I cleaned my glasses trying to believe if I'm really seeing it!
A boy is entering the classroom. But I read in a girls' military boarding school; how come I'll have a male classmate in my school! In my CLASSROOM! However that new student is quite handsome. Maybe this uniform suits boys better.
I felt like my mind winked at him. It's 'my mind' not 'I'...-I kept on telling this to myself.
-"Hi,handsome!"
-"Will you accept it? I made it only for you." Jamsy Clara winked at that boy with a chocolate baked cake in her hands.
I was like- woah! She even put on makeup! I thought she only knows how to study and add names of book in her already-read-book's list. I guess it's called 'Power of love'.
But the way he looked in response of 'Hi handsome' from those girls (I don't know all of them) tells a lot about his character and behaviour. I can say he's totally arrogant as a person. Whatever, I thought he was a new student; even if he's, he was also quite famous among girls- maybe before entering the school. None of my business, I thought.
Neha Rome,our assistant class representative came across the crowd and brought that handsome boy to show him his respective seat.
-"Please take that seat over there",she said pointing the desk behind me.
The hell! He'll be sitting beside Rae and Rosa! I thought as soon as I noticed it.
He's walking toward his seat. He's really good looking,I can't help admitting. Brown voluminous curly hair totally fits on his head. So far as I noticed, he never smiled even for once. Maybe that's what enhanced his charisma... I thought. He stopped at the desk beside me, "Get up from this desk", out of nowhere he stouted at Hazelin.
-" Why would I? It's my desk and your desk is over there. THERE! Understood?" Haze said in a irritating voice pointing to his seat.
-"You won't leave this desk?" he shouted loudlier.
-"No. I. WON'T". Haze shouted back this time as expected, "How stupid!"
She looked down to concentrate on the new book she has started reading yesterday 'Confess' completely ignoring that new boy.
The hell! He's staring at her face ferociously. The next moment his fist was rushing at her face at a real quick speed to hit her face.
I took that hit on behalf of her. I'm quite good at fighting, I guess it's time for him to know it. I literally threw him on the floor and sat on his back gripping both of his veiny hands behind tightly while he's on the floor.
-"How dare you try to lay your hand on a girl,moreover to hit her face?" I shouted gripping his hands more tightly,"You goddamn asshole!"
Just as I expected,he's trying so hard to get rid of me. The more he's moving,the harder I wish to slap him.
-"Ele,leave this douchebag. No need to waste your holy energy on him," said Haze with a ferocious look at him and a thank-you-so-much look at me.
-"You sure, you're alright?" I asked as I intend to already let him get rid of me.
-"Yeah,yeah,no worries. But what about your face?"she continues without letting me reply,"I'm really sorry that you had to take that damn hit for me."
-"Chill! This idiot is super weak to hit me 'hard', I got up holding Haze's hands and grinned at him with sympathy actually.
He tried to hide his intolerable pain but of course, failed to do so.
-"It was nice fighting with you", he said with a forcible smile extending his hand to shake with me,"Eleonora."
Oh no! He's shockingly shameless, I thought. Of course rejected his offer to shake hand with me.
-"For your kind information, you only got hit by me. It was just getting beaten up,not FIGHTING", I couldn’t find any better words to insult him, "By the way, who the hell are you to misbehave with random people?"
-"As you can see, I can be the bad boy, Min Yoongi. Wanna fight more?" he winked at me. His damn smile is literally nerve-racking, crazy.
-"Hell, noooooo!.. " Myraein and Rosabel shouted on me altogether even before I get to respond.
A whistle got blown. What for that whistle was blown? Was it an invitation to fight ot beat him again? Huh,then it's time to send him back half-dead! I thought.
-"Ele,please wake up! Please...It's already 2nd whistle!" Myraein is literally screaming.
The first thing I saw after opening my eyes was hyped-up Myraein. She's frightened, no not frightened, maybe 'annoyed', will fit her expression. Her expression says her thoughts off, "I'm uncertain whether this stupid is going to be enlisted for punishment in this early morning or gonna be lucky enough to manage to flee away somehow!"
