Gina was really cool. She didn’t even make me feel like I was new there for a single moment. I know we only met but it felt like I had known her forever. She was cute, smart and witty. She made laugh out loud for the first time after so many months. It was oddly new, the feeling.

The feeling to express what you really feel without any worries. It made me forget for a while about my past. Gina was the bridge connecting me to my old self. And I really wished that this bridge would be permanent and last forever. It seemed like a good thing that I didn’t have to move on from my past but also I didn’t have to think about it every waking second of my life. It was weirdly refreshing. Like as though I’ve lost myself only to find back myself after months of agony and regrets. And it was more than enough.

Suddenly, the thought of coming to school seemed appealing. Funny how meeting a certain people can change the way you feel about things. My mom was right. I had to go to school. It’s final year but it doesn’t have to be ‘the final’ for me, I thought. And I was surprised by myself with the thought that just crossed my mind. I smiled and shook my head. And that’s when I saw him.

The guy who most probably thinks that I’m a newbie weirdo in their school. I tried to quickly turn away, but he met my gaze. I couldn’t move, it was like my whole body was paralyzed.

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It was my third period, English. One of my subjects that I used to love. Used to because nowadays it doesn’t matter at all what I like and don’t like. It’s all the same.
Gina was telling me about Sarah. She has been since the first moment we met. Well, it wasn’t her fault actually. I wanted to know more about Sarah. Sarah kept on glaring at Gina throughout our Geography since the second I settled down beside Gina. And I was curious what was the deal about that.

For sure she couldn’t be jealous that I had been asked to sit beside Gina. After all, I just came to this school. She couldn’t be jealous that I was talking to someone else other than her, right? I figured that there had to be something else between them. And there was and Gina didn’t seem to mind to share it with me.

As I had assumed, Sarah was the queen bee of the school. Before Sarah, her sister had been the queen bee and after her sister the title was passed down on to her. And there was apparently loads of things to learn about Sarah itself. Gina and Sarah had been childhood friends. But like all the girls chasing after popularity, Sarah had abandoned Gina because Gina wasn’t ‘up-to-date’.

But that didn’t seem to bother Gina at all. She still thinks Sarah as one of her friends. She still smiles and greets Gina although all she gets back are some deadly glares and snide remarks, Gina told me. I was so grateful to have gotten the same timetable as Gina’s. I didn’t anyone need else. I think Gina herself was more than enough for me to get through my senior year. Who knows maybe we could still be friends even after then. She continued telling me more about Sarah till I stopped moving abruptly.

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“Hey, Davina. C'mon. What’s wrong?” she asked me.

What was I supposed to tell her? Tell her about how the first I got successfully done when I first got to school was that I made a guy think that I was a complete weirdo? And my stupid brain cells and nerve cells had chosen that exact time to not work. I basically had to kickstart myself to be able to respond. Surprisingly, the curly-haired boy waved to me (yes, he had adorably cute curly brown hair) and the blonde boy next to him kept on exchanging looks between me and his friend. Right, so he must have told the blonde about our first crappy, rather embarrassing meeting.

I smiled and quickly turned away. Hopefully that gesture wasn’t too rude. It was enough that I had been set as a weirdo in their minds, I didn’t want thenm to think of me as rude now. No more eye contacts with the boy or his friend, neither of them, I made a mental note to myself.

“Um, nothing. So where do we sit?” I quickly changed the subject.

Gina raised her eyebrow but didn’t press me any further. “Over there,” she pointed.

Again, we sat at the back of the class as we did at the other classes but luckily we had a few rows in between us and the boys. I didn’t turn to their side at all for the rest of the class. I think Gina must have sensed my uneasiness as she asked me if I were okay for a couple of times. I assured her I was good and that I was just hungry. Clearly she didn’t believe me but she didn’t ask me anything else too.

I would have told her but then I was afraid what would she make out of it. I didn’t think we were that close yet. I didn’t even know if we were friends yet. We just met and we talked and it was fun and all. But what if she didn’t really like me and was only doing this out of pure kindness and nothing else?

I know she shared with me about Sarah and all, but I don’t know it’s just that this new me was overthinking literally everything and was worried about the consequences. All those thoughts were already starting to give me a headache and we weren’t even halfway through our school day. I pushed the thoughts to the back of my head. No more thinking, I warned myself. Just get on with it Davina, I told myself and turned my attention back to the class.

However, I could still feel the curly fella’s stare on me.

Notes

Yay boy meets girl at last!!! Or more like girl meets boy... Whatever.
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