Anna (ON HOLD)

And a new friend

Gretel's POV

And I was so happy to find someone i could be with at school, from the morning how people were treating me was strange yet justified, but rude because someone could tell me i was stupid enough to have toothpaste in my hair and not know it at the first day of my school. But i had someone now, someone so cute, Anna. I knew i was going to be really compatible with her and we will soon be best friends. "Nice name, Anna, now let us head to class without wasting more time from this unlucky day." I said. "You're a pessimist! You know that?" she asked and i replied smilingly, I didn't want to lose her just when i gained her, although if it was somebody else i would have replied rather sarcastically, "Oh, who me? You'll soon get to know me better,  Anna, I cannot help being negative with a day that has been so negative with me so better being a bit grumpy today, but don't worry, I don't be like that everyday, i am much more of an optimist and i am a happy girl and a social butterfly..."                                                                                                                   "Oh, I see that, i believe you..." [chuckling]                                                                                                                "Hey! I am! It is just this crazy toothpaste in my hair that ruined my reputation! Well, you are humorous, I like you. I must tell you I am funny too, i am not praising myself, just being honest, I am, truly speaking, unlike my mother, after my dad lost his job, my mother has been ever so quiet and scary, and sometimes I don't like to go to her or meet her, she was a bit strange from the start but nowadays she has been so bad to me, she says i am the reason we had to shift here, we could have stayed and bored the poverty in some place in the city, but we had to come here for a better life, my mother thinks we will never be having a good life here, she is so scared of this place and she did not really want to come here, her hands kept shivering in the journey, strange, it was." there were tears in my eyes, i stopped walking, she came towards me.                      "Hey, are you okay, you want to go home?"                                                                                                               "Whoa, i went way too fast, not home, i am okay," i said wiping my tears, "I am so sorry, I am not going to bore you anymore," I smiled, "I am not a good keeper of secrets, I shouldn't have told you everything as it has only been a few minutes after we met, i hope you are going to keep the secret, are you? Unlike me, I really felt like bursting out in tears with you, you are providing a different comfort, i needed a friend from so much of time, its true that i am a social butterfly and most of the time people adore me but none of my old friends were true with me, you know, flatterers who left me as soon as they knew i have no money, i am poor, are you going to do that with me too, i want you to be my friend, really."                                                                                                      "You are not boring me, i want to cry too, you make me remember of someone. Its quite a melodramatic conversation for a first meeting with someone but I like you, i am not going to leave you, and you must not cry anymore, I am a true friend, you can trust me. Really. I am a good friend, now let yourself hurry to class," she said patting my back, her eyes were deep.         "Yeah, we must hurry," I replied quickly collecting myself back.                                                                      "No you, go to your classroom, I have a different class, you go on..."                                                            "Okay," and as i turned there was a teacher of 40 to 45 probably staring at me with angry eyes from a distance. "What a menace, child!" she came to me and started pulling my hand roughly and i tried to resist but in vain so i let her drive me, "what happened?" i said wondering what on Earth had I done. "Don't you know no one is allowed in the forbidden part of the school, you must not go there, girl! What were you doing there alone?"                                                                                                  "Well, I wasn't alone, its my first day at school, I didn't know about the forbidden, this school is quite interesting, first mean children, then the old building, then deep dark corridors, and now look, a forbidden part of my new school," I started to smile and looking here and there when we were at the end of the passage where i left Anna and saw to discover her looking at me again, "Who were you with then? A ghost, no one goes to that place, miss!" she yelled, and begin to pull me again, HARSH, I thought, that is how they treat new students! "I was with An......" i started in protest but she stopped me again and again by interrupting, and finally the atrocity ended as we reached room 434. "That is not where my class is according to my time table, it is supposed to be in 507, and by the way, i went to the washroom, the children are mean enough not to tell me about anything over here! So i found myself the way!" I lied, I thought it wouldn't be good to keep Anna in trouble, let it be finished right now. "Well, you aren't going to attend your first class as there are only five minutes left for its end and Mrs. Hemmick has ordered to send you to second directly. She told me you are Hazel's daughter, she was a good girl, as I remember. You are too straightforward, well, just for being nice, you could not make friends with anybody, you can make friends with my daughter, Amelia, but don't spoil her, girl! Look, there she comes," she said turning and smiling at her daughter. Her daughter was smiling too, Amelia, the same girl who called me poor girl and told me the way to first class. "Gretel, my name is Gretel, please stop calling me a girl, you can call me Gretel." i said, the teacher rolled her eyes at me and looked at her daughter smiling again. Stupid, i thought. "Why, aren't you a girl, then?" asked Amelia coming over to us. "Of course I am!" And both of them laughed. I was envious, no, jealous of Amelia, she had a mother who was proud of her and loved her, but I was thankful i was not like Amelia, I don't like to laugh on people, I like to give everyone due respect. "You are to call me Mrs. Martha, Gretel, and you can be friends with my girl, but be sure to respect her," said Mrs. Martha. Amelia was bit taller than me and I could tell by her face she was spoilt and stubborn, does anybody know how to tolerate mean and stubborn people, those are the ones I cannot stand! I kept quiet and Amelia and me proceeded to the second class.