The seniors of my bus.. good people..haven’t seen seniors like them ever since.. I guess we the bus kids were, but don’t know if other’s like them existed ever.
Starting with the senior-most, lets call her Pri, she was cool, cool even in the presence of her mum in the same bus. Thankfully we had a big bus that time, not the squeezo RTV. She was tall, really tall for a person of my height, she had green eyes, wore lenses and had shoulder length hair which she almost always tied as far as I remember. She was a prefect, some house captain also I guess. She was fun, playful and helpful and ‘the senior’ we could look up to. I still remember the day she offered me a place on the Last Seat right next to the window. I was only to look after her bag as she played water fight in the scorching summer, in the bus! Ha Ha Ha.. and then the two senior most girls who played with each other, the other was a guest kind of, not regular, both had to stand near the open door ‘cause their shirts were wet! (which means the shirts had turned see-through) and they had to dry it .
Next was this bhaiya (say Nam) who would always study, on the bus stop, in the bus, everywhere, obviously his grades then spoke for him. When asked about having a girlfriend – his reply - ‘my books are my girlfriends’. He wasn’t handsome though but pretty smart, our bus was not devoid of smart people.. he was also some prefect I guess, not sure though.
Then there was another bhaiya, Madi (say), he was the not so nerd kinds..he smoke, and drank, that too in school! His mouth always stank so people could guess what he had been up to. He used to listen to music late night and be sleepy at daytime. He would be better looking if he checked his weight.
Then there was another smart guy, handsome also. And he was also tall, as tall as Madi bhaiya I guess. Madi bhaiya used to bully kids, but this KB bhaiya didn’t, he was pretty sweet. He had a younger sister in our bus too, she was also sweet .
Then there was this didi who used to come running into the bus, always late. She was also not regular with our bus, but she was cool. She (calling her She only) had a pretty good hair cut, I always wanted one like that when I was small. Later I got one like that too.Well that was all about her!
Then there were these two best friends. When I joined this bus both of them were in 9th and when they left, obviously 12th. These many years and more, all the while, their friendship was exemplary. They studied together, discussed their tough times, their happy moments, their crushes, their aches and their pains, they played together, they sat together. They were in the real sense WOW, people who make you want to have a best friend, a best friend you’ve known for so long. They even stayed nearby. Imagine, same class, same age, same locality, same bus, both had younger sisters who were again best friends, what more could anyone want? Obviously boyfriends, and having them, it would be a picture perfect life! Both these girls Chipy n Dalley were awesome and sweet, helpful and fun also.
Then there were these 3 brothers, two of them were my seniors. Chipy had a crush on one of them, Jeetu and why not Jeetu was (actually is) very cute. The only problem being that he was a year younger to her, but does that really matter? However Jeetu’s elder brother Veeru was Chipy and Dalley’s age. Veeru was fine, but Jeetu was much more cute and approachable. Both of them again were sweet and smart and well handsome. Veeru had black hair, Jeetu had brown, Veeru had a wheatish complexion whereas Jeetu had whitish! Veeru has small dimples, whereas Jeetu had really deep ones. And I believe Jeetu had brown eyes which is my personal favourite eye colour.
And then Yuhoo bhaiya. He was definitely the cutest, he had curly hair, dracula teeth..those sharp vampire teeth on the sides that make your smile look even more amazing. He was a big cricket fan and a cricket star himself. He had the most awesome smile any guy could have, always smiling. And needless to say was one of the nicest and friendliest chaps in the bus.
These were the older ones. Then there were the younger, the even cooler ones. The guy who used to forward jokes, listen to music in the bus on his sony-walkman phone and wear many fuck bands (say KD) and a girl in the same standard KS, she had a camera that she brought one day to school, hers was a smiling face, another of the most approachable seniors. Both of them were like the 2nd best friends of our bus, pretty chilled out, mostly smiling, they could’ve been a couple but were not as of my knowledge.
Then there were more, but if I haven’t mentioned them its because either they weren’t so old that I called them bhaiya-didi or they weren’t so significant.
This was a brief description of my seniors.
(People who don’t really know them can get bored so they can skip reading this post!)