My Best Friend

In the meantime, my school life was getting unbearable. It was during one of these days that l saw HIM wandering in my school. That was quite a SHOCK. Now, dont expect background music. Atleast not right now.

As the second term of my 6th standard blossomed, a new bud arrived in my class. A newcomer from Trivandrum. We got together. Life went on(as it does always). l grew. Old friendships withered and new ones sprouted. Meanwhile my attraction to Mr.S grew stronger.

It was towards the end of my 8th that me and Nat got to know each other. As we began to spend time together, l found out we shared similar interests. The most foremost being our mutual attraction to the star of the time "Dileep". What more to say, she had her birthday on October 28th, just two days from mine. By the start of 9th we began to sit together and were marked as 'siamese twins' by my other classmates.

All of a sudden, one day our class teacher had this weird idea of rearranging the positions of her students(our class was girls only). My heart did a somersault upon hearing this news. We were seated at the very last desks. l was on all fours pleading to God that we become invisible to her. But alas, her searching eyes found me and Nat. She called out "Nat, you come and sit here at Fathima's place and you, Fathima can go sit at her's". l solemnly watched as Nat picked up her books and walked over to her new destiny. My tear glands started working and the next thing l knew, l was crying out uncontrollably. My new partner watched helplessly as l bawled like a small kid. The whole class had their eyes on me. Needless to say, my tears melted our class teacher's 'marble-like' heart and she obligingly brought Nat back to me. l dutifully wiped my tears away. As the class dispersed, Nat whispered to me:"That was qiute a show!". But tell you what friends, by that single incident we were marked 'The Unbreakables'.