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“Oyee... Dhaa... uth... Come on wake up...!” Ragini was waking her up shaking her vigorously.  Dhatri was in deep slumber.  She suddenly felt someone was throwing her down from the crag and she was falling into the black hole with no bottom....!

“Haww... Huff... Haaa....!” she got up with a start looking wildly at everyone not recognising where she was.  Slowly, Ragini’s furious face came into focus.

“You...! What is it?” she yelled rubbing her eyes irritably. 

“Uth... Chal... upload kar...!” Ragini almost kicked her pulling her out of the bed. 

“Why? You people don’t have hands?” Dhatri retorted back yelling at the top of her voice. 

“Uth... Dhatri... who tera kaam hain.... Thats your work and ‘Jenu kaam tenu thai, bija kareso gota khai.....!’  So get up you lazy cow...” Purva pulled her up.  Dhatri was still sleepy. 

“What? You called me cow? You... you... Pig... you hog... “ Dhatri started off with her chosen vocabulary....!

“Stop it Dhatri... We got to upload the code....” Poorva mediated.  “Upload? But I have already uploaded...” Dhatri didn’t understand. 

“Duffer... The new one... The first version of the software we developed...” Poorva said pitying Dhatri for her dumbness...!

“But.... the deadline is..!” she didn’t complete the sentence, realizing her mistake...

“Shit... Shit...I forgot...! The deadline is preponed...! Shit....!” Dhatri pulled her hair in frustration.

“Thats why I call you cow... you shit everywhere your cow-dung....! Dhatri wake up and uploade...” Ragini slapped her to bring her back to the real world from her sleep state. 

“Huff.... This project... You know? I tell you, this is worthless... You people are not going to use any of this in your life... You know... This education itself is worthless....” Dhatri went on furiously. 

“Yeah... We will keep your sermon at the auditorium.... now upload the code, Dhaa.... He had asked us to do it before 8.00 pm his time...!” Ragini grew impatient. 

“Yeah... his time! His project! His code!  Our time is not important...! These Americans.... They want everything as of yesterday....! Rubbish....!” Dhatri muttered furiously opening her laptop and connecting to the Google drive. 

“HG? What kind of name is this?” Poorva asked bewildered.  Dhatri ignored her.  “Give a sensible name to the folder, Dhatri... What is this HG?” Dhatri had no answer.  She had vented out her anger by giving this wierd folder name.  “Weird? Naa... That was not weird for her... but for others...!”

“change the name Dhaa... “ Poorva poked her.  “Shut up.... These are the middle letters on the keyboard...” Dhatri gave some equally weird logic. 

“Oh! Whatever...!” Poorva shrugged.  She wanted to get it done ASAP. 

“See? Done!” Dhatri declared triumphantly.  Poorva breathed a sigh. 

“Hope he approves the code this time..” Poorva said worriedly.

“Send him the link, Dhaa...!” Ragini suggested and Dhatri retaliated.

“That’s not my job, Ok! Suresh is the contact person...”

“Oh, Come on! He is not here...! Send him a mail...” Ragini pulled Dhatri’s laptop. Dhatri resisted.  But poorva used her laptop and sent the link.  Within moments they got the reply where he had changed the folder name as “JL”

“JL? What is JL?” Poorva was puzzled so were all the others.  “JL?” Dhatri racked her brain to find out some relevance but could not...!

“What nonsense? What kind of name is this? He could have kept the same folder...!” Dhatri frowned angrily.  “Hungry Gudda...!” She muttered under her breath.  “JL?” she still couldn’t decode....! “Let it be... Must be initials of his girlfriend...” she said and suddenly felt embarrassed.  This was the first time she had this kind of thought of GirlFriend or BoyFriend...

“This is all because of these Love-struck Pyaar main Pagal Yaar... All around me...!” she gritted angrily.  

“Finished? Over? Now let me sleep... I did nightout yesterday..” Dhatri pulled the sheet over her head....!

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“What’s wrong? What happened?” Dhatri held Ragini’s hand only to get it jerked away.  Ragini moved her face and moved away from Dhatri. 

“Poorva?” Dhatri turned to Poorva.  Poorva was a very straight forward person with no nonsense attitude.  “What happened?” Dhatri asked her but Poorva was too busy to answer her question.  Dhatri turned to Suresh.  “No No No no... don’t ask me...! I don’t talk to treatcherous persons...!” he said moving away.  All the three even had resused to sit on her bench in the class. Dhatri was hurt thoroughly. 

“Fine...! If you don’t care... I Don’t care either...!” she said loudly sitting at the far end table in the canteen, alone...! No one bothered to talk to her. Her friends didn’t bother to wait for her for dinner.  All just ignored her.

Dhatri had attended the next skype call with Ray Dave and had all her attention at his wrists.  The bandage was replaced by adhesive tape and he looked fine.  Ragini shamelessly asked what was that JL folder name for.  He just chuckled curling up his lip, sidelining the question and turned to more serious topic of coding standards, pointing out several mistakes from the code and naming conventions...! Dhatri, at the back kept looking at him through her lashes and somehow the hot blushes made her breath steamy... She felt uneasy as the call progressed. 

“I am not going to attend such calls again...!” she resolved frowning.  He was busy talking to Ragini about the would be groom and what did he do in US and where was he from... and on... and on... to Dhatri’s annoyance as he congratulated Ragini smiling at her sweetly and welcoming her to US of A; completely ignoring Dhatri, her fuse blew.  She got up and without even looking at anyone walked away stomping.

The torturous ‘A-Sahakar’ non cooperation movement began from next day.  Dhatri didn’t know why her gang was so furious.  She had walked out of the skype call several times before, and no one had bothered about it.  Not even Ray Dave...! But this was something extraordinary.  Dhatri grew restless.  The call to her Rini Didi could not be through, as she was on Border again.  Dhatri had no one...! Tears brimmed... her lower lip pouted... she was on the verge of crying... This time, the genuine one.. not her all time favourite Drama!

“If you people are not telling me what happened, I am going to change my room!” Finaly Dhatri declared with quivering voice and Ragini gave in.  But Poorva held her hand and asked Dhatri sternly... “We should be asking you this, Dhaa... What is this? Why did you betray us? This is an insult to our friendship...!” Dhatri gaped foolishly. 

“What? What betrayal? What did I do?” she asked aghast.  Poorva looked at Ragini and Suresh.  “Ragini, show her what did she do...!” ordered Poorva and Suresh nodded.  Ragini pulled out something from her bag.... 

.....And..... Dhatri gaped with pale face, horror struck like a thunder bolt had struck the entire area....! She gaped with her jaw dropping.... lost her voice.... her brain was shutting down...!

“What? Ho...how? Ho... how did you get it?” she asked after a while and poorva came on to her...

“This is treatchery...! You are not our friend, Dhaa...!” she accused and Dhaa sat on the bench in the study room with a thud....! 

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Credit : Pyaar main pagal Yaar.... is not my line.  This brilliant line was from 'Nisha' and I liked it so much that I used it....! hehehehe!