Freak'd OUT : Episode #1

STUPID......

Alex never ever cheated on exams. Maybe he asked a couple of answers from friends or seniors in adjacent chairs but it was in standard 7, when his nearest rival, in terms of class rank and dearest too, in terms of competition, Kumar blamed him of cheating.

When Alex reached for the final papers the other day, he found Kumar and few other friends of his were staring at him. Once Alex told me … Kumar’s friends were either whom he fed with chocolates and other shiny creamy stuff or they were failures. Big pieces of shit. Soon they started kicking and pestering his desk and abusing him. Alex could just hear “There comes the cheater” and witness a dense mob of 10 or so moving vigorously around him without touching him. When Alex asked about their paranoid attitude, Kumar came out of the crowd and showed a reference book with torn out pages. He accused Alex of cheating from the book during the exam, the other day. But Alexs' books had a mark - ALEX on the 20^th page, after his B’date. And he showed that the mark was not present in the book. But none knew about this secret mark. Soon his friends – Subhendu, Sandhya and KairV came for rescue but couldn’t control the howling, abusing and muscular crowd. Alex escaped the confusing and rushed home to pick his piece of the book. When returned, he was late by 20 minutes for his mathematics paper – his trump paper. He entered the room and Kumar and his fellows were smiling at him. Soon he realized the trick, conceptualized by Kumar to make him tensed and fragile before his trump paper. They succeeded but Alex scored a century again. That’s why when I first met him, I found him carrying his board mark sheets, his AIRs (All India Ranks) at different entrance exams and the class 7^th grade card with 100 encircled and an arrow pointing to “STUPID CENTURY”.