Uma asked, her voice laced with anxiety, disappointment, excitement and many more complicated emotions, while Adi just smiled.
-"Say something .." Uma urged.
-"We met in our first day of school. The teacher had made us sit next to each other. Something clicked between us, and by the end of the day, I had got my first friend, in fact, my best friend." Adi paused for a moment and continued. "Sharing everything, from gossips to punishments, stories to toys and what not. You know, there was once, I was in 2nd standard probably where I wanted a particular toy but Baba had denied. When I told him about it in school, he brought his own the very next day, and never took it back."
-"Then ??" Uma asked.
-"He started being absent from school all of a sudden, 4th standard. I asked our class teache
