Niceness Doesn't Always Pay

The funny thing about life is, no matter how hard you try to enjoy it, something somewhere messes up. I mean, you're enjoying the scenery, and there's always a certain someone who comes and stabs you in the back.
Like say, you’ve gotten yourself a perfect super score in an examination. You're so happy, and cannot WAIT to tell everyone. Then suddenly, one arse who's gotten less than you in that exam tells you "oh but you haven't got ninety in the boards have you? See that’s sad, they consider 50% of this and 50% of your board result…"

YES SCREW YOU LOSER! Bladdy killjoy. SORE loser that’s what you call such people.

I've met quite a few assholes like that abhi tak. Some of them do not even MEAN it.
But forgive these poor souls, who actually may not want to mean harm.

Let us talk about those who MEAN it. The people who you are NICE to, and they turn out to be PERFECT DISASTERS.

Like. Take for example. In 9th and 10th, we had a "wonderful" friend called Madhubhrata Ghosh.

By wonderful, I mean quite the opposite.

Honestly, we didn't exactly HATE the woman. We had a nice group (HAVE actually… but- whatever) She sat in front of me in ninth. And stuck to me like a LEECH.

Brunch? Madhu tags along. Lunch? Madhu tags along. Hockey? She'd tag along and watch. (WHO DOES THAT!) Rugby? She'd come and play (massive buffalo that she was) but would get hurt at the smallest instances. Then she would try to crack jokes. REALLY LAME JOKES. We'd laugh to not let her feel bad. Then we laughed feebly.
The laughing became feebler and feebler. We still tolerated her.

If there was ONE person who COULD DEFINITELY NOT tolerate Madhu, it was Tista Joseph.

Soon, Tista started being downright rude to the girl. Told her exactly what she (ok what ALL OF US) thought of her. Madhu started getting the pinch. Maybe she thought she couldn't tag along with us like this or whatever.

Well, we THOUGHT she got the point.

She realised that if there's four things the whole group was interested in, it was Manga, Anime, Cool manga-type Guys and Books. Aha. Trump card. This is where she thought she could score.

Is there a "The dummy book of Manga for dummies"?
Well, she bought it. She started talking about Inu Yasha. Books. Told us she was writing one. Soon, she was talking about Anime too. About Gundam and Hungry Heart. About Detective School Q and others. We spoke to her whenever, we weren't mean or ANYTHING.

Then she spoilt it. Akanksha and I were listening with rapt attention to this whole thing she was telling us. WHAT! It was SUPERBLY creative!

"See. Don't tell anyone ok?" Akanksha and I look at each other. "Ok." "I am part of a street fight club." Akanksha: "Oooo" *I nudge her hard* "Yeah. And we fight on the terrace. There's these two hot guys called Saurabh and Dean. I'm the head. We pick fights on each other and the opposing clubs. On the terrace we've developed this portable fight-place we call the Ring of Fire" *dramatic pause* Akanksha and I raise eyebrows at each other. I give an encouraging "oo". "Yeah and how do we know it's time to fight? We call each other like Wolves. AAOOOO!" akanksha: "BWAHAHAHA-*nudge*-oof. Continue." That's when Tista joined us. She listened to the rest with a lot of raising eyebrows and rolling of eyes. "Ok that's it Madhu. We're sick of you." Uh oh.

The next day, Madhu didn't come to school. Her sister delivered a letter to me. I still have it. It said:-

Dear Soumya,

I am not at all well today. My sinuses have filled up, and I have bladder-ache. It is with great difficulty I am telling you, that I can't come to school today. So I decided to send you this through my sister.

Lots of love and good wishes,
Madhu. :)

Tista: *reading over shoulder* Excellent! I can sit in front of you today. *rushes to get bag* Can you believe this? This is the same girl who street fights every night.

Madhu, from that day onward, took it for granted Tista was her arch enemy, and I was her best friend. Which is WEIRD. If you befriend me, you befriend Tista automatically. If you take Tista for your ENEMY, well, I can't be your friend long can I?

Madhu started getting that. She started yelling at me for taking her side. Etc etc. Even I started getting bored of her. My friends WHOLE HEARTEDLY blamed me for bringing her into the "inner circle". My apologies maties. Please. I didn't do no nothing.
"I knew she was like- old Scarlett for guys, but MADHU??" Bleh. -__-

The almost CLIMAX.
Madhu to Tista (through letter of course): You know? Till now I wished three people were dead. And they died within a month. This time, I'm wishing YOU die.
Tista guffaws. "Soumi!!! I'm gonna diiiieee!!!!" She wrote her Will that day. I think she gave me all her lingerie in it.

Well, when school ended, we didn't see much of her. No Madhu. I always called her on her birthday. It was all cool. She forgot mine. (who cares right?) She messaged me the next day- OMG I FORGOT YOUR BIRTHDAY IM SO SORRRYYY!!! "It's ok madhu. Please. Chill." "HOW COULD I DO THIS?" Didn't reply. "DON’T STOP TALKING TO ME! PLEASE!" O.o AAAAHHHH!!!!!

Well, you can call me what you want. An evil daayan. A downright meanie, or whatever. This girl was a PAIN IN THE BUTT. Nothing else describes her better. We were nice to her at first were we not? Didn't we still take out time to talk to her? Bleh. Sometimes, even niceness doesn't help.

Or as Tista says- it NEVER helps.

Be straightforward. Maybe, we did make a mistake. Maybe we should have TOLD her right at first what we thought. But then, NICENESS??? People would have hated us for not being nice to her as well. :| Ah well. What goes around comes around…. Maybe Madhu will meet people like her too! ;)