FLORAISON

Chapter-2》

I sometimes wish I could delete that chapter from my life but to know me you will need to understand the why. That summer night I was just like any other 13 year old and then everything good came crashing down at my feet in just one night. I became this too insecure and too sceptical person. It has almost been 4 years since that night but the memories are still fresh as yesterday. I sometimes feel and ask myself that will it always feel like that, like an ache in my heart, like a pain that never goes away.

But... NOOOOOO!!! Not Today guys not TODAY.
Today is all about my first day at school which by the way I am really hyped about and looking forward to.

"Back to earth Avuu" a voice nearby me startles me.
"Are you dozing off again?" My mum angrily remarks.

"No..No..Here..I am here!" I frantically exclaim.

"Now leave the bed and get ready. I am leaving for school. Your breakfast is on the table beside which is your lunch money." - She states.

"Ok..Ok... Now Byeee..." I sleepily remark while practically dragging my ass to washroom after which she proceeds to exit the room.

After freshening up I finally decide to dress up in my school uniform which is a typical boring white shirt and blue knee length Skirt although mine rests just two inches above my knee. I proudly check myself out for not letting mum decide on the lenth of my skirt this time and completing it with a hideous blue and white stripped tie which also reminds me of the tie I wore in Woodlane. I pull my hair back into a pony and tuck away all my extra locks from the face. One of the many things about Indian schools are, no matter which ever grade you are in teachers are always gonna check your outfit and this reminds me that I will have to pull my skirt down a bit during the school assembly so that teachers don't notice the length which again throws me back to the days in WLEC when we always had to have plaited hair and a boring knee length white skirt which was considered appropriate clothing for women, I know way too misogynistic.

After spending almost an entire hour infront of the mirror I joined my little sister Ananya in the dining who is currently in 6th Standard in WLEC. Although we barely get along sometimes but the other times I love this 11 year old the most. This adorable and sometimes vicious dark haired girl with dark brown eyes and dusky skin, who by the way is trying to steal my breakfast, for which I should be furious but for some reason, I just find it adorable, I just casually run my hands through her hair and make a mess out of it. She scowls at me but leaves for school with mum.

The next thing that comes to my mind while having breakfast is about the day I am gonna have. My school starts from 11 am, So I will leave by 10, I guess. Honestly I am very excited and little anxious about this change. I know high school isn't that big of deal but its still going to be different experience for me. I have no idea what my classmates are gonna be like. And so far, I haven't visited the campus yet even though BirdsEye was one of biggest rival schools to WoodsLane. To be honest I as WLECian always felt negatively towards BEHS students except her.

OFCOURSE! I would forget to tell you, well this "her" person is my bff JOLENE BAKSH.

Jolene is half Christian and half Muslim and is definitely the town's sweetheart (only among teenagers and young adults). I mean literally everyone knows her. Guys of Kohlla want her and girls here want to be her. She has these charming bluish-grey eyes, long red hair and in all a model like appearance. Jolene is much shorter in height and that is her only one insecurity which she manages to coverup by wearing these drastic high heels.

Being her best friend has its perks like not waiting in the line for getting a table in the local restaurant or being noticed by the hottest guys in the room (Funny, I know). But life is not at all a cake walk in Kohlla. For starters as we know our Indian aunties are well known for having a big mouth and pretty sharp vision when it comes to other women's kids. Everytime Jolene used to hang out at my place, it would become the hot topic of the town. To them Jolene was the town's whore and a big bad influence to their kids. Jolene's mom Rachel was always an outsider to them and also a failed mother to their eyes. The kind of mother who couldn't raise her only kid well. But in all reality she is this incredible independent woman, very friendly and very charming. Jolene's dad (who is also my Papa's school friend) and mum decided to run away together and later marry..TOTAL FILMY!!

And.. I know, I know what y'all are thinking...I mean how come a girl like Jolene is best friends with a lame girl like me? Well for starters as you know I wasn't always as lame or as introvert or anything like that. Yes I was never too pretentious or too sassy and unlike other teenagers I wasn't into dating but that part of me was mostly because of my mom. Hell I couldn't keep a journal cause she would start reading it.

But apart from all that I did know how to have fun. We both used to hang out for hours at our favourite spot by a lake called Minouri. The place was situated approximately a mile away from her house in the amidst of the woods in Kohlla and we also had this little cabin where we chilled out. Technically it was abandoned and I know its not safe for young girls to hangout alone in abandoned cabins but it wasn't like that, the place had Kohlla Police post right there where Jolene's dad was posted.

If you ask me my favourite memory of ours is the time when we were 12 and decided to camp out at the lake untill 6 in the evening (Because I am not allowed for sleepovers), we laid on the ground watching stars and talking about the day I join BEHS. God!! We have known each other for almost 6 years now and literally I am still freaking out over us being in the same school.

A...nd since its 9 already, I should probably call Jolene now.

I go and find my small black coloured Videocon mobile on top of my desk and dial -- JO with a little baby chicken hatching out of egg saved for Jolene which I had to annoyingly search for, as its been almost 2 weeks since we last spoke.

*dialpad key tone*

*Tring tring... ring continues*

"Hello" a heavy sleepy voice answers.

"Hi!! Are you not ready yet?" I worriedly exclaim.

"What? Ready for what? Were we going somewhere, If yes then Cancel the plans. I am sleeping" Jolene angrily states.

"What??? Do you not remember its the first day? Our First day at BEHS." I calmly try to remind her.

"Wait what?" Her voice deep and clear now.

"Heyyy... Don't you remember what I told you that day" she says trying really hard to remember our conversations.

"ohh.. noo... Shit Sorry babes" she practically almost cries.

"I am so sorry...I completely phased off... I know I was meant to tell you this earlier but I am so so sooooooo SORRY!" She begs, both worry and heartbreak clear in her voice and that gives me 10,000% anxiety.

"What? What were you supposed to tell me? What? Tell me now?" I frantically ask her.

"Well, I won't be attending the school at all this year." Jolene states.

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