7 The Class List...

"Hey, did you notice something? Everyone is looking at us? " said Sumina to Sumana while advancing towards the notice board.

"Yeah... I noticed that the air around us was filled with laughter and mirth, "said Sumana. Seeing this atmosphere, all three of them felt somewhat uneasy.

"Why are they watching us?" thought Rohan, "Has someone pasted something on our back?" as he tried to look at his back, including the other two, but nothing was there as usual. "Then what must be the reason? Do not tell me that... "that horror future thought ran across his mind," Is the class list put up there? On the notice board? " His face was full of fear. Yet they continued to move without stopping by the atmosphere and when they reached, all three of them were standing at the back of a group of students. Everyone was searching for their class on the list.

"Hey, how will we get through?" Sumana asked.

"Let's see." Sumina thought for a second and replied swiftly, "Ha! An Idea! "

"What is it?" asked her friend. Sumina replied, "Just wait and watch." and walked away to a certain distance away from them. She stopped at an empty spot and shouted with surprise, "Hey! Whose money is lying here? " Hearing these words, the crowd suddenly shouted by looking in her direction, "Money!... Where? Where? "as they ran towards Sumina, where she had found them. On reaching the spot, each of them began to search the area. Seeing this mob dispersed by the trick, Rohan said with a sigh, "I didn't think that this cheap trick would have worked for magicians..." and Sumana said in reply, with the same sigh, "After all, magicians are humans too... and your sister is a master of these tricks."

After some time, Sumina returned to them while leaving the rest of the party in search of the lost money. She said, "So let's go in and search for the results." and both of them replied with the same sighing face, "Hmmm..." and approached the class list. When they reached the list, both of them seemed fascinated by the class in which they were going to be. The two began to search for their names from the class A list, whereas Rohan looked to have found his name instantly, but he didn't show any signs to the other two.

Their search continued for a long time, while Rohan thought about the consequences of their enlistment. Suddenly, the colour of their faces began to fade away when they could not find their names on the first two sheets.

"I think we will at least be in section C," Sumana said.

"Yeah, me too." But suddenly, when they couldn't find their names in that list, their faces turned pale white.

"Don't tell me... Are we in...?" Their faces were filled with horror and when they checked the D list, they found their names. They were written in the very first column of the class list.

"What!?... How could it be, Sumana? How could we end up in class D? " Her voice was trembling. Her body was trembling. She had never imagined that she would end up in the last class. It appeared to her that all her hard work had gone down the drain.

"I don't know either... How could we? We had studied so hard for the exams and our net result was this!, "she looked down on the ground as well as down at her mouth and continued with a sad face," This is the result that we had got!...". They began to sob about this matter. At that time, Rohan was very much disappointed with his sister and her friend. He knew that they had worked really hard. Those hard-working days of his sister flashed in his inward eye. He remembered the days of primary school when his sister used to study hard till night most of the days while he was sleeping in his bed.

Suddenly, he remembered Susan, his dear enemy, and thought about which class he would be in. And when he tried to search for it, it took just a glance that he found his name written just below Sumana, in the third place. He thought, "How could it be? As long as I know, he had done well in the exam. So, how could he end up in the last class? "with a shocked face.

Suddenly, a cry came from behind of them, "Hey, losers are finding their names on the class list! I barely think that they would be able to even pass the entrance test... "said Susan with an evil smile. "You said it right, boss," said the other two. However, the boss let us search for our names too, "said one of his apprentices. Susan replied, "Yeah... Why not? I know surely that I will be enlisted in the first section." and went towards the board. He pushed aside Rohan, who was standing in his way just in front of the board, still watching the lower part of the notice board.

"A" as he searched. He searched carefully in the chart for his name. But suddenly,...

"What! Where is my name?????! Have they forgotten to include my name? Why is my name not included in the A's list? "

"It seems that they have made a mistake while making this chart... Hey, Forman, let us check our names, "said one of his acquaintances.

Just after a second of searching, a burst of joy came from the other one, "Yeah, I have found my name... It is in section B. Yeah, I have been enlisted in this school! " The first one also cried with the same enjoyment, "Yeah, I am too in section B... We are in the same class, Forman. "

"Yeah, Raman!" Then they turned towards Susan and continued, "Boss have your on..." but suddenly stopped by seeing his face. His face was pale white when he found out his name was on the list. His body was trembling and his eyes were wide open. When both of them looked in the same direction as Susan, they got startled too. His name was written on the same list as that of Rohan's. He could not speak for a moment and suddenly burst off with an angry face. "How could I be with such a loser like him??!" he screamed at Rohan by pointing towards him.

"Stop it, Susan," interrupted Sumina, "It is a fact and we have to accept it."

"ACCEPT!! I couldn't accept the fact that I and this one, "pointing towards Rohan and continuing," are on the same level. I want to retest. I will complain about this fact. " Rohan bored all the insults without saying anything in return. However, the crying continued, "I WANT RETEST!!!"

Suddenly, a voice came from behind. "It is not possible! Once the results are published, you can not alter them, "said a woman. When all of them turned towards her, they saw a pretty and very beautiful lady. She had long black hair which reached below her back and had an attractive nature. She was wearing the same dress as all the school females were wearing. She continued, "The school's system is efficient and every decision is final and correct. You can't alter the list once it is published. "

"But..."

"No more talk! As you have got the section, go and get into the class, "said the woman.

"Tch." and he began to walk away from the place after giving Rohan a dirty look.

After he left, "Thank you..." said Rohan.

"No problem..." said the beautiful one.

"However, who is that boy?" by looking in the direction of Susan.

