LIED PROMISES

06 - First

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❝ Had dreams, ambitions, but
Wasn't given a chance to try;
She was like a caged bird,
Asked why she couldn't fly. ❞

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EMMA

Finally the day had come, when college commenced. The entire atmosphere was filled with laughs and giggles and elation, the same feeling when your baby walks for the first time, or a lost child finds his mother. It was a rather prestigious institute where people from all over the country had come, and it felt as though I'd never been in such a chaos before in my life. I'd never been around so many people at once, for I'd isolated myself since a long time, and hence that day I broke out in a cold sweat.

I was the kind of a girl who wasn't scared of animals or ghosts, it was people who scared me the most.

We had different sections, and because it was engineering, the ratio of girls to boys was almost the tenth fraction of a whole. We had more or less a hundred students in each section, and pretty much fifteen of them were females. With a proportion like that, managing to have a girlfriend was no picnic for the guys, competition was high. Ugh, I ain't acquainted with some other way to put this, but I caught an impression of me being among the girls who made the topmost level of beauty in the college. Therefore, it was indeterminate whether a guy who was talking to me was doing so because of me, or my looks.

That's the thing about being beautiful, beautiful people don't know who they should trust, because in this cruel, cruel world, being beautiful or rich or both is all that people care about.

Nobody cares about possessing a good heart, but, I did.

I had swallowed too many betrayals and tasted a half death once, which had made me fear people, and eventually introverted. I couldn't recall how I once used to be the girl who had many friends, and was liked by all. And that day when I examined the class, not for once did I feel the urge of talking to anyone. It was kind of bizarre, and seemed like a mockery from my destiny, that so many people around me yet I was so, so alone.

Feeling lonely when you're actually alone is still bearable, but feeling lonely in the midst of a huge crowd of happy faces isn't.

We didn't have classes on the first day of college. We were to turn up at a seminar in our respective departments, where we had a wholesome introduction about what we were going to do in the four years of engineering, and what it was all about. Of course, they would never give an account of the fact that it was a trap. Being honest wasn't going to be their possible course of action, because being a Dean you can't go on the stage to yell your heart out by shouting that engineering sucks unless you're having half a kilogram of cocaine in your guts.

They also mentioned about the norms and regulations to abide by when you're residing in a hostel, hoping that we all - the students of engineering - would actually even take note of any of that. Well, that was of no importance to me, because I didn't reside in a hostel but a few kilometres away from college, with my seemingly happy family of my mom, dad and a younger piece of nuisance.

I made my way towards the hall where the seminar was supposed to be conducted, and sat as far as possible from the stage, in a solitary corner.

I was lost in my own world, when suddenly, I heard a voice, "hey, may we sit here?"

I caught sight of two girls - both differing so much in height that if one was a centimetre, the other was a millimetre. The giraffe was pretty enough, and slim too, with brown long hair and fair skin. The other was rather tiny, and matched my size.