Hey! Are you alright? , asked a meek and hesitant male voice. Nisha stood erect as the driver opened the door and stepped out of his car. Her black pupils dilated at professor Alok nearing her. His light brown eyes too smiled while she recalled the scene of them standing beside the bakery outside their college 'Kanpur Technological University' was written in bold on a board above the black gate. It was noon on the first Wednesday of January 1994. Students were leaving home after their last exam of the semester. Their college stood in the mid-way of the service road