FLORAISON

Chapter-10》

"Avu come fast, Roti's gonna get cold" mum shouted from the dining.

"Haa.. coming maa" I shouted back from my room while just doing my share of obsessive cleaning. I don't understand the psychology behind why I do this but I like to say that Monica is my inspiration. After arranging and then re-arranging the bed sheets with almost a level of perfection that doesn't exist in the entire world, I finally decide to head out for dinner.

"Here, take the beans properly" my mum passes me a bowl while serving me and my sister.

"So.. how was the Campus?" Grand-Dad
asks me from the living room where he is watching some news guy yelling on television with grandma.

"Its good, teachers in BEHS are bit more lenient but its almost the same" I give him a subtle answer and play with food on my plate.

"Is Mr. Dubey still working there?"

"I don't know.. I guess maybe, I don't remember all the names of the teachers we met today."

"Hmm.. how was first day in Science?"

"Good and interesting"

"Interesting like?"

"Oh my God!! Can't you just let her finish the dinner first. Darling just eat your food now." grandma interrupts grand-dad and gestures me to eat.

You see, BEHS has been home to both my father and grand-dad so its natural that he is curious about my day.

After a very brief interrogation session on the dinner table I learned that it won't be the last of it so I decided to pretend again. This time I pretended to be very tired which I am but not as much.

"Mum can I go rest for a while?" I pout at her. The thing is I have learned to figure out ways around my oh-so-complicated family. If I am under her protection then she will make sure I am not disturbed meaning no interrogation or you know being given any household chores.

She gives me the sympathetic look I needed and instructs me to go in my room as soon as I finish

My sister Ananya follows me into the room saying mum that she has some doubts in maths which she needs my help with.

"Didi, just one question please?" She pleads with her hands folded, just being as much dramatic as she could.

"Acha okayy fine!" I state.

She rushes in the room before me.

"So which non existant sum you need help with?"

She smirks.

"Please pretend. I promise I will owe you one..PLEEAASE.."

In some ways I find us so privileged that we have a family that values education so much, maybe we are taking things for granted. But honestly I feel slightly relieved. I and Ananya have always had a way of protecting each others secrets, well she is in 6th Standard so she doesn't really have much to hide and this is the biggest deal for her now and I also intend on making her feel guilty for this.

After exchanging some glances Ananya crashes on to the left side of the bed while I sat on the edge to set up my first ever social media account on Instagram.

So first things first, I need a cool username... I never thought this would be so difficult.. umm.. 'W-I-S-H B-I-R-D'? Feels cool!

Then the first picture I decided to post was the last picture I took with my friends at WLEC, since I didn't have mobile phone till tenth, I also don't have many pictures here so..

As soon as I put the phone on bed side table, there were multiple beeps.

First notification read..

BEHS(2017): You were added to the group by Yugendra(Jo)

Second read..

+91(unknown number): Hi Avya!! This is Soumya from school :3

And third was multiple notifications from Instagram about people following me and liking the picture which is too lengthy to go through so I skipped.

The first thing I did was save Soumya's number and follow a couple of people on Instagram. Since I was not allowed to have Facebook yet, Instagram was the only place I could connect with my cousins so I followed my family, Jo who is like some kind of Instagram celebrity, with almost 7k followers and couple of people from my old school and the new one. I also sent a request to Yuvraj but then realized much too late that I shouldn't have when he already accepted it and didn't follow me back.

*Stings*

I was about turn my phone off when,

Soumya(BEHS): Heyy?? No reply? (A side face emoji)

Me: Oh Sorry! I completely forgot to reply, I just made an Instagram account, so was completing the set up ;D

Soumya(BEHS): Ohhh wowww! I still am not on Instagram though, Did you make your Facebook yet?

ME: Naaah.. Not allowed (a shrugging emoji)

Soumya(BEHS): Whaat? Oh man :((
Why aren't you allowed though?

Me: I don't my Mom thinks there are bad influences on facebook.

Soumy(BEHS): I see (staring eyes emoji)

Me: Acha Good Night.. See yaa tomorrow ;)

Soumya(BEHS): Oh Yess! See you.. Aniket's coming tomorrow.. So excited for you to meet him ♡♡

Me: Haha okayyy! XD

Soumya(BEHS): Gud Nite! XO

Me: XO!

I close the chat, put my phone on silent and place it on my bedside table.

As I lay there I take time to process things that happened today, but then suddenly my mind gravitates towards Yuvraj.

I shouldn't have sent him the request, it was a big mistake.. I mean why didn't he follow me back though? Weren't we on good terms? Maybe he just forgot about follow back, Maybe he didn'trecognize me or maybehe just forgot about me. He was always so popular in school. So many female friends, girl friends and who was I?

I wish I could see him one more time.. I know my brain's just making shit up to reason him not following me back but this, this hurts.. this feeling of being stuck, of being the only one in love and of knowing that it won't ever be reciprocated. I wish things could be different, I wish I could just talk to him, maybe dm him. Instagram does have the feature of messaging right? Should I dm him? Maybe then he will remember. Oh no! Stop Avya! Just Stop.. Stop being a crazy ass person and go to sleep flr God's sake.

I was so engrossed in my feelings that I didn't even notice Ananya closing of the lights and being sound asleep beside me. The silence in the room weighs on me but there is a confort too.

I feel excited for tomorrow, I have never felt that way for WLEC, maybe because I grew up in it but BEHS has kind of been good so far.

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// Hi guys! This is your writer, thankyou soo much for your continued love and support. I took a little break for a while to take care of my mental health. I hope you are still invested in the story.. I have so many plans and I can't wait to share it with you//