My first crush

I don’t think anyone can have their first crush (infatuation?), at such an young age ?. I had my first crush at the age of 10 J.

She was my classmate. She joined our batch for 5^th standard. Her father had a transferable job. Though she was not so attractive, she was intelligent and matured.

She was from an affluent family (Look I know about her family as well). Her father was an engineer and she had 3 elder sisters I guess, I don’t have any memory left in my brain to remember their names.

She was our class representative ( we used to call them as Monitors)Many guys in my class used to like her companionship. We used to approach her for all the simple doubts though we knew the asnwers. She never used to say no to our questions. She used to clarify our doubts with smile on her face. How much ever difficult the problem is, her approach to solve the problem used to make it very simple.

One day she has invited the entire class to her house to celebrate the Saraswathi puja, during navaratri. The actual time was at 11.00 AM, I was there at her house at 10. 00 AM J. She has decorated the entire house with color papers and balloons. After the puja there was a sweet distribution and she was the perfect host at such a young age. May be this would have impressed me. I don’t know.

Then came our exams…the most scary one. As usual I scored not too good and not too bad. But to everyone's surprise this girl came first. Am I attracted to her marks ?

Due to my fathers business in other city I had to leave this school and move to another city. My 2 year stint with my crush ended very soon.

But on my last day at school, she came running to me. She said she wants to keep in touch with me and asked me for my new address. I gave my new address.

She said she wanted to give me something and asked me to lift my hand forward and close my eyes, which I did without hesitation J

She tied a RAKHI and handed me a greeting card on which it was written “ Wish you all the very best, my brother”.!!!!!

After I joined new school in other town I have forgotten about my old school mates. May be after 3-4 months I received a letter from this girl asking me about the new schools and new friends and new town for which I didn't feel like writing back to her.