Life of a village girl who moves to city-2

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Life of a village girl who moves to city-2deletedREAD BEFORE PART………..A small note: I missed few lines in last update which were added recently. ————————–I am feeling little curious about what happened next. What did they make Lakshmi do after getting that boy’s phone number. Doorbell rang. I went to attend the door. I saw Aunty is busy with cleaning the kitchen. I opened the door. It is Varma uncle from upstairs. Varma uncle: Hello Haarika!(What is he doing? Wishing me as if I know him? I maintained silence)Varma uncle: Is murthy uncle here?Me: No uncle.Varma uncle: I need small help HaarikaMe: What is it uncle?Varma uncle: I will get a parcel today. I want you to collect it and keep it with you. I will collect it in the evening. Me: What parcel?Varma uncle: Parcel from amazonMe: Amazan?Varma uncle: It is name of company. Me: Uncle, I may not be here in the afternoon. I will tell aunty about the it. Varma uncle: ok but please make sure to collect it.Me: ok uncle.Varma uncle: Haarika you are from?Me: I am from nearby village xyzVarma uncle: That’s great. Our native place is abc……after brief silence…..Varma uncle: You will be staying here or at hostel?(Why does he want to know where I will be staying?)Me: No hostel. Here staying. Varma uncle: hmmmm……that’s good decision. It is better to stay with your uncle and aunty only. See, it is a nice house. He glanced at his watch and said “ok Haarika. Nice talking to you. I am running late. Please don’t get about the parcel ok?” and he left. I closed door and went to the kitchen to help aunty with cooking lunch. We chatted for a while. It was slowly 12:30PM.Me: Aunty, at what time you have lunch?Her: at 1:30 or 2pmMe: hmmmmm…..Her: You finish lunch by 1pm right?Me: yes aunty……..Her: Don’t worry, I will serve you the food. You can eat now. Uncle and I will eat later.Me: it is ok aunty, let us have lunch together. Once college starts, I will not have time to have lunch with youHer: hmmmmm….…actually you are right. I didn’t think about that. After few seconds of silenceHer: Haarika, I forgot! I have made laddus for you day before yesterday. Wait….I will bring you some…….She went inside and brought a laddu and handed it to me. Geetha Aunty: Have it!I actually like sweets especially laddus. I was feeling hungry. So, I ate it in a minute. I love aunt’s recipe for these. She adds cashews and her laddus have very soft texture than the ones my mother makes. Geetha aunty: One more?I nodded my head to say no while eating. Geetha aunty: it is ok. You can have one moreShe brought another one for me. I ate that one too. Geetha Aunty felt very happy. Geetha Aunty said she should watch TV serial and started watching it. I went to my room and unpacked my second bag which had many eatables. I gave those to aunty to store them for all of us to eat. My phone started ringing. It is Lakshmi. Me: Hello LakshmiLakshmi: Haarika, sorry for cutting the call abruptly beforeMe: it is fine. Tell me what happened after you took the boy’s number.Lakshmi: They took that number and asked me to call some other number. I asked them what number it is. They told me it is number of a senior student. Me: What did you do?Lakshmi: I asked them what I should talk to that person. They told me to make a call and tell him about phone network recharge packs and offers. It was like a prank call.Me: So you made the call?Lakshmi: yesMe: That’s it?Lakshmi: The number actually belongs to a faculty member.Me: What!??Lakshmi: Relax! It is not a big deal ok? It was just a prank call. Just listen to what they say and follow their instructions. Everything will be fine. Me: After that, did they leave you?Lakshmi: Yes.Me: How is your life there now?Lakshmi: It is ok I guess. I feel home sick. Living in hostel like this doesn’t feel good to me at all. All new people. You are lucky to have aunt and uncle there. Me: Hmmmm…..Lakshmi: What do you plan to wear for college?Me: I don’t know. I am wearing half sarees now. I saw other girls in college. They are wearing little modern dresses and, salwar & kameez?. Should I wear salwar kameez like everyone else? I haven’t seen anyone wearing sareesLakshmi: Better buy salwar and kameez. Half saree might feel little exposing. They are so many boys in college. Me: Hmmmmm…….May be I should also wear salwar and kameez. Lakshmi: What else?Me: You should tell me college girl. You joined college not me.Lakshmi: oh stop that! It is boring. Classes and subjects are boring. I am not even able to understand some of them at all.Me: ohhhh…….