-"Why did you stop me from challenging him?" I mumbled,"I was ready...." my words mixed away with the yawn as I was going to change side to sleep again.
-"What the hell are you talking about Ele,please...!" Rae simply turned me to her pulling my right shoulder and got me sit on the bed straight. I can't understand why she's getting all hyped up and angry!
Another whistle got blown.
-"Eleeee!!" literally shouted,"Are you waking up or not?"
Now I got to understand what's going on. Shit! Holyshit! I simply ran from my bed to the washroom with toothpaste, toothbrush and exercise outfit.
When I came back from the washroom, I noticed Rosa and Haze helping Rae to clean my mess.Woah! they even kept my sneakers ready! Unfortunately, I'm still mentally living in my dream where I can fight with my love,my inspiration, my idol Min Yoongi from Korean boyband BTS; where I can interact with him directly, where he offers me to have a handshake! So, very normally, I didn’t even get to thank them for helping ne this much.
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I guess Yoongi was my lucky charm and that's why I didn’t get enlisted for those damn hellish punishments.
When people say,"I regret for doing this ot that", I die inside to say, "Did you ever waste your teenage life in a military boarding school where even sleeping can be an adventure, not 'overtime sleeping' just normal 'sleeping in sleeptime'! Where skipping a meal can be an adventure to hide for years? If no, then I guess you don't know the meaning of this very word 'regret'!"
Actually in times, I forget all those regretting moments when I think I got some true friends to remove darkness away of my damn life. There are many things that we don't exchange thanks or sorry but deep down inside know right that we got thanked or apologised. It might sound sentimental or melodramatic but it's worth nourishing in our memories.
-"Yall! I'm super nervous! Today is my competition.... OMG!" Rosa is tingling with nervousness.
Wait,what! Eleonora is late today! She's quite famous for waking up very early despite not having insomnia.Even though we're not on the same floor, but it has been my daily routine to visit Haze before starting the daily schedule for doing my hair,no matter how late we're gonna be! And that's how I always be the one who gets to know about Ele's first image of the day after Hazelin, her dormmate.
The first bed anyone will notice after visiting Ele's dorm is her #BED; yeap it's her Hashtag BED. Oh my god!
-"God! Help me,please!" Rae mumbled. Both of her hands are on her head gripping her brownish black hair.
Maybe I'd do the same if I were Rae. Her mosquito net is still tung with the bedstands. My eyes moved to her table and the next moment I felt like if she were here right now I'd kill her at this instant. Atleast 10-12 books and different notebooks are piled up on her table and not to mention,all those created a big mess. Gosh! That pile of books and notebooks will just fall off at any time.
-"Let's start cleaning her mess", It's the first sentence I uttered after waking up today, with a deep sigh.
I started arranging her table and Rae is trying to clean up the mess on her bed. Haze is finding space in Ele's locker to put her shoes inside that. But OMG! She gotta be really beaten up by me. Oops! Sorry! Though she's better at fighting than me. Whatever, I really want to kill her right at this moment after seeing her casual movement even at this crucial moment!
I saw Ele coming all dressed up,yet to wear shoes and do hair. Though she never needs to do her hair cause however she ties her abloosh black silky hair,those are bound to get messed up within half an hour at best.
Well,she got up late,I understood. But why the hell is she blushing out of nowhere! Literally she's getting on my nerves now. I noticed that she didn’t even thank us! Maybe Haze and Rae didn’t even get to notice as they were too busy to clean up her goddamned mess.
It's already 6:15 am. We're too late to join the fallin now. But still, we took the risk! Whatever, the main thing is we 4 somehow managed to escape from being enlisted for punishment. And that's what matters for us! Even if we were to be enlisted we'd never regret just because it was one of us who would cause that! That's how we are!
