Into the Unknown

Hence the last day…feels like entered those gates yesterday only…now these three years feels like three days. Change was expected. But I didn’t expect my world would turn a 360 degrees. But the best part is I’ve a Degree in my hands now… Adieu to my College. This’ll be the last time sitting in my favourite spot in the college. Or may be in the world. The Clock Tower. I love this view. It’s so high that students or teachers won’t be able to see you from ground. I really love to watch all those atrocities, pranks, friendship, love...and so much more. Me, My KitKat and this ambience…its heaven. In the evening time there’ll always be a soft magic breeze which miraculously wipes out all your worries, stress or anything negative in your mind. Then why its magic not working now…Need it badly though...

Anyways, I actually stole this place from my best friend. This secret passage to the top was found by Aaron and he made it his personal hide out. Sometimes to escape from me and sometimes from our gang. Yeah…I know…who’d escape from their friends? But due to the exclusive behaviours of our gang, it’s negotiable. That much crazy we are. I don’t know how we’re putting up with each other. Not a single person is normal. I hope they’ll be with me tomorrow…

As I was saying, I stole this place from Aaron and even forbid him to enter this place without my permission. I’ve always thought how does he handle my stubborn tantrums...He knows me in and out. He is my everything…my best friend, my partner in crime, my brother, he’ll be there whenever I need him. And he brought me here on that day. I don’t even want to think about that day. May be tomorrow is going to be another D-Day to me. Don’t worry girl, it’ll be alright. You’ve been through worse. Those idiots will be with you…may be forever. And you don’t need anyone else. I love my idiots.

My friends…those idiots…what should I tell about them. First word coming to my mind is CRAZY. They’re literally crazy. Me too. We’re the Octavians…yup. Since we’re 8 people. Isn’t that a cool name? Yeah, I know. It was suggested by me. So cool, right? Even though we’ve a group name and all, I call them idiots. Let me introduce those crazy idiots.

First of all Aaron Richards, my best friend. I know him since my 10th grade. Short tempered, sophisticated, but wild, crazy idiot. An excellent writer…he’s a crazy philosopher. Hidden talent: he loves to draw. But never shown me any of his drawings. I think nobody knows about it, except Alex. He only draw in his Bubble Break. That’s what he calls his personal space. No one is allowed in his bubble break, not even Alex. And above all he’s my best friend.

Everyone in the college says, we’re putting up a show in front of everybody to hide our romantic relationship…yuck. He’s like my brother, I can’t even think of him like that. Same goes for him. I’m his baby sister. There was even a fight regarding this. Chris told Aaron some unwanted and very bad things about our friendship, which was the start of an Epic Rivalry. Actually we know each other since 10th grade, still I don’t know why he told all those things. They don’t talk to each other now. Then Chris made another gang and of course we hate them. So that’s Aaron.

Next is Alex Richards, yup they’re twins. Fraternal twins. No one would believe they’re twins. Only twinning thing in them is their height. They’re like huge trees. Alex is the Calm one though. Also the peacemaker in the group. Never badmouth about anyone. And always control me from my very well planned pranks. He’s good with guitars. He likes to play it a lot, always carries one. But what we love the most is his voice. It’s so soothing and mesmerizing. But he doesn’t like it. We’ve to push him a lot to sing. I’m pretty sure only the Octavians had heard him sing. He’s in the College Band. I’m not trying brag about it, let’s say I also sing and I’m the lead female singer.

And the most important thing about Alex, he has a mysterious girlfriend. That’s my theory. He said he likes a girl, and won’t reveal her now. That means, it’s his girlfriend, right? Otherwise he could tell us, we’re his gang. I’ve turned on my detective mode for these past 2 years and still I couldn’t find her. I’ve two conclusions, first, may be the girl is from Chris’ gang, Second, which I fear at the same time excites me is that, the girl is from our gang. And yeah I being a girl in our group had a chance about 20%. Which came down to 0% yesterday, when I told everyone about my D-Day tomorrow. I didn’t even see a flinch in his eyes. That means it’s not me. And I know Aaron knows who the girl is. And the act he puts on saying we need to find her and all that….pshh…rubbish… I know he won’t share with me because of the stupid twin bond.