…..after few seconds of silence…..Lakshmi: Haarika?Me: Yes yes I am on line. Lakshmi: hmmmm…Me: I am not liking anything about college and this new life staying away from home. Until now, you said only negative things about college. I am not sure if I can cope up with college life. Lakshmi: It has been little over a week. It takes time to get adjusted. First few days felt difficult for me. Now, I feel much better. I know some people here now. Geetha Aunty: Haarika! Haarika!Me: Lakshmi bye…….my aunty is calling……Lakshmi: ok bye!I ended the call. Uncle seem to have arrived. We all had lunch and we went to college to enquire about things. They told us about the procedure to be followed to pay the fee and gave us necessary forms to be filled for various things. I actually applied with scholarship which got my college fee waived off by 40%.We returned after knowing all the details. I will be going by college bus every day. I have to walk till the end of street and to the main road and cross to the other side and board the bus every day. ——-few days later——-First day at college:Murthy uncle: Haarika! Haarika! (in loud voice)Me: ….uncle……wait!I wore white and sky blue combination salwar and kameez. I put small silver ear rings. Sky blue bangles on my hands. A gold chain with a ruby which I have always been wearing. Silver anklets. Silver watch and a small bag for carrying few notebooks. I also brought new shoes for college as mine were very old. They were normal shoes. Geetha aunty: Take this money for lunch! And expenses Here…….She handed me 500 rupee note. She also put a small black bindi on my forehead. I couldn’t sleep properly at night thinking about college. I got up late and now I am in a rush. She also gave me haarathi and put kumkum on my forehead. She sprinkled some water on me and blessed me. I kept the note inside my dress as I didn’t have any purse. I carried the bag on my back and went near the bike of uncle. He said we have to go fast to catch the bus.I sat sideways at the back of the bike and kept an arm on shoulder of my uncle. I said bye to aunty. I observed Varma uncle observing me from 1st floor. He was staring at me. I looked away and uncle started the bike. Uncle drive little fast. We could reach the spot of the college bus. As this was the first day and I konak escort got late, uncle wanted to drop near the bus. College bus already arrived and waiting. I told uncle that I will cross the road and board the bus but he insisted. He went little ahead and took a u turn and bus started moving. He drove past the bus near driver seat and told him to stop. I got really tensed and nervous. College bus was half empty. I got down the bike and boarded the bus. I looked for a seat and finally saw a seat beside another girl. I sat on that seat. I felt very relaxed after sitting. I waved bye to uncle and he left. Stranger: Hello!Me: HelloStranger: I am Priya!Me: I am Haarika!Priya: You are from here…….?Me: no……I am from xyz villagePriya: oh I grew up here onlyMe: hmmmm…..Priya: First time coming to this city?Me: No, visited few times before. My uncle and aunty stay here.Priya: oh is that your uncle who was on the bike?Me: yesPriya: ok. You will be staying here or at hostel?Me: I will be staying with my uncle and aunt’s house.Priya: nice to hear that. Our house is 3 km away from this area.Me: so you also will be coming by this bus every day?Priya: hmmmmm……Me: Which branch?Priya: Computer Science. You?Me: Computer SciencePriya: That’s great to hear! I felt happy that I know someone now in the bus. Me: Priya, I am actually little nervous about the collegePriya: Why?Me: My friend joined another college. She told me about ragging on first day. Priya: Ragging?Me: yesPriya: will there be ragging?Me: she told me yesPriya: ohhhh……I did not think about ragging. Now I am also feeling little nervous. (Great! Now I made her nervous too! I am already feeling very unsafe and now her as well)We reached college and got down the bus. As uncle and I have visited the college earlier, I knew the way to class. Priya and walked to classroom. There were boards displayed telling us which way to computer science block. We followed those Boards and reached a spot in the campus. Few people were gathered around a spot. We ignored them and started walking past them. Some male voice said “hello?”We turned around. “Are you freshers?”Priya replied “yes”Him: Where you are gals going? Don’t you have respect for seniors? You didn’t even wish us.Priya: sorry bhayya………good morning everyoneHim: Bhayya? Call me sir….not bhayyaPriya got little