The demise of a Tormentor

Antonyms are not just for adjectives,they may be for collective nouns also!!!My roomie is a Malyali(mallu as we lovingly call them) while i am a marwari.When i told my relatives of me sharing the room with a mallu they were quite apprehensive.I was always a free flowing,easy going,a bit pompous and a fun loving guy.In short a typical marwari brat.With their crude knowledge my relatives considered mallus to be disciplined,focussed,down to earth,highly intellectual and very 'anti maverick',which they are as a matter of fact but to a lesser degree,than what is rumoured.They are not as big a fun loving species as we believe them to be.Well this roomie of mine when he came to the hostel could find anything in his room even when it was pitch dark(really impressive) but now he does well by not banging in a thing or two while walking in the room even in broad day light.

He has been committed for the past five years!!!I sometimes wonder if he had a child marriage or something and has been lying to us all along.Who cares, he hadn't had any of the insentives of being married.Though all this doesn't stop him from oggling at each and every girl around him.

Our mallu had a big fight with his lady love one night,i later heard him dealing with God for, one day without lies in return of his patch up with his girl.The next day we had our physics lab,we both slept through the alarms.I was awakend by a ruckus outside and went to see it.I asked one of my friends for the reason and that jerk joked that-the HOD of dept. of physics was dead and hence a holiday today.I beleived him and i hugged him and went to sleep!!!Twenty minutes later i received a very agitated call from my lab partner for his practical file which i had in my possession and saying that the attendence was about to be taken.Me and Jatin my roomie must have made a world record that day because the speed with which we reached the dept. was blinding.We were panting like dogs when we saw our physics HOD descending straight from heaven!!!He asked us our sections and reason for running-i gave him the requisite answers.He asked some more questions which i promptly replied.Then came the question of the day-Why were we late for the lab???Before i could answer i was told to give my roomie a chance to speak.Here is what happened then-

Roomie-(after gulping considerable amount of saliva)Sir actually there was a rumour circulating in our hostel.

HOD-Rumour!!!What rumour???

I thought my roomie can't be that stupid, pleeeze...

Roomie-(paused for a sec, gulped, looked up to the heaven and said )They said you were dead and hence a holiday today.

(This couldn't be real plz, i thought.)

HOD-(after absorbing the shock of his death) and how was i supposed to die???

Roomie-We never inquired sir you see we didn't care as long as it was a holiday(he said after a deafening pause)

HOD-(the basilisk eyes turned towards me now)Is this true???

Me-I...I don't know him sir, we have just...(the basilisk eyes were now on roomie)

Roomie-been roomies for a semester and a half Sir(Jatin the mad lover in full flow)

HOD-(boiling with anger)ENOUGH...you shameless swines, liars, bastards get out of my sight GO.

And we both ran till we put a floor between us and the basilisk. Jatin looked at me there was fear followed by shameless laughter in his eyes.

We got our attendence by saying the lab incharge that we had been talking to the HOD in regard to his health and hence were late.

P.S-In the next class test of physics jatin failed somehow, just a fact don't relate it to anything.