This story started 15years ago, when I was stepping to my 5th standard. Like the previous story same old school is the location. After finishing my 4th standard at a convent school, I got promoted to my school where my father was a teacher. It was a month of June, the beginning of my Upper primary education. I thought I was the biggest one in my class but all that ruined when I entered to my class room, I was the smallest among them. It is so easy to make friends in childhood, when you give them an eraser or even try helping them in any small things, then they would be your friend. There was so many mischievous boys in my classroom, there were some who put grass hopper in their mouth, someone breaks the chalk, someone who fights and makes their head punch on the wall. Considering to other subdivisions my class was with smallest strength. There were only 30 students in my class, 16 of them were boys and 14 were girls.
On the first day of my school, our timing was from morning 10 to 4. Students were not allowed to enter the compound unless it is 9.30 am, but not knowing this I reached at 8.45 am. I had no cycle at that time I came with my brother who was 3 years older than me. He left to the playground after showing my classroom, the door was locked so I could not enter my class. So I started wandering around my class, it was not much old and the roof was made of concrete, my house had a tiled roof and it leaks during rains. I was thinking all those things and looked around if there were some other students who came early, I couldn't see anyone. I cursed myself for coming that much early, suddenly I saw an umbrella approaching to that building. I couldn't understand if that was a boy or girl, by the way I was very much shy while talking to girls. But I didn't think about that, either if its a boy or girl, I will get some company, it was only 9 am at that time. When the umbrella came near I found its a small girl and she was coming exactly where I stood. I started trembling a little. She entered the small veranda in front of the class and walked towards me. Then she placed her umbrella down and never even gazed at me. Her actions where like, I was never existed there. From a distance I heard a whistle in a low voice, and I saw many boys where running off from the playground. When I saw the origin of the whistle from a stubborn man with gray beard, I knew his name he was our Physical education Teacher "Porinchu Master". Following him there was our headmistress, with a milky white face and anger. I was afraid a little and I saw she was also in fear. I told her for the first time "It is not allowed to enter school before 9.30, I didn't know" then she looked at me and said her father runs an office and he has to go early, thats why she came early that day. I looked at her for the first time, she had pale complexion and her lips were trembling. The hero inside me awakened, I have to save this girl from getting beaten and I have to save myself too. Without much lag I said "we have to hide", there was a wall at the end of veranda where there is a corner, no one can see us if we sit there. I lead her to there, and we sat there, I sat on my bag but she was not ready to do that, she sat on her legs crossed on the floor. We became silent for some moments, and I heard students crying and the sound of the stick which made thud thud sounds. My heart was beating faster, when I looked at her face she made a pity face and she was looking back at me. After all these years, I still remember that little girl's face. After 9.30 we stood up and saw many students approaching the building. She never said any compliment words and I never talked to her again.
We had Nalini teacher as our class teacher, she never sent us to playground. She took the subject Social science and forced us to write and learn the paragraphs. By the way I forgot one thing, we were the second English medium batch to that school. Teachers tried hard to make us study, they took classes both in English and Malayalam, they gave us bunch of homeworks. All that we did was writing, reading, writing reading. Then there was our biology days, we had to plant some seeds on pots and make them grow. I tried all my teacher said, but none of my seeds grew, I hesitated it very much then gave up making plants. One day there was a test to write and describe flower parts, by somehow I already made a copy from home and took it to class. When everybody was drawing and writing, I mocked up like I was writing. Then teacher started correcting our papers, she started asking questions about parts of the petal and I was shivering, but she caught a girl who didn't answer and the bell rang. There were bamboo forests near the playground and we used to make whistles with bamboo leaf and we played hide and seek inside. Maybe there were poisonous snakes inside, but we didn't bother about it. After that we got promoted to 6th standard, but one of my friend failed and started studying in the Malayalam medium.
Almost 6years of my schooling was ended on the year 2010. I started missing them after passing my 10th grade. During the vacation I started messaging them through phone. I got autographs from all my classmates and they wrote their phone number in it. I was forwarding joke messages to all, I had no phone so I was using my dads phone. One day when I returned from play ground, father called me and asked who was Aleena?. I said she was my classmate and he said " Her father called on this phone and said stop messaging". I was so shocked and I stopped messaging everyone. During +1 and +2 she was in different school, I usually notices see her standing on the front line on line bus, she usually wear a white and blue uniform. After +1 and +2 I was the only student who took Diploma as higher studies, so I lost all my friends, I got admission at a college very far from my house. I catch two bus to reach home. The first one from college and second one from Thrissur bus stand. I reached around 5pm at Thrissur town. At the same time I noticed a familiar face, It was Aleena!. So we started talking, about so many things. I had no company in my college, she was also in same condition. Then we started messaging, we talked all day and all night. One day I asked her "Do you love me?" Then we fell in love!
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