After a few days, the school had conducted a small program and our class was chosen to manage it well. The program was done as an advertisement stuff. It was done so that our school can be a little more popular. Almost everyone was busy with stuffs to do except me, Tyler and Tanie. Alice had a speech to give. I was left with nothing to do. Then our teacher called for us and said, “Who will be hosting the program?” Then, Tanie said, “Tyler and I can do that.” The teacher nodded and asked me what I will be doing. I could not think of anything so I said, “I could also do the hosting but as they are doing it I will be the volunteer.” Actually I also wanted to try hosting although I would be nervous. But the opportunity was taken by Tanie.
On the day of the program, one hour before the program started, Tyler came to me out of the blue and said, “Didn't you want to do hosting? Then do it.” He handed me a diary of the performances today. I was shocked for a while, but again I was a little happy because I was hosting together with Tyler. But I wondered what had happened.
After that incident Tyler ignored me always. But it seemed he did not care anymore now or maybe he forgot about it. However, the hosting should be done by Tanie and him so I was confused.
So, I said, “Why? What happened?” Tyler said, “Tanie is unwell.” Then I said, “Oh, okay. So... tell me about your part and mine part.” Tyler said without any expression, “You are doing the whole part.” I could not say anything. I stuttered, “I... you...” He said, “I just accepted to do the hosting because Tanie said.” I felt a little bitter in my heart, then I did not say anything more. He went. I looked at the diary. It was well maintained. The diary was filled with blue and pink ink. After going through it, I could understand that the blue part was for Tyler and pink was for Tanie. I got prepared for hosting. But I was nervous. Soon, I had to start the program, so I went up on the stage.
I had not expected so many people to come. I was very nervous. I could feel my face getting hot and my hands were sweating. I slowly started. Then, I do not know what happened, Tyler also came. Maybe he found out that I was being nervous. He came and then I got a little confidence. Then we together played with our roles and ended the program smoothly. Then, after the program ended I asked Tyler, “Why did you come? You said that I will do it alone.” Then he said, “Yeah, I know I told you. But I did not trust that you will be able to do it alone. So, I came. Also, hosting was Tanie and mine responsibility. So I could not let it get ruined.”
After hearing him, I did not say anything. Just bitterness was being filled in my heart. But I was a little happy, because he spoke to me. We had not talked to each other for a long time. Every time he ignored me, I was sad. But as he spoke I got happy. Well maybe it is always like this, if you like someone a lot, even if that person does bad to you or says bad to you, you will still feel something for that person. Because it is the heart that works in these cases not the brain. Well I guess our heart and brain can never work together. If the brain is working then our heart just functions of pumping the blood and when our hearts starts beating then our brain stops working. You end up doing stupid things when the heart starts beating.
After few days, everyone got busy. Well, because our final exams were coming. Everyone had to do their best. Although I did not like studying, I did not work so hard like others. I knew that if I study if I have understood then I will do okay as always. I never had a feeling of competition. While Tyler and Alice was on a competition mode. Both of them did not show that both were working hard for the first position, but I knew they were working hard as I knew both of them. Then, after all those hard works, the examination was finished for this session. It was the final exam, so we had a few weeks’ holidays to spend. After wishing each other goodbyes, I went home. At home, after eating dinner, I slept.
The next day, I woke up a little late. After freshening up, I went to kitchen. I ate my breakfast with my mom and she asked if I would go with her to maternal uncle's house today. Well, as I would be bored in the house anyway, so I agreed. So after breakfast, we both went there. In my uncle's house I spent the day playing games and playing with my little brother and sister. During the lunch time, my uncle asked me and my mom if we will go to a trip after two days. The trip was to a beautiful scenery place. We could see beautiful views of mountains and hills from that place and more importantly it was snowing there. After hearing this I immediately agreed.
As I agreed, my mom also agreed for my sake. My uncle asked if my dad would come and we said we will inform him tomorrow after talking to dad. Two days just passed like that by packing clothes and getting excited for trip. Early in the morning, a bus which was reserved came to pick us, my dad had also agreed to go. We went in the bus. In the bus, I greeted to my uncle and aunt and the relatives I knew. Then, after picking up few more relatives from their bus stops, our trip started.
