So here it goes..
She is 16 now but it all started off in grade 6. 'He was a boy, she was a girl, can I make it anymore obvious?' Well, no..it wasn't that obvious this time. She had crush on this guy and he was leaving school a few weeks after the beginning on grade 6. Heartbreak in the first few three lines of the story? I think not. Yeah okay, she liked him all, but come on, it's just grade 6, it's not like she's gonna fall in love and all. 'I'm just 11' was the label on her mind. So crushes come and crushes go, thats how it is. You like someone and then things happen and you like someone else after a while. But this time, grade 6 wasn't just gonna be any other year of school for her.
“Life’s all about moments of impact and how they change our lives forever." Our class teacher had just distributed the report cards of last term and all eyes were down starring that their grades, rechecking in their mind and visualizing the horror or celebration that might take place at home. Suddenly, the silence was broken by the creek of the door. It was him. A teacher escorted a boy into the class. He was new. He seemed a bit nervous and his eyes were constantly finding his way around while he stood still as the two teachers had a talk. Like any other class teacher, our teacher too asked him his name and which school he had shifted from and then left him to mingle into the alien land he was bought into. All the guys sat around him, and my friend, who is a guy watcher, went off and sat with them. They all talked, their voices got louder as the teacher left the room for break time. All that sound was just a murmur to my ears. I was too busy going through my report card still. Establishing in my mind where i had to improve and where not. Ask me then or ask me now, I couldn't have described the first impression or first look that he had on me. That's how busy and unaware I was at that moment in time, had I known it would turn to this today, i might have payed a bit more attention. Break time was still on, when a teacher entered our class and said 'Oh i think there has been some confusion, you belong to the other section! Come, I'll take you there." The boy who had somewhat become a citizen of this land was being transported to another alien land where he must start again. So he was taken to the other class, none of us were affected by that anyway, I mean, we barely knew him. Then my friend. the guy watcher, she came up to me and said, "wow, he was nice, I wish he was in our section" and all i wished for was for her to shut up while I was thinking about my grades.
As the days passed by, we figured we had the same 2nd and 3rd language class. Not that any of that mattered to us cause we didn't talk. He was the new guy in the other section and I was an oldie with my gang of friends. That's how grade 6 started off. That's how the first few days to something so different started of.
And by the time my crush was about to leave, I didn't have any feelings. No feeling of sadness or loss or anything for that matter. It was a friend, a guy i knew, who was leaving and all i had to do was say 'bye'. Nothing more..and if you're thinking it was cause i had begun to have feelings for the new guy, you are wrong. We were still the same strangers, his presence or absence had absolute no impact on me. I guess this was just because, like i said, things happen and you move on and me and my mind had precisely done that but without giving me a reason.
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