Underneath The Stars

It had been a couple of weeks since the disco fiasco. Life had gone on, but it wasn’t the same. Dimpy had become something more than a regular chick for Rehan. That he was serious about her was becoming more and more obvious to Alia,and she couldn’t take it. He’s mineeeee! , she whined. How come some girl came out of nowhere and stole him from her. Urghh! She knew it was pointless. Who was she kidding? She decided that she’d move on. Riding on these thoughts, she reached her journalism class. Mr. Mathur was there, waiting for his students. Today, he was going to cover writing methods . She plopped down on a chair near the window. Interesting as though Mass Comm was, she wasn’t too happy with the way things were going on in her life. She looked around for Neha, her only close friend and confidante for some time now. Humph, she might be on one of her dates; Aly thought grudgingly. Wherever she looked, everyone was falling in love, and to top it all, her mom was remarrying, which made things very weird for her. It was difficult because she wasn’t able to tell all this to someone. Neha was her only relief. But she was away most of the times and Rehan was in an altogether different college at the other end of the city, enjoying life with his girlfriend. Soon, the all the students had taken their seats. The class started. Physically, she was there on that chair, but her mind was wandering. Suddenly, the words that Ayush guy had said hit her. ..”Then you must be loveless”. Suddenly she came to a conclusion that maybe, just maybe she should take Neha’s silly advice about moving on from a dead end like Rehan and be open to dating other people. Maybe things would be different if she were in love? She decided, next time Neha calls her for a party, she wouldn’t turn it down. With this thought in her head, she managed to smile, something which was hard to come by. Maybe things wouldn’t be so bad after all.