nervous and said “ok sir”Everyone around him laughed. Someone said “Hey! Leave them…..they look very nervous……let’s not go overboard……”Some other person said “You can go…….”We immediately started walking and left the scene. I felt very very relaxed. We asked a stranger where CS block was and he showed us the way. We went to the block.We asked a staff person and he told us to the help desk. We went there and enquired. They told us to go to 2nd floor. We both went to second floor and searched for class to sit. We finally found the class after one more enquiry. We saw the room half filled. We got inside the room and we sat beside each other in middle of the right side row. Priya: pffff……….today is good day for us….seniors left us…..Me: yes. Thank god!Priya: We are lucky. I don’t know what they would have asked us to do.Me: yes we are lucky…….Priya: They left us because we both looked nervous to them…..it turned into an advantage for us……if you had not told me about it in the bus……I wouldn’t have been this much scared….thank you(I didn’t think in priya’s angle but what she said made sense to me)I smiled at her and said “yes and also thanks for speaking……I could not even get a word out of my mouth……my legs were literally shaking at that moment”“hmmmmm……”We started chatting about various things like where we studied, how much grades we got and why we chose this college etc. Slowly the class got filled completely. We continued to chat. Another girl sat beside me and introduced herself as Riya. All three of us kept chatting and room got really noisy. Someone entered the room and said “Dear students, please carry your fee challans and assemble yourself for semester registration in Room No.xxx in 4th floor. Everyone got up and went to that room. We were asked to sit in the seats of the class. “Everyone write your full names on back of the challan along with your father’s name and phone number understand?”Everyone followed the instructions and wrote their details at the back of the challans.“Now, please submit those to me” and everyone submitted their challans to that person. It took a while because there were more than 200 students. After all the challans were collected, “I will call each one of you by your name and I will enter your details in my laptop to verify the payment status and registration status which will generate a code which you have to note down. After noting down the code, you must go to the computer lab which is opposite to this room and sit at the system assigned to you. Understand?”Everyone said “yes sir”“As this is first year, everyone will have same courses in their curriculum. Hence, you only have a choice to select a section from A to F. Once you select a section, you will be assigned to that section for this entire semester. Understand?”Everyone said “Yes sir”“Any doubts?”Someone got up to say something. “Yes? Please ask your doubt”“Sir, what if everyone selects same section? Or what if only 10 members select one section? What will happen?”“That is a good question Mr…….?”“Vivek sir”“Vivek…….every one of you will have to choose 3 preferences. System has an algorithm to make sure that such situation which you described earlier won’t happen. Depending on the demand and slots remaining, you will be assigned any of those 3 sections you selected”“Sir, what if everyone selects same 3 sections only?”Everyone laughed.That person laughed and said “Arey vivekji, why would everyone select same three? We have made sure to balance each section by spreading top faculty between various sections…..system won’t let such case happen”Vivek sat. They called each one of us by your names. We went to that person and he gave us a code which we noted down and each of us went to the computer lab to select our section. I sat in front of the system assigned to me in the computer lab. I had bunch of options to select from. I don’t know how to operate a computer much. I have used it only once or twice before. Mouse pointer kept moving as it wanted. I couldn’t control it properly. I asked a college staff member for help. They explained to me how to use a mouse and told me how to hold it and how to use it properly. There are details of each section on the screen. Faculty member names, their qualification and number of years’ experience etc. and courses offered. I felt section A,D and E were good and put a tick mark on these options. I raised my hand to ask for help. The staff member arrived and clicked a button on screen. “Please enter your code in the konak escort bayan box”I felt little nervous and started searching for keys on the keyboard. I couldn’t find letter “r”. I don’t know how to turn letters into capital letters. The staff members saw my struggle and helped me. “You should learn how to use computer especially mouse and keyboard first”“ok sir”He pressed submit button on screen with click of the mouse.