My parents were relieved. We came back and we waited.

I had now passed my tenth grade and was to get enrolled in the plus two grades. But there was some problem. Someone had taken my certificates to the city with the promise he will get me admitted in the best college possible in the city. It had been more than ten months now and he had turned up. I was yet to get admitted into any college. I used to enquire about this to my father. But he was also helpless. He had trusted this guy and got ditched.

To encourage me, he suggested me to start attending the nearby college which was about 6 kilometres from our village where we lived. This was the only local college there. I had no choice now. I knew that classes in the colleges must have reached more than half of the courses. Anyhow, I started attending the class in the college.

Then all of a sudden this guy came and returned my certificates to my father, saying that I could not get admission into any of the colleges. When I got to know this, I was heart broken. Most of my classmates had already got admission into colleges. I was the only one staying away still. It gave me more pain that I will be lagging behind in comparison with them. I blamed my father for this. Already one year had passed without me getting admitted into any colleges. I was so much pained with this that I felt no body cared for me in the family. So I decided to be on my own. I decided to leave the house!

And that is what I actually did. I left home and started for Delhi where one my uncles stayed. I was determined that I will continue my education and also work to support myself.

So I came to Delhi after a taxing journey of about two days out of which the 18 hour train journey was spent standing on toe!

I stayed in Delhi for about 21 days. My parents got to know of my whereabouts nearly two weeks after I had left the house when they talked to my uncle over the phone. I returned back to home in an exciting journey that is another story to be told. Let me keep it for another occasion.

When I came back I was told by my father he will let me do anything I want. He will support me with all that he can. I was happy.

I decided to go to the city and explore if there was anything I could do to get admitted into my own session. The state of Bihar was really in its colour of the time. I met a guy in the lodge where I stayed. He suggested that I could get admitted one year back on the record if I agreed to opt for the commerce stream. I was more inclined to do science, but to save the time of about year of my life, I thought better to go for this.
So, I got admitted with the help of this clerk in the college who admitted me one year back on the records! That was the clerical power on display! In return the clerk wanted me to study commerce papers with him as he also ran a coaching centre for the commerce students.  I had no problem with this. I said yes.

I started attending his classes and soon discovered that he was incapable of solving some problems syllabus. I knew that I had only ten months cover a syllabus that was meant to be read in two years! I did not lose time in stopping his classes and reading on my own to get myself prepared for the upcoming exams. That was helpful.