a tiring day

 The day is kinda good today, ah I mean it is looking normal but I don't know I am feeling very well today. I don't know the reason though but something feels different though. I started looking at the buildings they are looking as good as ever, those blue glasses reflecting the warm sunlight. I felt a little itch on my nose, I quickly adjusted my specs to feel a little comfortable I say. My bag is as light as every, I recently got my new table. These days we can anything with just these digital specs, I remember dad said when he was a kid this technology was just new and it is not satisfactory for the general public, but it is normalised across the nations. I can simply access map with my specs it is pretty comfortable I say but still I need to walk to the school. All says it is good to walk on regular basis, but you know it is kinda hard to do it though, and I think I forgot to introduce myself my name is Stellan and there is a problem with me, I am straightforward. I still unable to understand some things about people, even though it isn’t a major problem up until now. I always feel that I may face any issues in future.

I am just walking and walking to the school, just doing my very unusual thinking as usual. I observed something on the tree, that is beside my favourite cafe I usually go. I saw some kind of blue light there or some shiny particles, it was like for a spilt second but it captured my attention a little too much I say. I slowly walked towards it to see it. I went near to the tree to check it out, but it kinda gone until I reach there, it kinda felt strange I wonder what it will be. I thought it is my imagination so I resumed my walking. I am kinda feeling peaceful now or so I thought of it. Suddenly there came a voice that kinda hurt my ears and also my head. I just hoped that it wasn’t her but it seems my kinda good day is completed now. I slowly turned around to see her that it wasn’t her. She is almost near my range, I am thinking how should I react to her.

“hey Stel its been a while a while”

“what its been a while we are daily meeting like this”

“why are you acting like that”

Yes, she is my so called self proclaimed childhood friend, I don’t even remember when we used to be friends but she always brags about it. It is really pain to be friends with her you know. She is self proclaimed beauty, who thinks she is the most beautiful one, she has arrogance and ego and most importantly she don’t stop talking and I really feel annoyed with her. She always moves closely with my family. Damn what is this I just want some peace not this stuff. She is scary and most people in my class don’t even interact with her properly. You know what I don’t have any good guy friends and due to her other girls also don’t talk with me that much. My whole school life is messed up because of her. I think I forgot to say her name why I am always forgetting to introduce names, next time I introduce clear, her name is Ilya, and she is in my class. Fortunately I am not only the one who is in this so called friendship group. There is another girl her name is Tanya, she is not like Ilya, she is silent and do her work, she is in part of friendship just for the sake of the name.

It seems she is initiating a talk

“so how is your day Stel”

“me nothing much just some routine stuff, ah I read a new novel, I felt it interesting”

“so what was it about”

“like end of the world”

“that’s an interesting topic, you picked”

“so what did you do recently, Ilya” I stretched her name a little

“you know there was a new video game I found in game shop”

“so what is it about”

“its about saving your love from an accident”

“so protagonist knows the future”

“yeah he knows about it”

“that would be an interesting game though”

“so how about you trying it”

“nah, I don’t think so. I am really weak at video games though”

I tagged with her to school. I am walking beside to her though, not much close nor not much distance though. I used to walking with her like this. I wonder how many years like this, come to think of it I unable to remember when is it. Aww when is it right. I unable to remember it well though, she took too much of life. I did not enjoy it well.

I saw Tanya, she is at a distance from here. I slowly waved my hand towards her. Tanya took some seconds to notice though, she waved at me. It seems Ilya also observed Tanya, she started walking fast towards. Tanya is about to greet her I think. I made my legs fast to catch up with her, after a little walk I was able to reach Tanya and Ilya. They started their regular talk, I really don’t have any mood to talk so I decided to listen to them.

“good morning, Tanya”

“good morning”

“you are very early today”

“I think I happen to wake up early”

“You really wake up, early huh, It is very hard for me”

With their usual talk they started walking to school. Ilya is walking in between me and Tanya. Ilya is talking long sentences and Tanya is replying to them with short sentences. I started observing surroundings. we go to central institution. It is a vast institution, it has blocks for elementary school to university. This school is entirely maintained by the government. Getting into this isn’t that easy, but as we studied in it since elementary. We were able to pass the test for high school, because we used to the tough syllabus we study. Students from other schools really not able to pass the test, ofcourse it is not like impossible but hard than compared to us who got used to its syllabus. I think I like this school, but I have issues with some issues from a student. We are in the way to go to high school block. It is the time of everyone entering the school, the place is filled with many students. The yellow and blue combination uniform really fitting to this moody morning. Come to think of uniforms Ilya skirt is shorter than Tanya’s. There are various lengths of skirts I can see from here but from rough estimation I can categorize them into three categories short, medium, long. Medium skirts are majority though, I can see some long and short ones. So if I wanna try to categorize Tanya skirt, It would say it goes to medium. In the same way for Ilya’s, wait it is very short, okay it is not that short but it goes to the short category, I really did not know or I forgot. Ilya’s skirt is short. Nah nah I don’t think I should think about someone I hate like this. Suddenly Ilya asked me about something.

“Stel.., Stel…, are you listening, Stel..”

“ahh, what… what do you need”

“do you think Tanya is cute”

I stuttered. What the hell this girl is talking about. I made a look on Tanya. She has this long hairstyle, may be not that much long though, just upto her upper part of hip. perfect hair length I would say. Suddenly my eyes got distracted because of Ilya. Ilya really had this very short hair, for some reason I really don’t like that short hair. I readjusted my eyes towards tanya, she has that pretty face silent face. She is steadily looking infront of her without bothering about anything. It is kinda feeling like Its been a while since I saw her face. It is weird right I look at her face regularly. Anyway I decided to answer Ilya’s question.

“yeah she is cute” I made a pause “unlike you”

“wha.. what”

I think I made Ilya angry. Tanya made a smile, she is covering her face with her hand, may to not get noticed by Ilya. I giggled looking at Ilya face, she made pout face. We entered to the highschool block. We entered into our class, we are in same class. I took my seat and pit my beside me. Haa I am feeling tired. I turned left just to find Ilya, yeah we are also bench neighbours, is it really a term I don’t know. So she started talking to me again.

“hey, whats the first period today”

“I think its geography”

“geography huh, it is kinda boring”

“which subject you will find interesting anyway”

“haa, you are right though”

She made a smile saying it. I tried to replicate it, but I don’t think I did good. All the students are situated well at their positions. Suddenly teacher came. The regular old guy, the way he teaches is really boring. I really can’t blame Ilya in it though. But I really love geography, learning about maps is such an interesting to do. Teacher started explaining about the country map. I already know about it. I started repeating the words he is saying, the way it is inaudible to others. Capital, Peninsula, Continent, Southern Islands. Suddenly the attention of teacher went to outside. He signed to someone to move in. I wonder who it is.