“ok now you can leave…….”I don’t know where should I go. “sir, where?”The staff member looked at the whole room and started speaking loudly for everyone to hear “It will take time for the computer to generate final assignment of your sections. You can sit in any room today. From 401 to 406, all rooms belong to computer science first year. You can sit anywhere. Tomorrow onwards, your sections will be finalized.”I went outside the lab and saw Priya waiting for me. Actually she submitted her challan just before me and she was called before me to the lab. Priya: so which ones you chose?Me: A D and E, you?Priya: A C and EMe: A and E are common for usPriya: yesMe: Where shall we sit?Priya: hmmmm?Me: which class 401 to 406……Priya: Let us roam around the campus. Me: ????Priya: Haarika, come on. This is first day of college. Nobody knows our names or details. We don’t even have ID card. Let us go around and see the college. Ok?Me: ID card?Priya: yes, every one of us will get an ID card which will have a number. Me: Why?Priya: It is like hall ticket. Understand? We have to wear it around our neck like other students and faculty membersMe: ohhhh………..Priya: So, Haarika, do you read books?Me: noPriya: Watch porn?Me: Porn? Priya: ok I understand……(and she laughed……I don’t know why she is laughing…..)Me: What is pron?Priya: Shhhh……don’t say it loud ok? I nodded my head. Priya laughed and said “First of all it is porn…..not pron…..ok?”I whispered “ok”Priya: You can speak in low voice. No need to whisper.Me: ok tell me what porn means…..Priya: It is a very bad word……ok? Me: What does it mean?Priya: Haarika……it means movies which have sexMe: You mean blue films?Priya: yes!I kept a disgusting face.Priya: See, I already told you! Now stop talking about it and change the topic.Priya seems to be a bad girl. Why is she talking about watching blue films? May be I should distance myself from her. Priya: Haarika, what are you thinking?I nodded my head side to side and said “nothing”.Priya: Haarika, you are from village and I am from big city like this. I will teach you many things……..you seem innocent. You can’t live in a city like this with this much innocence. You want to work after education or get married?Me: Work for some timePriya: Good. Then you need to learn many things about city life understand?I nodded my headPriya: Now we are 17. You have to learn many things. Next year, we will turn 18. We can do lot more things legally from next year. Me: I am actually 18.Priya: Really?Me: Yes. I have one year gap in my education. Priya: oh why is that?Me: I studied 8th class twice. Priya: ohhhh…..why?Me: Personal problems…..Priya: ok I understand…….you are lucky……Next DayI got up early at 5am. I got ready and helped aunty in the kitchen for some time. Aunty: Haarika, go and water the pots outside. Me: ok aunty!I took a container of water and started to water the plants in the pots outside. I went inside again and brought some more water and watered the plants. Newspaper flew up in the air and landed few meters away from me from outside. My hands were wet. I continued watering the plants and went inside. I dried my hands and went outside to get the newspaper. It was missing. I went little forward and I don’t know what happened to it. I went inside thinking what happened to newspaper.Murthy uncle: Haarika, please bring the newspaperMe: ???Murthy uncle: It will be outside, get itMe: Uncle, I saw newspaper while water plants outside. By the time I dried my hands and went there, newspaper was missing. Uncle smiled and said probably Varma uncle might have took it. I will ask him. Right. I forgot about him. He must have taken it. Uncle: Haarika, I will get ready and drop you near college bus point. Me: ok uncleUncle: Meanwhile get everything ready, your books and all required things. Me: Hmmmmm……I got ready for college and uncle dropped me near the college bus pickup point. I saw few other students also waiting for bus. The bus arrived and I boarded the bus. I sat on empty seat. There is a senior sitting beside me. She has a ID card tag around her neck. I stayed silent throughout drifting into thoughts about college. Her: Hi! You are fresher right?Me: yesHer: New to the city?Me: hmmmm…..Her: Which branch?Me: CSHer: ElectricalMe: That’s nice to hear. And our conversation went on till