UNPARALLELED BONDS

FAREWELL

One night I called my edler sibling to annoy her but she is so silly that I laughed every now and then . One of her joke was that she was eating some chips and the company name was hilarious . It was " Shinde ki Chavanni" . She made stories like what if an inspector whose name would be inspector Shinde goes their for inspection . It would be an epic moment and blah blah. Her way of making false stories to make everyone laugh their heads off explains the beauty of her teeth which are slightly outwards but still she looks pretty in everyone's eyes except mine where her image resembles a picture of white monkey.

Her jokes are an asset for me because they become a thing to share with my friends to make them laugh too. In arts class, I am narrating this to Harshita who has come there to write speech and shayaris. As I shouted the " Shinde ki Chavanni " words, in the front Blessing making eye contact with me and from the behind A.K. and Abhi listening keenly like I am going to participate in a world cup. Awkward thing is that only Harshita and Parthi laughs hilariously while the three of them just look dumb .

Maybe their first time listening my voice....
Me and Harshita in the arts class painting each other's hand and making heart shapes with thumbs , clicking photos . Those memories are permanently embedded in my heart. I exclaimed that we are "saste couples"and she guffaw with me .

The day we all waited for soo long comes .

Yes it is farewell today and out of the blue I find no friends because I arrived too early. So sits alone on a chair yet there were girls also who I know but still prefers to stay solitary until Parthi arrives and asks me if I can arrange a steel plate. As my home is near the school so I assure her that my father can bring it on. Parthi thanks and makes a move to the place where decoration has to be done . But I shyly asks her that I want to be with her. She beams and holds my hand and takes me there.

It is fun when A.K.  climbs up and sits uncomfortably on the empty space to stick the black curtains . I am helping by cutting tapes and giving them . After decorating with flowers , I stand there holding the butterflies hanging . Then my father arrives and I handed that to someone  and walks downstairs to receive the steel plate . Parthi asks to give it to Manan and I with Harshita roams here and there holding the empty plate like a hungry baby to find Manan but in vain. That plate just remains in my bag because they get another one .

Soon we are told that 12 th class students are arriving , do everything fast. We arrange the things and I with Abhi go upstairs to keep the unused photo hangings . There i find Harshita finding washroom  while she is standing in front of washroom . When I tell her this she is about to go there until I  adds -

" It's men washroom silly!"

And drag her the downstairs towards girls washroom . But there is boys washroom in the adjacent and she again is about to touch the door until I shove her towards the right direction.

Then I go towards the entrance where I see that all students were standing in two rows on the stairs. I search for Parthi and stands with her . Then we are given flowers  while i am hungry so I go to bring  eclair toffees that i brought in the morning and distribute them with my friends. While keeping the wrapper in my pocket , I see Blessing standing before my friends. He has also brought eclairs and a chewing gum and melody which he passes to my friends thereby reaching me . I got a eclair but asked for melody from V. standing before me but she said amusingly that she has reserved it for herself. Meanwhile Parthi calling me cute again for asking that.  I keep the  wrapper of the toffee given by blessing  in my pocket.  Parthi tells me that she will through this rose when the principal walks over here . I chuckled when it accidentally fell on some other girl. Then after the welcoming of guests and 12th students , Harshita hands me her phone to make videos of her giving speech and escorting . I also eat the pakode A.K. is holding  along with Parthi and V. Great pleasure that I can never forget. Then I stand with Harshita on the stairs along with the handrail to watch the dance programme . When Blessing who is also there see me coming , he adjusts and makes space for me . Standing beside him feels funny and silly... idk why!!??

Then I grab Harshita to click photos in photobooth. After that everyone starts dancing at the stage and below the stage too , mostly 11th class students . I see Parthi who is looking cute as hell while she dances so  charmingly and look at Harshita , asking if she want to dance too. Actually it is  me who eagerly wants to dance but accompany of Harshita is must. But she hesitates for a while then herself drags me to the stage by pulling my coat . And I finally get the priceless opportunity to dance with all of my friends I have made till now. I am dancing vigorously then suddenly light goes off and music stops . As I sadly go to wear my coat that I thew on the sofa few minutes ago, power turns on and music starts , I tossed the blazer to twist my waist on the stage.  Then I see a silly sight . Blessing making eye contact again and looking as I dance frantically in the stage. His eyes met mine and I notice a slight smile on his face as I try to dance more like a lady. Then I see him also dancing with his friends . I feel happy and dance and dance until Harshita screams in my ears that we have to go to the mess to have food.
So I go with her up the terrace  to have the delicious food along with gulab jamun as dessert . And we go there twice and thrice like idiots. As I walk with Harshita over the terrace I asks her curiously if she ever had 2 crushes at the same time. My jaw drops when she says she had 4 or 5 or even more at the same time. I tell her that we just walked past my new crush. She grins and I also laugh. Then in the washroom we click mirror selfies. I turn all the lights off to see how horror the washroom would look and Harshita yells from the inside and I laugh with her cousin.
Then she drops me home in autorickshaw booked by her.

Next day that is Sunday , while I iron my school dress , I suddenly remembers the toffee wrappers.  I rush to the dustbin where I had thrown them yesterday but there are two . One is mine and other is of Blessing and I don't know which one. Nevertheless I wash  and laminate both of  them with a tape and secure them by pasting on my wall.

Next day I go to school to see 4 students and Harshita . We both are laughing at each other and regretting why we came. As boards are near so no one's coming school . But still we enjoy as it is  the last day of us being together.
When the day was off , I walk with Harshita away from the school gate and then she shows me the toffee i gifted her on the farewell day . She shares it with me and throws the wrapper away . Then I asks as we walk further about the wrapper. She says she has thrown it then asks if i have to laminate then stops suddenly and asks if i want to bring the wrapper and I hesitate for a second and walk back until we reach the school gate and finally find the wrapper.

Now, when I look at the laminated toffee wrappers, I still remember the days and the memories and our promises to keep the memories alive and eternal.

Reminiscing about the happy memories I had with Harshita is worth infinity than with my stupid crushes.

With the farewell of 12th class , I celebrated the farewell of my BESTIE Harshita as she's taking dummy school next year.
How strange? My 11th class started with unrequited love that felt like drug and ended with fickle crushes. But I enjoyed as much as I suffered.

Previous night I wore my mother's saree to see how I'll look in my farewell. Suddenly my mom comes in and I just finished folding the saree so hastily put it inside the almirah and slept with that red blouse. I thought mother would not know but when I woke up in the morning she was complaining to my dad that I danced late night wearing a saree and messed all her clothes in almirah while dad calming her down and laughing.

Tomorrow's my sister's birthday and I'll gift her nothing more than a screenshot of Google search history that contains lots of questions like " What to gift an idiot ?"

Last thing I want to add in my book is that

" I LOVE MYSELF MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE"

                                                        and that's a lie.....