Three months passed and still no sign of assurance of me resuming to school yet, all I could think of was just to resume to school and express my feelings to my dearest Nadira, I didn't even mind that I just lost a whole semester of my first junior year thanks to the pandemic and to be sincere, it wasn't the best feeling to have at all because there were lots of mixed up emotions sometimes, like me be reminded that I was the best student, the best graduating student when graduating from my preliminary years and I was this close to achieving that as well in my first year but the pandemic had cut my celebration in fact too short, I didn't even get to prepare for the day not to talk of me getting to hold the prize been awarded to me. Just a week passed by then the message was from school had arrived on my dad's mobile handset, it was as if the extensive prayer I made during every solat had just been answered and it had just been a dream come true because I got so tired of staying home and I think this was when I noticed that I didn't like staying home at all and that school was much more of a home to me and I seemed to have loved it. So, the message was that we are to resume to school soon and it was about time I said, even the online class the school organized wasn't so interactive because I am someone who kinda liked physical class more and this was very annoying and this was just more than online class, it was more like me sitting in an empty class and the teachers had to explain via phone call.
The day arrived when the government confirmed resumption for all schools and luckily I think mine is also called a school. I dressed up, my white shirt along with series of peach colored lines along the tip of my shirt and my collar was totally peach, still in shorts as well and I knotted my tie around my collar, my black shoe was polished and I had to finish it up with a nose mask because the of the virus which was still present but not as much as it was before we took the long break. My sisters and I resumed to school and when we got there, the atmosphere was very embracing and I loved every moment, I took my time to stroll around the school after a very long time and there they were, students and teachers resuming for duty one after another but the only person my heart seemed to have been yearning for was no other person but Nadira, the assembly started and concluded still no sign even though the proprietor took hours to give welcome speech and stating new rules and regulation, there was no sign of them at all, we resumed to our class but after some get together time we were moved to the next class, that meant we promoted without taking the second and third term examination, which usually determined whether we promoted or we stay still in the class, that seemed to have given off a positive vibe a bit. The day was coming to its half and there's still no sign of her or her twin sister not even Mustafa Rashid, I gave up thinking she might have switched schools, then this was when I had company of friends, the people of Ibrahim Luqman, Rahim Samira, Farida Nabila and Khadija Sakina with some more, they did keep me company but this wasn't enough, I needed to see Nadira and only I knew why and what will happen if she did arrive.
The day ended and I didn't see Nadira at all, all I could think of was that she might have switched school and this was beginning to be my worst nightmare and I didn't seem to like it at all because who said all nightmares were scary, some tend to be the cutest and lovable ones and this was one of the scariest I ever had. I didn't feel like resuming the next day but I had no choice but to resume because the school had to make us go through the last term's work and trust me none of this was more boring than anything, going through something I knew was so boring especially in mathematics because I still had that crazy calculating skill thanks to my friends. I kept on going through the memory lane the next day and it took me back to when we were preparing for our inter-house sport competition before the pandemic broke in but we still never had the chance to do it because the pandemic broke in before the school could even finalize a date for the competition and it was fun seeing her prepare and exercise, I loved the view of those time even though we were in different teams we still connected from afar but this time around it seems the most patient dog eats the fattest bone, she was here and it was so welcoming, my atmosphere changed and I didn't make it look obvious because it will make me look like a fool, one of the most brilliant guy waiting and expecting a girl was just a stupid idea to even think of not to talk of admitting it. She was here with her sister and with their friend, Mustafa Rashid, we didn't make it look obvious but we missed each other like crazy, for some moments we couldn't take our eyes of each other before the girls of the class surrounded them and started their stupid chit-chatting and that was more of the girls of our class, immature and kinda stupid a bit, our class was the first junior class to have guys topping the class because the whole junior class had girls topping the class and they seemed fine with it because the guys in the whole school seemed obsessed with football and only few of us in the class then played football and that was how we were, much more composed but they called us weird even my sisters called us professors but never knew what was going on in the class, they were like green snakes in green grasses.
I finally had courage to talk to her about it but she ignored my proposal even though she felt the same way, I had to change the topic saying I was just testing her to see if I could trust her even more than I do but she was getting even angrier then one of my inner friends sighted a solution for me, I think that was a version of me I kept in there as well, I had different versions of myself and I could talk to them the same way I could talk to the others, he told me to break all ties with her and wait for her reaction because science said " to every action there is an equal but opposite reaction", that was newton's third law of motion, I took the risk and it seemed he was right, she pulled back that anger and calmed down and apologized which was what I was supposed to do not her, I gave a high five to him for suggesting such an idea, I also apologized to her which made us even and I told her I just wanted to be friends with her and nothing else.
That was the best move I made then and I was so proud of it because it gave me a girl-friend who wanted to become my girlfriend but just couldn't say it out and I also knew this. We got more attached ever since that day and seriously, our bond was much more stronger and I kept on loving it because it seemed it was Christmas and my wish was to spend more quality time with her which I kept on doing for a very long time but what I didn't know was that the crack that was going to come between the love story that hadn't started at all was coming and I didn't know it was very close to me.
As time keeps going on, she had friends and I started hearing rumors about someone else liking me and was trying to convince Nadira not to accept my proposal, that sparked lots of lightning bolts in my head, I was boiling with fury but I didn't make it look obvious. Anna Joy, the only female Christian we had in our class and also my friend, surprisingly was the one who was the one who seemed to have feelings for me and was ready to ruin the present one that hadn't even started. It didn't seem long enough we had a newbie, a girl, Rahim Samira, she was very bold from day one, from the introduction to the interaction with the class, she didn't seem very attractive to me, in fact she seemed a nobody to me, I still had my anger bottled up in me and knew something to do, I tried to tell her but I knew if I did, she wouldn't believe me because her and Joy were friends. I tried looking for ways to show and prove to her that she was wrong about her friend but it seems there was more to do.
WHAT WOULD YOU DO WHEN YOU HAVE THE CHANCE TO SAVE YOUR RELATIONSHIP?, ANYTHING I GUESS BUT WHEN YOU CAN'T SAVE IT WHAT WOULD YOU DO THEN?