YOU AND I

'Wow, I’m up early today,’ I thought to myself. I didn't know why but maybe it had to do with the exciting fact that today’s the first day of school after a very long boring summer holidays. All of my friends apparently had something to do during the holidays and I was stuck all alone in our hometown. Except during my shift for work, I had nothing to do at all. And god, every minute passing by seemed like an eternity for me. Absolute and utter hell. Somehow, I managed to get through it and now here I was…

The day I’d been waiting for the past two months had slowly but surely arrived. Today was the day I get to meet my friends back again. Well, it’s not like I have thousands of them, just only a few. But enough to enjoy my days without even a moment of regret. And then… there’s Jenna. I didn’t really know what we were. We sort of left things unsorted and in an awkward place last year. I didn’t know if it’s true or not but my friends kept on insisting that she’s really into me and they were the one who brought us together. But to be honest, I didn’t really like her. I mean I did like her as a person, yeah, but not like really like like her.

You know what, it’s just too complicated. When I was with her, I felt like I’d been tied up or you know like restrained. I just couldn’t seem to be myself when I was with her. It’s like I’d to be nice and obedient with her. And that’s totally not me. I was quite the opposite. Jenna too realized it. Things were getting weirder and weirder between us. But before we could do anything about it, summer holidays came in and we were forced to leave things just like that. We actually could have gotten over it during the holidays only if she hadn’t gone to New York. And there’s my boring story of my love life. However, I was determined to sort things out between us like this day itself. I was gonna free myself of any old ties and start anew. I just hope it wouldn’t be too weird or something. Weird was so not my thing.

Oh damn! I was already running late for school. Granted my mother’s at work already I could skip breakfast and hopefully reach school in time. Seriously, the last thing I wanted was to reach school late on the first day itself. Thank god, it wasn’t raining. My car’s still at service - for 2 weeks now. I should really remind my mother to check what’s the deal with that after school. And now the only means I had to reach school other than by foot is my bicycle. It had been years now since I last touched it. But still it looked cool and sort of new. The most important thing is that it’s still intact. I guess that’s better than nothing. To be honest, I was actually thrilled to ride my bicycle to school. That’s how I had gone to school during my first day of my freshman year. And today was the first day of school as well, but the only difference was that it’s my senior year. And there might never be any other better way to start your year, I thought to myself and rode off to school.

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