And one more thing about Alex, never be on his bad side. He’s not short tempered, quite the opposite. But when he gets angry, he explodes. So, never hurt Aaron. I still remember Jacob’s face, friend of Chris. Alex got suspension for it about a month.

Next one is Rohan Sharma, basically a playboy with zero brain. I don’t know how the girls even fall for him. He’s a total stupid. If we ask him what’s 2x2, he might think about it for 5mins and will say 5. He’ll be on his phone 24x7, chatting with his current girlfriends, ex-girlfriends, and future girlfriends. But it’s Alex’s rule that never play with us. If Rohan even think about playing with the 4 girls within our gang, Alex will lose it. And he knows about it.

He’s a King Liar, but never ever lies to Alex. Rohan and Alex are somewhat best friends, I think. They fight with each other every time, but also listens to each other. I mean, me and Aaron fight, but not like them. Most of the fights will be about his playboy character. Alex hates it. But on that day of Epic fight, when Aaron’s nose was bleeding because of Jacob’s punch, Alex lose it. Nobody could control Alex, not even Aaron. We thought Jacob was going to die. Then Rohan came from I don’t know where, and dragged Alex from the sight. The surprising part was Alex let him. The humongous Aaron tried and failed, but Rohan did it. And also Rohan went to their home every day of Alex’s suspension to play games. Others also went, but not like Rohan. And Rohan is our Drummer in the band.

Now, Edward Darcy a.k.a, Eddy, the joker. He opens his mouth only to say bluff. Till these three years, he hasn’t said a word which makes sense except once. And oh God, he loves to annoy me a lot…a lot means A LOT. And he steals my KitKat. How could he do that? Nobody takes my KitKat. NOBODY. But if we put all these things aside, except my KitKat thing because it’s precious to me, he’s a nice guy. If you’re feeling down, all you should do is go to him. He won’t ask why we’re upset, instead he’ll make us laugh like crazy. You’ll laugh like all your worries are gone, at that time he’ll tell us go to your best friend and tell him everything.

I still remember on that day we were laughing like mental retarded people, when the laughter came down he called Aaron. I knew if Aaron came, I’ll tell him everything which will make me relive those moments again. I didn’t want to do that. That’s why I was avoiding Aaron the whole day, he was so mad about it. “Go and talk to him, you know you’ll feel better…and you know you won’t share what it is to anyone else…and you know you won’t be calm until you share”. That was the only thing Eddy ever said which made some sense.

I’m avoiding him today like that. But today he knows where I’m, that’s why I suppose he’ll be here anytime soon.

Moving on, next is our girl gang. First, Regina George, our godmother. She’s a mother to all of us. Do that, don’t do that, Stop it, wash your hands etc. She’s scary if we came in dirty clothes or shoes. And the scary part is that she love being our mother. If we ever call her ‘Momma’, she’ll be over the Moon. Pretty weird… I know… She’s also a prankster, but won’t allow us to go over the top.

She’s rich, I mean her parents are super rich, she also works in their company while studying in college. But as the name suggests, she’s a bitch to others in the college. She’s damn beautiful, but it takes a lot of courage for the boys even talk to her. But she’s a sweetheart to us. Especially to the girls. She buys us a lot of cloths, make up products, food…everything. Yeah, you’ll be thinking we’re using her for her money, even the whole college believes it. But, you don’t know what’ll happen if we ever refuse any of the things she offers.

