The Feisty Flower!!

3) My Big Time

Lizzie Dawson's world...

I support myself with only one foot on the ground, whereas the other one is popped like a princess-in-love. I am totally out of breath when that happens...

Oh, I am pulled towards a tall man in a fraction of second. I get all sweaty as I move forward and then...*boom*bang*bash*!! I am all lost.

No! You are wrong.. I am in no means involving in any romantic deed of love, or whatever they call it. I'm just travelling in a bus to Sunnyvale. I just lose my consciousness for a second or so, due to, nothing like you imagine. It is no chemistry but, pure physics in reality.

The bus is crowded as hell that, I have space only for one of my feet to be on ground whereas the other is dangling in free air. Now there is a sudden brake and I jerk forward to the person before me, because of the inertial force caused due to the sudden halt of the bus. Also the lack of proper oxygen, due to too many people packed in a small closed space, makes me perspire like a pig.

Yeah so when we have a sudden break, the stranger-before-me guy's elbow hits me hard on my forehead, when he tries to catch up with the railing on top of him. I instantly lose grip of the pole that I was holding on to and fall. Oh! so soothing surface welcomes my tail bone, with great pleasure and there I go, knocked out.

My embarrassment reaches a level of 100, no! 200 no! 300 no it's reached freaking level of 1000, I close my eyes with my head down.

'Go to scorching blistering blackening withering hell Mr. Stanford! ALAN disgusting STANFORD' the little fellow inside my mind curses.

You may wonder why am cursing that 'A' person out of the blue. You may also wonder why am travelling such a long distance. Like because Sunnyvale is a two and a quarter hour travel, from where I live. Let me travel back in time and explain why...

Twenty four hours before...

"Come on Liz kiddo. Why are you standing like a statue there? We need to reach Chamber Arch-3 right now or, we will be late for the presentation" Mia calls out as I am lost in my own thoughts in the corridor. Yes! The tall strange man got me distracted. "Here I come chica sorry, I got lost in some stupid thoughts" I say to her and run to catch up with her.

Mia and I walk in the corridor when I suddenly remember that, I, forgot something. "Oh my goodness chica how did I even forget! I have to go see Maddy. You go first. I'll be there in a minute", I say to Mia. By the way I call her chica and she calls me kiddo. This was an unwritten pact that we signed the very first day we met 5 years back. "Okay don't be late kiddo", Mia says and waves her hands to say a quick bubye.

I run to see my sweetest bestest friend from middle school, Sierra Madeline . She has been there for me, no matter what, way before from Mia entered into my life. It is like a custom for me to hug her and get best wishes from her before doing something important. And it is the same for her too. We both applied for the same college so that we can see each other always. She is doing her MS ECE- Electrical & Computer Science Engineering in Bentley.

After a few minutes there I am in Maddy's arms. "All the best Lizzie pie. I know you can do well in anything. Go rock it girl". I grin ear to ear after hearing such words from my angel friend. She is indeed one with large dark eyes, sharp nose, bee stung lips and a wavy red hair— the heartthrob of every guy in the university.

"Thank you Sierrangel! I'll update every detail of what happens today through Whatsapp this evening. Uh-oh I am really late now see ya later, Maddy", I say as I remove myself from her embrace and rush to Chamber Arch-3.