12) Their Interaction

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"Samar", She responded quickly.

"What?", Divya said in astonishment.

"Yes, since I have seen him, my heart has slipped on him and I have also heard that he is the father of a great businessman and has a lot of money. If he becomes mine, then I will rejoice all my life. That's why I want Samar from you in exchange for your work", Gauri said in a challenging way.

On hearing this, Divya started thinking and said something. Okay, your work will be done", She replied with confidence.

"But I have heard that he loves Niyati, so how will you do my work? Isn't it so that you make me do your work and cheat me later by not doing my work?", Gauri asked with a raised brow.

"Divya never backed out. You just keep hurting Niyati. When the right time comes, I will tell Samar that Niyati doesn't like her, She likes Smaran sir, which he will be very shocked to hear and will break his heart and a broken person needs a person to forget his sorrow and that person becomes you", Divya tells her whole plan, which Gauri is very happy to hear and agrees to support her.

After that, both of them came to class as soon as the bell rings. Time passed and now Smaran's lecture had arrived. But like all times, this time the happiness was not visible at all on the face of Niyati. She had not spoken to Mitali or anyone else for the first period. On Samar's inquiry, Mitali said that due to a personal problem in her house, she is sad that Samar accepts the truth.

He enters the classroom and doesn't know why but his attention first goes towards her and by looking at her face he comes to know that she is depressed but thinking about not being able to talk to her in class, he kept silent.

"So students, as I told you yesterday that if any of you have any problem in any chapter of science, they can ask me today", He smiles looking at the whole class, and said.

One by one all the students started going to him with their problems, but Niyati didn't go away. She just sat quietly in her place and looked at him in between. He was a bit puzzled by this behavior of her because whenever the day of solving problems came, She was the first to put her problems in front of him.  But this time she didn't move from her place. When the problems of almost all the students were solved, he looked at her and asked, "Niyati, don't you have a problem?".

Her eyes were filled with tears and she lowered her eyelids to hide her tears. He didn't know that her problem was too big which only he could solve. Even after wishing she couldn't tell him her problem because she couldn't take away her happiness by telling him her sorrow. He became more worried when she kept quiet.

"Sir she is not well, so she is unable to speak", Mitali lied to him.

"Is there anything serious?", He expressed her concern and asked.

"We don't know sir. Today she has been completely silent ever since she came to college and didn't even talk to anyone", Divya responded quickly with a wicked smile. He wanted to ask her problem, but seeing the atmosphere and the place, he didn't say anything.

"Sir, when I asked you yesterday why you are taking the test tomorrow, you said that you will answer today so please tell us please", Divya asked while pretending and make a  fake request.

"Because I won't come to school from Monday", He said in a sad voice, which caused a bustle in the whole class.

The class, which had once been unhappy with his joining school, was saddened when he is leaving school today. But apart from Niyati, another person was shocked and it was Divya who wanted to break her completely, together with Gauri and using Smaran, but after hearing this, she got nervous thinking that now she completed her plan. How will she do it?

"Sir, but why are you leaving school?", Divya expresses fake concern and asks but in fact, she was angry at what he said.

"Yes sir, why are you going and who will teach us such a good science after you leave? Where will we get the best science teacher like you again?", Samar said making a sad face.

Mitali was already aware of this, so she didn't say anything, rather she was constantly giving morale to Niyati.

" Don't be sad students. I have almost taught you the syllabus anyway. Therefore, you people won't face any special problem and if it comes, you can take my number from Charan Sir and ask me the solution to any problem", He said while trying to cheer up their mood.

"But Sir, if you live in the house adjacent to the school, can we come there and ask you solutions to the questions and meet you?", Samar asked quickly with hope.

"I wish I could say yes but within a week I will shift to another state because I have got the job there", He replied.

"Okay sir, no problem", Samar replied in despair.

