As we became buddies(3)

Well, as days passed, our relationship grew from just classmates to pals and buddies.There was a defacto group of friends getting born. Ashok, me, Sethu, Vinay, Hariharan,Marx,Nixon,Ravi,Charles,Hareesh, Blesson.We sat near to each other , occuping the middle rows of the class.We had many things in common-attitude, humour(same level), humanity, passion. Ashok was a quiet a studious guy, he was intelligent.I was really fascinated by his aptitude in Mathematics and Computer logics alongwith his communciations skills.He was one outright contender for the top studious guy in our whole batch.As the results cams in for the quaterly results, Ashok was second in class losing by a mere few to the class topper, Mary.

Ashok's family was in Dubai and comes to the country once in 6 months.Although he was enjoying the place, he was lonely in the new place.As the friend circle grew , we had great times.He was not interested in drinking and smoking, but was mad about music.There was not a single music album he was not aware of , and he sings good.
With help of Ashok, I also skipped a few grades to the top and he was teaching me the hardcore physics, the mindbogglling chemistry with more ease. He must have been a teacher in his last birth.Anyways, we all had our private tuitions .

And here we are , in our Xmas vaccation, I was planning to be in my Mum's place.And all of us had some vaccation plans.Ashok was to stay a few more days with grandparents and move onto new house somewhere 10-15 miles away.Well,he never spoke on his personal front .