Part 23
The next day nobody woke up Pooja till 7 A.M which was very late according to her and when she woke up she was shocked to realize that she had missed an important day where so much was about to be taught. But when she remembered the previous day's events she was depressed and had to drag herself out of the bed. Her Dad had left for office early and her Mother was busy in the kitchen. Pooja got ready and was not at all interested in going to the school or any place else she just wanted to go to her room and stay inside but she remembered the saying "Everything One Wants One Cannot Get" and sat on the dining table and when she saw what her mother had prepared she was a little surprised to find that her mom had made her favorite Vegetarian dishes Mango Dal and Potato Fry. Then she slowly went into the kitchen and saw her mother busy with the house work but she slowly said-"Mom" and her mother turned around and found Pooja standing in the door way.
Pooja's mother smiled and said,"Sorry Pooja, I didn't want to hurt you it's just that I was shattered when I realized you also started telling lies."
Then Pooja ran into her mother's arms and hugged her tightly and started crying, through her tears she said,"Sorry Mom I promise you it will never happen again."
Then her mother wiped Pooja's tears and said in a loving voice,"Pooja if you are so passionate about that park I won't stop you from going but next time just don't forget to tell me."
Pooja replied with a smile,"Thank you Mom, you are the best." Then she quickly had her breakfast then her Mom packed her lunch in a jiffy and she went to school.
On her way to school she had a lot of time and thought how foolish she had been in not being able to understand her parents well and while she was walking slowly towards her school her best friend Shreya called out to her and the first thing that Pooja told to her was about the previous day's incidents and Shreya was also shocked on hearing that Pooja's mother had actually slapped her but was relived when what happened that day morning.
In school in the break after the first two periods, Ravi asked Pooja why she didn't come to Verma Coaching Center and even to him she told the entire incident and he again advised her that she should have told her mother long back.
Pooja said that her mother allowed her to work in the park but not every Saturday and Sunday to this Ravi replied "It's OK."
Shreya suddenly joined them and said aloud that she would be more than glad to help Ravi but he was not interested in taking her help but said OK. Then the next few periods got over slowly and the last period for that day was called "Library" In that period the students could either go to the school library and read or could read any other book in the class itself.
Many of the students went to the Library and only a few were left in the class. Only about a dozen students were in the class and they were talking to each other instead of reading. Then Pradeep a student who didn't go to the library had to read about something so he went to the library to get the book he required and came back quickly.
About 15 minutes later some Ruffians climbed their floor and started talking loudly then they started searching each classroom and finally came to G-Section, then they scanned the class completely and pointed at Pradeep and ordered him to come out. Pradeep went out and asked why they had called him and quickly they were arguing something about a Broken Car Windshield. Pradeep was arguing that he could not have broken that car as he was in the library at the time when they say they saw him breaking the car glass and they said that they saw someone just like him throwing stones from the school terrace which broke the Car Glass.
Now their argument was really getting heated up and the few students who were present were watching with utmost interest. There were about 5 people who had come and one of them rose his hand to slap Pradeep and Pooja suddenly screamed- Someone Help and before Ravi could react someone who was sitting near the doorway jumped onto the person who was about to hit Pradeep and shouting the word,"Shoryuuken" punched the man directly on his face causing him to fall down. Ravi was surprised on hearing that Japanese attack here in his class and wondered for a moment if there was another Assassin in his class but he dropped that idea when he realized the attack was very crude and unplanned. But that boy who jumped into the Party uninvited was in trouble because the surprise element was no longer there and he and Pradeep were surrounded by 5 big men .
Ravi quickly got up from his place and rushed to their aid but he did not hit anyone as the other boy had done but simply caught hold of their leader's arm and said,"All battles need not be won by violence, we can go and talk to the Principal." Even Pradeep said the same thing but their leader was in no mood to talk and got ready for a rumble but many teachers had come and the argument got really loud. Then the teachers convinced that Pradeep was in the library for some time and he could not have done that harm. Those people went away saying a few swear words and later the teachers praised Ravi for his calm handling of the situation but at the same time scolded the other boy for his unthoughtful action but he said that he couldn't just sit while his friend was getting beaten up. The Teachers later felt that what the other boy did was also right in its own respect.
After the scene had completely calmed down Ravi went upto that boy and asked,"Hey what is your name?"
The other boy replied,"Sudheer."
Then Ravi curiously asked if he knew the meaning of the word,"Shoryuuken."
Sudheer got really excited and said,"Don't you know, it means Rising Dragon Fist."
Ravi knew exactly what it meant but continued the discussion,"How did he learn that attack."
To this Sudheer replied,"Hey I didn't execute it perfectly, you should see how Ken does it, its just awesome."
Now even Ravi was a little excited and asked,"Who is Ken and where does he live?"
Sudheer started laughing and after sometime said,"Dude where are you from The Stone Age? Ken is my favorite character in the game Street Fighter, its world famous man never played it?"
Agent Scar had never played any video game or for that matter even seen one closely so he just said,"No man from where I come its not that popular."
Then Sudheer said in a matter of fact way,"You should come over to my house sometime we can play Street Fighter I have the latest edition and its really cool, there are a lot of characters you can choose from and each of them has their own set of moves."
Ravi was a little awestruck about the whole concept of controlling characters and making them fight each other and said,"OK i will come one day but you should promise me that you also come and work in the Park for a day or two the more everyone helps the quicker the Park would get ready."
Sudheer was not even a little bit interested in that Park issue but said,"OK"
After sometime while everyone were leaving for their houses Pradeep came upto Ravi and thanked him from his heart. Ravi suddenly felt strange because many were telling him that he had done a good job by protecting Pradeep while he felt that he had not done anything because he did not even use a single attack.
He felt lighter, he felt better and he was actually feeling happy when all were praising him. He thought that its a good thing to protect the weak and that too without expecting anything in return. So Ravi decided that from that day onwards he waould try to protect the weak.
Friday, November 13, 2009
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