Recalling memories

Hey you, yah...You. Can you remember what we did in our class ten? Let’s try together.

Class ten was nothing but a big version of class nine. With time, we just cling together more and more. We spent as much time we could be in our school and in the coaching centre. Did I call you then on you TNT phone? No, I don’t think it started then, it’s after our S.S.C. I was in science and so I used to have practical classes. One day, after finishing my one of the practical classes, I found a small letter (!) of you; you gave it to someone to give me. Only one sentence was there ‘have waited a long time for you, but you practical class seems no end’.  You made my that day! Girl, you liked me then, didn’t you? But, you did hate one thing very much, remember! In the break, I used to pull and push you to meet me, at fourth floor; floor for the kids of class 1-5. You protested saying, ‘If you want to be with me, you have to do it in front of everyone, not hiding’. Oh! Girl, I admit, though everybody knew we glued well, I was really afraid of some silly cat fighting (though I know you would never do that. You would just give a look at me and depending on my actions, you would decide). I hardly had enough guts then. But, such inflexible positive attitudes of you really took me.

Anything more??? We came to know about our families. Interestingly, we both lied to a portion. And, one day you gifted me a book! It was Shahriar Kabir’s ‘Hanabarir Rahasso’. You used to do things adding bit glamour; you told me that “it’s our family trend. If we acknowledge someone as our friend, we gift him/her a book”. I was like, Wow, what a great tradition! Anyway, I became very shy and later cursed myself why I didn’t do it earlier. I (actually we, me and my siblings) had a very nice pencil box in our house. It was from outside, actually a couple, one was taken by one of my sister and this was waiting for someone to use. I silently took it from Almirah and gifted it to her. So, my first gift was a stolen pencil box! What can I do, I really haven’t had enough money to buy one, honesty and that box was never mentioned in our house. So, it was OK. However, the box was really nice and after a long time, I understood, she did the same thing (though I never asked her), took one new book from their bookshelf and gifted me… ;)