'**** happens'

'Slip'

 

Her heart thumped uncontrollably as she waited outside the principals office, waiting for her sentence to come, her only mistake was that she used a cuss word so publically. Being from a very outgoing home where the use of uncensored words were just another way of venting out one's frustration, she really didn't realise the hoopla. She was thirteen and more or less a social recluse, so inevitably she dabbled through many a worlds via books. She always thought that books don't judge and they do not have any boundaries.

Its was on one such monotonous rainy afternoon when her farther gave her that book and said "darling of late you are becoming too uptight you need to read other books that move  out of the very goody goody zone and teach the rude side of things." 

'ENGLISH AUGUST '  by Upamanyu Chatterjee, as she browsed through the first page, the book already started to introduce her to a psychedelic world of being stoned, marijuana and 'hazaar f***ed'. She was both mesmerized by these new delinquencies and also baffled. Her dictionary didn't hold the meaning of 'f***ed' so asked her father what that word specifically  means, " hmm it means being in deep trouble". She always liked to learn new words and definitely show it off in school. She couldn't wait for the vacation to get over, so she can flaunt her new word power. This time the response was more than overwhelming from her batch mates, they presumed her to be bold and was quiet amused by her bawdiness. She was on cloud nine and imagined herself to be the modern day Shelly or Shakespeare or maybe even Byron, Edna Millay or Emily Bronte !. It was all going fine with a remarkable 1st term mark sheet, except when one day she ended up using the word to describe the  peril of students under the wrath of  her class teacher. At that very moment her life came to a standstill as she was zipped to the principals office in a flash! It was in that exact moment she truly fathomed the true sense of the word without the English lexicon. Right then she got royally 'hazaar f***ed' and all her pals and unconditional admirers were right there in the witness box as alibi's to her 'slip of tongue'!