Chapter 2:
Do I need to do all this for my bench neighbor
A girl entered from the entry of the class. She is wearing our school uniform, but I haven’t seen her in the class till now. It already been a lot of time since admissions completed right. Anyway the first thing I observed was her hair, her hair is long I mean long, um… um… more longer than Tanya’s hair, the length I used to like a lot. This girl’s hair is even longer that is very surprising for me. I am feeling differently looking at that hair. The second thing I observed is the length of her skirt, oh my.. it is shorter than Ilya’s. what in a time I am living to witness this. I am satisfied because of it. I know you are thinking I have some kind of fetish on hair and skirts of girls, yes I have and I am proud of it, also it is not the important part we need to care about now, now we need to learn about her. She reached the stage or whatever that is little elevated from our seats.
“hello everyone I am Mira nice to meet you all”
Teacher pointed at me or somewhere near me and instructed me and she started moving towards my seat. I quickly looked at my sides, the right side to me is this useless creature, the creature observed that I am looking towards her and looked at me in return. I quickly turned left as I observed Ilya is looking at me. To my heavy surprise the seat left to me is empty, I am saying surprise because I really did not observed till now. Is it girl or boy at this place I really don’t remember who was here before, aww what is happening. I hold my head thinking, but I observed Mira is near to me. I understood she will be my new bench neighbour. Emphasize on new because I already have this woman rightside to me. She took the seat as I expected and sat there like a lady, a pure perfection. Mira turned towards me and waved her hand with a smile, I did same thing to her.
Okay playtime is over, now its time for classes. I gave the absolute concentration to the geography though. When I look at maps I always feel something is off I really don’t know why, an incomplete feeling, where ever I researched I unable to find what are the things that are missing. Because of my research my room is filled with geography books, I might have knowledge equal to geography expertise. Through geography I also entered into some history, the most well known thing felt intriguing for me, yeah it is the great war that happened like nearly thousand years ago. It is said that humanity achieved true peace for that time. History says there was no wars among the formed nations like as in old nations. The governments only focused on education, technology and making our lives comfortable, that’s why the world is soo peaceful now or is it, yeah I know it isn’t possible in the world we are living right now, but I sometimes feel what if everything is a lie and humanity never achieved the true peace. If I let these thoughts out, people might see as a mad man or as an outlaw. These kind of thoughts might give me trouble. I am really glad that government is not reading our thoughts or I might be in a huge problem. I think I thought too much for today, let me rest my intriguing philosophy conspiracy brain. Its time to test my brain of other interest I recently got hooked off. Okay all the classes of the morning session are completed, aww man that a ride, this central school syllabus really heat my brain.
I slowly turned towards Mira, she is just biting her thumb finger edge with her reddish glossy lips that are shining like steel. Mira turning towards me while adjusting her long hair. Mira slowly sounded mm. may be that sound could be a way of asking why are looking at me, do you need anything. I slowly nodded my head implying nothing. Mira removed her thumb finger edge from her mouth and started talking to me.
“so what is your name”
“umm.. umm my name is Stellan”
“wow that is a very unique name”
“yeah, yeah my dad chose that name for me”
“really in that case I want to meet your dad”
“what… aww how about we go together after school”
“I would love to, so Stellan… nah, your name is unique but not that comfortable to call, any short name or nick name you got”
“ahh.. you can call..”
Suddenly Ilya interrupted our talk. I really got angry but I can’t do anything about it.
“Stel its time for lunch”
“ahh okay I will come” I made a fake smile at Ilya.
But Mira not stopped talking to me it seems.
“so your nick name is Stel, I will go with it”
“yeah you can go with it”
I felt some pulling on my shirt. Yep it is Ilya pulling my shirt. I suddenly got a brilliant idea at this time. In theory it should work well. I looked at Mira.
“Mira, can you join lunch with us”
“us?”
“yeah, this is Ilya, she is my friend”
I turned towards Ilya
“and Ilya this is, you know already anyway”
I know this isn’t that much brilliant idea I am bragging about, but this is the safest yet profitable choice for me. I can already feel the fumes from Ilya. I need to pay this little price for getting along with Mira. Mira responded positively to my offer, she started talking to Ilya.
“hello Ilya, I am Mira, nice to meet you”
“umm nice to meet you”
Ilya turned towards me. I know things are not well because Ilya may not want another one to stick around. You may ask how do I know. I know about her since childhood. Ilya usually rejects someone to be with us. I really don’t remember clearly how Tanya became the member of our friend group though. Ilya started getting along with Tanya one day. Atleast in front of me they don’t talk that much with each other but Tanya always hangs with us. Ilya is saying something to me
“Stel lets go”
“yeah, lets go”
I looked at Mira
“Mira lets go”
Mira nodded her head. We took our lunch boxes from our bags. I am following Ilya and Mira is following me. On the way Tanya also joined us. Tanya was the last one she is walking behind Mira. She is distant as usual. Some students in class looked at me for a fraction of seconds, they might be thinking how I made friends with the transfer girl that easily. They know the situation of me with Ilya. As me and Tanya are always together some people started shipping us but Ilya always rejected those rumours completely. Ilya always say stuff like he is my childhood friend that’s why I care so much about him and he is innocent. I don’t know how much innocent I am, I know soo much stuff though. That’s could be the main reason why some students are giving this look towards me.
We left the class, now we are in corridor. Ilya decreased her walking speed and moved sidewards a little because of the I came diagonally close to her, at this very moment Mira increased her speed now she is almost walking beside me. Ilya might don’t like this, Tanya speed not change, she is behind Mira. Mira started conversation with me
“so Stel.. can I call you that”
“yeah, yeah you can without any issues”
“like you live near to school”
“not too much near but I may need to take a long walk, so what about you Mira”
“I live near but it is not much of a big walk”
“so where you transferred from”
“I am from peninsula, life in capital seems very good though”
“yeah in theory I say, but we crave for some open spaces in this metropolitan zone”
“almost entire nation is very developed, but still capital is capital anyway”
“so what is the main difference between you found between peninsula and capital”
“like I would say tall buildings, there are tall buildings there too but not that much”
“Mira, can I know the reason why you transferred here”
“my dad works in government, there will be regular transfers”
“I see…”
Now there is a small thing that is bothering me now, I read entire nation is provided with equal facilities in terms of almost everything, so is she lying, I read wrong. Not a major issue though but still kinda bugging me.
After some walk we reached the rooftop, it is true that majority of buildings are tall in capital but central institution block are small. This institution is designed to be spacious for students and to engage them in various activities. The land is vast for institution we can see the regular shiny bluish buildings here, but that’s not the part we like here, we love the tress view we can get from here. Institute has soo many trees which can give a pleasant feeling.
There is long bench here, we used to sit with distance before because we are three back then. As now we are four, we need to sit closely now. I sat in between Mira and Ilya, Tanya sat beside Ilya at the corner. I am not in a comfortable position but Ilya won't leave me and I want to sit beside Mira. I thought we were adjusted very well and about to start the lunch. Tanya suddenly became unconscious and fell on Ilya shoulders.
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