NOT THE ONLY ONES

24. I HATE THIS

I wake up the next morning with my eyes burning like hell. God! What's the matter with them? I turn to my side to see the alarm clock which tells me it's just 7 in the morning.

Arghh, I could have slept for more 30 minutes... not could have, I'm gonna sleep till 7:30 until my alarm goes off.

Yeah, you would have figured it out by now that I am not a morning person. I hate waking up early, I know 7 am isn't too early, but for me it is.

My mother had said to me once that mornings are meaningful, without them the cycle of life would go wrong, Dawn also signifies the end of darkness and bad things and blah blah blah what not, but I'm a teen right, what kind of a teenager listens to what their parents say?

I drift back to sleep, completely ignoring the burning in my eyes.

Nothing sweeter than the few minutes of sleep you can catch before school, right!!!

My alarm goes off and I wake up groaning. 30 minutes got over so soon, I felt like I slept only for 5 minutes.

Humph...

I sit up on my bed and join my hands to pray. Yeah, my mum's taught me to pray every morning before I start any work.

"Ouch, what's with my eyes today?"

I get up from my bed and drag my lasy butt till the washroom. I've become used to it, I can walk around with my eyes shut. I turn on the water faucet and splash cold water on my eyes, I slowly blink and open my eyes.

What the hell?!?!?

I wash my eyes again and blink out any traces of sleep. I'm completely awake now but I still feel like it's some kind of a nightmare, I pinch myself to confirm my doubt, no its not a nightmare, it has really happened.

I let out a scream as I realise that what I'm seeing is true and not a freaking nightmare.

My beautiful navy blue orbs are blood red!!!

I look like a thirsty Vampire!!!

What the hell has happened?

If there'd be a scariest looking competition, I'm sure I'd win it, I'm looking like a character out of a horror story.

I let out a scream again as I realise that I have to go to school. This time the scream is louder than the first one.

I'm not going to school with these blood red eyes!!!!

Where is everybody?

I let two blood curdling screams and nobody came to ask me what happened.

Awesome! I'm panicking with these eyes and nobody's home. I hate this!!!! I'm having a full scale panic attack.

"Roma?!?" I scream through the phone.

"Why are you shouting? " She answers back.

"I can't come to school today"

"What? Are you mad? You're the most needed one, you can't bunk school for a stupid pimple or something " she says.

"It's not a pimple!!! For God's sake!!! My eyes...."

"What about your eyes?" She asks.

"I.. I can't tell you over the phone, you'll freak out or think I'm crazy"

"I won't do any such thing. Where are your parents?" She asks.

"They are at the hospital obviously! Before you ask, I'm completely alone at home"