Today is Shraddha aka 40’s birthday.. as is the tradition, gals wished her asa the clock struck 12. It was saddening to see that we didn’t get a full house this time around cos not everyone likes the 3rd yr mam and some people were trying to get into good books of senior mams (the 4th yrs)

Anyway most of the 1st and 2nd yrs turned out to wish her and then were there to eat the chocolate cake. After a couple of minutes, my roomie and couple of other super jrs came up to Shraddha and presented her with a gift. All the happy faces of the 2nd yrs turned rather gloomy.. cos they never expected that their jrs would gift something to their seniors.

Now time passed by quickly and I was back in my room by 12:50am and was arranging things in my side table and bed so that I could get the much needed sleep.. Just at that moment, roomie and another sup jr entered the room and said they wanted to tell me something.. They thought that their seniors would make a big issue out of the fact that their jrs presented a gift to their senior. Considering that only a few days back the 2nd yrs gals celebrated a double birthday.

I told them that there was nothing to worry about and they should not get tensed and head off to sleep.

When roomie came back to the room, she wanted to have the assurance that “nothing” will happen in the days to come. And I said, I can Shraddha will make sure you people are not messed with. She said that what they made out from the faces of the 2nd yrs was that it ought to had been them gifting something and what their jrs did was a slap on their face. I told her, there.. you said it with the right words.. She went on saying that, you 2 mams spend most of your free time with us and we appreciate it… she even had the courage to say that you don’t get free with other people easily.. thats what she understood after living with me for like 3 months… I said, well your seniors behaved so well in their first years that they did hurt us to the brim… did things/ said words just to annoy us.

I told her a lot of things then… what the seniors did to us and what we thought of our jrs when they arrived last year and so on… and just because we sort of left them to get a taste of their own medicine they befriended our seniors and made sure me and 40 were the last persons to know about anything that mattered in the hostel. I did tell her that we really appreciated the chemistry we shared with our super jrs. Cause because of this generation gap that did exist and the super jrs being very humble, kind and sweet we would be fools if we didn’t talk to them cause we never shared a healthy relationship with our seniors and jrs cos they never had a sane and intelligent talk with us. I did make it sure to tell her that what all she saw was between our seniors and jrs was just a game to make the 3rd yrs feel all left out… but two people can play the game and me & Shraddha had thought earlier that we will befriend the super jrs in our 4th year and make the life of jrs (the 3rd yrs then) living hell at the hostel.. but now that won’t be the case cos we get along with you so well that we won’t have to pretend to others that the super seniors and super juniors are friends…

When we finished all of this pep talk, the clock chimed 4:30am and by the time we went to sleep the clock read 4:50am. When I woke up at 9, roomie had left for college and as I headed to the kitchen to pick up breakfast, I was met with strange look from some jrs cos they very well know that the super jrs and I did have quite a “talk” last night… can’t wait for the next episode of this hoopla to start… cos I want to know what the jrs are going to say to their jrs..