Today is my class reunion. It's been 4 years since I last visited my school. Now standing in front of my school gate I suddenly realised how much I missed it. So many memories flashed in front of my eyes. Like it was yesterday when in the early morning I put my uniform on and went to the school. I feel my eyes become teary. I feel so happy coming back here.
Sant Arina High school one of the biggest schools in our country. Many students of our school will get chance to read in the imperial college every year. So almost every family will expect to have the children's of their family get admission here.
But getting admission here is very hard. Every student will have to take a test when they are seven years old. And the test question will be very hard. And almost everyone in the empire will have their children take the test. And only two thousand students will have the chance to get admitted.
Thinking about the test my head still hurts. You know I don't like to read too much when I was a child. And all my two elder sister's had been graduated from the school so anyone can imagine how much expectations my family had from me. Even know I will fell a little scared thinking about it. I really have a hard time before the test. My second elder sister Maya who was in charge of my reading at that time.
Now I feel glad that it was second elder sister back then. If it was eldest sister back then I can't imagine the seen actually. It's not because my eldest Mira is a bad person but she is a little too strict. I feel a little scared in front of her.
ln my family I am more close to my second sister Maya and my little brother Mike. My second sister is easy going and very close to me. When I was five Mike was born at that time mother became sick. So me and Mike was becicaly brought by sister Maya. She is more like a mother and friend to us.
And about Mike we almost fight everyday. When he was little I will win every time we fought but now alas I can't win against him. Mike doesn't call me sister always calling me by name Tia. When I will get angry and tell him to call me sister Mike's response will be like,
" Are you sure you are a girl? I consider you as my bro you know. If you want I can call you brother. Now brother are you happy?"
And I Will get more angry and scolded him. Which angle he finds me a guy huh? Forget it arguing with him is useless. So now I have gotten used to him calling me Tia.
My full name is Tia Collins. Almost everyone in my family has their names starting with M only me and my father has our names starting with T . My father's name is Tom Collins. And my mother's name is Mia. I am happy that my name matches my father's but also feel depressed about all my siblings names don't match with me.
l should hurry now or I will be scolded by my friends. Me and Ana will always get scolded because of being late. I don't always get leat by my records are also not very good. At lest I would come earlier then Ana. Passing through the corridors I feel a little sorrow again.
from here I can see my old classroom. It's one of my most favourite classrooms in my school. It was the classroom I send when I was at class 10. It's view is the best. Seeing the classroom I feel very very happy.
When I was just entering into the room I heard Ela exclaiming,"here comes the late party. Can you never come early. Always being late."
Before I could answer I heard Sumu speaking," Don't you feel a little bit bad for us. Look how older are you. Still always late."
l hurriedly replied," hey, it's not like I do it on purpose. I don't know when I want get somewhere why I will always get late. And look I am not the only one late. Ana also aren't here yet. I am not the last one. So stop scolding me already ok."
Then Tanni from other side of the room hurriedly join them saying,"why won't we scold you. Look at the time. Our meeting time was at 10 am. And it's already 10.20 am. You are 20 minutes late. And now arguing with us. You deserve the scoldings."
"Okay, okay. I admit defeat. I can't win against you guys. I am sorry . Are you satisfied now."I replied.
"That's more like it. You shouldn't argue with us in the first place. You know you can't win against us" , Lipi said that and start loughing.
Others also start loughing with her. Even I am also smiling.
"yes, yes. I know I couldn't win. After all your my friends. No one can match you guys." And I also started loughing with them.
At this point Ana entered in the classroom. She was waving at us and has a big smile on her face.
" What are you guys loughing about? tell me so that I can join the fun." Ana said coming close to us.
" We won't tell you anything." I said to Ana.
Sumu joined me saying" Yes, we won't tell you. Keep thinking about what we were talking about. And why are you let?"
Ela also joined us saying," Yeah Ana why are you so late. Even Tia had come today on time. But you are so late."
Then I said to Ana," You know even I had come today earlier but you are 30 minutes late. We fell so disappointed you know?"
Lipi started taking," Yes, so disappointed on you. So you will gate punished."
"Stop, stop I am sorry ok. I know I am wrong but you guys know how my family is they won't leave me alone. That's why I was late. Forgive me this time ok. It won't happen next time I promise." Ana said.
"You always say so forget it." I told her.
Ana is a only daughter of her family. She has to younger brother under her. Because of being the only daughter her family will always worry about her safety. So, on some occasions she won't be with us because of her family. Her father is one of the biggest business men in our city. So we also understand about her family's concerns. Her family really loves her so we won't say much about it.
Ela then said, " but you have to get punished."
Than without saying anything we just jump to hit Ana once altogether. We didn't use much force. Ana also didn't say anything because we are all used to hit each other like this. It's really fun to play like this with our friends. Not only Ana we all will get a hitting often. It won't hurt at all and we would Lough only.
It's almost been a year since we last saw each other. But nothing has changed between us. We will always be like this loughing and playing with each other. Our friendship has never been changed and with time it's only becomes stronger. I am really happy to have such friends.
We are sitting in our old chairs. It's really good to be back. My classroom seat was beside the window. l am really glad about that. Because when will I get bored of the teachers lectures I could watch outside the window. From here I can enjoy best views of my school.
My school has two main buildings. Infront both of them has large play grounds. It has a large canteen on the first floor of 2nd building. Beside the second building there is a lake in our school . around the lake there are many peach trees. When it's flower season the beautiful scenery of peach blossom blowing is so beautiful many people would specially come here to enjoy the scenery. And when it's showing the lake would be to beautiful like a fairy land. And our two buildings are connected with a pathway. It's two sides are full of different flower trees. We also have a small garden behind our second building it has different furits trees. Don't remember how many times we have steal furits from there. We were really proud of it that time. Now I feel a little ashamed of it. But still feeling happy about it.
from my window I could see the lake side. It will always gives me a peaceful feeling in my heart. When I was wondering about my school my friends were talking about numerous things. Sumu was talking about who will come to our reunion and who won't. She is a total gossip queen. Knows about everything. I really sometimes wonder how can she get so much news. I won't able to handle this much of news. I really appreciate her for this talent of hers.
"You know teacher Kelly is in other city now. So she couldn't make it. I really miss her. If she could come it would bring a lot of fun."
"We also really miss her too" ,I said. Teacher Kelly was our homeroom teacher in our highschool. She was really strict. We didn't like her much at the beginning. Then we were about to graduate from high school our class parties arrangements were fall into our heads. At that time teacher Kelly was our supervisor. When we were working together our relationship with teacher Kelly became close. And we got know that she really is a good person. So now we really miss her a lot.
When I was thinking about teacher Kelly Ana asked, "will RJ come?"
My mind become blank for a moment. I couldn't help thinking, " Will he come?"
My eyes couldn't help looking outside the window. I can see the peach blossom trees by the side of the lake. Suddenly a man with a smiling face standing under the peach tree come to my mind.
"RJ this name was given to that person by me. Will he come ?" I again asked myself.
Than I heard Sumu telling from the other side," Actually I also don't know. No one is in touch with him. So it's difficult to say. Maybe he will come. We can only hope for Rj to come. It's really been a long time since we last saw him."
"Yes, I really didn't see him for a really long time." It's been almost two years. I would like to meet him again. Thinking about him a smile come to my face.
Again my mind couldn't help wondering about that person.
" Will you come Rj ?"