Chapter 1

God is a massive creator! His creations vary across the spectrum, in all aspects, be it race, caste, creed, colour, or for that matter even name and fame! He creates some with a faint heart and some with that of a lion, some with the appearance of a Greek God, while some with the kind of looks which one would not associate even an inanimate object with, some with the intelligence of a stone, while some would talk potential proofs of unproved theorems in the head! We come across all these people in our day-today lives, but very few of them impact us, make a push on our thoughts and make us feel a gush of blood or extreme depths of excitement or for that matter, even sorrow!

It was the first day of my college life. I was sitting in my classroom, as the professor stormed into class with an attendance sheet and a pen-drive which would soon doom us to the world of university academics. I was here, with a lot of flak having been received of late. Loads of pre-university disappointments, and IIT Madras, to say the least had just been the diamond in the rough for me. As I let these thoughts play with my head, a particular name in the roll list caught my attention! Had the professor just said "Tej.B" ???

Could it be him? Well, it obviously couldn't be him, he was never that smart, or was he? There was no reply to the attendance, but we could hear footsteps in the corridor. Someone was literally skating on his legs through the corridor. He came closer, and miraculously applied the breaks he made us believe his legs possessed. The face was tantalizingly familiar. I had seen these eyes, but the personality was not him! As he entered the class, he gave me a smile, the smile of a gloating victory, and that second, I knew it was him! He sat next to me as he answered his attendance!

After the hour, we got to some chatting. He greeted me, and I responded.
"Hi Babu!"

"Tej it is!"

"Yeah, yeah, Tej Babu!"

"No, just call me Tej! Remember that day in school? Well I attribute it all to that day! All of it! "

"Yep, I remember!"

"I would never have forgiven you for that! But still, I showed you I could do it! It's on your face today, and that will stay my revenge! Your my friend now!"

"Yep, we're friends"