The Last Class Of College..
I walked with my best friends across the campus........ towards fifth block our class... our second n third year class. The hour hand at the watch said ... it was ten minutes past 6.... and there was not even a single trace of any life in the college........ except for we eleven....
(Balaji,arun,aravind,henry,dinesh,rams,muthu,ramanan,karthick,abdul,dinagaran)...............
Another ten steps.. and there was our class with the doors shut... !!! we were on the second floor... and the sun setting down in between the hills with its orange rays was creating a magical scene. Had a wish that the time stops at that very moment... but it never happens... the seconds hand ticked heavily..... and we opened the doors of the class for one last time...................
Wished henry cud ask our lecturer..."may i come in.... " and wanted to hear her shout.... "You late again... no attendance..."
but there was no one there... just empty desks.. and we all....
looking at the walls.... and the desks.. all empty... with quotes we wrote ... and the raised platform .. where the torture classes were held...so precious moments... and the last benches.. where we had fun.... laughed .... kicked out....delicious lunches brought by our day-scholar boys.... hiding from the lecturers... pleading for attendence............ million memories rolled like a muvee into our minds... and there was complete silence for a moment.. and we smiled...something was heavy in minds...!!!!!
Walked like heros from the medivial times.... jumped over the benches... had a look at the bench .. where the so called babes(Henry used to call) of our class used to sit....(no offenses to any babes)... .. drifted to our place... ... sat there..... side seats... dint feel like the last day .... dont remember how we met .... how we came to such a stage... feels like i know my friends from ages...feel like as if i was born in this college..... feel like i was always here...
The entire class was still there alive.... the last benchers sleeping.......... the gals chatting amongst themselves.........the teacher in her own world...... dinesh n karthi sitting besides me .... cribbing about something .... dinagaran sitting on first bench taking down notes.... and Abdul smiling at the babes.... Dinesh... trying talking to the gals... Arun...in his busy sleep....karthikeyan...dreaming...Ramanan...getting bullied by ananth..john..mahadevan...Rams...explaining doubts to ganesh...shanmugavel mari n muthu sitting silent...karthick passing msges to girls...and we laughing about something of the other..... me chatting... beating... dinesh ............
Ahh..henry asking us to look outside... for some babes from IT ...standing there....... and all without even a word...looked outside..it was an unsaid communication.... but today there wasnt anybody there................ just the deserted corridor..........and i cud see the mechanical workshops at the end... no one there.............. looked back..... but there was henry ...... not scribbling anything in his notebook... not laughing this time.... not sayin anything this time........... just sitting there..looking front.. and there was arun... dinesh...... ramanan...aravind..abdul..... there was me .....
"roll number 23.......... "
"roll number 23............ Henry.... u sleeping again........ "
"Ok fine............. roll number 30 Kannudurai"
"....................... hey .. present ma'm............ "
"you sleep dear...!!! no attendence for you................."
No attendence.... the class has ended... and my friends... chatting and laughing .... going for a B'day treat...Cool down.... our fruit shakes..... and we sat there ..... sat there all alone ......... closed our eyes, for the entire world outside the walls of the campus was calling us..............
Wanted to attend one last lecture........ but this time there was no one to take that last lecture.............. and there was that door... open... and we wished all the time .. to run away .... to bunk.. but this time it wasnt..... one last time....
one last time............ attended the class.... with no one.. just we eleven...
