chapter 9

CONQUERED BY MY FIRST CRUSH.Chapter 8 :Due to the intimacy we had, I blushed hard with his gesture and my breathing has become erratic, feeling some twist in my stomach. He cleared his throat coming out of the awkward situation and asked for my injuries.“Are you okay? Did you get hurt anywhere. Did you got any bruises”, queried Harsha.Without lifting my head, I nodded my head negatively indicating that I was not injured. He Observed me for a while and offered his help.“You go into the house. I will get the vehicle to your home”, suggested Harsha.Without glancing at him, I ran into my home followed By Harsha moving my  scooty along with him.He parked the  scooty under the porch and handed me the keys. After giving the keys, he turned back  to leave the place and I immediately called him to thank him for his help.“Harsha! Thank you for your help”.Harsha turned back and glanced at me  deeply into my eyes. His gazes were so deep that I felt like he was  looking at  my soul with his penetrating looks.He came near to me, almost touching our bodies, getting touched and whispering,“You look so pretty, spectacular   and fabulous. Don’t spoil your beauty with  all your stunts. It might blast so many youngster’s hearts by damaging your beauty. Do you understand, Lekha!”.Hearing the compliments for my beauty from my crush made my heart flutter with joy but the name he addressed made me feel goosebumps on my body from the root of my hair  which was very new to me as I hate when people call me by that name.When I was in primary school, all my classmates used to tease me with the same name, Lekha. It means a letter in our mother tongue,telugu. Whenever I pass by them they try to  tease me with that name saying that they didn't receive  any letter either from their friends or relatives. I got frustrated with them  and one day I warned my friends not to call me by that name once I entered high school. After that no one dared to call me with that name.After a long time, I heard the same name from Sriharsha, but to my dismay it makes me feel some butterflies in my stomach when he utters my name. It sounds so melodious to my ears when he  pronounces my name.“Lekha! Are you daydreaming?”,queried Sriharsha, giving a mischievous look.I blushed for his tease and immediately ran into my house running towards my room. I   went to the window after entering the room and looked for him. I was astounded seeing him glancing at my direction standing at his house gate.He gave  me a mischievous smirk when our eyes got locked and went into his house. I realized that he  was aware of  my room and had a  strong feeling that he too was trailing behind me.It was the first incident which made us come across each other but we couldn't spend any time chatting with each other. We met again  for the second time when he went to the exhibition along with his new friends.One day I overheard him speaking with his friends on his mobile promising them to accompany for an exhibition. I noted the timings in  my brain which he was informing his friends. I made excuses to my mother about going to my friend’s home to fetch some books and to Roshini I made an excuse of going to meet my cousins. I escaped from both of them without any cross questions and went to the exhibition trailing behind Sriharsha without his notice.