Chapter 5- Secret Leaked

Shivanesh woke up in the morning and packed his diary into his school bag so that he can execute the plan he has drawn out last night after school. He never brought his diary to school before because he was worried of his secret being revealed. But today he was willing to take the risk and he knows he needs to be extra careful with it because he wanted to make it up to Vinodini for such a big screw up. He got himself ready and also packed extra clothes to be used for tuition after school.

“Amma, I won’t be coming back for lunch later. I will go to tuition straight from school,” Shivanesh told his mother when he was having breakfast.

“Fine. Just make sure you don’t get into any more fights. And make sure you have your lunch,” his mother told him.

Shivanesh left to school after bidding goodbye to his mother. He was excited because he was going to do something surprising for a girl that he is currently dating.

When he reached school, Shivanesh left his bag on his seat and went to meet his teacher regarding his results. He had some questions he wanted to ask the teachers.

Shivanesh’s best subject is English and Biology but he has a hard time understanding Additional Mathematics. He went to see Mr. Nazri, his Add Maths teacher to for some help.

“Good morning, Mr. Nazri. Can I come in?”

“Good morning, Shiva. Come on in. How can I help you? Had your breakfast?” Mr. Nazri said. Eventhough Shivanesh was not the best student in Add Maths but Mr. Nazri favours Shivanesh a lot because this particular student makes an effort to see himself improve.

“Yes sir. I actually have a few things I don’t understand,” Shivanesh said.

“Come, boy. Let’s see,” Mr. Nazri started explaining to Shivanesh.

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Krishnan wanted to bully Shivanesh again. He hated Shivanesh more because recently Aarthi told him directly that she likes Shivanesh a lot and she will wait until SPM is over to confess to Shivanesh. He went into Shivanesh’s class and ask his classmates to show where his seat is. Krishna went to Shivanesh’s seat to find something to use against Shivanesh and he saw something that caught his attention. Shivanesh’s bag.

He opened the bag to find for proves to show to Aarthi that Shivanesh is not the guy she thinks he is. He found the diary and opened it. While he was turning through the pages and suddenly a paper fell of the diary. Krishna picked it up and saw a picture of a girl. He turned the picture and saw something written at the back of the picture.

“My dear one,” was written at the back of the picture.

 “Wow. The so-called solo guy has a girlfriend. Interesting. What would Aarthi say if she finds out?” Krishna thought to himself.

Krishna continued reading the diary to find more interesting stories to tell Aarthi.

08/02/08

She finally said yes. She is officially my girlfriend. But I am too afraid to tell anyone about us. Really hate it when people become nosey in my matter. She….

“Krishna!!! What the hell do you think you are doing?” Shivanesh shouted when he saw Krishna reading his diary.

“Not bad, Shiva. Keeping your girlfriend a secret. Which school is she from?” Krishna asked.

“It is none of your business. Stay away from me,” Shivanesh warned Krishna.

“How disappointed would the girls in this school be if they find out, the school hottest hero has a girlfriend? And the best part is, she is not from this school,” Krishna kept going on to irritate Shivanesh. “Tell me, Shiva. Where did you get her? She looks pretty hot. It is not nice to keep a hot chick like that all to yourself.”

“Another word, and I swear I will make you regret,” Shivanesh was starting to get annoyed of Krishnan and was scared that others might start getting to know about his relationship.

“Don’t worry. I will keep it a secret, for now. But I will make it that you have to tell everyone about it,” Krishna said and left to his classroom.

Shivanesh took his diary that Krishna put on his table and kept in his bag. This was the main reason he didn’t want to bring his diary to school as he knew there is always someone who would try to find out about his secret.

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Krishna was sneaky. While he was in the argument with Shivanesh earlier, he slowly took the picture of the girl in Shivanesh’s diary and kept in his pocket so he can show it to Aarthi. Krishna took the picture of the girl in Shivanesh’s diary to show it to Aarthi. He was willing to do anything to make Aarthi hate Shivanesh. He does not like the fact that the girl he was crushing on had eyes on another guy. He waited until the breaktime to see her.

When it was breaktime, Krishna rushed to Aarthi’s class to tell her about the interesting information he just found out.

“Hey, Aarthi. I have something to show you about your hero,” Krishna said with a really proud smile on his face.

“Come on, Krishna. Stop it. I am seriously not interested,” Aarthi said trying to ignore Krishna.

“Will you be interested if I showed you this?” Krishna took out the girl’s picture and showed it to Aarthi.

“Who is this? Come one, Krishna. Please don’t do anything stupid,” Aarthi said feeling really pissed.

“For your information, dear Aarthi. This is Shiva’s girlfriend. I found it in his diary. See what is written at the back of the picture. ‘My dear one’. You should see the great things he wrote about her in his diary. I wonder how he managed to get his hands on girls who look much better than any girls here in our school. I won’t deny. He has skills,” Krishna said trying to provoke Aarthi and he succeeded. Aarthi got really mad and took the picture from Krishna’s hand as she stormed out of the classroom.

“Well, Shiva. Let’s see what you have to say now,” Krishna thought in his mind feeling a sense of accomplishment after being able to start the fire of jealousy in Aarthi which would soon burn Shivanesh. He just needed Aarthi to hate Shivanesh so he could stand a chance.

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Aarthi went straight to see Shivanesh in his classroom to get true explanations from him. When she reached his class, she was him looking for something. She decided to piss him off as she was already boiling inside.

“Looking for something?” she said.

Shivanesh turned to see who it was only to find Aarthi. “Yeah. Lost something really precious to me,” Shivanesh said to Aarthi.

“Is this what you are looking for?” Aarthi took out the girl’s picture out of her pocket.

Shivanesh was shocked when he saw Vinodini’s picture in Aarthi’s hand. “How did you get that?” Shivanesh said and went to grab the picture of Aarthi’s hand.

Aarthi put the photo away before Shivanesh could get a hold of it. “Don’t you think you have some explaining to do?”

“I don’t think I have to explain anything to you,” Shivanesh said trying to avoid the need to tell anyone about Vinodini.

“Owh, really? In 5 minutes, your classmates are going to come in. you can start now or do you want to wait for them to come in? Coming to think of it, I think all of us deserve an explanation. You always told everyone that you were never interested in relationships.  And this is how you prove it? By having a girlfriend already. How could you? I bet you know the fact that many girls in this school like you,” Aarthi said.

“Look I don’t even care who you are and what you guys want. It is none of your business. I think that it is up to me if I want to keep things secretive or not. I have the rights to make a choice on whatever I want to do. I am not responsible for your feeling,” Shivanesh said trying to avoid the topic.

“Owh. Well, I am Aarthi. Remember the time Krishna and his friend beat you up because of jealousy for a girl? I am the girl,” Aarthi said proudly while flicking her hair back.

“That makes sense. So, Krishna gave you this picture? “ Shivanesh said.

“Nevermind who gave me. Who is this girl? Is she your girlfriend?” Aarthi asked feeling really annoyed of Shivanesh’s attitude.

“Yes. She is my girlfriend. There, I said it. Don’t bother going and looking for her. She is not a student of this school,” Shivanesh said.

“You should have told earlier. At least, I would be waiting like a fool,” Aarthi said before throwing the picture on the floor and running out in tears.

“Oh, God. Seriously? I hope no one finds out. This has become a big mess,” Shivanesh as he picked up the picture. He was starting to worry about the kin of mess all this would cause.