It was a sunny day, as sunny it could be in hills.
The alarm clock woke me up.
But I only left my bed when my mother woke me up. 30 minutes later I was ready to go school.
I met my friends, one started flirting the other started cursing. Soon the bell rang and everyone like buzzing bees gathered togather to form a line- it was an assembly.
I was bored, slept late last night, the soles of my legs hurt- I am being way to serious in March past (parade)- why won't the assembly end? I am bored.
Our Principal wanted to reward the students who stood first in the exam, from every class with a red star batch.
I smiled ear to ear, obviously I stood first in my class- this was the first time I came first in an exam that too with a percentage above 90- and I was gonna be rewarded with a batch that I wanted since the very day it came into existence.
I was the happiest, he called the students and rewarded them one by one with praises and advice, laying bare his expectations for future school toppers.
I stood beside my friend infront of everyone, she is my junior and she too stood first in her class for the first time. She held my hand and excitedly talked to me in hushed voice.
I was quite nervous but even more happy. It was my turn, he held my shoulder and praised me I could barely hear anything I was just so happy.
Our class teacher came and put on the shining red star batch on me. I couldn't contain my smile.
Being infront of everyone and the object to their applause. I wanted more of it, I loved this feeling. I wanted to be first again and again.
My seat was in the corner, last bench, beside a window providing a beautiful view of the hills with fresh wind.
I was too happy, giggling and smiling.
It was the best day.
Our bench is a two-sitter but it can easily fit three, so me and my two friends decided to sit togather.
My flirty friend brought a book today it had a collection of poems and.....thoughts?
I took it and started reading.
My friends joked and laughed with each other like usual.
The teacher was going through the syllabus, everyone were chatting and laughing in hushed voices.
A sound of something falling came from the first bench, a lunch bag fell down, and a sharp and rude voice interrupted everything, it wasn't loud but almost all heard it.
Ugh..... Her again...
The one I disliked the most, from her attitude to her voice, the embodiment of annoyance.
She said something pointing at my friends.
I kept my smile and didn't lift my head. I knew who it was. I didn't like her, I didn't hate her but my dislike for her was strong.
My friends beside me stopped laughing, and replied to her, 'we weren't laughing at you', quite baffled as to why they were targeted.
They still had a smile on their face but it was quite a mocking one.
The girl, whom I didn't like, was sitting on the first bench.
Suddenly she started crying and sobbing, baffling everyone in the class.
Teacher asked her if she was alright, she replied saying that 'they' were laughing at her ,it was her lunch box that had fallen,.
As a matter of fact everyone was chatting happily with their own friends in groups with smile on their faces no one was laughing at her.
And if there was someone laughing at her it wasn't my friends, yet the teacher called my friend by name and told her laughing at others is not good.
My friends tried to clarify that it wasn't them yet the teacher didn't listen.
Teacher may have misunderstood but that girl didn't even say anything. The urge to hit her was something else.
I really really didn't like that girl. I knew why she was crying. No one was laughing at her.
Her ego was hurt, badly at that.
Me and her are like academic rivals, I came first so obviously she stood second with one marks difference.
No one in our class could compete with us in studies after all.
Well I could understand being only one step behind from being first but why point at my friends?
I knew she was angry with me after all the way she looked at me was venomous.
Next day she didn't even talk to me, it went on for like days, she kept ignoring me and glaring at me when she thought I wasn't looking.
