Friends to Enemies to Nothing (Series: Part 1)

Authors note

Hi guys! I hope you all enjoyed this story. I know, it didn't end as what everyone thought it would end but as mentioned earlier, this is a part of a series that I'm writing so the story is just a background for Naina and Kashish. This was a short story and was always meant to be this short.

I'll tell you'll a fun fact!

This story isn't a made up story. Well not entirely made up. Like a lot of part is real, I have incorporated a few dramatic scenes and elaborated and added a few fictional scenes in this story but it is basically based on a real life incident.

This story is my story. It's almost how everything happened with me and my best friend. The difference was, we weren't childhood friends as she became friends with me when I was in class 3. And that my friend was worse than Kashish.

We were best friends, more like sisters. We shared everything with each other. But all of a sudden in class 9 after our half yearly exam (mid term exams) she all of a sudden was different. She started to ignore me, she started to become friends with those people with whom I was enemies with, she started spreading rumors about me in the class and just like that, our friendship was over for good.

At that time, we became enemies. The difference in my real life was that I didn't become an enemy to her, it was always her. I never hurt her or took revenge on her like what Naina did.

It hurt me that my best friend was my enemy but what could I do? I had nothing in my hands. I just kept on going to school and used to sit alone in the class..all alone. I had no friends all of a sudden. My entire class thought of the rumors to be true. She had spread that anyone who tries to go against me I call the seniors and bully them; another one was that mera dost banne ke baad you can't befriend anyone else.

There were many many rumors due to which the entire class just maintained a distance from me. At that time I didn't know that my ex best friend had spread such rumors about me. My 9th and 10th finished, by the end of 10th I had made 4 new friends.

It was almost time for pre boards, maybe I had 1 month or so for pre boards left. I had gone to school during that time when one of my new friends told me that my ex best friend had spread such rumors. She had not only told this to my class mates but also to my teachers, but luckily all my teachers trusted me and knew that I wasn't that type of a person. My new friends spread the word around that I'm nothing like what she had explained me. Slowly the entire class became my friend but only far friends, they were not in my close friend circle.

After 10th I took up commerce. The first month in my new class was nice. Everyone in that class didn't know about those rumors that she had spread and honestly they didn't care! Everyone there was a good friend of mine, more like acquaintances. But after the first month she transferred to my class. There she started to make a ruckus after seeing that my class teacher had made me responsible for everything, like she had made me the class monitor, the performa monitor etc. basically all the duties were given to me because the teacher, not only my class teacher but each and every subject teacher of mine, thought that I was the only sensible and responsible girl in the class. That girl tried to make my image bad in front of everyone but it didn't happen. She tried for a full 2 weeks. She troubled me, she tried to make me look bad in front of the teachers but in turn she got scolded by the teachers for hindering in my work.

After 2 weeks, she transferred put of my class and I was relaxed. I had decided that I'll no longer be friends or enemies with her. She just didn't deserve my attention at all! I had decided to forgive and forget her for good. My 11th was going good, my studies, my projects everything was perfect!

Then came our assembly. We were told to do a combined assembly and my class combined with her class. We had to work together once again. We were told to make the board for the assembly together.

While making the board, I noticed that she was trying to make a conversation with me. I tried and kept it as short as possible. Then one of her classmates asked her if she knew me and she replied that we are best friends.. I was like 'we ARE? Are we!!' But that time I didn't react.. I looked at her and all I told her was "We used to be a long time ago." And continued with my work. That was the day I knew I didn't care about her anymore. We did the assembly and it went well.

After the assembly she met up with me. She tried to mend things with me, she wanted to be my best friend. I vividly remember each and every word I had told her.

"You know my biggest mistake I made in my life was to let people stay longer than they deserve.. and I let you stay longer than what you deserved. There was a time when I used to call you my best friend but now you are not even entitled to being called my best stranger..you mean nothing to me now. In the beginning I wished and hoped we resolved the fight but now I know that you can backstab me again now that you've already done it once. I don't need your fake friendship, even if I'm alone, I'm not alone, I either have my sister with me at home to call my friend or in class I have my God. I don't need such terrible snakes to live with me and bite me at their pleasure. You lost my friendship, my trust, my respect and your worth in my life..I think this transition is the best one I've ever had from a friend to a stranger. From now, we are just strangers and remember, we used to be friends, we aren't anymore."

With this I had left her. I wasn't feeling bad rather I was feeling happy. I was feeling light. I knew that I had just ended one of my best relations. But ending it was better than to stay in a toxic relation. I later got to know that she wanted to befriend me again because I had become popular..I don't know how I had become popular! Cause all I did was study in the school..The teachers loved me, maybe that was the reason why I was popular.

And the reason behind her anger was that she loved a guy, who had a crush on me..I don't know how he had a crush on me, I never tried to find love, in fact I don't even want to marry in future as well. Amd I only used to talk to him because he was her friend. But whatever, she had told him that she loves him and he told her that he was friends with her only beacuse of me. That was the reason for our fight.

Time has passed now, none of us have talked to each other. She had moved on in her life and so have I. We both are currently in college. We used to know what is happening with the other without even expressing it. We used to be the goal for best friends but now we are just two strangers with some memories.
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I have changed the course of my real life story a bit to suit my new story. Hope you all liked it..this story is very close to my heart. I've added many real conversations in the story, some I've made up. This was always to be a small story of 10 Chapters. This story will lead to another story that I might not be able to post just after this story ends so please be patient with me as my exams are startong from 11th April and I'llbe verh busy for the exams as well as with my project work..Do tell me how you guys think I've written it! And I'll see you all with another story soon! Till then, mujhe ijazat dijiye! Bye everyone!