MISTAKEN

chapter 1: Lemo

"I am so lonely, listen to my heart..." the loud alarm on her simple Samsung phone woke Lemo up. She hastily silenced the alarm fearing she might disturb her roommates. Time was exactly 6:30 am. She mentally made note of the time she has before she need to head out for her first day at the college. She smiled feeling excited about upcoming days in her college. Lemo easily cleared bar exam for college and she was enrolled in prestigious college, Sherubtse college of education. And today is her first day in the college. After traveling whole day from her hometown, she arrived to the welcoming seniors and matrons in the girls hostel yesterday. And despite her introvert looks, inside she was thrilled to be in the first college in the history of Bhutan among other Royal universities. That was her dream come true.

Lemo silently tip toed around the room looking for her toiletries and went out to bathroom. She appreciated how clean everything looks as she wandered down the long corridors. She avoided eye contact with anyone she met on the way, not wanting to embarrass herself. She saw all the girls she met are either with a friend or busy talking on phones. Soon she reached the bathroom and did her business. She looked at mirror on the wall and face palmed herself by looking at her messy hair. It looked hideous. She tried prying it nicely with her hand. While she was busy doing that, she heard a timid voice nearby. "Here you can use my comb", a fair looking girl offered her comb. "No no..its okay. I am fine", Lemo refused but the girl insisted her. Lemo accepted her offer, and started battling her matted hair. Halfway through that task, the comb broke apart. Lemo instantly reddened with embarrassment and apologised to the girl. " Hey it's okay. No need to sweat about it. I have spare in my room" she assured Lemo. "I am sorry. I will buy you new one later,okay? May I know your name? And room number?", Lemo asked profusely. " I am Lekzin and nice to meet you. Name? For the comb, its not a big deal", Lekzin told Lemo with a smile. "Oh Lemo here. Nice to meet you too", Lemo replied sheepishly still feeling guilty about broken comb. Lemo learnt that Lekzin is one year senior to her. What a nice senior she thought as she went back to her room.

Lemo found her roommates still sleeping as she went inside. She silently prepared a hot coffee and took out some biscuits. The loud sound of water boiling in the water boiler woke up one of the girl. Lemo apologised for the disturbance. Lemo wished that her roommates are a nice girls because she wanted to bond with them over the course of years. In her 12 years of schooling till high school, she hardly had any best friends.

Due to large number of students, the girls had to share rooms among four people. In their short intros before retiring to night yesterday, Lemo learnt that all her roommates are fresh here. Due to her social aptitude, Lemo always find hard to remember a name. That's why she could not remember the names of her roommates. So, she quietly drank her coffee as she saw her mates going on their business. They all greeted her goodmorning and left for their business.

Lemo dressed up in her newly bought clothes and readied to go out. Three of her roommates easily chatted among themselves and left early. Lemo wanted to go with them but could not say anything. Oh what shall I do? She thought sadly. Its overwhelming for her to adjust outside. She clutched her small handbag and went out.

She found pristine environment surrounding the college. Smell of fresh pine trees, beautiful flowers like rose, sunflower, marigold and tulips greeted her sight. She enjoyed the beautiful surrounding she as trailed down the footpath silently. Everybody seems to know everyone. Even her schoolmates seems to have new friends. She wanted to talk with them but they are all busy with their own new friends. Lemo is suddenly back to being alone.

"No I can't live like that. I need to make friends. I don't want to stand out like a sore thumb. I need to mingle", Lemo thought as she tried to talk with a girl infront of her. "Hi I am Lemo", she waved but she simply said hi and ignored her. Lemo tried to talk again but suddenly all the girls rushed inside the big hall. "Oh that must be Multipurpose hall", Lemo mumbled as she went in along with them. As she went inside, all the people inside are talking among themselves in groups. She tried to find someone to talk but everybody ignored her. "Its okay. I can make friends with my classmates", Lemo thought reassuring herself. She took her latest novel which she bought from the bookstore on the way to college. She started reading it as she took a chair nearby. Soon the noises of people laughing and talking became mere humming sound in the background as she was engrossed.

After few minutes, someone tapped on her shoulder. She looked up to see a group of five girls standing. "Hey, can you move over. We are going to sit together but short of chair", a tall beautiful looking girl asked her. She has long black hair, beautiful eye and slim body. And her friends are equally beautiful. She looked in awe. "Can you do it fast? Assembly is gonna start soon", she narrowed her eye in impatience. "Oh okay", she said thinking what a beautiful bitch. Lemo was in the last chair in the furthest corner. So naturally she had move to the back where all the boys had taken the chairs. She became nervous but fortunately there was few empty chairs. She took one and set down ready to start assembling.

After short session by President and other faculties about rules and regulations, we were told about a weeklong orientation. She was hardly listening as she was engrossed in her novel partly and partly listening to the girls infront of her talking about someone. They are constantly talking about a group of basketball player. Ofcourse she learnt some hot looking boys. In particular Rigsel who is the captain of the team. She shook her head why those beautiful girls are always more into boys than studies. She extracted her interest back to her own world. At the end of session, they all were directed to go to lunch and attend some more meetings. "Uhh meeting, meeting and meeting. You know, I heard that half of the semester will be all about meeting. That's why most college students are having back semester. I thought we can team up and beat some shits out of our seniors in court", one of the boys sitting near Lemo said frustratingly. she looked at him thinking, why the negativity from the first day. He must have felt her inquisitive eye because soon he looked back at Lemo. She blushed as her eye met with a set of annoying but a very mesmerising pair of eye. She just stared taking in his handsome features and luscious lips. He smirked back at Lemo saying "you got something to say?". Lemo shook her head and stood up to go. She heard his friends asking what happened and him replying 'weird'. Yeah i am weird girl as among thousands of students, nobody wants to be my friend, she thought miserably. What a great way to start the university life.

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