Rahul - This quintessential bloke is the heartbeat of my story. His seizures make for extraordinary turn of events. Read on... the second character of the book - "The Millennium Misadventure"
Rahul is a small town guy whose good looks make a few hearts miss a beat. He, however, considers his looks average. He is a reticent person and keeps mostly to himself. He is a health freak and never misses his daily jog in the evening. Rahul suffers from Benign Childhood Epilepsy. He experiences seizure disorders once in a while. The seizures are mild and affect only his facial muscles. He has witnessed convulsion (severe seizure across whole of his body) only once in his life, a year back, on the first day of his joining college. Although a digression, this provocative story goes like this - On his first day at college, pretending as helpful volunteers, the ingenious seniors had masterfully carried Rahul to one of the hostel blocks for lunch. Instead of lunch, he was pulled through the hallway into the courtyard (surrounded by hostel rooms rising up to three floors), where tens of freshers were stark naked with water being poured onto them. Rahul still shivers to this day. He had a massive seizure while a couple of boys were shouting in front of his ears and were pulling off his clothes. He just remembers lying on a hospital bed; it was not easy to meet the eyes of his parents. He felt he has been raped brutally that day.
Rahul is smitten by his engineering course and is afraid of planning big in life. He, however, has one grand plan which none of his friends know. He wants to fall in love truly, madly; deeply and that too soon enough.
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