Story Writing - What Is It With Rudra?

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What Is It With Rudra?
-Bhavya Aditya


     Rudra was awfully quiet that Monday morning. Usually he is the one who talks nonstop. Mrs. Arora, the maths teacher always calls him a “Talking Machine”. No one liked his calmness on that day. When Mrs. Arora asked him if he was alright, he sat there with tears rolling down his eyes.
    
              “What happened Rudra? Why are you crying?” asked the concerned teacher. But Rudra kept on sobbing. The teacher asked again- “For heaven’s sake Rudra stop crying and tell me what’s the matter. I’m your teacher Rudra, let me help you.” But the child seemed to take no notice of her.
       One of his friends Shubh shouted with the intention to ease the tension of the class-“He must have had a break up.”. The class started giggling.
         
              “Oh! Shut up Shubh!” retaliated Mrs. Arora.
Silence took control of the class. Rudra won’t stop crying. Finally, Rudra’s best pal Arjun, broke the ice. “It’s his maths marks ma’am.” he said.

      “But he never regrets his marks then why this time. He has even failed once but his effulgent smile has never left his face.” the teacher asked.
       
             “Well it’s not exactly the marks ma’am. They are his personal best till now. Instead it is what good marks were going to get him.” replied Arjun.

              “Oh! don’t beat around the bush Arjun and tell me clearly what is it with Rudra?” asked the teacher who grew more anxious.

                      “His parents had promised to take him to his favourite band’s concert. It’s a British band coming to India for the first time and Arjun does not want to miss it. He loves the band more than anything. The only condition was that he had to get at least 70 marks in maths but he scored only 55 which is a record in itself as I told you.” said Arjun.

                  Mrs. Arora was a very sympathetic and understanding teacher. She could not bear the sight of any of her students crying. Especially not Arjun. It did not suit his personality. He was the one who brought laughter on the faces of people with tears but this time it was the other way round. After making quite an effort, she somehow restored Rudra’s smile. She even convinced his parents to take him to the concert.
But this effort consumed her whole period but it was worth it.

                      As soon as she left, Rudra started jumping with happiness. He was not crying because of his marks or the fact that his parents were not taking him to the concert (although this fact did disappoint him). It was all just a plan to waste the time of their teacher. The whole class was involved in the plan as none of them wanted to study that day.


                 But that did not mean that they did not respect their teacher. The whole class knew that Mrs. Arora would just laugh sweetly when she would get to know about the truth. Rudra was now very grateful to his teacher. He thanked her in his heart. He wasted class time and made his dream come true (which was not the real intention though). He had hit two targets with the same arrow.

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