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Chapter 1 Hadia

I can't believe a semester just went by as fast as wind touches your face on a fall day. Our exams are finished, during the first weak of the winter break, I went to Washington to visit my parents and my younger sister, Naina, who is still in high school. During that week our exam results became published, I had passed all subjects and had for all subjects at least a 15/20 in except for one, unfortunately I had an 11/20 for chemical calculus so all good scores aside I couldn't shift my mind from that 12 so here I am one week earlier than all my peers back to the university trying to be ahead of my professors during this semester as much as possible and get all the scores above 15/20.

It is quiet and peaceful as I am the only one at in the library at the moment. The day has begun with little guilt as I was thinking of how unexpected it was for my parents when I told them I am leaving a week earlier. They were very understanding about it of course but I know they were kind of disappointed because they haven't seen me a whole semester and now that I left, I would not be returning home until August because after exams in June I have an internship in July and even when I return home for August my mom will be out of the country for a work trip to Europe.

I am going to put more work for school and study even harder to pass with better grades so that my marks can compensate for my almost a year absence from my parents' life. That being said I am studying analytical chemistry and it is actually going great. I just need to get to the organic alkaline and acids for today, then I have reached the goal for today.

As the day goes by, I get to study more and am able to make a lot of exercises which only improves my mood, with the passing of each hour some students begin to fill in the library. The serenity and peacefulness are still there though, which is nothing any less than expected. 

The quietness is eventually disrupted by this student who comes and sits at the other end of my table. In the beginning, he was just working on his computer but then it is the dramatic pulling and spreading of some plans and he just keeps going on.

The students like him are actually the reason why I only study in my room and avoid the university library at any costs but today I thought that everyone is on holiday, so either some students are at home, either at some frat party but surely not at the library. 

His last act of being an unprofessional student, if we even can call a student unprofessional, is constantly clicking on his pin which annoys the hell out of me. You might be thinking why am I not paying attention to my own work and am constantly observing him but trust me I am not paying him any attention, he just keeps on doing these distractive things, so it is absolutely him and not me, I haven't even looked at him because I feel like he is doing it on purpose, just to annoy other students and if I glare at him, he succeeds at achieving what he wants so desperately. Otherwise, you can't seriously be that annoying and loud and don't notice it yourself.

As the day begins to darken I grow accustomed to the noise especially when I have accomplished more than I thought but then the noisy dude hits the jackpot by playing piano music out loud on his computer while he is furiously typing. Everyone starts to glare at him and look towards the reception expecting someone to shut him up but unfortunately, the reception is empty and the librarian is nowhere to be seen. The funny part of all this out ordinary drama is that no one actually gets up to call him out on that and they keep staring at one another.

This is it, to hell with peer courtesy, I can't tolerate this anymore and I haven't disappointed my parents just to end up listening to Beethoven in the library, so I get up and go towards him. When I reach him I wait for a minute for him to notice me but he keeps going and going and ignores me as if I am not hovering upon him, so finally, I tik him on his shoulder and he takes out the loose earplugs and snaps at me: "WHAT? Can't you see that I am working on something very important and was extremely focused? You have just ruined my concentration."