"His name is Susan. He is one of my classmates. He was to be enlisted in the first class but ended up with me. " Rohan continued with a sad face, "He was not satisfied with the class results and being in the same class as me. That's why he was fighting with us." As soon as she saw his sadness, she tried to turn his mind away from the fact, "By the way, myself, Rohima. Nice to meet you, "she said with a smile and then lifted her hand towards him in the sense of a handshake. Rohan saw her smiley face. It was bright and a good one. He gave her his hand. "Nice to meet you too, Rohima. Myself, Rohan, and there is my sister Sumina. " Sumina said, "Hello!" Rohan continued, "and this is my sister's friend, Sumana.". Sumana said, "Hi!" Rohan continued, "We are in the same class in this academic term."

Rohima replied with a happy face, "I see... I hope that you will have a wonderful academic session ahead. By the way, which class are you all in? "

Rohan replied, "We are in class 1-D."

"Oooo..." she said with a surprise.

"President!" cried a distant voice and the girl turned towards her.

All three of them were a little shocked. They didn't think that she was the president of the student council.

"Sorry, I have to go now. If you three have any more problems, just contact me, OK? "

"Yeah, sure," said Rohan. Then she bid them goodbye and left the place.

"I didn't think that the student council president would help us on the very first day," said Sumina. Rohan replied, "Yeah... "with a voice of confusion.

"Ok, let's now head towards our class. The school bell will ring anytime soon, "said Sumana.

"Hmm... By the way, in which direction is our class? "

"I didn't know that. I think we should ask someone. " Before Sumina could say anything, suddenly Rohan interrupted and said, "Hey look there! A signboard! "

"Where?"

"There! Near the corner! See. "

"Yeah, there is one. And something is written on it. I think it is 1-D. "

"Yes, I think so too."

"Let's head there." and all of them went towards it, the signboard. When they reached near it, they observed that the board was blue in colour with a grey colour border near the end of all four sides. In the centre, there was a big arrow pointing towards the right direction and written on it was 1-D in black colour.

"I think we should go in that direction," said Sumina, pointing towards the direction of the right side of the school's main building, towards the playground. "Let's go." as they followed the direction prescribed on it. After some walking, they reached the right side of the school building.

"Playground!" exclaimed Rohan with confusion.

"No, wait! Look there! Another sign! "said Sumina.

"I think we should follow it too," added Sumana.

"Ok, let's go." and again went on to follow it.

Suddenly, when they reached there, they saw an underground tunnel and the sign beside it was identical to the previous one except that it was pointing down towards the tunnel.

"Do we have to go inside it?!" asked Rohan with confusion.

"We have no time to waste. and there is no other way. Let's do it." said Sumana. "Let us hurry and get inside it."

When Rohan stepped forward towards the gate of the underground tunnel, the gate opened and the dark inside was lit with flame torches one by one from inside.

"Do we really have to get inside?" asked Rohan again. But this time none of the two answered and got inside before him. The wall of the tunnel was made up of earth and flame torches were hanged on it at regular intervals. However, the staircase was made of stone.

"I couldn't sense any enchantments here," said Sumana.

"Me too," replied Sumina, and all three of them continued downwards. When they reached the lowest level of the staircase, they were shocked to see the sight. There was nothing down in the tunnel except a staircase that led outside the tunnel to the ground again.

"What is this!!" cried Rohan with an awful face.

"I dunno, but we have to hurry. We couldn't stand here. " After saying this, Sumina began to run outside the tunnel while the other two followed her. When they reached the end, they saw that they were on the rear side of the school building in the same place--the playground. They seemed to be quite exhausted and startled by the fact.

"What are we doing here?" asked Rohan with confusion.

"See another sign!" said Sumana.

"Where?" asked Sumina.

"There! towards the left side of the school building. "

Suddenly, the school bell rang.

Tring! Tring! Tring! Tring!

"We have to hurry, otherwise we will be late on the first day." and all three continued to run. When they reached there, they saw that this one was not identical to the previous one. Something was written on it.

The classroom for 1-D is on the fourth floor of the main building.

"What!!!! So what was this all this time!? "cried Rohan with annoyance.

"We should not stop here! The school bell had already rung and the classes would start any time soon. "as all three of them began to run towards their classroom. They crossed to the front side of the school and entered the main building. No one had entered their classes. The courtyard was empty and everyone was sitting in their classes, except three of them. All three of them entered the building, kept their shoes in their respective lockers, wore their school shoes and departed towards the classroom. They climbed four floors, utilizing the staircase, and finally reached their class floor. They seemed to be very exhausted due to the long journey, but couldn't stop at that time.

"Hurry! We have almost reached the classroom, "said Sumina while running in front. They kept on running towards their classroom. Suddenly, they saw a small board with 1-D on the top of a class.

"Finally we have found it," said Rohan, while they kept on running and reached the front door and opened it. Sumina apologized first, "Sorry, the teacher is a bit late," with an exhausted voice. But suddenly, they realised that there was no teacher in the classroom and everyone was sitting in their places. They were just looking at the faces of the latecomers. However, all three of them were a bit surprised to know that their teacher was late. Each one of the six eyeballs glanced at every part of the classroom to search for their teacher. But none of them found her. They seemed to be quite relieved. But suddenly,... A shadow was cast on the back of each of them and all three were filled with horror and were imagining what it was.

On the other hand, one entered the control room of the school.

"What is the status?"

"I have a scanner and analysed each of them. The signboards which were planted on the ground were also removed."

"I see... OK, give me the hard copy of the reports on my desk. "

'Ok sir... Sir, I have a question. "

"What is it?"

"Why did you want me to scan these children?" asked Kohankar.

"Hmm... I realise your curiosity. But I can't tell you everything at this point of time, so I would advise you to wait for a while and you will know everything by yourself. " and the school principal left the room. However, Kohankar didn't seem satisfied with the answer.