The Blooming Flowers

Sarah's pov I was sleeping peacefully in my bed. But suddenly my brother's phone started to ring very loudly. He was sleeping in the bed next to mine. So, I had to wake up but that brother of mine is still sleeping so well without a hint of what is happening in the world and I'm sure he won't know even if the world come to an end. I punched him on his shoulder to wake him up cause nothing else is going to work. That really worked, he woke up. He looked at me with anger in his face. He got up from his bed to give me a lesson. But before he could do anything I ran to the bathroom and closed the door at his face. Today is the second day of my college. I washed up quickly and get ready. “Have some breakfast before you go”, mother said. I knew it is impossible to ignore my mother so I just sit on the table to eat something. My grandmother was also sitting there she smiled at me at my reaction. I asked her in a low voice so that my mother won't hear , “Grandma, you really are always in your daughter in law's side. Sometimes take my side too. Don't be so biased.” She started to laugh while shaking her head at what I said. And then got up to go to her room. Like seriously did I just tell her a joke? Am I not even worth replying to! After having breakfast I went out. Now I'm waiting for the bus. While I wait let me introduce myself, I'm Sarah, Sarah Ali. I'm the second child of a lower middle class family. My father is a salaryman and mother is housewife. I also have an older brother and a younger brother and of course my grandma in our family. My college bus came, I get on it. The bus started to move after some time. It is the second day of my college, the first day was totally boring. So I'm quite conflicted. I think I won’t get a friend this year either. Well, it happend through my whole life. Why is it so difficult to have a friend? WHY? The bus stopped in front of the college. This college is big, it has a big campus. It is a government college. I had to work really hard do have the score to get into this college. I'll be honest, I had a really hard time doing so. After getting into the class I saw a seat beside the window and decided to sit there. But bumped into someone. Looking up I saw a girl wearing glasses. She is a little taller than me. She also looked at me while settling her long braids. “Sorry”, she said. “It's okay”, I said. “You want to sit here?”, she asked me. “ Yes”, I replied. “Okay, then sit here”, she said. I sit on the seat I wanted to sit and she sat beside me. “Hi, I'm Sarah Ali”, I said. “I’m Rina mirza. Nice to meet you”, she said smiling at me. Her smile is heart warming. I liked it. “I don’t think I have seen you yesterday. Did you not come?”, I asked. Rina said, “No I didn't. I had some issues at home so I missed the welcome ceremony”. She looked a little sad to me. I guess it was because she missed the welcome ceremony. “Oh okay. But believe me it was not fun at all. It was just so boring that I almost fall asleep”, I said assuring her. I didn’t lie, it really was boring. She started laughing at what I said. I also smiled seeing her happy again. After that we couldn't talk because the teacher was here. First and second class was okay but in the third, the lecture was so boring that I saw some of my classmates yawning. And well, Rina was constantly looking at the wall clock. This period finally ended after 45 long minutes. After 3 classes in a row we have an off period. So we are talking. We are talking about various topics. She is a fun person to talk to. She is also very much out going. She is talking to me like she knows me for at least half of her life. I was enjoying it. Suddenly she stopped and is looking in the same direction. So out of curiosity I also looked in that direction. What I saw was a girl of my class was signalling a boy standing in the road outside our college boundary. Well that might be her boyfriend or something. But why is Rina staring like that? “Hey”, I called her. But she didn't responded. “Hey Rina”, I called her again a bit louder than before. This time she responded, “Yeah!” “What happened?” I asked. “Nothing, it's just that I saw that girl being dropped by a guy acting like her boyfriend so I thought that was her boyfriend. But now I think I just judged them. Looks like that one is the boyfriend.” “Oh, okay”, I said. “Well whatever, I don’t care. Forget it”, Rina said. Wow, she is fast. She is fast to pick interest in things and also lose it. What a personality. “Hey can you keep it down. I'm trying to study here”, my thoughts got interrupted by a girl from the seat behind us. I looked at her. She is quite a beauty. “Ah yes, yes we will be careful. Sorry for the disturbance”, Rina said apologetically. “It's okay. And what you thought both before and now is right”, she said while carefully fixing her bob cut hairs. “Hah? What are you talking about?”, Rina asked. “They both are her boyfriends”, she said while getting up from her seat and walking towards the door. “Wh-what? How do you know that?”, Rina asked surprisingly. But the girl was already walking far away ignoring each and every reaction we had to what she said. She went away like she didn’t care. Me and Rina, we both shockingly looked at the girl beside the window who was now busy sending flying kisses to the boy and then we looked at each other. “O-okay, lets not think or talk about those. It's bothersome and awkward”, Rina said. “Y-yeah, I was thinking the same”, I said. I looked at Rina and then the girl who sat behind us before, she is looking at the notice board standing outside our classroom. I smiled a little. They are kind of interesting, both of them. My smile grew bigger. Maybe my college life won't be as boring as my school life. I guess it'll be a little more interesting than that. I don't know if I have some real friend or not but I'm getting hopeful to have a memorable college life