"Welcome.....to the real world" : Sapna's Troubles (Part 3)

Raj's college was situated outside the city near a village. The only modes of transports were either the college bus or your own vehicles. As college was near highway most of the parents wanted their wards to travel in bus only. Raj too was one of them. Initially reluctant to go in bus, he began to enjoy the bus ride slowly as the journey to and fro from the home was never boring.

The trouble began when there was shuffling in the routes of few buses. Raj's bus was one of them. The new route included Sapna's stop too. That meant she would be coming in his bus now. Raj was happy about it. Now they could talk without thinking about the lectures, labs, tutorials etc. But there was one big problem.

Raj didn't have much interaction with senior guys but he was able to get along well with few of the girls who were his senior. No other junior was as comfortable with them as Raj. Though sensible talks happened very few times. Most of the time Raj and those girls were busy in pulling each other's legs. Sapna's entry into the bus gave them a new weapon to tease him with.

But the reason had more considerable depth than what Raj had thought. Ragging was prohibited in college. Seniors would look for an opportunity in lonely corridors of college or the buses to rag the juniors. 2 of the senior girls had tried to take ragging of Sapna in the first week of session but she had cleverly evaded them and even lodged a complaint against them to the chief proctor. Since then those girls had grudge against Sapna. They couldn't dare to do much into the college, but her coming into their buses provided them ample opportunities to settle the scores.

Most of the boys of the bus used to sit at the back while all the girls occupied the front seats. So, initially, the senior girls would sit alone on these seats fully aware of the fact that Sapna won't sit on any of them after boarding the bus. Most of the times she had to sit on the seats at the back, often with a couple of boys. Raj used to sit with two other guys, but after watching her plight he began to reserve a seat for Sapna. Things did go fine for a couple of days, but soon the senior girls came up with another mischievous plan.

They would often sit around Raj and Sapna, both while going to and returning from the college. They would look for every single moment which could be used to embarass Sapna. Sometimes they would chat with each other in such a high pitch that both Raj and Sapna would find it difficult to talk with each other. On many occasions they would pass comments in low voices, but loud enough to be heard by both of them.

This to and fro journey was turning out to be a little torture for Sapna almost everyday. She didn't seem too concerned initially but slowly things were getting onto her.