One
I open my eyes - 6:00 am, time to wake up and get hustling for school,
I don't want to go but I still get going anyway, wondering just how many more days it is until the weekend.
Two
I am on the school bus and there's still a 5 whole days for the weekend.
The girl in front of me is into poetry too.
So we talk about it.
Only she is in seventh grade and I cannot talk to her about my obsession with Sabrina Beniam and depression poems.
What a disappointment bro.
Three
I'm in class.
It's math.
I hate it and I would rather die than sit in this class.
What? I got an eleven on fifty for this test?
What? did I fail math - AGAIN?
Oh well..okay.
Four
It is grade 9
I am the 'CRAZY BOOK LOVER' of the class.
My friend Isha lends me the divergent series that has three fat books.
I finish reading in three days.
I am in love,
with the books.
I am in love,
with Tobias (The Male protagonist of the story).
Also call me sadistic,
but I am actually happy that Tris (The Female protagonist) died.
'Cause I want to Marry - Tobias Eaton.
Five
Siddhi read my secret diary secretly.
AND HAS THE AUDACITY TO ASK ME WHY I CALL MY DIARY TOBIAS!
AJSKKKSJHGGSG!
Six
It's my birthday.
We got a chocolate pastry for the cake cutting and
all of it is on my face and none of it is stuffed into theirs.
The teacher comes in at the commotion.
It's Tony sir - our history teacher.
And for my excellent history grades has me with him on good equations
He doesn't send me to the Principal.
He only has me meet with Ben 10
(Non-alphonisians - that is Vice Principal Father Bennet to you).
Seven
It's grade 10
Me and Apoorva sing Despacito with the perfect lyrics
While sitting on the last bench for the physics class.
(Cuz, we go for tutions ya'll)
This is a momment of bliss.
One I should remember and cherish forever.
UNICORNS COME IN AND PULL A CURTAIN ON THE STAGE.
Setting changes.
We're in the computer lab.
There's Me, Manushree, Archi, Avantika and a lot of others
Covering the one computer screen I'm sitting on
as we pretend to discuss the new ICT Project
While actually looking up photographs of
Theo James (Tobias in the movies)
And
Tom Felton (Plays Draco Malfoy from Harry Potter)
And many many many others from our teenage celebrity crush lists.
We never got caught.
Eight
It's a random day at school.
All my friends are writing and drawing on something which they refuse to show me.
I feel heartbroken and left out.
When I confront them about it asking if what they were doing was about me,
'NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT YOU'
Is what I get.
WELL,
I later learn that it was a wedding card which read:
'Shreeyanshi संग Tobiassram'
Yes bitch,
'NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT ME'
THE UNICORNS ARE HERE AGIAN:
Setting changes
There's twenty of us in the school washroom.
It's my wedding day (it was just a mock wedding we had for stupid thrills).
Isha is playing Tobias (or Tobiassram as Manushree insists)
We have a Sangeet for a total of Five whole minutes.
Nine
The school fun fair is around the corner,
Me and my girls are doing this ghati dance to a tamil song.
'Rama Rama Rama Rama rama kitt villa Kitta'
It's the lyrics or atleast what I think the lyrics are.
Ten
It's the sports day.
I've never brought home a sports medal.
Except if you count that gold medal for district level sports dance competition.
And that was really nothing.
So it's the sports day.
I'm Fat.
I make it onto the Tug-of-war team.
It's a matter of Pride.
We win.
WE WIN.
WE FUCKING WIN.
Yes I, me, my certificate of merit in a SPORTS COMPETITION.
That night I felt pain creep up my thighs and arms and stomach.
I was tired.
It hurt.
I loved it.
The pain felt worth it.
I felt like a sports champ.
Eleven
I stood first in the solo dance competition again this year.
My mother was more excited than I was.
I had danced to 'Ghoomar' from 'Padmavat' after all.
She was proud
and I was happy.
Twelve.
It's the last lunch we would have together at school.
We got the best of our food in the lunch boxes.
I am a fancy person.
I will call it 'THE LAST LUNCHEON'
Someone got Pasta,
Someone got Pav Bhaji,
Someone got Fried rice,
Someone got that mirchi ki chatni we all love so much,
Someone brought this someone brought that
I took Falli Dhokli.
and that was the best meal of my whole life.
Thirteen
It's 5:00 am, time to wake up and get hustling for college.
