THE ONE WHERE I FOUND A SPECIAL FRIEND

This part of the story includes the start of a new friendship with a totally unknown person. This friend was Fatema Khan. Yes, she is a real person as all the other people in my story. We met each other through the same page I told you all last time. I still remember the exact date and time when I read her message for the first time and then replied to it immediately. It was 15th March, 2013 at 9.14am and I was asked by other admins of the page to reply her and to know what exactly did she wanted to help us with as I was one of the most senior (LOL!) admins on the page. So, I acted professionally with her and asked her what she wanted to help us with. But we were disturbed continuously by my friends Harshit Jaiman who was trying to reply her as I did and which confused her whether she was chatting with the same person she started with. I asked her to send me request so we discuss the page roles in a private chat, which obviously mad others mad at me and they started calling me a pervert just for chatting in private (NOTE: I AM NOT A PERVERT!). I had my University Exam that day so had to end the chat quickly with her and go for the exam.

In the afternoon when I came back and started checking my Facebook notifications *ping!* went my phone and there was this message from this girl with whom I had chat in the morning asking me how was my exam. I was still acting like a professional and replied her in that way. She asked me throw away the professional way of chatting and chat as a friend and I followed it like an instruction given to a robot. We had a good chat the whole afternoon and during this chat we found out that most of our choices matched. In evening she told me that she had to shut down her system and go offline from Facebook and gave me her contact number and asked to ping her on Whatsapp (which was very unexpected as this never happened with me before). Instead of texting her on Whatsapp now I gave her my number as I still felt awkward to send her a text directly and within a minute of sending her my number ,came a message from an unknown number and it was from Fatema! 

We again had a long chat till midnight and this time we found out that 'the most of our choices' went to about 90% of the choices and the only one's which differed were the one's which included genders. And new started friendship went on to become a very close friendship in just about a week

THE ONE WITH NEW FRIENDS AND FRIEND CIRCLES...

So, the first day was one of the days where there was happiness along with sadness. The First Semester was a very quick one for me actually and I had been into many different friend circles which I knew was going to become a difficulty for me in future. The first birthday celebrated among new friends was my birthday as far as I remember. I remember meeting Chetan, Vaibhav, Akshay, Yogesh and 2-3 other guys in the evening unexpectedly and just going to ice-cream parlor to celebrate it. Then came the time of exams and results. I was actually scared of failing in engineering in the first semester and that fear made me study in a way only I could imagine doing it now and to my surprise I was in the top 10 of my class actually. The group party which included boys and girls came on Chetan's and Pooja's birthday. I haven't told you about Pooja, right? Well Pooja Arude was my sister from college (I seriously don't know what was the thing which made me call her sister). Anyways, the party was a very enjoyable where the first big group selfie was taken.

The second semester was a very busy semester with the college technical event, sports event and cultural event which affected my studies a lot. And that effect on studies reflected into an unexpected scolding from my girl friend (look again girl friend not girlfriend) Pooja D. asking me and Vaibhav what the reason that our grades fell by almost 11%!!!

The start of 2013 was the period when I met some crazy guys and guys like them were never to be found in my college and they were the administrator crew of the Facebook page 'GAMING AND SCIENCE'

THE END OF AN ERA AND NEW BEGINNINGS

It was May 2012, yes, the end of my school life. Our exams ended in April and the summer of 2012 was the different summer from all other summers I had in my childhood. It was without any studies and without any worries of getting scolded by parents for not completing the summer vacation homework. But at this same time we had a totally different tension and that was of the results of the competitive exams and 12th results. Then came the month of June when all the results were announced and I got busy in searching for a suitable college which I can find to take admission based on my score in CET. I had a very poor score which made my dad worry about good colleges which I can get admitted to but after doing a research we found a college.

("I know I know I am rushing this part but this part has very little relation to the further story.")

Then came the time of waiting for the college to be allotted which was one of the most tiring times for me as I was too eager to know my college. The day came I celebrated with my best friend Pratik. The time for buying all the new stuff required for college life. I knew very little about this but to my awesome-st luck  I had a brother who was a final year student and had a great choice and he helped me in buying my stuff.

Then came the FIRST DAY OF COLLEGE, 6th August 2012. I was a bit scared as it was going to be my first time to be living away from my parents and I knew it was going to be a bit difficult for a guy who has lived all of his life till now with his parents. The first day went quite well as we were introduced to our professors and everything seemed fast (may be due to the excitement). In the evening when my parents were leaving there were small tear drops in my eyes as wells my parents' as now both of their sons won't be living with them for a part of their life. I already made some friends on the first day itself and thought of having a great bonding with the first day friends (which didn't turn out the way I figured) but let's leave this for later...