2002's

19 September 2019, 7:45am.

Gloomy weather, light cold breeze giving me shivers through my body, wearing white uniform with a sky blue scarf and wrist watch, I am being anxious and excited at the same time to start a new journey with new creatures of this universe whom I've never met, thoughts of can be bullied running through my head as I ended up taking admission in college I never want to.

Walking through the gate while holding hands with my grandmother The first thing that comes out of my mouth is "WOAH HOW BIG IT IS", my eyes get widened by thinking I can possibly get lost here but then I notice I was the only one student in the whole college as I came early, after sometime a girl enter through gate and made her way towards the auditorium I didn't bother to know about her until grandma told me to go behind her and asked if she can help me to find my class.

I did as she said and followed her calling "excuse me" like three to four times as she didn't respond I thought "who is this stupid short heightened girl, carrying a big bag on her back with lots of keychain and badges" and call her again for the last time "excuse me"

As she stop and turns towards me I got more curious about her tan skin having dark brown eyes, wearing coat type black abaya with sky blue scarf looking like a nerd because of glasses but giving tom boy vibes at the same time because of having chains in her tiny wrist while taking handsfree out from ears, "Assalamualaikum" she said; "walaikum Salam" I replied; and asked her section and year, "1st year section A" as she said I got a little bit of a shock and relief because this is the same as mine.

I asked her if she can guide me about the classes and subjects as I got admissions after two days of starting college and she was coming from day one, "you can be with me" she said; and I nodded, grandma already left from there as we made our way to the auditorium for assembly.

Later all the students started to come and she introduced me with a few of our classmates as we ourselves didn't introduce each other so we did, while shaking hands, "Ushna Ali rehmani" she said; "DureMeha" I replied; "nice to meet you", she made me feel so comfortable by just being around me made me forget all of my nervousness..

Days pass like this as we are becoming good friends, our whole section always sits together through which I'd explore so many different personalities which was really exciting.

I never felt left out as she never left my side in any situation, from exploring the college while cross holding each other's arms, seeing her catching butterflies, saying cute on every single thing she saw, sharing lunch, going to the places together where we are restricted to go, having the same attendance to saying text me when you reach home That's how we become more close friends in such a short period of time, not forget to mention we shared same birth year and having lots of similarities in our personality but the most shocking one was our mothers have same names and their personality is also kind off similar...

Being a person with trust issues is not easy for anyone to open up about their personal life or what happened with them in the past but in this situation it gets totally opposite I thought like how can a person make it so easy as we were having conversations sitting next to each other outside the sports area and she took a step and shared her experience of life in different ways without getting the fear of being judged.

I was lost in that moment as she put her trust in me to make it easy for me to do the same at the same time she never forced me for anything but after a while I did start sharing my highs and lows without any fear and she heard it with patiently, I knew that it's safe here because there's no give and take maybe that's what a true friendship called.

Sometimes the thoughts of me hate coming to college to absolutely love it leaves me speechless.. I would say that I've never seen anyone like her in my whole life and there will be no one like her, she is the most amazing, over-hyped, tiny, full of life, fun and religious creatures coming directly from the other dimension on earth but I must say this world needs more creatures like her, the way she observe every little thing's around her, the way she makes me feel loved, the way she showed that this world could be a better place if you are with right person...

But of course if there's no fight then what's the point of being this close, as we all know there's always a person who loves to be the center of attention by being extraordinarily friendly unfortunately we also had one classmate like this, but first we should give her a name so let's call her "little brat".

She's always being clingy on her and try to take her wherever she's going, to be honest me being jealous is true but more than that I've always get some negative vibes from her it feels like she's making up things just to make people like her, even though ushna never let me feel left out but there was something strange with little brat.

Her vibes were creepy whenever she looked at us with her big doe eyes without even blinking, having long open black hair, pale skin, I always warned ushna to be alert and one day I got so pissed off because something bad happened with Ushna as she was crying on her knees outside the common room.

I went to her to find out the reason but as soon as I reached to her that little brat come again and said; "you go I'll handle her alone" that's it I lost my control and replied more like yelling on her; " bro backed off she's my friend not your's" I left from there but soon I got to know the person who made her cry was that little brat and acting like she didn't do anything, I was hurt by knowing that she should keep her in limits but ofcourse as we both were out of our minds, almost in the mid night we ended up saying each other "fuck off" in a group chat which was initiated by me and ends with blocking each other "WOAHH WHAT A BRILLIANT FIGHT"

Standing right in front of each other but still ignoring the existence of each other, as we always hug while meeting even though she didn't like hugs but this time it was different..

Everyone was a little shocked, they never saw us like this before, each one of them trying to put efforts to make us talk again as we both also know that nobody is at fault and luckily we realized it soon with making up things right, this didn't affect our bond, but make us more closer by knowing that we can't afford to lose what we have and after that we never fight again...

I think saying that she is just a best friend is unfair because she taught me "you have to do it by yourself as I'll not be here for you always to speak on your behalf" she said; outside the staff room of textile because I was being nervous to talk with a teacher about my work, which blows my mind instantly I was like shit yes it's true nobody in the world told me this before.

I think that's the most important thing in my life which I wanted to hear to speak by myself rather than asking people to speak up for me, and most importantly she always made me feel worth it as I am, I can be whatever I want without putting a filter, having a person with whom you can enjoy being in silence is the most underrated thing..

But I guess she's the dumbest person also, "I forget my art file in the metro" she said while showing a done face, "WHAT" I yelled being shocked, like broo who forgets their whole completed art file in the metro...

After those incidents little did I know how hard working she is towards her goals the way she completes the whole art file again so fast as she always wants to become an artist which she surely will, but guess what COVID-19 comes and our exams got cancelled...