Another High School Cliche

Chapter-1 (Pov:Ruhanika)

'You never know whom you will end up with. Maybe it will be the person whom you least expect.'

I was a person who never opened her heart to any romance, I was always a horror or thriller fan. I would not have minded having an Annabelle experience in my life but love was a total NO-NO for me. At my age when people were madly finding their Prince charming I was dreaming of becoming a successful workaholic lady, not a woman but a Lady ,
being like the others was so not my type and dating was a definite No probably because I came from a typical Indian family.

Hi! I am Ruhanika mostly known as Ruhi a very simple lady and this is the story of my school life.

I was a very unpopular girl who hated the limelight so I always used to avoid situations that made me socialize but who would have known that the most popular guy in the school would like a girl like me? Sounds cliche? But ya that's what happened.

So it all started when a pandemic called covid 19 calmed down a little and a new semester was started fully offline. A girl like me who enjoyed her last 2 years especially because she did not see any of her classmates was very sad but at the same time tried to bury the feeling since I was in 12th the last year of schooling.

"Ughh what a morning"

Natania said - my cousin who lived right next door.

"I know right " I replied while we were walking towards our school.

"What a weird morning I wanna go back to sleep " a voice came from behind I turned to look back only to see my best friend Erica with a Sleepy face.

"Then go back to sleep I will join u"

I replied yawning

" I would love to do that but the whole 11th standard I participated in every online competition and program to suck up to our teachers just to become a captain and enjoy at least our 12th" she answered.

Erica is a good person. She is the same as us but a little more popular - I would say, she is determined to at least complete her 12th bunking classes and participate in a lot of programs and make us do the same.

Anyway, even though all three of us were least interested we still held up tight our heavy bags and walked towards the school.

Attending the morning assembly and 40 min long classes after 2 years was tiring.

Erica did not yet become a captain but soon will by the way she is going she sure did become the school choir in charge and even though I am not that talented in singing since there was a very less number of people who have their names for the school choir I joined in too. Well, I guess that's what happens when you have contacts. After sorting out the three admission forms we got during the lunch break from the students who wanted to join the choir we rushed down to the ground since we were very hungry.

"Aren't there a lot of new admissions this year?" I asked Erica

She asked me whether I was talking about the guy who just passed by and very innocently I modded.

"Ruhiiii he has been here in this school for so long." She said with disappointment

I guess that's what happens when u don't care who is around u

I chuckled and moved on in embarrassment.

But there were a few new admission ;

"But ya Shaan one of our batchmates came to me and said a new admission - as in who joined our school last year online wanted to join the choir ...ehh he will find his way to us if he wants. Who cares, let's find Natania and start eating fast" Erica said.

Anyway school got over and I was waiting for my other two friends outside.

That's when I saw a crowd around one person and overheard two girls saying "Woah he is so smart" I ignored them as our school girl's selection was not that good - as if he really will be that smart ...lol

I ignored them, as usual, by then Erica and Natania's class got dispersed too and we were about to leave when someone called Erica from behind.

It was Shaan - who told her the new admission wants to join the club with the new guy.

Well, he wasn't that bad looking but you know what looked bad?

The crowd of girls behind him both Natania and I moved far away from the crowd.

Well, then Natania and I started discussing our cousin's wedding that was approaching. Soon the girls started leaving and it was really late but Erica, the new admission, and Shaan were still not done talking so we tried calling her from behind but then that traitor called us to introduce us to the new admission.

Very awkwardly we stood beside her.

"Natania, Ruhi this is Reyansh, he joined our school last year in the Computer Science batch and now he is the new member of the Choir ;

Hey and guess what he knows how to play the guitar isn't that amazing ?" Erica said with a lot of excitement.

"And ya this is Natania and Ruhanika they are cousins " she continued introducing us.

The most awkward moment with a very awkward silence after that.

"Well then let's move," Shaan said after a very awkward 5-minute silence.