The rare school day! ©

I was having this awesome dream, I got to see my crush and me at a beach! Totally cool dream! But unfortunately I was woken up by my mother to go to school!

“Mom couldn’t you let me sleep for five more minutes?” I asked her in a irritated voice.
“Wake up or else you would miss your bus again!” she said and left the room.

I put the blanket on my face and went off to sleep again. I was woken up by a jug of water thrown on me. “WHAT??!” I said.
“You have to go to school today Shreya! Now wake up!”

I got off the bed totally irritated by how my mother could totally become the devil for me sometimes. I quickly got ready to go to school. I really did not like going to my boring school everyday.

I was as usual late to board the bus, I was given an irritated look by the bus driver. I ignored him. I saw Hita sitting with some hot dude. I decided to let her flirt with him. Hita is my best friend. She knows about my crush on Rahul, the guy who I dreamt about. I gave her a “Need to talk to you!” look and looked for a seat to sit on.

Only one was empty, and it was right next to this popular and so called hot girl. We were not in good terms, she was supposed to be Rahul’s girlfriend. I sat next to her and said a polite hello. Sanjana was my best friend 5 years ago, then suddenly she started becoming this bitch and our friendship slowly faded and was completely gone in some time.

She looked at me for exactly 5 seconds and then said “You fell for Rahul also!” and then started sobbing. “Hey! I did not do anything stop crying!” I said feeling totally awkward as everyone at the bus was staring at me.

“But you have a crush on him!!” she said it out so loud that the whole bus could hear her.
“Who told you this Sanjana?! Its not true!” I said trying to hide my panicky face. Suddenly she composed herself to her natural nasty face and said “Your so called best friend spent a day with me yesterday!” and she turned around looking out of the window.

My reflex was to look at Hita who was still flirting around with that guy. I got up and went to Hita, she looked at me smirked and then started flirting with that guy.

“Thanks for being such an awesome friend!” I said sarcastically and walked off and sat next to Sanjana. She was smiling and then her face became serious.

It was one lousy bus ride, to be more obvious something out of the routine in my life had to be negative. I found out that Sanjana was not that bad a person. She kept making short nasty comments on my fashion sense and my tomboyish attitude to distract me.

I walked to my class alone and saw Rahul staring at me continuously. It was totally obvious that he was doing that because he got to know about my crush on him. I did not even dare make an eye contact with him.

At recess unfortunately I wound up sitting with Sanjana again. This time I was ready for her nasty comments. But she surprised me by saying “Don’t fall into his stare… he does that to use you and throw you when he is done!”

“Well.. I guess.. ummm thanks…” I said, feeling totally awkward.
“No problem!” she said with a gentle smile. I saw kindness in her eyes for the first time.
“Why cant you be nice to people?” I asked her.
“They don’t deserve it… I remember 5 years ago I was treated like an outcast…” she said with a painful look in her eyes.
“Sanjana…. You should never change yourself according to the world…. I mean basically I think now the attitude you show… makes people hate you!” I said before I could clamp my mouth shut.
“Guys follow me like dogs…” she said and the bell rang. Recess was over.
“What happened to our friendship?” I asked before she could go to her class.
“I don’t know… but I really want us to be friends again……. Honestly you are going and making stupid friends!” she said sarcastically and walked off.

The rest of the school went by quickly. While going back I deliberately sat next to Sanjana, I ignored the gross making out of Hita with that poor guy.

When I entered the house I was smiling brightly. My mom asked me “What happened today? You look so happy!”
“Got back an old friend ma!” I said grinning widely at her.

This is how I got my old best friend back. We are still very good friends.