Being able to escape from being listed means being able to escape from bone-breaking punishments! Like it's never easy to roll at front,back and side continuously for 20 minutes under scorching sun and then without a break, doing 50 push ups and then 30 reach-ups followed by that! But HELL NO! after all these it included running around the college premises (49 acres).Every teen here wants to change these goddamn rules, but ends up sighing heavily every time they commemorate the rules.
Till now,I was trying to stay normal and acting confident ,but I couldn’t.
-“You all! I’m super nervous! Today’s the competition ,OMG”, I feel my legs shaking.
-“What! Today is your competition!!!” Ele said and I could see the exclamation on her face.
-“You dumbhead! How could you forget it?”Rae shouted before I could.Though I am not in a situation to shout over these silly things. I was never this much nervous about any competition maybe I am because I already lost a match on the first day of volleyball competition.
-“Don’t you dare to worry about today’s competition”, they all shouted on me and then we all laughed together thinking how we think alike.
Among us, I mean in our squad, what we don’t have!Rae could be a great hiphop dancer only if she got the opportunity.Haze is a blessed singer though she insists on being a bathroom singer whenever someone praises her.And Ele! I guess she isn’t familiar with the term ‘stage phobia ‘.Stage seems to be empty without her speech,I can’t remember any literature competition she didn’t participate or win.Let’s just stop here cause I can’t really put on a full-stop if I start talking about her qualities.
LAST DAY OF VOLLEYBALL COMPETITION!The scorching sun was totally focused on the ground.Audiences are taking their seats in the pavilion to cheer for the players. The scoreboards are set behind the respective volleyball courts.Today Rosabel is going to compete with ‘Redpeers High School’ volleyball team.
I see the audience taking their seats.I was trying to find any three of them out of the crowd.i was chewing the blue gum to overcome my nervousness.
“The match of ‘Redpeers High School’ and ‘Versheeyank High School’ is going to start in a few minutes.
We lost the toss and the opposition team took ‘serve’ and we took ‘side’.The game started with the tuneless sound of the whistle.
The Redpeers started with their serve and we couldn’t receive the serve because of my team’s mental breakdown after losing previous match.It was really an easy serve to receive!The first point was added to the scoreboard under the tittle ‘Redpeers High School Volleyball Team’.Then somehow we missed a receive and my time came.I was the first server of my team. First of all, I was super nervous moreover the luck of team depends on my serve.Maybe words are not even a bit enough to state my nervousness . I don’t even dare to look at the scoreboard even though we were at the lead and we won the first set with great difference.
2nd set started after a short break of 5 minutes.
GUESS WHAT!!!!......
This time I’m afraid to look at the scoreboard cause we’re quite sure we’ll get to know beforehand that our team will get out of the ground with our heads down.Like seriously! I could never think of match from which I’ll get back without a medal!
I don’t know how to control my tears at this point in this situation where I feel like everthing is shattering. I hear a familiar voice; Oh! It’s Ele announcing,” We see, the scoreboard in the 1st ground stands 24 in Redpeers Team and 23 in Versheeyank’s Team”.The serve is of Redpeers now. Gosh! I am losing my last ounce of confidence now.I’m dying to share this nerve-racking experience with anyone but I am running out of words as if someone is obstructing me to talk. I don’t even know how I’m still standing on the ground with a player -like-attitude .Suddenly I feel like it was not the “Rosabel” I knew about.It was a stubborn but a afraid-to-lose Rosabel whereas I never knew how to get out from the ground as a member of a losing team.
I'm physically present in the dressing room or you may say backstage of our auditorium. But mentally present in the volleyball ground. It's my first time as a cheerleader groupie. Usually cheerleaders can't be supporter of any individuals or a team. They're quite like cold-hearted supporters with a smile faking on their face,forcing those fake smiles to seem to be so real. I have hated the concept of cheerleader in a match always. Like it's tormenting enough to not to be able to cheer for my favourites heartily.
I hope Haze and Ele make it there to support Rosa right now. I just don't want her to be upset about the last match she played.God! For God's sake! She wasted her two complete self-study-classes crying and questioning her own ability!
