65. The Reward

It is 8:40 pm and the classes have just got over. The corridors are mostly empty. One male student from the Party Politics course and a female student from the Social Media Usage course are standing at one end of the first floor corridor.

The guy fishes into his backpack and takes out a transparent folder with white Velcro strips.  He gives it to the girl.

“You are welcome,” he says proudly.

The girl opens the folder and looks at the papers inside.

“Latest updates of all my contacts from Facebook, Twitter and Instagram,” the guy says pointing at the sheaf of papers inside the trasparent folder. “That was the whole assignement, right?”

“Yes,” says the girl and shoves the folder in her bag.

“Is something wrong?” the guy asks.

“Why?” asks the girl.

The guy looks a little confused.

“I just did your assignment for you,” he says. “The whole thing. And you don’t even say thanks?”

“Thanks,” she says and starts walking.

“Hey, wait!” he calls after her. “It took me hours to do that. And still I did that for you. Don’t I get anything in return?”

She stops in front of the stairs, looks at him.

“Why don’t you ask that girl in orange t-shirt in your class for returns? You two were having a lot of fun during the break, it seemed.”

With that she storms down the stairs.

A big grin appears on his face. He has got his reward.