It was thirty first May. One of the most beloved day in a student's life, summer vacations were starting tomorrow. I quietly entered my class. The energy today was remarkable, there was this sense of excitement in the air. I could hear student's talking enthusiastically about their vacation plans. Some were talking about the places they were gonna visit, some spoke about being up way past their usual bed time, others said they were gonna sleep the whole day and night, some talked about visiting their cousins, I even heard one say I am just really really glad that I would not see the face of our Maths teacher Mr. Arjun for a whole month. I couldn't agree with him even more.
I was sitting by the window on my usual seat, gazing at the beautiful sight of the garden, the flowers were blooming, some birds were chirping, the grass swayed with the gentle breeze. There was this calm in the air like even the nature was joining our little excitement. It was indeed a beautiful day.
In a strange way I was kinda happy too. I wasn't exactly the biggest fan of school. The place sometimes seemed to mock me, I even noticed how the environment was a little toxic. Not that I mind, I mean a class can't be as toxic as a battlefield, right?
Ms. Bharti our class teacher entered, the class you could see the happiness even on her face. She must be over the moon to get rid of us even if it is just for a month. Not like I can blame her too.
Where is Aarush anyway? Isn't he gonna come and yell at me to 'move' like usual. It feels eerily quite today. In a way it is peaceful and in a way I feel bothered. I am used to him and his little chitter chatter. At times it is even hilarious to listen to him mocking one of our teacher (ofcourse in their absence). But he never dares to do it in Maths or Physics class. He likes Tanisq sir so he never does that in his class as well. He goes all out in English. You see, Bharti ma'am isn't exactly fond of him. Being his class teacher she always has her hands full.
The attendance began, so maybe he really was not coming huh? I think ever since our big conflict this is the first time he is absent. Maybe he is running a fever or something. Not my buisness why should I care!
A girl named Janhavi came to sit with me. I really didn't have a problem with it so I removed my bag.
"Hi! Your performance was really good!"
"Oh, Thank You!"
Ever since the annual day everybody has been treating me differently almost with respect. I usually hate attention but this time, for some reason I don't mind. Although it will die down after the summer break.
I opened my novel and started reading. It was a little unusual to read at peace in school without someone going. Huh you are already done with the previous one? Or you are so boring? How can you read something without pictures? Or just grabbing my book. I better make the most of it.
I heard Janhavi talking about the trip that was tomorrow to Kaveri and Shivangi. So let me brief you about these three girls. Janhavi is a really nice and caring girl, she is quite motherly and is often joked to be the mom friend in this group. Shivangi is a quite but clever girl, she is generally nice to everybody but if needed she can roast you very well. And Kaveri by her name you will think she is a sweet feminine girly girl but boy you are wrong. She has just won the state championship of Marshalate and is really aggressive in nature. She is the perfect definition of someone you won't even dream of messing with.
Who am I even explaining this to? Silly me!
"Hey, Chandni?"
"Yes."
"Are you going to the trip?"
"Yeah."
"Are you in any group?"
"No."
"Would you like coming in our group we are one member short."
"Sure!"
"Nice! Then that's settled."
Wow! There goes one of my worries, I can join these lovely girls instead of any weird group of girls that a teacher asks me to be in because I am in no group and they are one member short. That would have been a disaster. Thank God! You saved me the misery of being a part of talk of nail extensions or fashion brands when I am clueless about it.
Then the three went on talking about their plans for the trip and what happened in the weekend. Janhvai was sharing a story about how here brother bought a well sealed book thinking it was a book, a novel containing a lovely story but it turned out to be a diary and he had not touched it since.
"He was like, oh sis I am gonna unwrap it, it has such a nice cover bet the story is so much better. And he said I bet it is gonna be one of the best things I read" and then he opened it. "It might be about magic" he said and when he saw it was just a boring empty diary. He said "Atleast the cover looks good."
"Your brother is so childlike."
"Yeah he is."
I was listening to them relating a bit. Moksh is also a really big dummy. Ah younger brothers are so adorable.
They were all laughing as Janhavi mimicked her brother. I couldn't help but giggle too. Then for some reason the whole class went silent.
"Chandni you laugh?" Asked astonished voices
I just nodded.
"Anyways Chandni?" Asked Rudraksh
"Yes."
"Will you be willing to participate in an interschool music competition we will start preparing after the vacations?"
"Sure."
"Can you just write you contact no. over here?"
"Okay."
"Thank you!"
Yay! Today is such a nice day! I love it! And I hope a really nice summer holidays await me! Along with a really nice school trip! Maybe life is gonna be fun this time! Atleast I hope so.