The Prank

As I was still in water I realized that I could stand in pool. I stopped my furious flapping in the water and stand up, calm. I realize the pool water is only waist high, embarrassed I search for the group of boys who threw me in the pool, and of course they ran away.

Furious I storm out in my drenched clothes to the departmental store beside our dorm. As I walk in, I realized something, that getting thrown in a pool and walking in drenched cloths doesn’t totally feel embarrassing coz its 4:30 am, and there is very less human traffic. Of course, looking in the state I was in even I would be scared and disgusted by it.

I was soaking wet but that was only a part of it my hair disheveled, with dry leaves sticking out of my hair ( to people wondering why are there dry leaves in pool, it is because the pool is cleaned at around 7am everyday and there are a lot of trees around so there are lot of dry leaves in the pool) and clothes all wet dragging up piles of water , I looked like a aqua man ( a less cooler version ) . Ignoring the disgust, I storm towards the supermarket and kick the door open.

As I angrily looked in the billing counter there he was Zehaan Shah the mastermind behind this so called “prank”. He grinned, like a little kid, at me from the billing counter and shouted “I thought you would escape that!” and started to laugh. Furiously I walked over ignoring his co-workers glances and kicked his foot. He grunted in pain as I said “No one would escape when four strange men attack from behind and without giving a minute to realize throw you in the pool!” he chuckled a yes and told me “how about you go and change up first?” though I hated to agree with him for anything but for once I nodded and said “Do you have spare clothes?”. He nodded and gave me a fresh pair of t-shirt and men’s shorts which he apparently prepared in case I fell for this prank. *eye rolls*

So to tell you who is Zehaan to me: I would put him in a category as neither a friend nor a foe. I do not hate him but I do not like him. You can call us acquaintances but we are far more closer and understand each other a lot. Our relation is like Tom and Jerry, or Oggy and Cockroaches, or fire and water we are opposites complete opposites. But at the same time we sometimes work together and at the same time prank each and pull each other’s legs.

Thinking about this weird guy let me tell you how I met him. It was my first day in IIM, I was moving a week ahead to get used to the dorms. I saw this tall boy (not so tall), with light brown eyes, fair, his hair falling off his eyelids, (kinda got struck by his features) near the pool, who also moved ahead? I supposed so I was in need of a company, *shrug* a friend there I went to have a conversation with him but no, I messed up my leg slipped and in the same way ( as I did earlier today) I fell in the 5 ft. pool of our university. I thought he would help me but he sat there laughing. I was annoyed I am always the “tit for tat” person so I pulled a prank on him too. I made him eat a toothpaste biscuit (P.S: do not try) I put toothpaste between cream biscuit and fed him. Man that was a sight! I still remember him furiously washing his mouth and swearing at me. Good old days.

Well that’s how it all started. Now we are close enough that I help him with his home-works because though we are in same class he has to do a lot of part times jobs to self-pay for his tuition but our prank chain never broke. See the consequence of it today I fell in the lake I’m already thinking what to do of him next…

Thinking what to do next I finish change up in the restroom and walk out. He stood there grinning. He said “looking how you looked while coming here I bet no guy is gonna look at you. You looked like bhadrakali!” (Indian goddess of fury). I smirked at him and said “I am already dating.”

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