Forever and Ever

REMEMBER THE TIME...

5 years later...

"Hey Sam! Remember the time when you tripped Mitchell and he kicked you and you kicked him back? And when Alexa kicked him, her shoe flew off?" Maya laughed.

"Oh yeah! That was so hilarious. Her pretending to be my knight in shining armour and her shoe flying off. And the funny part was it hit a teacher on the head who was walking by." Sam replied.

"Oh so embarassing!" I muttered bowing my head in embarassment. " Who remembers the time I gave Sam a wrong answer while i wrote the correct one, and she went to get her book marked and she got a wrong. She was so mad at me for the rest of the day."

"I'm still mad at you for that," Sam pouted.

It was lunch time and my group of friends was hanging out. Sam and Shamala's boyfriends usually hung out with us but they had to be at football practice. It felt awesome retelling each other stories and incidents from the past. We had a lot of fun together as friends and we still were. I mean like, we were the loudest people in the cafeteria. Everybody was so silent as they were eating but my friends and I didn't really care about how much noise we were making.

Soon the bell rang and we had to return to class.

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After what seemed like hours, the school day was over and I could finally go home. I decided to walk since I was in such such a great mood and the sky and scenery was really beautiful. I bid Sam and the rest of my friends goodbye before beginning my walk home. I plugged in my earphones and began playing my Marshmello playlist. I was humming cheerfully to his song Chasing Colours. Marshmello's music was the best thing I had ever come across.

I got home but the moment I entered the house, all hell broke loose.

"Why did it take you so long?" My mom screamed at me. "What kind of clothes are you wearing? Did I bring you up to wear such clothes? You look like a slut!" I decided to ignore her as usual and just climbed up to my room. It really hurt me when my mother told me such stuff. She always had a problem with me. She always criticised me and found some fault with me. I could never be the perfect daughter, no matter how much I tried. Sometimes, she was the best mom I could ask for but sometimes she was a completely different person. And she was in her bad mood today.

I shut the door of my room and flopped on my bed. I sighed in despair. My mood automatically vanished as soon as I stepped into the house. I heard footsteps come up the stairs. Suddenly the door to my room burst open.

"You are always using your phone," my mom shouted at me again. "Why are you a good for nothing daughter?"

That's it, I thought.

I ran out of the house. Tears streaming down my cheeks. My head hurt, my heart hurt, everything hurt. I ran blindly not caring where I was going. I stopped after a while. I realized I was at the park. Suddenly I felt a lot of water. I looked up at the sky and realized that it was pouring with rain. I did not even realize it but I was drenched in rain. I plopped on one of the swings and faced the sky. I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket but I did not care.

A while later, I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned around and to my surprise it was Sam.

"Sam? What are you doing here?" I asked filled with surprise.

"Well obviously I am here because I knew there something wrong with you. Come on." She said. She took me to her car and we sat inside. I was shivering a lot so she gave me a spare hoodie she had in her car.

"How did you know there is something wrong?"I asked her filled with curiosity.

"Well you did not reply to my messages nor did you pick my calls so I traced your phone here using a tracker app and by then it was already raining. So I automatically knew something was not right."

"Oh Sam," I hugged her. "What will I ever do without you?"

She handed me a steaming mug of hot chocolate which she brought from home in a thermos flask and some cookies. We sat there in silence not saying any thing, not because there was nothing to talk about, but because we didn't need to talk to express ourselves.