Shwetpatra: A lost one
“ Time’s up,” the exam controller shouted and started collecting our examination sheets and soon after submitting our papers, we were out of the examination centre. Hundreds of students were in that crowd with eveyone's respective fear in the mind which could be seen on only a few faces. The whole scenario was looking like metaphor of full stop to everyone’s best times of their life. The last day of exam was full of faces that were sad, happy or a hunger of achieving more and more in future. Even then, no one knew that it was going to be the actual full stop to their friendship, masti and love-hate relationships. Most of my friends were discussing how their paper was but I was forcing my best friend to come along with me to see my girl. Soon after few minutes of an unintentional luka-chhipi in the crowd, I saw her buying the same orange ice-cream at the ice-cream counter with her friends. I didn't notice when did I lose my friend's finger