-"Hey,Rae! What are you doing? Everyone is ready to leave,but...why are you still undone with your makeup?" Stephanie said rudely,"Moreover,your simple-makeup!"
She's the most hateful senior among the cheerleader groupies. She is so into herself. If there's a term more intense than 'Narccist' in a negative way, I'd have used that very term as adjective before her introduction. She said 'Moreover your simple makeup' as if she had to say it to insult me.
The cosmetics are on the dressing tables behind the mirror I'm standing right now. All other groupies are still putting on their makeups. But she picked up only on me. Yall wanna know the reason? Well, don't laugh after hearing me out.
When everyone else of the cheerleaders agreed to put on those makeups willingly, I offered to put on my own makeups as I don't like...no, it'd be more appropriate if I say I HATE putting on heavy makeup on my precious moistured skin. And now! Now,she's roaming around me to just get on my nerves and make a scene. But maybe she's unaware of my power of ignoring shitty people like her.
IN THE VOLLEY GROUND,
Thank God! I put on light makeup! Today’s sun seems to be angrier than the previous two days. I was planning to look for Rosa the first thing after entering the ground,but ended up grinning at Stephanie as she's tensed enough to maintain her heavy makeup while others are moving normally,even though some of them put on as much as she did.
The announcers took their respective positions inside announcement booth. I let a heavy sigh out as soon as I saw Ele in that booth. Oh no! How could I forget that Ele is the permanent anchor of any festival and 'any festival' includes volleyball matches too! Does it mean there will be no permanent and hearty supporter for Rosa?! I wish Haze were not occupied! But...just as hard as I was wishing Haze to be one of the supporters in the bleacher, I guess God predetermined her destiny so hard that Rosa had no supporter there for her at the final match!
I think my day is not going to go well. At first, Ele and her goddamned messy place and now finding Ele as the announcet,Haze as the rest compiling team's member and last but not the least, myself as a cheerleader out of nowhere. Goddamnit!
"Today I welcome you all to the 'Versheeyank Volleyball Ground' to witness the last day of 'Redpeers Volleyball Team Vs Versheeyank Volleyball Team' match 2020. We all witnessed two great matches between Redpeers and Scholastica previous day and 'Scholastica Vs Versheeyank' on the very first day of the tournament. I humbly request the supporters, cheerleader team and referee to take their respective seats. Now the match of 'Redpeers VolleyTeam Vs Versheeyank VolleyTeam' is going to start within a few minutes."
Ele stopped and my heartbeat went frantical with nervousness. I wish our school weren’t the host so I didn’t have to wear this stupid costume and dance like a crazy puppet under scorching sun.
But unfortunately, military institutions never prioritize the wish of students. And to students, a comfortable working day is nothing but a 'Wishful thinking'. Whatever, we all took our positions at the right side of the 1st volley ground of the field. Within 50 seconds, the whistle got blown and music got played with exploding frequency. I bet the supporters on the bleachers are enjoying tgis exploding sound of the music that filled the ground with their heart's content.
I don't know how much time ellapsed and how many time outs did pass for which team. Funnily enough, I gotta confess that I didn’t even know which team was on the lead. Not only me, no cheerleaders can ever know the team on lead! But still it's called 'CHEERLEADER'. Well, I'm not saying, 'no cheerleaders', I mean 'cheerleader team of our school'.
Finally, I heard no music filling the ground anymore. All I could hear was real CHEERS of the supporters of the winning team. The first thing I saw after the music stopped was the scoreboard that was put behind the ground.
For a moment, I was standing there unmoved. I saw all my groupies to run towards the winner team to have photoshoot with them. But standing there unmoved, I was actually thinking of the words that could console Rosabel.
".....Congratulations, Redpeers!" I could feel the mixture of sorrow and anger of Ele in the word 'CONGRATULATIONS!" even though I'm quite sure others didn’t notice.
And yeah, finally I found the words of condoled to console Rosa!
"What are you crying for! Losing is just a normal feature of game, isn't it? Even BTS didn’t make it to the way toward Grammy Award at one go!"
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