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“Bhaiya how is Aneesha?” she whispered.
“Hopefully with someone better” Untees replied and
started walking towards the notice board to join Haddi.
Geeta was perplexed, she was expecting a bollywoody
ending to the story she had been constructing but Haddi
and Untees’s replies had got her scratching her head.
She thought for a second then shook her head and said
“Grown ups!! So complicated!!” and moved on to meet
the rest of the group.
The people from the Gang trickled to the notice board as
soon the meet and greet with Bhola’s family was over.
Vodka was sitting at his usual place on the stairs
smoking a gold flake with Haddi and Untees. The list of
fakkas hadn’t come out yet. Chashmish was leaning
against the notice board yawning. He hadn’t slept
properly for the last two days and was very exhausted.
He closed his eyes for a second and had just started to
relax when he heard
“Bhaisahab!! Hatiye zara! Notice board kholna hai”
Chashmish opened his eyes to see an old man holding a
piece of rolled paper under his shoulder and a key in his
hand signaling him to move. Chashmish moved over.
The old man put the roll of paper on the ground and
opened the locked notice board. He then removed the
piece of paper stuck there and put in the new paper. The
updated fakka list had arrived. The old man closed the
notice board and locked it. Everyone else was too tired
to get up so Chashmish was asked to call out the names
of everyone who had failed as he was the one standing
the closest.
“Are kyaa tum log” Chashmish cribbed as he started
going through the list. Inspite of being the summer
semester, the list was pretty big. The first row that