Lethal Arrow of the Clock

2017-Change

You know that defining moment in your life when you suddenly realise what it is that you want to do?
Well...that god damn moment was taking too long. Seriously, do these things miss the train or something?
Here I was...about to turn 17 and I had no idea what the hell i was gonna do with my life.
After shifting to America for 11th grade, I had realised that I now had to take care of my increasing workload, make new friends (hopefully people who didn't think i was a complete nutjob) and discover in some totally random moment-of-clarity what i wanted to do when I 'grow up'. And that was the problem, I was about as immature as you could get and just when I had started accepting the fact that I was a doofus they go on and tell "Naah you can't do that."

So today, 23 days after coming to my totally-amazing-if-slightly-girly cousin's house, I am now getting ready for school. Oh and having these life changing thoughts while trying to pull on rather stubborn socks.
"Damn it, ugh get...on...stupid...socks...huhhh...talking to inanimate objects....always a good sign.."
"What are you mumbling cous and you're just gettin' ready now?"
Enter Ashaya, the fore mentioned cousin who never bothered to knock and had now found me in an unbuttoned shirt, wrestling with my socks....
Yes, I put on socks before buttoning my shirt, big deal...
"Ashaya!!! Would it kill you to knock before you come in?"
But ofcourse she ignored me...
"What the hell are you wearing?"
I looked down at my clothing, i was wearing jeans with a red button down shirt...nothing creepy in that.
"Um...clothes?"
"You call that clothes?", she sighed and continued,"Honey, we're practically sisters."
Then she paused and looked at me meaningfully.
"So...?"
She sighed again, all long and dramatic.
"So how is it that I have such good fashion sense and you're dangling between homeless and hobo?"
"Hey!"
"No offense?"
" Aren't you a stress reliever... Dude, I'm nervous as it is, I don't think people are even gonna look at me... I mean..."
I gestured at myself hopelessly.
My cousin stared at me for sometime before sitting next to me.
"You know, even though I tease you about your clothing and 'wierdness', thats just me being playful. I thought you knew that. Ira, you're one of those people I admire a lot because you've always had the courage to be your self and the sense to accept your faults. If those people don't get you, then it's  their loss, not yours. You don't need superficial people like that Ira, you're too good for friends-in-name-only"
Yup, that was Ash, a total Tsundere but she had managed to touch my heart and I really was glad for having a friend like her. But spoken  words aren't really my besties and all the graciousness I wanted to convey popped out in a single syllable.
"Woah"
Articulate becomes me.
She only laughed and hugged me. That told me she understood.
"Come on you little coward, we're getting late, lets go."
Saying this, she left.

"New high school, here I come."

Authors note;
I have read a lot of wattpad authors who can nail this thing but i am not one of em'. So this is my first story and ...(ugh i am bad at this)
I moved recently, and the change has been devastating so i thought why not start from a character who can relate? And i guess here i am.
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