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There was a voice close to his ear. A familiar voice he knew very well.

"Stephen! Stephen!"

It was a husk toned voice and also familiar.

He had a push. His eyes were still closed. Then the push persisted.

"Who is there?"

"It's me, Alex!"

"Am I dead...am I dead?!"

He was now shaking and shivering terribly.

"No, you aren't dead. Now if you would mind to get up!"

"Lose what?"

"Come on Steve, she is going to see you!"

The teacher, a short legged lady with a face so brown that it could be mistaken for a banana, turned like a robot and shouted at the top of her voice that all hell broke loose.

"Ste-p---hen!"

The class consisting of a dozen bunch of teens with Astronomy books at their desks, turned their heads in unison to the direction of the fore-mentioned comrade.

The comrade sheepishly came to alert. Just like a Queen's royal guard in training, he looked tense, serious and devoted to his call.

The whole class drowned in laughter.

"So, Stephen," the banana faced teacher started, rubbing her chin, "They say you are a genius."

The eyes of the comrade were now starting to drop. He squeezed his left palm so tight that if it were a cow, no milk would have remained in its breast.

A buzzing fly came from outside the class. It passed the bullet headed basketballer seated next to our comrade. There was a blonde cutie just next to him, with a broad smile on her face. The fly passed her too. It landed square on Alex's face. He slapped but missed. It wasn't a miss though for it caught our comrade right on the face.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to..."

The bullet headed basketballer laughed out of his pink skin very similar to ice-cream served at your favorite parlor.

The teacher didn't notice otherwise she wouldn't have continued thus, "Stephen would you mind if you explained to these ladies and gentlemen what Einstein meant when he said space and time is relative?"

He looked about him on the right then the left like a red bull searching for its mate. He was in the wrong class. There were no ladies and gentlemen as far as he could see. The only person who would have passed for a gentleman would be Alex with the moustache, but he too was as lousy as any teenager who realizes the mouth has more purposes than just eating doughnuts.

The so-called ladies and gentlemen remained fixated at young Stephen. An invisible force kept their eyes at him.

"Aargh, well Einstein said that...aagrh!"

At every aagrh, everyone looked alarmed.

No one had ever read about Einstein before.

Who was he anyway? And yet the banana faced lady in a red dress similar to blood mixed in orange juice, still wanted to know!

"Aargh!" His brain was working like in a mental athletes. In the past few days after falling off his yellow bicycle on his way home, something unnatural had happened to him ever since then. He knew it but then no one believed him. He had these weird dreams of vampires chasing him, of a man on his death bed.

Apart from the scary dreams, another episode of life was coming to him. An episode which he felt shy to admit even when in his room.

Back to class.

The red eyed comrade who had been sleeping dutifully for almost half of Ms. Hellena's lecture time, now was dumbfounded.

There was this girl on the front seat who was looking at him. Little did she know she was his crush. From the front seat, she looked like a goddess with a golden ring. She had these blue eyes, a very pretty face with an invisible sign post which only Steve could see. It read, Kiss me!

Now with a belt on, her waist was that of a princess in Wonderland. Her teeth were perfect- her hair flowing like a river on her back. She looked at him and he stopped talking. It's true the whole class had turned their eyes on him but then, her eyes went deeper into his soul.

Her lips? Oh, how sweet they were. Stephen now imagined holding her waist tight to his body and eating her lips. Yes, just eating them. Kissing would be a slow process. Eating could be more faster. Passion was now flowing from her eyes into his.

She was this deer who was tempting the lion to come for it. The lion however was shy. The lion in fact had never approached the deer though its hunger for her was great