we reached the college. I went to the main Notice Board to see which section was allotted to me. There are so many students near the notice board. I couldn’t find way to check my name on the Board due to heavy rush. I kept standing and waiting. One student moved aside and there was little empty space and I pushed myself forward quickly and started searching my name. It is long list of names. I searched with anxiety. I started scanning all the names and I couldn’t find my name even half way through the list. I kept looking and I finally found my name at the bottom. I slowly moved my eyes to the right and found “Section D”. I moved my eyes little further and saw the room number. I sighed after knowing which section and classroom I belong to. I asked people and could finally locate the room in the building. I slowly sneaked a look into the room which got half filled. I slowly stepped into the class and went inside. I searched for a seat and finally sat in the 5th row. There is a girl wearing very modern clothes sitting. I sat on the seat. She kept talking on and on with other students. I kept listening to their conversation very silently. They seem to know each other. May be school friends. Suddenly, she turned towards me and asked my name. Few other girls also turned their heads towards me. I felt little uncomfortable getting sudden attention from all. Me: HaarikaHer: AnjaliOther girl 1: ShreyaOther girl 2: NikithaThey started asking me all sorts of questions. After few minutes, someone arrived to the class. He introduced himself as “Srinivas” and as a Physics professor.His face looked very serious but he made the whole class laughing throughout the class. He seem very friendly teacher. He is speaking very practically and in a friendly way. Suddenly, he pointed his finger towards me and asked me to stand up. I felt very nervous. Everyone in the class started looking at me. I started to sweat. “What is speed of light?”My voice went mute. I couldn’t utter even a single word.“…….don’t tell me you don’t know the answer……because it is very simple question”Anjali escort konak whispered the answer to me “around 3,00,000 km/s”I could finally open my mouth and uttered the answer very slowly. “Your name please….?”I said with little shaky voice “Haarika”“Haarika is telling me speed of light is 3,00,000 km/s, How many of you think it is a right answer, raise your hands”Almost everyone raised their hands. He asked me to sit and I relaxed completely. I wiped the sweat off my face with my hand kerchief. He asked that boy “Why not?”He replied “Sir, you asked speed of light but you didn’t specify which medium it is travelling like vaccum or water or glass etc.”Srinivas sir replied “Give this gentleman big round of applause”Sir looked at me and said “So Haarika, you understood why your answer is not the only correct answer for this question?”I nodded my head as I couldn’t speak any word. My whole body felt a zolt because of it. Anjali: Relax Haarika, relax…….don’t worry…….you did well. I am sorry for giving you wrong answer.I looked at her and said its ok. Srinivas sir started teaching us first chapter which is related to light and started revising all the basics. Physics class was over. Even though it was interesting at start, it felt boring towards the end and also little dreadful. Next class was math class and one more class. At lunch time, I went to college cafeteria along with others and had lunch. After lunch, classes started and by late afternoon, college was over. I went to board the bus. This time someone else sat beside me. Throughout the journey, I kept thinking and watching things out of window. Murthy uncle started calling me and I informed him that I boarded the bus. He said he will be waiting near the drop point. Bus slowly reached the college drop point. Uncle was waiting for me. I got down and uncle took me home. I got down from bike and looked at the house. I saw Varma uncle and he smiled and said “How is first day at college?”I said “fine” very lazily.He replied “oh…” with serious face. Aunty got some snacks ready for the evening. I had snacks and went to get refreshed with a face wash. I had face wash and got into drawing room. Aunty was busy sieving rice while sitting on chair and watching some TV serial. Uncle was glued to TV. Uncle: Haarika, I’m sorry. I cannot pick you up during evening times as I will be coming late from office. You have to come by walk. Haarika: It is ok uncle. I will come by walk. Its only two streets away. Bus also comes in opposite direction in the evening, so I don’t need to cross road also. I can manage.The day got passed just like previous days – all of us spending time together, having dinner and chit chating.