The Leaving of Things by Antani Jay

Author:Antani, Jay [Antani, Jay]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Publisher: Bandwagon Press
Published: 2013-05-15T22:00:00+00:00

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I came back from the holiday to learn I had done well on the midterms. First class across the board. Devasia and Pradeep too. We congratulated each other as we stood before the message board in the college lobby. The board was wallpapered with dot-matrix printouts that listed every student’s marks.

We began walking toward our lecture hall. It was almost time for Sridharan’s fifty minutes of windbaggery.

“Any word from Vinod,” I asked Pradeep, “since his Diwali meltdown? You know—” I imitated the act of toking, but of course, Pradeep couldn’t see what I was doing, and Devasia was slow to understand.

“Ah, yes,” Devasia said finally, then vigorously shook his head, shut his eyes. “No, I do not know.”

“I am worried about him to tell you the truth,” Pradeep said. “He has not been at college this week.”

As we entered Sridharan’s lecture hall alongside a stream of students, we bumped into Priya and Manju. I said hello, hoping to have a few words with Priya, to ask her if she’d had a chance to listen to the mixtape. But she paused only long enough to smile and say hi, her hands clasping her notebooks close to her chest. Even Manju acknowledged me with her customary bright, solicitous smile over her shoulder as she drifted past me. Priya’s attitude threw me off, and I chalked it up to the fear of gossip at Xavier’s and went off to my seat.

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