In the trip there were no people of my age. So, I was a little bored. I was on the window side and I sat next to mom with earphones in my ears. I listened to Nepali, English, Hindi songs but mostly Korean songs. After a few hours, the bus stopped for breakfast in a hotel. After eating, we continued our journey. After an hour, I could see beautiful scenery from the window. It was really beautiful. During the lunch time, we could feel chillness in air, so everyone started warming up by wearing the warm clothes. I heard from the chat that my uncle and father had that we will be reaching soon. I got more excited.
After few hours we reached the lower spot. The place was filled with snow. It was my first time seeing snow. It was really beautiful. Excitedly I took some photos. My uncle came to me and said," we will have to hike up there (pointing from his finger) then you can get more beautiful pictures out there." I was so excited and said, “So, why are we not going?” Uncle said, “It will get dark after few hours. So, we will go there tomorrow.” I said, “Okay” in excitement. But deep inside my heart I could not wait to go up there and enjoy the view. I wanted to scream my name from up there. But it was saved for tomorrow.
So, after playing with snow for a few minutes we went to the hotel. There were only two hotels there. As the weather was cold here, the area was not developed for tourism. Everyone managed to settle. After we had our dinner, when everyone went to sleep. I could not sleep. I was excited a lot. But the only thing was, there were no one from my age group. Well, what change would have happened even if there was someone of my age group because I will not be able to speak a word to that person because I am still an introvert. Thinking all these, I slept really late. Early in the morning, I was woken up by mom. Everyone was getting ready to climb there after early breakfast. I was still feeling sleepy maybe because of yesterday's whole day in bus and I slept late. After breakfast we went up.
On the half way, my mom could not go more up. She did not feel well because of the temperature there. So, she was going to return. Along with her another lady relative was going to return. Well, I was in a dilemma because I did not want to go without mom as there were no one I could enjoy with. Dad was in the group of uncles. So, although I was really excited, I decided to return back. Hence, we went back. The hotel was already packed with other group of people, so we stayed in the bus until other came and we returned. I was really sad. After the journey in the bus. We reached home. I felt tired and sad, so I slept. Before sleeping I had thought that next time I would go there again.
After few days, we had our results. The results were the same Alice on top then Tyler and then me. So, it was nothing new. After two days of the result our new session was beginning. At home: I woke up at the sound of my alarm. I thought to myself. Today I am going school after these holidays. I just want this session to go well. I do not want any trouble. This my last year at this school. I may not be able to see any of them after I graduate. I hope I will gain more memories this year. So, with a new hope, I freshened up, ate breakfast and went to school. I missed Alice so I hugged her after I saw her.The whole day, during every lectures, every teacher told us to study hard. It was our last year before graduation so we should do better. One week passed just like that. Everyone was serious for their studies, so everyone concentrated on every lectures well. At the end of the week, before the first lecture, we got a notice. The notice was about p
The winner had just 50 votes more from the second one. Obviously I was not the winner. I even had thought that I will not get even one vote. But I got 20 votes and 1 teacher's vote. I was thankful and shocked to hear the votes I got. I was shocked because many did not know who I was. I was like an outcast. However, I thought I got those votes because of my speech. I even got more than Samaira. She got 10 votes in total without any teacher's vote. Anyway Tyler had succeeded in his place. Tanie won the title. Although she won, Alice had many teacher's votes. But the voting system was made to be done everything fair. I could see a little sadness in her eyes, but she congratulated Tanie and Tyler. I could see mocking expressions for Alice and me in their eyes. It was like as if they were trying to tell us, "ha-ha, how do you feel to lose and how do you feel to get only 25 votes." They did not say it but I could feel that they were trying to tell us those things. But still we all
Then, the other days were same. I just studied hard. My parents bought me different books to get help from. I was shocked by myself because I had become one of the studious girl. One day, our Math’s teacher took a surprise test. Well we could not fight with the teacher not to take the test. So, we had to do it. I do not know why I felt the questions easy. I did well. The next day, the teacher said who scored the highest. He said it was two people. He took Alice’s and my name. Well I was not so surprised because I had done really well. We had got full marks. Everyone applauded for us. I could see that Tanie was jealous and sad. She failed the exam. After being the Girl Captain, she had completely ruined her studies. I even thought that due to this reason the Girl Captain will change.The other days went as usual. We always studied. Sometimes we had viva, I answered well when the teacher asked me questions.One day, it was raining heavy. One of our teacher could not
