Trifecta : Alchemy-ized ! - Episode 4

His lips suddenly twitched bringing out a flicker of smile that he didn't even know was there. And he started on.

He had met Anu in college.

It was one just another day of the series when those jocks flouted all kinds of laws. He with his few buddies would go around and humiliate the measly-ies. But that day they had taken it a bit further and in the act was caught a newbie. He had started bleeding when they thrusted him around and he hit the edge of that civil-war time table or whatever of it remained in the cafeteria. His left forehead was bruised right above his left ear.

‘If you can’t get your shit together, don’t try to mess others’ lives’, he heard someone at the back yelling at him. He had heard that voice before. He could feel that the person was running. She knew she regretted saying that already. She was not cut out for bellicosity. It was not her place. But somebody was terribly hurt and she just couldn’t let it go  like everybody else did. She hurriedly removed her duffle bag from her shoulder throwing it at the nearest table and made a rush to the fallen victim. In no time, she was crouching besides him supporting his head with her palm. She kept on calling for “more ice”. Along with it, she kept on talking with him to confirm if he had any concussion.

His bewilderment stemmed from the disbelief that it was not the same Anu who he has known her to be. She was almost a recluse and her don’t-care attitude could piss-off some serious dudes. A small-town girl; conceited, self-approved who gave not a single damn about others.  Some even called her ‘heartless’. She was often made an object of mockery but guess  nothing could hurt her.

She was misunderstood but it didn’t mean she willed alone.  The reality was far from it. She had so many things she had to achieve. She was just insanely passionate.

Vishal had once seen her volunteering for the Red Cross but had let it slid thinking she might be doing it all to serve penance for all the “wrongs” she might have done. Then once he had to stay back late after regular classes and he found her hanging back herself just in time to find that she was teaching some kids possibly the students of the trust-run school. He again assumed it to be a one-time thing. It was possibly the first time he has been so terribly wrong about somebody.  He thought he had the whole humanity figured out for himself. But she had become a cryptic he wanted to decipher. It was not until that day that he had the faith in him reinstated that there can be a lot more to just a silhouette dangling in front of you every now and then.

But now he had started piecing together all the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle.  Something magical was about to happen, possibly an alchemy on way! 

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