Who is there?

Things were going full swing. The attendance sheet was out for the first half of the semester. And atleast there all three of them had percents well above nine-tens. Inspite of the fact that Swastika and Arushi sat together during the classes but Sree was always with them in the free time. Together they tramped in every part of the college, were caught several times for talking in the library, punished for surfing social networking sites in the net-lab and many more. Sree had got used to their mumblings and their usual reply whenever she asked about it-Just general, nothing much. But unlike before, she had learnt to live with it.

Inspite of all these adverse situations, Sree had started liking this college... she felt like it was her own... At times, after college hours, she wolud walk down the long coridoors in which she would walk alone... she would reach the roof top... where the stairs ended... the streaming lights of the setting sun made her feel uncanny... her shadows tagging behind... the only connection to this mortal world... she loved being alone... it gave her time to be away from the tensions of the world... to think about herself... her new life and the changing dimensions...

It was another of these days when she had sneaked into the roof top. She was sad that day. Sad due to several reasons. She had missed the physics lab for being three minutes late. Mrs. Jojongandha Chatterjee had thrashed her left and right. She could almost feel the tears welling up in her eyes but she hadnt let them find a path to the outer world. That would have been against self-esteem, the only thing she has come to love about herself over the years. To top it all, she had unable to talk to Rajanya mam during the last three days. She had been very busy. Today for the first time, even her favourite place couldn't lift her spirits. She decided to walk down back to the grounds. Just as she was turning back, something caught her eyes between the trees. She was dumbstruck.

Through the gap in the trees, she could see a guy and a girl sitting very close. No, that was not something to be surprised about and agreed, it was a very common scene in GEMI. But what had struck her was, from the dress that the girl was wearing, she could swear on her life that it was Swastika... But the question was who was she with??? Sree decided to hold on and watch for some more time...