The Blooming Flowers

Strong and useful

Rina's pov

Sun is up high early in the morning burning up everything. I missed my college bus. As a result now I'm suffering in the burning sun heat and waiting for the next one.

I'm Rina Mirza, a student in her first year of college. It's my first day. I missed the welcoming ceremony. When I remember what happend yesterday my mouth filled with bitterness. Why do parents become sick? It is so hard. I felt like my life energy were sucked out half.

My bus came and I get into the bus. It is so stuffy in the bus. It got better after the bus started to move.

I got down after the bus stopped in front my college. When I looked at the college building a long sigh came out. It was fortunate, it really was fortunate for me to get into this college. The situation in my house was something to be worried about. I barely studied.

I was about to go through the gate but-

VROOOM.....

A motorcycle passed by me really fast almost hitting me. If I was a little late to get away I would have been injured and ended up in the hospital on my first day at college. But who is that motorcycle guy? How dare he run a motorcycle like that in front of a college!

I saw that motorcycle stop in front of the college gate. A girl got down from it she hugged the guy and then went inside the college sending the guy flying kisses. Because of the sound the motorcycle made everyone was looking at them. Guess they succeeded in showing of. IDIOTS. I want to punch that guy for earlier but I have to restrain myself from doing so. It is my first day at college after all. I don't wanna cause trouble on the very first day. After taking a deep breath I started walking towards the college gate.

After getting into my classroom I saw that a lot of students are here already. I am kind of late because I missed my bus so it is to be expected. I started walking to one of the corners of the room as I saw some empty seats. Suddenly I bumped into someone.

I looked at the person. It's a girl around my age, must be one of my classmates. She looks quite neat. Even her braids looks super neat.

“Sorry”, I said. Seeing her neat appearance I unknowingly started to fix my hairs.

“It's okay” she said.

“You want to sit here?”, I asked her realizing she was going towards the same direction as me.

“ Yes”, she replied.

“Okay, then sit here”, I said.

She sited on the seat beside the window. I sited beside her.

“Hi, I'm Sarah Ali”, she introduced herself Smiling a little. Wow even her smile is so elegant.

“I’m Rina Mirza. Nice to meet you”, I said. She looks polite and cute at the same time

Sarah asked me, “I don’t think I have seen you yesterday. Did you not come?”

My mood went off at her question. It’s not that I’m being childish for missing the welcome ceremony. It’s just that I again remembered about yesterday my dad laying on the floor. After collecting myself I said, “No I didn't. I had some issues at home so I 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”, she said assuring me. I looked at her, she was looking at me worries in her eyes. I think she thought that I'm feeling down because of missing out welcome ceremony.

Realizing that I started laughing. Looking at her I saw her smiling at me. Looks like she is a caring person.

After that our teacher came so we couldn't talk anymore. After 3 whole boring classes we get a period off so we started to talk again. Suddenly something caught my eyes I noticed the girl who I saw with the motorcycle guy before is signalling at a guy standing outside the college boundary. What?

Why? Wasn't she that motorcycle i***t's girlfriend? I won't forget them this easily, not before I take my revenge. But if she has broken up with him where will I find that i***t again? What about my revenge? Maybe they are not a couple. I guess I mistook them. Well whatever it's also not a bad thing that I don’t have to see that motorcycle i***t anymore. It's good in some ways.

“Hey! Rina”

I got startled hearing my name called loudly, “Yeah!”

“What happened?” Sarah asked.

I guess she was calling me for sometime. I replied her “Nothing, it's just that I saw that girl being dropped off 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 outside is the boyfriend.”

“Oh, okay”, she said confusedly.

“Well whatever, I don’t care. Forget it”, I said thinking that it's a waste of my time to think about those people's business.

“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 looking at us with annoyance in her big eyes. I guess we really disturbed her a lot.

“Ah yes, yes we will be careful. Sorry for the disturbance”, I apologised.

“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?”, I 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?”, I asked surprisedly. But the girl was already walking far away ignoring each and every reaction we had to comment. Both are her boyfriends? How does she know that? And even if she does why would she tell us such a absurd thing, we never even talked to each other. But she just went away like she didn’t care after saying something so absurd.

Me and Sarah, we both shockingly looked at the girl beside the window who was still busy signalling and sending flying kisses. Then we looked at each other.

“O-okay, lets not think or talk about those. It's bothersome and awkward”, I said to Sarah feeling really awkward and dumbfounded.

“Y-yeah, I was thinking the same”, she replied.

After that we talked a little about this and that. After college we said goodbye to each other. As our houses are in opposite directions we need to get on different buses.

I'm now sitting in the bus looking outside the window. It was a good first day experience in college. After sometime my stoppage came so I got down from the bus.

I started to walk as my house is a bit far from the main road. It's almost 6 in the after noon. Some people are going back home with groceries in their hands after finishing office. After I got into the alley I saw my brother-in-law rushing out. He came to me after noticing me. When we get closer “What happened brother?”, I asked him worriedly.

“Father's health has gotten worse again, we need to take him to the hospital. I'm going to get a taxi”, he said. After that he walked away quickly. I couldn't ask him anything more.

I just stood there frozen for a while and then started to run towards the house. My father is a brain stroke patient. He also have problems in kidney. Sometimes his health gets worse like this.

After I went inside the house I saw my eldest sister and mom making my dad ready to go to the hospital. Putting down my bag, I startrd helping them. After sometime my sisters and brother-in-law went to hospital with my dad.

I think dad will be admitted in the hospital again. He looked really sick to me. How many days will he be admitted? How many days will it take for him to get home this time? Thinking about it is making my head spine a little.

No, no I can't behave like this. I have to be strong. My mom is crying hiding in the room. I have to be strong and useful. I clenched my fist and took a deep breath and then started walking toward my mom's room. I have to take care of her.