It was the next day. I entered my classroom with full intention of ignoring my friend's whole existence for betraying me. I sat down on my seat when one of my classmate asked me whether she could submit her form today as she was absent the previous day and I was over the moon.
"Finally! I won't be the only girl suffering alone!" I jumped happily while holding her hand as she joined me.
She was my first ever friend in this school. We were inseparable. But then, one day she stopped talking and then we went back to behaving like strangers.
We talked as if we never stopped talking. It didn't feel weird at all that we were patching up after acting like strangers for 6 years.
It was 5th period when Captain came and called all the cadets to report at the playground. She grabbed my hand. We both happily walked out of class, happy to ditch the boring history lecture. We took the stairs when I saw him speeding through the corridor as if being late was life or death.
« 'can someone look this good while sprinting like their life depends on it?' I thought while glancing at his sprinting figure.
» 'wait! Why did I think that? I don't even like boys with beard. It's probably just stress.' I tried to convince myself.
At the playground, we were told to form a formation and none of us knew how to because we all were 1st year newbies. The girl's captain helped everyone in their position but kept putting me in the front which I hated more than anything. His gaze was lingering time to time, intense and calm.
I was clearly messing up. Even after being under his intense gaze, I again didn't get scolded. He was watching but didn't say a thing but scolded a boy for just not keeping his voice high enough.
« 'Am l dead or just invisible?'
That guy was wrecking my entire nervous system just by staring at me. I was convinced that I was invisible so I took off my glasses and cleaned them while in attention position. I put them on, waiting for someone to call me out—nothing. He clearly watched my actions but didn't say a single word.
» 'maybe he's blind.' I joked.
It was break time and I chatted with my friend. We heard a boy asking him whether he could go back to drink water. He told the boy, "forget water if you wanna do NCC." His voice was fierce and in control.
« 'Mission abroad. I guess I'll just stay here dying of thirst cause he already refused that poor boy' I thought, shaking away my thought for asking to drink water.
We went back to practicing after 10 minutes of rest. During departure time I saw him standing near the main gate as a volunteer. The sun rays were burning my skin even when I had full sleeves on. I felt pity for him. He suddenly stopped one of his friend and ordered him to fetch him a bottle of water.
» 'Never mind! I take my pity back. He was the one who said not even an hour ago that we should forget water if we wanna do NCC. And he's out here ordering juniors to bring water. I can't understand this man!' I thought as I walked past him while chatting with my friends.