This is a story of a boy who is on the verge of teenage or rather 14 when he first falls in love. The girl is not the protagonist here. But after having a crush on a few more girls, he realizes that he is capable of loving not only girls but guys to...
"Amar. You are really so Nording." Said my friend, Anwisha(Un-wee-sha). "Nording?"I asked.
"Yes. Nerdy + Boring is Nording. You have seriously never come into a relationship till now and you are 14. How can your friends still be with you? I mean have a look at me. I have been with four guys in the last..."
"Year.? How can you change guys so fast as if they are clothes?" I spoke, unaware of the reality.
"Year? It happened last week. I am very loyal and just can't tolerate any nonsense they come up with."
I really thought she had some screws loose. I mean she changed boyfriends like her Instagram stories. Every guy expires within 24 hours. I smiled at my analogy and dived into my book again. I was reading: Twilight. Reading about Bella and Edward's love story didn't make my pain of being single any less. I put it aside and looked outside the window. I saw not one, two or three... but ten couples, high-school couples roaming in the assembly ground. What had happened to the world? Now I seriously gave some serious consideration to entering into a relationship and showing how manly I was.
Without much regret, I stood and marched up to my friends and my breathing rate accelerated. I had never done this before but there wasn't much to do. I just had to tell them that I liked a girl and that is Apurva and it's done. It's not that I have to propose to her and really enter into a relationship. Maybe then they would recognise me as a true Gen-Z or a teen who is not a mama's boy. "Guys. I have an announcement." My good-for-nothing friend Anaya squealed with excitement, " Oh my God! I knew it, Amar, you are gay. Finally, you realised it. I am so happy for you. How do you plan to have babies? Surrogacy? IVF? Oh! When do plan to come out to your mom? And..."
"Anaya quiet!" I looked around and I saw there were at least 15 students who were eyeing me curiously really not able to digest the fact that I was gay, which I was not. And parallely those boys around me slowly edged away. Red with embarrassment I told them, "Guys I think I like Apurva."
I can't tell if they were excited or annoyed because they gave really different reactions. Anaya started jumping with excitement, Vihan gave me a teasing look, Sriya was totally unbothered and continued to munch her third burger, and Lakshya (luk-sh-yuh) nudged me with his elbow hard enough to break my rib cage and seriously injure my heart.
"To be honest, I don't care. She is not even that pretty." Sriya said.
"It's okay. It's his first love and that too: Apurva. (apoo-rvah) Guys. Apoorva means something that never happened before. Maybe she changes the life of this nerd." And a trail of comments followed. I was seriously perplexed whether I had fallen in love(or at least pretended to) or bought a product from the market everyone was reviewing. Too fat, too thin, too short, too round, not a curved nose or juicy lips, should have more flavour in her. Seriously these people had objectified and sexualised every known object on this planet. Wow! A big Wow!
I was about to turn and go away from these expert critic friends of mine when Vihan nudged me hard. Anaya turned my head north and I saw Apurva coming from her class. I guessed that now that I liked her, I needed to act it also. And so I played coy. Very coy. Intensely coy. I smiled and turned away, taking pauses to look back and pretending as if I were having a heart attack. As Apurva crossed my way, Anaya and the group ooed and ooh-ed. I shyly bit my lip and hung my head to observe my dung-smeared shoes. I think that was my very last mistake:
Okay, guys. I am done with chapter 3 finally. it is going well but no one is reading it. please read it. don't worry about my too many friends. you only remember Anaya and Lakshya. And of course Apurva. The Apurva chapter coming to an end in the next part. 😭
The next part coming on 10th September. Ok. Bye. It is 22:35 rn. 4th September. I have school tomorrow.
Love. Amarsahara.
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