I clenched my hand so hard, to wake up from the dream. I also pinched myself so hard without anyone noticing. But it was not the dream. I realized I am in trouble now and maybe because of me Tyler is also in trouble now. Tanie was stopping us from outside because she had seen the teacher who would teach us extra classes in the class. She would not stop us maybe if it was any other guy but it was Tyler and what’s more he is the Boy Captain. My head started hurting after thinking what will happen.I looked at the teacher, he smiled and went out of class and everyone went out of class. Tyler, Tanie, Alice, Samaira and I was left in class. I said, “Oh, no. What do we do now? I am so sorry Tyler. I will make sure you will not get any trouble. I am really very sorry.” We had to be in the class of that teacher so we went. I was feeling sick. My face was hot and red during whole time in class. I could feel sweat coming. However he did not say anything
After few days we got a notice, the notice was that everyone are compulsory to participate in story writing competition. The competition was between whole school except the juniors did not have the competition. The moral was given one day ahead. I went home and thought about the competition. I just thought I will do okay as usual. The next day competition was held. We were given a whole day and we could sit wherever we wanted and write the story. Before competition started, Alice told me, "Sarah, do you know Girl Captain and Boy Captain did not have to participate in the competition. How lucky both of them." I could see a flash of jealousy in her eyes just for a small moment. For a moment, I thought how lucky they are. But again I thought optimistically and said that well the ones who are participating can gain knowledge and experience but not them. We sat on the garden and started writing. After the competition ended everyone's stories were coll
After a few weeks, three foreign teachers had come to our school. It was a teachers’ exchange program. To welcome them we had a small formal welcome. In that welcome, those teachers said few words and they had brought gifts to the principal and other big members of school. Then, they said they had brought gifts for the Boy Captain and Girl Captain also. They received the gift. I was a little jealous. The gifts were wrapped beautifully. I thought how lucky they were. I could also see jealousy in Alice's face. But maybe if it was Alice who had received the gift I would not have been jealous but it was Tanie. After few days, they left.We all then started focusing on our studies. Our final exams were near. Nothing happened because everyone was busy studying. Soon, we had our exams. I gave all exams well. However, the last examination was of Mathematics. Tyler was in the back seat of mine. I had been practicing Mathematics a lot. So, I was confident. I started writing th
When I reached school, many of them were already there. Then, we waited for everyone else to come. Alice also reached after a few minutes I reached. We were excited. Three lady and three gents teacher were joining us. At 7.25, one of the teacher took the attendance so that they can know how many were going. Then, we had two school buses and we got into bus. Alice and I sat together. I was in the window side. I realized that Kyle, Tanie, Samaira, Tyler were also in the same bus. Samaira and Tanie sat together and Kyle and Tyler sat together. The bus headed towards its destination.Few of them from backwards started singing songs while I had chat with Alice. After few minutes, there were just voices of people talking to each other. After few hours, we reached a place to eat our breakfast. Then, we had our breakfast. We again continued the journey and soon we reached our destination.First we were divided to groups for the rooms. Four in each roo
After few minutes, it started raining heavily. So, I went to another corner to stay away from rain. It was just a left turn from the place Tyler said. It was raining heavily. I waited for an hour, my legs were feeling numb as I was standing in the same place. Although it was raining heavy and other sounds could not be heard, I could finally hear a voice. It was loud and familiar. I poked my head and saw that Tanie came along with Tyler. They both were under an umbrella. I felt a little sad but I just thought that she followed him here. However, when they came exactly to the spot, I was going to step out and call out for Tyler but when I heard Tanie speaking I sat behind and watched them secretly.She said, “What is the surprise? Where is it?” Tyler had a confused expression on his face and said, "Oh, I had said Sarah to come here. Why did she not come?" Tanie had a little angry eyes and said, "How can Sarah be a surprise for me?"