The Social Whirl

Oh My GOD. Jesus effing Christ.

Some weeks are insane.

There’s tuitions and then music class and then you come home and figure, shucks, the test (!) and then you call Megha Nina Tanya and ask have you studied and they say yes and no and only the part about RNA and then you plunge into your books and don’t sleep till two and nearly miss the bus the next morning and the test goes great but then Nik threatens to dump you and you sort of break down and then Nina and Sonali say let’s go to Com Street and shop and cheer you up and you love them when they ditch you because the basketball coach is being a bitch and wants extra practice and then in the most random fashion possible you decide to organise a surprise birthday bash for Megha (and also for Nik’s ex cos’ they share a birthday) and immerse yourself in a flurry of phone calls for a few days and accidentally call Megha and invite her and then she gets into hysterics and you feel like an idiot and decide to call the whole thing off because who wants a bloody party anyway and why the hell should you organise it and when you tell Elaina it’s off she breaks down because Maneesh had just ditched Rhea and now she’ll never know if he was going to ask her instead and you say whatever and she says god, you’re so pissing off and you say I don’t know why I was setting up a party for Nik’s ex anyway and then she calls you a stupid retarded confused shmuck and you hang up and sulk till at tuition the next day when a new guy joins and he’s unbelievably cute and you and Sonali giggle about him and he throws you a ridiculously gorgeous smile and you half die and then you feel like shit because you have Nik and how can you look at another guy like that and you get on a guilt trip and sob and the cute guy asks what’s up and you coldly ask him to disappear and Nik turns up and gets all possessive and what the hell are you doing arm in arm with him and you say nothing and he says keep it that way and then he takes you out for coffee with a couple of the girls and his ex and you glare at him icily for the rest of the evening and smile at the cute guy the next day and he asks Nina out and you think damn and get to music class and learn a new composition and see ma’am’s cat lolling on the sofa and think jeez I wish my life was like that and then you grin. Because you secretly don’t.