his studies.
The campus was so big. Jeet was amazed by that. I walked around the lawn, then entered the main gate of the huge building. The building was a five-storey yellow building with highlights of blue and pink colors.
"What's your name?" Asked a faculty.
"Sir, Jeet Arura."
"Hm... room 11B. Come." The faculty says with a disgusted tone.
Jeet followed the faculty.
They passed by on the basketball court.
"You play basketball?" Faculty asked Jeet.
"No, sir."
"We need good players."He sigh. "Well, you are so thin for that too."
He scanned Jeet and shook his head with a disappointing expression.
Jeet got awkward after the comment he got.
"Sir, this school doesn't have good players?" Jeet asks.
"We do. But 11B has a problem regarding participation." His tone was of anger rather than of disappointment.
Jeet saw the girl from the train was waving at him from far. He waved back with a bright smile.
"She is your junior. You don't have properly settled here and made a girlfriend. You are too fast." He taunts Jeet.
"No, sir. She is just a friend. We met on the train." Jeet explained himself.
"Don't worry. Campus romance is not that prohibited here. Just don't go too far."
"Sir...."
'What a weird person is he.' Jeet thought.
"This is the library. First, let's take your books so that you won't have to find me again." The faculty was still in disgusted mood.
They entered the library. It was like he saw in a movie.
An entire world of books.
"Wait here."
The faculty went on inside.
Jeet roams around and explored the library.
There were books for maths, geography and many more. He found a section with books beyond the courses.
"Arora?" The faculty call out.
"Yes, sir." He rushes to the faculty, who was standing with a bunch of books in his hand.
He handed them to Jeet.
"Sir, these are too many."
"Knowledge is never enough."
The faculty went out. Jeet followed him with the heavy books in his hands.
"This is 11B. Wait here. When I'll call you, you enter the room then. Okay?"
Jeet nodded.
He went inside, leaving Jeet with books.
"Students, we got a new student here. He is a scholar. I wish you all give him a warm welcome."
"Student, get in." The faculty says from the inside.
Jeet gets in.
"This is your class teacher, Mr.Patel."
Jeet greeted him.
"Good morning, sir."
The faculty left.
"Hm, put the books here and introduce yourself to your classmates." Teacher says.
Jeet turn and started his introduction.
"Good morning, everyone. My name is..."
"Milky bar?" A voice interrupted him.
The whole class laughs.
It was Veer.
Veer was smiling along with his group.
Jeet's eyes got wide. He gasps for air.
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