With this, the lecture ends. He goes from there looking at her. Lunchtime begins. Niyati doesn't feel like eating. She just wanted to sit alone for some time in the open and fresh air so she goes to the ground from there and sits on a bench on the corner. Mitali also wanted to accompany her but Samar stops her path and takes her with him to talk to her. The morning's scene and the words of Smaran in the classroom are roaming in the mind of Niyati. Repeatedly thinking about the same things, she is unable to stop herself and starts crying.

"What is happening to me? Why is it happening? What have I done to someone who is getting so bad with me? Why?", She asks weeping while looking up at the sky. Her feelings and pain in her heart increase so much that it started coming out from her eyes in the form of tears and she doesn't even realize where she is, but suddenly seeing Smaram coming towards her from the front, She quickly wipes her tears and sits quietly.

"Can I sit here?", He asked her politely to sit on the bench beside her.

"Sir, there is no need for you to take permission from me", She replied in a heavy voice. He sat near her, listening to her, and as soon as he sat down she got up from the bench and stood in front of him. He smiled at her with respect in her heart and then said,"I asked you to sit with you so that you don't have to get up because of me because I wanted to talk to you about something that you or one of me can't do while standing",Smaran said smiling affectionately and Niyati hesitated first and then sat down with him. As soon as she sat near him, her heart started beating fast, but she somehow managed herself.

"So now quickly tell me what is the matter? ", He asked smiling a little.

"Nothing sir", Niyati replied with a fake smile and not looking at him.

"Are you sure?", He asked with a raised eyebrow and asked again.

"Sir, there is nothing", She replied while looking at the ground.

"Okay, Look at me and say this once. I won't ask you this again", He said, but she still looked towards the ground.

"Niyati, I said look at me and repeat your words that you don't have any serious issue", He said this time in a slightly strict voice.

"I told you to look at me and repeat your words that you just said to me", Hearing him again and again, she tried to raise her head towards him, but was unsuccessful. Due to her refusal to listen to him, he got a little angry at her but more than that he was worried about her.

He couldn't restrain himself and extended his hand towards her face. He placed his finger under her chin and raised her face to his side with the index finger. He was surprised to see her face. Her eyes were filled with tears, which she was trying to hide from him. Seeing the tears in her eyes, his face also wilted. But as soon as he was realized, he retreated his hand.

"There is a tear in the eye and a storm in the heart. Silent from outside and disturbed from inside,(Aankhon mein aansun hai aur dil mein tufaan, Bahar se chup hai aur ander de pareshan)", He said in a poetic way, which gave a  little shock to her.

"I'm not a poet but sometimes becomes lines automatically depending on the situation. Hope you understand what I want to say from those two lines of mine. Still won't tell?", He asked, looking into her eyes and expressing concern.

"I wish I could tell you about this storm that arose in my heart", She spoke in her mind while looking at him and a tear spilled from her eye and fell on her cheek.

"Crying will reduce your pain for some time, but won't end and you will have to find a solution to eliminate it. Seeing you, I have come to know that you don't have a solution to your problem. So, I'm asking you to share it with me. Who knows if I can find the solution", He said showing her hope.

"Sir, I definitely share my trouble with you if you were my friends", She replied.

"Then make me your friend", He replied quickly with his quick expressions.

What?", She just blurted out.

"Yes, You know what I think is that every relationship should always start with friendship then whatever the relationship may be, whether it is of mother and child or father and child or a teacher and student? Because I think that the relationship in which there is friendship is the most beautiful", He said while smiling. She was astonished to hear his words, which he understood.

"If you want to know more, then I can only tell you is that in the relationship where friendship happens, in that relationship, we can share the sorrow of our mind very easily without any hesitation or fear to the person in front of us then whether the person in front is mother and father, teacher or anyone?", He explained to her which she understood.

"Now make me your friend and tell me quickly what is the matter?", He asked curiously.

She is again briefly confused by hearing him and is caught in the dilemma of whether she should tell her heart to him now or not? So she is just looking at him and thinking all this in her mind.