The day when we four girls went to our first shopping, we thought she’d be buying things for her, because it was designer clothes. Then she said it was for us, we all refused. Then hell happened. She started to throw clothes everywhere, crying and screaming. “Why would you accept this? I’m not your mother, right? I’m no one to you right? Yes, I’m nobody. If you don’t need these clothes, then these clothes shouldn’t exist… or may be…this shop shouldn’t exist…” It really felt like hell. All the staff were looking at us. They couldn’t do anything else, because they knew who she was. We were terrified. Then I said “Gina, it’s not like we won’t accept it. It’s just that I didn’t like the colour”. Then Gina stopped for a moment and looked at us. Then others joined me “yes Gina, we didn’t like the colour. But you’ve great fashion sense than us, that’s why we didn’t say anything. We don’t feel confident wearing those” Then she wiped her tears and smiled “you guys should’ve told me, silly…come to momma. I’ll give you confidence. Let’s go to the changing room” we immediately followed her like ducklings. She stopped and turned around and said to the staff “you and this shop just saved, since they’re taking the clothes… and bring more colours that my friends like…got it?” Then the staff were running off to here and there to take more clothes.

That day we learned never say no to her. We even informed the boys about it. She’s scary but we love her. She never refuses to hang out in our houses, we thought she won’t come since she’s super rich. We all go to each other’s house and of course Gina would be cooking. She loves to cook. She’ll bring pastries every day to us. But, the thing is she’s very possessive and selfish about us. She’ll show her kind face only to us. Never ever shares anything with others. Won’t even be project partner with others. Teachers knows it, that’s why her project partners were always someone from our group.

Then Arabella Johns, our sweet innocent girl who has a lot of fan boys. She’s so beautiful and so pure. She was my first friend that I made in the college. I, Alex, Aaron and Chris knew each other since we were in the same school. But were not friends back then, we were just classmates who might talk sometimes. We became great friends in the college cafeteria. Then after a year Chris made another gang...

Coming back to Bella, she’s our angel. We protect her from all those vultures. She gets a minimum 20 love letters a day, since no one had her phone number. She didn’t even have a phone when we met. I used to call her dad to talk to her. Then Gina brought her a phone with private number, since the boys in the college was a burden to Bella, and Gina knows it’s difficult for Bella to handle them. She was so naïve and so innocent before, but after becoming friends with us… you know the rest.

She’s the only one who successfully pulled a prank on me. I don’t know how did she put salt in my water bottle, Change my assignment papers with big leaves etc. everyone says I’m responsible for her change. Ha... I don’t care. And the only secret we four keep is that she likes Eddy. The boys don’t know it. Not even Aaron. It was our girls’ secret. She says it’s just a crush which will fade away with time. But we all know that’s not true.

Next our Elizabeth Victors, Lizzy. Biker Girl, tight lipped, arrogant, always wear boy’s cloths and dark make up, have a piercing on the lip. Loves to do more. But Gina has warned it not to do more. She’s an only child with a single father. Papa has pancreatic cancer, third stage. He’s bedridden. She runs the family with her part time jobs.

Gina helps her a lot, but never offered her money or job. I asked Gina about it one day, then she said “I’m practically her mother, baby. I’ll feed her, give her clothes …everything. But if I give her or even offer money or job, I won’t be her mother anymore. She’ll only see me as a lender or may be as a loan shark. I don’t wanna be that. I wanna be Mommy Shark to my baby…and yes, of course, she’ll accept my offer since you all are scared of me…ha-ha…” then she said in a mocking voice “Gina, it’s not like we won’t accept it. It’s just that I d idn’t like the colour... what? You guys thought I didn’t know you lied? Anyways, you learned your lesson, don’t you?” I was dumbfounded, I couldn’t utter a word that day. She’s really scary.

Last but not least, me, a born KitKat Lover, prankster, short tempered, sometimes… may be mysterious…and hard-core lover of K-Pop and K-dramas, Hazel Jungkook….kidding… I wish I was. I’m Hazel Williams. And I think it’s my last day of happiness. But my idiots will be with me forever…won’t they? But what if I’m really far for them to reach…what if it’s the last day I get to see them?? They’ll come to me right? There’s nothing Gina can’t do...Gina and Aaron will make a way to come to me. I know…Tomorrow is the day. How am I going to face all those things that are going to happen? I should be courageous … I know… but I’m not. “There are always flowers for those who want to see them”, this quote by Henry Matisse is my favourite one. But where are you flowers? I can’t see a single one today…and above all, where’s that stupid magic breeze..?