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loudly singing "We won. We won. Yay, yay, yay." And Rajiv
seemed to have completely disappeared.

All this would have been very amusing, if time wasn't of the
essence. It had been raining all night, but the intensity
had dramatically increased in the last few hours, during the
competition.

"Where were you Rajiv?" An annoyed Miss Gupta shouted, as
Rajiv suddenly appeared. "Hurry up. Lets get in to the bus.
Now, everyone. Move it. I mean it, or you can get left
behind."

The kids were startled to hear the usually cheerful and soft
spoken Miss Gupta, practically barking at them. They
scurried in to the bus, with out another word, though
Karishma and Sonali failed to suppress their giggles. A
stern look from Miss Gupta quickly shut them up.

Soon they were all in the bus and the teachers relaxed. But,
less than five minutes later, as the bus ploughed through
knee deep water, the engine sputtered and groaned to a halt.
The driver made some futile attempts to start it up and then
looked helplessly at the teachers.

Two teachers, 7 kids and a bus driver were stranded in the
middle of a water logged road, far away from where they
needed to be. What were they going to do? With the rain
pouring, it would not be easy to find transportation.

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