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AUTHOR NOTES Respected Readers, thanks for buying my book in this vast colosseum of books. This book, I want to dedicate to my mother and father as well as my grandparents. This wouldn t have been possible without the stern support of my teachers and all my dear friends whose unflinching motivation always propelled my spirit to greater heights and inspired me to end this book with ease, so thanks to them. My special reverence goes to EDUCREATION publishing company, who helped me to bring forth my work in the vast arena of creativity and had been a herculean support behind my efforts. I would like to appreciate their work and support they are providing to young emerging writers. Readers, always remember that the nation always comes first, don t do anything that can hurt the sentiment of people of India. India is known for her unity in diversity and solidarity. Our culture demonstrates the theme Live and let live, so we all should follow the same. We the Indians have a secular outlook, and I believe that the number of people responsible for creating divisions and contradictions is lesser than we think. Finally, I will say that if DREAMS are yours, so all the pain and difficulties inflicting from it must be faced by you only. Don t depend on other illusive factors like LUCK. People are there to distract you, so don t listen to them and focus on your dreams to achieve them. The people of our society are such imposters who never put faith on our dreams initially rather cause the hindrances but will grab the credit and want to be a part of our celebration after the achievement over the same goal. So, v
friends achieve your dreams! (Thank you, SATYAM RAI (VEER) W vi
(He is my guruji. His blessings have always been with me as my guiding light, and he helped me to write this wonderful story, thank you guruji.) W vii
Satyam Rai 1 P Hum bhi dil diye yeh soch ke, kadar hogi meri mohabbat ki, Par galti humari he thi, jo is zalim duniya me bhi hume, Ishq ka shauk chad gya, or ise shauk shauk me hum apni, Zindagi barbaad kar baithe It was 6 o clock in the morning, when my mother entered in the room. Pulling me, she said, Wake up, Aahil! It s already 7 o clock and you should remember that today is 10 April. I suddenly woke up and exclaimed in surprise, Ammi! Is it really 10th of April. My mother put her hand on my head and said, Don t worry Aahil, everything will be fine, believe in Allah. I simply smiled and said, Amen!. I got up from my bed and went to washroom. I took bath and was getting ready. While dressing, I opened my window. I saw something different in nature, like it was saying, Today is the turning point of your life. Today, you will meet someone. I ignored all those disturbing thoughts in my mind and went for the prayer. I prayed to Allah, Today is the reopening of my school and reopening of my life also. Please Allah, give your blessings and show me the right direction. My mother called me for the breakfast. I replied, Coming ammi, getting down for the breakfast. I saw my father and brother ready on the table. They saw 1
True Love v/s Religion me and asked few questions. They asked me Are you alright? Do you want to go to school? The question puzzled me, but I replied, Yes Abbu, I am alright and willing to go to school. But the truth was I was not fine and was unwilling to go to school but due to the fear of my father s slap, I had to lie. My mother said, Sit down Aahil, the breakfast is coming. She brought the breakfast. I had it but not fully as my heart was weeping inside, and in my mind, the storm was raging hard. After the breakfast, my brother asked me, Do you want to come with us? I simply replied, No bhaiya, I want to go alone. When I toward the main gate of my school, I saw on the board written ST. JOHN S SCHOOL, Welcome! But I didn t want to be welcomed rather wanted to run away. Suddenly, the security guard of my school called me, Aahil, come in, the school gate is going to be closed. I went in but didn t go for prayer. I directly went to the office and asked which section I have got. They said class VIII B. I went into the class and chose the last bench. I kept my bag and sat down. I put my head on the desk and went off to sleep. After the prayer, other children came into the class. I heard their footsteps but didn t wake up. Then, I heard something which forced me to wake up. They were telling to each other, This is Aahil who failed in class VIII, and this is his 2nd year in this class for him. I kept my head up, opened my eyes and saw 10 15 children had surrounded me, who were talking all this. Suddenly, a girl came. I think she was the monitor of the class. She shouted, All of you go back to your own seats and asked me, Aren t you feeling well? I didn t reply anything as if I was in different world. I saw her for the first time. As the teacher entered the class, she went away. All the boys stood up and wished our class teacher good morning miss. When the teacher was taking 2
Satyam Rai attendance, I was noticing carefully when her turn comes. Suddenly, she responded, Present miss!. I came to know her name was Aahilya. After the attendance, our class teacher called me and explained, Aahil, you will not do any mistake this year and you will study hard etc. etc. Then, she gave me the place in the 2nd bench, beside the 2 boys whose names were Gourab and Kamran. I don t know why suddenly Gourab started shouting and beating the boy, Rahul, who was a small tiny boy. By the tiffin bell, the fellow named Gourab got fully mad and started shouting loudly in the class. At this, I lost my control. I got up, caught him by his collar and was about to beat him. But the moment, Aahilya came in front of me, I again went to another world. I left his collar. Gourab pasted 2 3 punches on my face; but still I was in different world. Suddenly, a boy came and started beating Gourab. After their fight, he came to me and asked, Are you alright, Aahil. I simply replied, Yes brother! and asked his name. He answered, Veer. We were now best friend. Next period, I asked the teacher to change my place. Teacher changed my place, and luckily I got place beside my 2 best friends Veer and Ayan. After the school got over, we came down in line. I quietly went out of the school. I saw one man came on bike. Aahilya sat on his bike behind him and went out of the sight. I asked Veer about that man. He said, That man is Aahilya s father. Suddenly, I saw Gourab. I remembered what he did to me. I had pain that made me angrier. I asked Veer to hold my bag. I went straight to Gourab and said, Now, beat me. Even he threw his bag, and as soon as he caught my collar, I had already honored him with 5 6 punches. His nose started bleeding. All the children of my class as well as section A beheld this. Now, they all got afraid of me. Since the first day only, I became the king of my class, but our 3
