Storizen Magazine August 2018 Issue | Chiranjiv Patel VI | Page 38

STORIZEN CONTRIBUTE The phone number of his heart throb had been erased, wiped out from the dusty desk. Poor chap could not throw a tantrum lest his love interest be revealed. Destiny had made a clean sweep in his case. Another errant cousin was madly in love with his vivacious classmate. Together the love- birds plotted to fail in the exam so that they could remain intimate for another year. Sadly, the girl changed her plans, sailed through the exams with honours, married a rich, successful guy abroad, leaving behind the jilted Romeo who had to repeat the academic year, 38 | STORIZEN MAGAZINE without the presence of his bubbly friend. My brothers and cousins had acquired a taste for late night movies. They dared to sneak out after dinner when the tired household called it a day. Everything went off smoothly. They were not missed by anyone for some months. One night, the jubilant group came back home delighted with some action packed movie. It was around midnight when they were climbing the drainpipe to enter inside the house, through the roof. Unfortunately, at the same time a thief was climbing down with the loot. The cousins met the thief half way. Holding on to the drain pipe, they clashed with the thief, inspired by the moves made by the action hero in the film they had seen. Mayhem ensued as the family members woke up. The thief was thrashed and so were the boys. The highlight was the loot left behind by the thief. It had more goodies in it than what was stolen from our house. After that action packed night, nocturnal adventures of the boys were nipped in bud. The formula in Mathematics (bracket, of division, multiplication, addition, subtraction) we learnt during school days is AUGUST 2018