"And what about the third question" , shouted Hady as if i started the incantation for preparing THE magic potion without adding the most vital ingredient which he remembered suddenly.Before I spell-ed my thoughts Kurl shouted "Kock it off !!! I wont repeat myself... dont discuss about the exam.Let me have my lunch peacefully". I guess you got the context.It was in the lunch room after our exam. Actually i partially felt the same too.But i appreciated Hady's effort to break the ice at the table. Every one was dull.
I should say something about this guy Hady. He's with me from my graduation/college and i mean it..he is with me.
I still wonder what in the world can make this fellow tensed? though i never dared to ask him. He 's one of the coolest guy in our gang and that implies he's not the only one.I am too but that day it was a different story, this story. let me get back to the lunch table.
I told him what he wanted. " That one's wrong too".
"Why? who told so?" he enquired.
"That bugger Derk. He got all five correct. I was happy till he disturbed me starting the discussion about how easy the paper was and how soon he finished it ..bla bla bla...."
It was like I gulped a handful of something i really hate when i realized my solution for the problem was wrong. I was on cloud 9 til Derk blew the wind and made me fall down.( just fyi i am very thin!! so the sentence suits... :) ).
I narrated the correct solution mimicking Derk.
"Dont worry about that, i think my solutions are also wrong for the last two problems...so wat'l u drink? pineapple or grape juice?",he asked.Does it really matter i thought. I made silly mistakes in the paper.Gosh!!
Some one across the table read my mind. "You came very early from the hall" said Bean and quickly turned his gaze towards his lunch plate so that i wont get what he is accusing me of. But i understood. He was accusing me of being so arrogant for not revewing my solutions. I turned towards Hady who started talking for Bean.
"Why couldnt you recheck?"
I thought of asking why dint you check yours? then felt it to be childish to retaliate so.
"It wouldnt have mattered much . I would be thinking again on the same lines... I couldnt get the right answer".
Well Bean was not wrong. I was in a hurry to be the first one to come out without leaving any problem undone. I dint focus on reviewing i just re-glanced.
Hady went to get me apple juice ( i always select something out of the options he comes out with...may be thats y he leaves at least one out..)Slowly Hemar and Fatzee came out with their i-was-a-fool-not-to-see-this incidents and slowly the topic moved away on to our invisilator, how he acted dictator in the exam hall looking on us like we were warrior ants and he can ruin our lives with one single pen strike and Without my knowledge i had something i thought i would'nt have the whole evening. I was smiling . It was like a wave the audience do in a football or cricket match. Everyone was smiling. Hady was actually laughing. Let me tell you, everything in this world that goes must come back. But the only thing that makes you feel good when it returns is a smile. Soon the topic of exams was lost in the mulberrybush.(I dont know where to find one!!!). The topic was gone.
I contemplated on my feeling.As soon as i realized i dint fair well in the exam i was cursing my fate. I prepared well.Even then i had to go wrong. I even dramatised the scene by playing the Linkin Park song "In the end..."...
I tried so hard,
I tried so far,
but in the end it doesnt even matter
i had to fall
to loose it all
in the end
it doesnt even matter.....
and now..with just a few lines of chat with friends, my friends , ya i am proud to refer them so,i am completely taken away from the feeling of frustration. Listening to them i felt better. I lost the feeling that i was not the best in the exam.When they could smile what am i cursed with that i cant be happy. Hell with the exam, i am not going to cry for some silly mistake. I choose to be happy. Let me see who stops me. I tell you it was really not the same me. If i would have been roaming alone without approaching my friends i would have thought of something really worthless.
In a split second i heard a little voice in my head.Thats what are friends for. Yes , this is just another incident that strengthened my belief that i can do anything, be anything if i have these seven 'f r i e n d s'
And you know what? i had another exam the next day.Hady got the highest score in it.I secured one less than that. Others scored as they expected.we all prepared for it together the night before.I love my friends.
