Friendship Cause Heartbreaks Too

Chapter - 17

It was my cousin's 1st birthday party. She had just turned one and everybody was invited.

I was kind of avoiding it. I didn't want to go. Because I knew, if I didn't attend school for even one day, I'd be subtly ignored by them.

But I couldn't. I had to go there and deep down in ny heart I actually wanted to go.

And the interesting thing was, my cousin and her mother (my aunt) have birthday on the same day. It was double celebration.
The cake had the duo of mother-daughter on top of it.

All of us had a great time. It was good to have a break from everything, even if just for one day.

Next day, when I went to the school, everything was as I expected. Just like I mentioned above. It took almost the whole day for them to get normal with me, again.

I was wishing for the day to be over as soon as possible. Because I knew, next day would be better. It had always been like that.

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She told us that Shaun asked her to be his girlfriend. And she first said yes, but then she denied it.
We asked her why? She said, she wasn't interested.

It wasn't a detailed talk, instead a very short conversation.

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Anyway, time fled, with things like these happening here and there. But we were still okay.
In fact, Mrs. Neela gifted us key-rings with our names on them. Each was in different shape.

Mine and Vickie's was a wooden guitar. We clicked pictures of them. They were really cute. I still have that.

We were enjoying our school life. Or that's what I thought.
But then, Ms. Josie told us she was leaving. She had a 'one year contract' with the school and that year was completed. So she was leaving.

We were really sad but on her last day, we enjoyed it as much as we could. We clicked pictures together too.

And then she was gone. And for her replacement, there was a new teacher. She wasn't a bad person, quite opposite actually.

But we were already upset about Ms. Josie and we blamed Ms. Susan for that.

She tried her best to get along with us, but we weren't having it. We'd ignore her lectures or whatever she used to say. We just couldn't bring ourselves to like her. For the rest of the year.

And along with that, our bonding with Mr. Asher was kind of... Off. I don't know how to explain it.

But since we were very close to him, we were unintentionally putting up with his tantrums and were now getting fed up of it. He'd be mad at us for nothing! Like really, there would be nothing, just jokes and some teasing and he'd take it to his heart or get upset with us.

It felt like he was doing it to get attention, so that all 4 of us would go and convince him. Or we would do something to cheer him up and apologize to him.

It was okay in the beginning but I WAS REALLY GETTING MAD.

Because I had to endure the same with Vickie.
She'd come in the morning to go to school. Sometimes she'd be okay and in a good mood.