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I am back with another real life based story. This time it's not me but my very close friend,who shared her story with me. Let's see what was her fault in entire incident.

Ritu studies in class 11. She's a straight A grade student. She is quite popular in school. Because of her popularity, beautiful face, sweet voice and manners, people often stereotype her as a rich spoilt girl. This is not true. It's a fact that she's not rich and belongs from a village. I don't there is any problem in that, as most of the students keep a touch with their hometown and it's not her fault to not be born with a golden spoon.  Whenever I see Ritu, she reminds me of an empowered girl. She is best in everything let alone studies.

So, the main story began in the month of October. Her class teacher Mr. Nakul asked her to participate in dance for the Annual function that was going to be held in the month of December. She too wanted to participate with her friends. Her friends Kamakhya and Riya are such great dancers. They can easily make it up in the team. The whole class was chattering and no one was listening to Mr. Nakul. He was not much old. It's a matter of surprise that he was only 21 years old. He completed his diploma and was teaching dance in the school. He was also preparing for some other jobs and took this job as part time. But still he put a lot of efforts in this job.

“Pin drop silence”, He said. 

Everyone was quiet by now. He started speaking again," I have talked with our respected Principal sir and he has allowed our class to perform a separate dance routine. I, being the dance teacher have already selected 10 students for this purpose. Those students are Ritu and Aditya, Kamakhya and Shiva, Riya and Alekh, Seema and Suraj, Shafaq and Abhishek."

Though the class was sincere, they started hooting and making hmmm hmmm sounds. Some of the participants blushed. Ritu didn't do any of these. She knew that it's just a dance and nothing else. 

They started practicing hard. Section B was also performing a dance routine and they wanted to perform better than Section B. Song was chosen. It was a very old song…इन आंखों की मस्ती के दीवाने हजारों हैं…. Immediately after this song another song but new was going to be played. The song was…swag से करेंगे सबका स्वागत… Everyone was excited and working hard for their performance. Mr. Nakul was teaching and dancing with students making them more cheerful and motivated. There was a very difficult part in the second part. In this part's choreography it was supposed to be Ritu centred at first time song says swag se swagat. In second it was Kamakhya who would do the centre and in third it was Riya. So, basically the centre would have to stand on hand and do a back flip. It was not first time for Ritu to do hip hop, but she hadn't practiced it for a very long time so she needed to put a bit more effort.

The annual function was coming near and practice was becoming harsher. People were choosing their accessories and dresses to order. Shiva was in charge of choosing dresses for boys and Seema did it for girls. Alekh and Shafaq ordered the dresses for everyone. Suraj and Abhishek were given the responsibility of accessories for boys and Riya for girls'. Everything was going in flow. The only responsibility for Ritu was to pick the dresses and accessories from the dancing room few hours before performance. They were going to do the welcome performance, according to their song. They were excited as they would be able to see other's performance after their performance. 

The day of function came. Whole school was in rush. Teachers were deciding the position of chief guest, principal and captains when they will enter the auditorium. All files and reports of school were ready. People were getting ready for their performances. Ritu's group was also getting ready. Anyone could say that they were the most excited group. They were enjoying their refreshment food 2 hours before performance. Everyone was clicking pictures and playing games after getting ready. Some of them were preparing for their performance. Ritu's group didn't practiced because they believed that it will waste their energy.  They were going to perform on the third place. First was Deep Prajwalan where chief guest lit the lamps. Second was Saraswati Vandana and third was their.Time passed and only half an hour was left before their performance.

The teacher in charge for their performance was Ms Simran who their English teacher. As dance teacher teaches to all the classes, Mr Nakul was no one's volunteer and was helping everyone. Half an hour before performance he came to them to give good wishes and motivate them and went away. When only 25 minutes were left in their performance, they came out of their classroom, which was their dressing room for a day. On the way to backstage, Riya noticed something about Ritu. She asked Ritu that where are her earrings? Ritu touched her ear and got to know that her earrings were missing. 

She asked Kamakhya and Riya to move on for backstage. She assured them that she'll come back before performance and went away to find her earpieces. At first, she went to her classroom where they sat before. Earrings were not there. She thought that she didn't take earrings from the dnce room. She ran for the dance room. On the other side their teacher incharge Ms Simran asked Riya for Ritu. Riya said that she has gone to find her earrings. Ms Simran showed them earrings in her hands and said,"Oh! I thought that she'll forget her earrings in class, so I picked them up to give her backstage." Riya asked if she should go to find Ritu, but everyone else denied. They said that she'll return soon. And what if we can't find you. Riya got the point and everyone was eagerly waiting for them.

When Ritu went to dance room, only Mr Nakul was there. He asked that what's wrong. Ritu explained everything. Mr Nakul said that he'll help her to find earrings in the dance room. While she was searching them under the table, Mr Nakul asked her to search for them in his office inside the room. His office had AC and always remained close from all sides. Ritu was in a hurry so she went to his office running. She was searching everywhere in his office and suddenly heard a voice. It was the voice of door closing harshly. She didn't mind it, as it was totally AC room, it has to be closed. But what she saw next wasn't something normal. Ritu was in tears while telling me this scene. Mr Nakul was opening the buttons of his shirt slowly. She asked what's he doing and tried to run out of that place. Door was locked with the key. Mr Nakul grabbed her hand and showed his wrist to her saying," you see the time little girl. Your performance is going to start in 5 minutes. You can't perform there. You'll have to perform here as penalty." Then, you can guess what happened. While the song in aankho ki masti was playing out loud, Ritu's eyes were throwing out tears. She could hear the songs. She was screaming out loud, but due to chaos and room being much inside in the building, no-one heard it. Before the end of the performance Mr Nakul left her on her place and asked her to keep her mouth shut.

She stood up, she could barely walk. She made it upto her class. Everyone was back after their performance. By seeing Ritu, they surrounded her making tons of questions. They said that they had to remove Aditya just before performance, to make balance. Riya asked her what's wrong with her as she could see her makeup smudged, eyeliner and kajal on her cheeks and her standing position. Ritu broke into tears and hugged Riya tight. She couldn't explain what had just happened. They gave Ritu a seat. Riya asked everyone to leave the place by saying that she's sad because of not being able to perform. Ms Simran came with School Nurse to treat the bruises on her legs, hands and face. She called her parents to school.

Within a week, Mr Nakul was removed from the school. Ritu too didn't come to school for 1 whole month. When she came, it was to take her TC. She changed her school and doesn't speak a lot now. She just focuses on her study. She doesn't go to school on her own. Any of her family members sends her off. I am her first friend in this school.

I just wonder what was her fault and why did Mr Nakul did this to her. She has lost everything about her. She has forgot to laugh and smile. I try to make her comfortable and happy. I don't know if she fakes a laugh or really laughs. Oh God! Why is this happening on this earth. I pray for each and every girl who is being brave…

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Yagya 

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