The bell rang for the first period. The subject teacher came and started teaching. Behind her back, everyone was talking, but Aarav Pangal was making notes sincerely. In the loud noise, the teacher shouted, “Silence!” Everyone stopped chattering, but Aarav Pangal rushed to the washroom with a bleeding nose.

  When he returned and the teacher asked him the reason, he replied, “Nothing, just heat.”

  At lunch, he sat down with his friends and ate his lunch. It was cloudy, but soon the clouds would get blown away and sunlight would come out.

  “Now I have to go,” he told his friends.

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  “Bro, why are you going?” his friends asked.

  “Then should I die from thirst?” he replied in a high-pitched voice.

  Then he left.

  When lunch ended, everyone came back inside the class. It was the History period, and the teacher was Miss Ambika Khosla. She started teaching Chapter 3. Aarav Kumar was sitting behind Aarav Pangal, and then he saw a slip under Pangal's bench. He tried to fetch it, but Aarav Pangal refused to give it. However, the teacher had already seen the matter, and she seized the slip.

  When she unfolded it, she said, “What is so special to hide in this?”

  “These are my math tricks to do big calculations fast,” he replied.

  When all the periods ended, it was time for departure. Aarav Pangal took permission and made his way to Block A. Among all of them, someone spotted an extra shadow walking beside Aarav’s shadow.

  “Why am I the only one seeing this?” said Abdush