The Journey Through The Magic Window

Jake and his little world

Jake was again getting late for his school. He always does as a matter of fact. He wakes up at 8 in the morning and his school starts at 9.
                             
His mother was hurriedly packing his breakfast and lunch in the kitchen downstairs. Jake was trying to find his school uniform underneath his messy wardrobe.

He had to go to school that day as early as possible because he had to surprise his friends. Best friends precisely. He was going to school after a whole one month as he was suffering from chicken pox for the past month.

He shouted at his mother from his room upstairs saying "this stupid chicken pox thing has made some permament pimple kinda marks which are destroying my handsome look. Now no girl will ever look at me." Clara his mom was hearing this annoying dialogue for the 20th time maybe in the whole week. Clara shouted back saying that "now if you don't get ready in 5minutes and come down for breakfast and go to school fast,surely no girl will be able to see you sweetie." "Going mom", he said.  "I am such a handsome boy with curly blonde hair and even wear thick rimmed  glasses which is ofcourse the icing on the cake. Mom my dressing sense is also awesome you can't deny that. Can you??!!"  He murmured to himself and shouted the last line at his mom while standing in front of the mirror and admiring himself. But Clara didn't reply anything. Then after his self admiring session he went back to finding his uniforms. After almost 5minutes of combing operation and rummaging the whole room he finally got his tie and shirt under the stack of party wears which was on the bin bag for the last one month and his trousers popped its head from under the book shelf. God only knows what his trousers were doing under the book shelf! He then hastily put over the uniforms and hurried down the stairs for breakfast.

He again yelled for a few minutes at Clara for giving him milk and cornflakes which was his least favourite. He said "please mom it's been 16 years you are in India and still now you didn't learn to make Indian foods. You know everyone at school brings paratha,aloo curry, puris and many stuffs and you only give me sandwitches or toasts. I hate them." She answered, "Beta I'm trying to learn. I made you paratha last week." He cried "oh mom it was burnt remember!". "Now stop irritating me and just gulp down the food and leave for school" Clara said angrily.

Jake knew that if once Clara becomes angry then it's hard to bring her back to normal. So he left the house silently  after breakfast with his cycle and went to school.

His school is Robert International School which is of 10 mins walking distance from his home. When he reached the portico,many students were randomly walking and gossiping. He looked around. There was no trace of his best friends in the whole big portico. He noticed a few changes in the hall which has obviously taken place within this one month. There was a new sofa infront of the office room and there hung a new scenery painting above the principal's room. While walking through the busy long corridor he noticed that the house soft boards were all decorated with beautiful art works of stuffs which only students who love art can understand and his least favourite thing was art and craft. He liked painting but not crafts. He looked at his house board and it looked best in his eyes. He then without delaying for  a single moment , ran for his classroom. On his way he almost ran into one of his teachers Mr  Banerjee. Jake without a second thought just started chanting sorry for a million times under one breathe. Mr Banerjee started laughing heartily and said "it's all right Jake, it's all right. Walk slowly dear because you are weak physically right now." Jake awkwardly smiled and said "Ok sir". "How are you anyways Jake? It's great to see you after such a long time you see." "I'm awesome Sir. Thank you for your concern", said Jake and left the place without any further conversation. He always had a very bad impression about Mr Rwitik Banerjee, their English teacher because he always scolded him in class. But after seeing his concern for him he felt a bit happy and smiled to himself and went for his classroom. When he entered Class IX B, Room No - 26 , it was filled with his classmates. He felt extremely happy to see his friends after so long. But everyone took no notice of him. Rajat was busy fighting with Virat and everyone around was cheering both of them. Virat was on the top of Rajat and was shouting like a mad man saying "you will beat me huhh??? you will???". And to this reply Rajat mumbled something. Riya was busy chewing her nails in one of the corner of the room. Few of the gossip girls of the class were busy gossiping and were taking no interest in the other happenings of the classroom. Few of the boys were just laying their head on the bench yawning with one eye wide open just to avoid being sleepy. He was smiling to himself after seeing all of his friends after such a long time. Suddenly there was a happy scream from behind and before he could turn he felt a slight pressure over his shoulder and to his much surprise it was his best friend Rishan. "Hey buddy! So finally you are here. How are you bro? We missed you dude! There's loads to tell you,lots of things that happened within these days which was not possible to tell over the phone. And why didn't you tell us that you were coming today?" , Rishan said excitedly under one breathe. "Relax bro relax! How am I supposed to answer so many questions at a time" , laughed Jake. Then they hugged joyfully. Then Rishan shouted to the class and everyone looked at them and rushed towards Jake and Rishan excitedly. Even Virat stopped fighting with Rajat and both of them came to see Jake with their shirts spoiled with dirt and one of the buttons of Rajat's shirt torn.  "Hi Jake! Long time dude!" , said Virat happily. They continued chatting and then they went for their morning assembly. All the children hated morning assembly very much. They all were cursing the assembly but Jake was not so angry as he'd really missed this stupid assembly in this one month.

They all lined up to the assembly ground and stood accordingly. After the assembly which contained the daily boring Principal  sir's lecture amd then morning prayers , news reading, word of the day mention, and also singing stupid birthday songs for birthday students, they returned back to their classes. The only different thing that happened that happened that day was that their Principal sir Nitin D'Souza announced about the arrival of a new teacher Mr Ronit Sen. He said that he would teach them Geography from that day. However after that they had their Maths class in the first period. They settled down soon after the hot headed Maths teacher Mrs Usha Sharma found her way to the class.

She a mid 40's woman , had long curly hair and had freckels in her face. She always wore a pink round glasses which made her look funny. But in character, she was a very rude woman.

She after entering the class, not even waited for the children to wish her Good Morning. She took the marker and started scribbling some illegible things on the white board. She said loudly "Today we'll start Polynomials. Get ready with your books and pens all of you."

- "This lady is so irritating!" muttered Rishan.

- "I sometimes wonder how do we even tolerate her." said Ayushi.

- "Shhh guys, stop talking. Try to understant what she's teaching and let me understand too." Kabir whispered.

- "Oh stop it Kabir the topper. How do you even understand what she's teaching. Just a waste of space she is. Nonsense!" , Jake said angrily.

"Okay students , look here. Let's take the zeroes of polynomials as α and β.
Then α+β=0 and α*β=√5. So solve the problem."

No one except Kabir solved that.

All the classes went in a good and bad way and they were dispersed.

The four best friends went back home together.

Little did they know that a major surprise was waiting for them all this evening.

Thank you readers! Please pardon me if you have noticed anything wrong here in this chapter. This is my first story and maybe I won't be able to fulfill all the expectations of a reader from a writer. But I promise that I will most certainly try to do. Hope you liked the begining. Please give your views on this chapter. More surprises are on the way I guess! So fasten up your seatbelt until my next chapter publish! Thank you.