The Girl with Chutzpah!
They called her the
girl with chutzpah, who could take on the world and joust with windmills!
She appeared from nowhere
with long pigtails and the face of an angel.
From the start, there
was an aura about her, a coldness almost, which people noticed.
Yet, she had
chutzpah, a word that her friends had no idea about. It was more of an
instinct, the idea that no one could mess with her. One glance from those
gimlet eyes could quell even the highest spirits.
Anyone who messed
with the girl found themselves in hot water soon enough. Aman, who had taken
her favourite pen surreptitiously, found his notebooks floating in water, the
blue ink all smudged and unreadable.
Suchitra who had scoffed
at her hairstyle suddenly discovered chewing gum stuck in her own hair. The
hairdresser had to cut off a portion of it, leaving a bald spot that quite
broke her heart.
What was terrifying
was that Jessica was never around when all these things happened. So, no one
could pin these things on her. However, she had her ways. Gradually, people began
to stay away, terrified of being around her, which suited her fine.
Till she met Roy, a
new boy who strode into her class one morning, owning it instantly. It was as
if a whirlwind had entered, as all eyes fastened on him in wonder. Not
traditionally good-looking, there was something about him that kept them
entranced. He looked around with a saucy smile, waving a perfunctory hand
around. That smile paved the way for him, and life was never the same again for
everyone in class.
Jessica felt a tug in
her heart. Here was a kindred soul. He had the same insouciance, the confidence
that she had, and yet, he was popular, as she had never been. The girls hung on
to his every word; the boys slapped him on his back as he cracked absurd jokes
which kept them in splits.
“Hey, Jess, care for
some coffee?” She loved being Jess. As they sipped their coffee, he chattered
on, intrigued by her deep silences, the apparent indifference that piqued him.
He needed to break through her defences.
The day he kissed her,
her parched heart opened like a rosebud. He preened for he had done the
impossible, breached her untouched heart. She turned towards him like a
sunflower.
One day, he stopped
coming to school. People stared in sympathy at the jilted girl, who was silent,
yet unbroken. Obviously, it had been a one-sided love affair!
She sat, a monument
of despair, her heart weeping at his betrayal, as her mind raced to act. She knew
exactly what she needed to do.
When they found his
body, mauled and lifeless after the hit-and-run, she sighed, her eyes cold and
indifferent, revealing the darkness of her soul.
His infidelity had turned into his ultimate
curse.
After all, she was
the girl with chutzpah!
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Author’s Note: The meaning of ‘chutzpah is ‘supreme self-confidence or fearlessness. It comes from the Hebrew word huspah, meaning insolence, cheek or audacity. Pronounced as hoots-pa
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