——–3 days later——I returned from college to home that evening. I opened the gate and went inside. I rang the doorbell. No answer. I tried to open door but it was locked. I rang the bell once more. No answer. I didn’t know what to do. I just sat on steps nearby and picked up my phone to call murthy uncle. I unlocked the phone and dailed his number. I heard a voice from behind “Haarika, oh you are here……..” and I turned my face around. It is Varma uncle. Him: Your uncle and aunty went for visa processMe: Visa process?Him: oh! They have a son, I mean your cousin, he asked your aunt to come to USA and stay with him for couple of weeks. She went to meet some consultancy. It felt very strange. They have never spoken to me about this. Him: It will take some more time for them because murthy sir said they are also going for shopping for household items in wholesale shop which is nearby that place. I said fine. Him: Haarika, come on upstairs, please sit in my house until your uncle and aunt arrive. Me: its ok uncle.Him: come on! You will sit here like this? You look tired and weather seems hot. Please have something. It is your house after all. I am just a tenant. I said ok and went upstairs along with him. He showed me the way into house. There is some open area and main door to get into the house. This one seemed smaller than where we stay on ground floor. I got inside. Him: Haarika, please sit here.Me: thanks uncleHim: What do you want? Do you drink coffee?Me: No uncleHim: Juice? Butter Milk? Boost?Me: Its fine uncleHim: No no have something. Me: JuiceHim: ok, just wait 5 minutes. He went inside. I kept my bag down and kept looking at the house in all directions. I kept staring at things. Suddenly I heard a loud voice. I got very scared. I immediately went inside and saw Varma uncle on floor. He is ailing in pain and he extended his hand seeking my help. Me: oh my…..uncle what happened?Uncle: Ahhh……I slipped and fell on floor…….sssss………Me: I am sorry uncle really. This is because of me.Uncle: Its ok Haarika…..ssssss………Just help me get up…..hmmmm….. Just a little pain. Everything will be fine after few minutes. I bent towards him and he kept his hand on my opposite shoulder and I lifted him with maximum force and he got up slowly with my help. He held my shoulder tight.Me: Uncle……slowly………slowly………He got up very slowly and he slipped little on floor and his hand which was on my shoulder was tight and the cloth near my shoulder and forearm lost stitches and it got fully loose. The cloth got lowered. My bra got exposed and my shoulder got exposed. I felt very uncomfortable.Him: ssss……sorry…………sssss……really sorry……haarika…….He moved little forward with his legs and he extended his hand for my help. This time I held his hands tight with both of my hands and pulled him with strong force and he got up completely. He stood up with great difficulty and he kept his hand around my neck for support. I felt little uncomfortable. His hand touched my exposed area and my bra. I immediately removed it with my other hand. Slowly, we walked. He showed me towards his bedroom. We walked slowly to the bedroom and I slowly made him sit on the bed and I had to sit on bed along with him and quickly got up as I felt discomfort. He sat on bed ailing with pain and said “extremely sorry haarika……….so so sorry…….”I didn’t know what to say. He was in pain. Me: Uncle this is my fault. Please take rest……..Uncle: no haarika……..it is my fault…….some juice got spilled and I didn’t see while walking……I was excited to talk to you about your experience in this city and college and all that……..Uncle: Haarika……your…… (and he touched his shoulder while signalling towards my shoulder)I quickly covered my shoulder with my hand. Uncle: I can fix that………I stare at him.Uncle: Haarika really sorry for that………..I know how to stitch…….I will fix it…..it happened because of me…….please bring needle and small thread rool which is inside second draw near the mirror there….(pointed his finger in a direction)I went near that place and opened the draw. I lifted few things up and found a needly attached to a small thread roll. I brought them and placed those on the bed beside uncle. Uncle: please sit…..I will stitch…..I got shocked at his idea. What is he doing…….he wants to stitch while I am still wearing my salwar and kameez? What is he thinking?Uncle: I am sorry……haarika……..I will fix this……To be continued……….

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