User:Peter Quin/Not a love story? Or is it?

It was a cold night when Drone realised that he was falling for this girl, Priya. He knew her from his school days. She joined his class when he was in grade 9. Poor Drone, he never knew that he would ever fall in love with her, not after the fact that he had proposed her best friend in class 10, in front of her and ignored her for the rest of the year after getting rejected. Drone Acharya, a cruel word play on the Mahabharata Guru Dronacharya, by his parents, is in his mid 20s and is doing a 10 to 5 job. He had left behind his friends from school and college, he had camaflauged himself in his office life. He laughs at his collegues stupid jokes, he wants to please his boss, and he wants to earn a lot of money too. Oh! This tedious life of Mr. Acharya. He was a Cassanova during school days, proposing girls, flirting with them, it was his "style" but that rejection from one girl changed his life, was he depressed just because he was rejected by a girl during school days. Or maybe he had some other personal issue with rejection. He was a single child, living with an alcoholic father. He lost his mother when he was five years old.

His father isnt the "loving father" type and they often end up arguing about his life decisions. His father named him Drone because he wanted a son who was perfect at what he did and wanted him to be a teacher like his father, who was a mythology teacher. After the death of his wife, he became distant from his son and more close towards alcoholism.

Rejection was Drone's "Kryptonite" as he wasn't nurtured much by his dead-beat dad who was either drowning in alcohol or shouting some myths that a five year old couldn't understand. Five year old Drone might have thought who this Eklavya was and why he would have asked for his thumb.

So, Drone built his persona as a happy, cool guy who would say anything he wants to anyone he likes. He wore it as an armour around him to make him forget the troubles at home. He was an extrovert with some traces of depression and a fear of rejection. And, after he gets rejected by that girl, he somehow feels pointless about the persona he created just to avoid this fact.

Then he starts doing abnormal things like Smoking, Drinking, Taking Science for +2 level and Engineering after that. I wont say Love makes you do crazy things but so does rejection, and our boy knows about rejection more than he knows about his parents. He wanted to keep his mind occupied. He wanted to be different than his father. It wasnt like he hated him for the fact that he left him once in the bus park when he was 8 years old and it was raining so much that day and he had to come home soaking wet and there wasnt his mom to wrap him with a towel and tell him everything will be okay. But what he got was an empty house, his father showing up late drunk as usual from one of those "bhatti"s. It was a sad life for Drone.

But, as he was on his way to his office, he bumps into a familiar face, Priya. Priya was a nerdy girl who had to move from her hometown to this new town because of her mother's transfer. Her mother was also a teacher like Drone's father. Her father was in the army and she hardly met him in a year. But unlike Drone, she was happy with her family. She was trying to be a doctor but it wasnt easy as it was a hell lot of money for her family to spend so she had to settle for "Dentist" (nearly a doctor). What a downgrade, but at least you can check whats wrong with people's mouth when they talk random shit. Priya was still studying as she had to lose two years preparing for entrance exams.

Drone and Priya werent the best of friends, or even friends to begin with. He ignored her after her best friend rejected him. He was insensitive to her feelings, more than once, there was a rumour that she liked him/ had a crush on him when she first met him. But can't trust the rumours or school gossip as one was about the Principal and Sita Miss dating, it would have been awesome if the Principal's name wasn't Raavan. Who in their right minds name their child Ravaan, Drone Acharya thought. But, he also heard those rumours about Priya, he didnt respond to them.

So not on talking terms then, but now Drone had changed, he was less egoistic, he learnt that to have an ego, you must stop flattering and ass-kissing your seniors for promotion. And same goes for having self respect.

Priya who was going for her classes, bumps into our boy Drone. She, on the other hand was not interested in Drone anymore after being ignored for so long. So, they bump into one another, Drone smiles and greets her but she doesnt even give him a glance. Was this one more rejection for Drone? Oh! How he might have wished to fly away like a drone. (For the love of god, he studied Engineering, got to put this reference somewhere.) But the country had some unusual rules about drone flying and also "Drone Flying" from that building he always crossed while going to his humiliation-cum-job. He thought to fly from that building but he knew that gravity had some other plans, all thanks to the almighty "scope" of science.

So, this was the story of Drone and Priya... which obviously isnt complete.