True Love v/s Religion principal addressed with an awful look at me and said, Again started, Aahil! I replied, Sorry father. As soon as I reached home, my mother asked me, How was the first day of your school?. I just smiled and answered, It was good, ammi. I went upstairs in my room, changed my dress and came down for the lunch. Then, I went to sleep. In the evening at 6 o clock, I and Ayan went to gole bazaar for some work. On returning from gole bazaar, I saw Aahilya and Tanu. Aahilya came to us and asked, Hey Aahil, what are you doing here? Ayan replied, We are here to buy chart paper and copy. Tanu said that they are going to have pani puri, and offered to join them. I answered, Why not?. The 4 of us went to have pani puri. It was the first time, I talked to Aahilya. She asked me my full name. I said, Aahil Khan, and then, I asked for the same, and she replied, Aahilya Singh. After sometime, Aahilya and Tanu left. I and Ayan also came home. The next day, I got up early in the morning at 7 o clock. I went to school, but not inside the school, one of my friends, Dany, came on bike. I sat on his bike and went away. Even Dany was the student of St. John school but from class VIII A. That day, he didn t go to school. He came to pick me up for cricket match which was held out of town. The next day, when I went to school, the class teacher called me and asked, Where did you go yesterday?. The teacher gave me the last warning and told me, If you do it again, then your parents will be surely called. Silently, I came and slept on my bench. Veer told, It was Aahilya who informed Miss about you. I got surprised how it can be possible. Then, as soon as I sat on Dany s bike, Aahilya reached school. She saw me, and I saw her angrily. In the next period, our biology teacher Miss Sangeeta came, announced about the surprise test and instructed everyone to take out paper and get ready. I didn t have any page. I asked 4
Satyam Rai my friend but even they had not any loose sheet. Suddenly, Tanu came and gave a page and said, Aahilya has given you. The test got over. Then, the teacher announced that the boy and girl will exchange their copy with each other. Luckily, my copy went to Aahilya. After the correction was over, our teacher told that those who got below 8 out of 20 must stand up and go outside. I got up with my test paper in my hand. I didn t see the marks because I knew that I would get 0 or 1, so I was ready to go outside but suddenly Aahilya told, Aahil, see your paper, you ve got 10. I was extremely shocked and looked at the paper. It was really 10, but it was Aahilya who has written my answer while correcting the test paper, and in the last page, it was written SORRY AAHIL. As soon as our teacher went out of the class, I tore the paper and threw it into the dustbin. The next day, we came from prayer; the class teacher entered and took our attendance. After that, Aahilya went to the teacher and told, Miss, I don t want to be the monitor of the class. The class teacher asked for the reason but she didn t tell anything. Then, our new monitor was Tanu. In games period, we went down and started playing cricket. The team was decided in the class only. There was a rule in St. John school that the team should be decided in the class only as the game period is of only 45 minutes, and hardly we get 30 minutes to play. So to save our time, we made this rule among ourselves. In my team, the players were I, Veer, Karan and Raj; and in opponent team, there was Ayan, Anu, Bittu, Kamran, Gourab and Vinay. We had 4 members only, because we were better players. The match started. They won the toss and chose to bat first. They scored 40 runs in 4 overs. When our turn came, I and Veer went to bat first. We scored 35 runs in 3 overs only. We needed 6 more runs to win, and in strike, it was me. I hit the ball. It went back side of the church flying 5
True Love v/s Religion where girls were playing. It hit Aahilya. When Anu went back to bring the ball, Aahilya threw the ball outside the campus. Anu told her that the ball was hit by Aahil. When I went there to know the situation from Anu that Aahilya has thrown the ball outside the school, my anger burst up. I shouted at Aahilya that why she had thrown the ball, but she didn t reply and looked at me with surprise. I stopped when I saw her eyes full of tears and immediately went away from there. The bell rang and the school was over. I went to apologize to Aahilya but her father had already come and she departed with her father. I went home. I was upset. My mother asked me for lunch, I replied, No, ammi! I don t want to eat. My mother felt weird but didn t force me to eat. I straight went up to my room and changed my dresses. Then, I went off to sleep. In the evening, I used to go to play, but today I didn t. I just sat on the ground; my friends were shouting Aahil, want to play! I just shook my hand No!. Ayan and Dany came and asked me, Why Aahil, you don t want to play! Once again, I simply said, No, my mood is off. I went for the tuition reluctantly due to the fear of father s slap. I was unable to concentrate on my studies. I was just thinking about Aahilya s tearful eyes. I was regretful. I spent sleepless night just waiting for the morning to go to school and say sorry to Aahilya. But at 4 o clock, I fell asleep and was woken at 6:30 am by my mother, but I didn t wake up. At last, at 7:20 I woke up hurriedly and got ready. I skipped my breakfast, took the keys of my father s bike and went for school. In the background, I heard my father shouting, Aahil stop stop Aahil!. I just ignored. Though I knew what will happen after returning home, but I was least bothered about that. The moment I reached school, the gatekeeper Mr. Venkat was shocked to see me in such a horrible condition, where my tie was loosely hanging, upper 2 buttons of my shirt were not closed, the 6
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