8 Lily

It was Mirae, I saw her coming towards me, asking me to stay in the clubhouse. She came to me and said," I also want to join you guys for a match. Where is Shakhi? Is she upstairs? Come, let's go..." What next, I sat on the table and the game began. To my surprise Mirae also played well that day. Time went and we didn't realize that it was evening. Soon my phone rang, it was Mom, and she had asked us to go back to room as she was leaving for Spa. It was perfect time to depart as we had to go back to our room and he was supposed to conduct evening activities at the clubhouse. Then what we went back to our rooms and girls switched on the TV and started watching cartoon, Mom had gone to Spa, it was me, all by myself and again, I had nothing to do, so I decided to call my bestie, Lily.

Lily and I were childhood friends; we were in the same school and used to share everything about each other. There were many secrets about me from the external world that only Lily knew. Lily had crush on one of our seniors and so she used to tell me everything about him, everyday. She was so much obsessed with him that one day she even inspired me to write a poem on her, which was,

Having a crush?

Having a crush is a great mess!

My friend had a crush with stress

Always confused when I should ask, what about response and future planning.

Told her a several times

Either you say or shut yourself up.

But She! Ha Ha… neither said she to him nor did stop telling me!

I got messed up one day and told her,

that if she could not then I would do it for her!

And again Ha Ha

She denied…..

So this time also while calling here I was afraid that she would begin again on the same topic but still I mustered courage and called her. As obvious she did talk about him but it was bearable.

Then finally after finishing her fantasies she took a pause and said to me, "You say how is it there? Are you enjoying a lot? Did I miss any fun? How is everyone doing?" Yes I forgot to mention the second annoying thing about her which is most likely to remain permanent, that is asking questions, that also not useful ones but those which do not require even a second for you to get annoyed. I took a deep breath and then answered all her questions one by one before she made an entire test paper with those annoying and useless questions. I often questioned myself, why do I have a friend like her which is a bit difficult to handle. And answer to my, that question lied into the question itself. Yes the bit itself said that she was not that difficult to deal with. She was honest and kind, especially not like other girls who would only come to you when they desire something that you own. I get along with almost everyone despite being an introvert but that is only on the surface, not in reality.

I had friendly relations with almost everyone around me but there were very few with whom I shared a deep connection. And Lily was one of those few. In school other girls were really jealous because of our relationship but they would never let us know that one our face. Gradually when we grew, our bond became even stronger. And soon I started coming across many advises, some of them said that I was degrading myself by being in company with her, some said she is the reason I am not able to improve my standards, others said that we are not meant for each other. Like literally we were not together to set up a family, then why did they even bother thinking about it, we were just friends- best friends. But in the category "people" not everyone has brains and is capable of making correct judgments. Hence start ignoring such malicious advices or rather say comments, is something I have learnt through this course of time. Well that was enough of life science. After having a pep talk with her I went with the girls for dinner and this is how the second day ended.