An Unknown Girl : A High School Romance
She came for participating in the Drawing contest. It was Art Fest Day, so students from all the high school's were at ours. We were there only because we can see these beautiful girls and flirt.
When I said 'we' it only meant my friends, I was not that much good at flirting or even talking to a girl. There was fear in me to talk to people even from childhood days. Usually, these festivals were a boring day for me.
I first saw her when she was near the canteen area. We were exhausted from walking behind these girls all around the campus. One of our friends got a company with a pretty girl. So he left us in front of the canteen and gone inside with her.
Then she came, She was wearing a long skirt with some artwork. At first, I felt like she was taller than me. She was the most beautiful girl I have ever seen up to that time. There was two, three long hairs that fall onto the one side of her face. She was trying to place that behind her ears, but it always came back.
She passed us and directed towards the canteen even without giving a look to me. I was not that much confident one, but I was staring at her from a long distance. That was a little bit of sad. That's the moment I understood that this hard feeling of attraction or maybe love can give us a gut that's deep inside us.
I looked at my friend, he was also looking at them. He was the one I needed to have a chat with them. He was a talky guy. He doesn't even need a topic to start a talk.
So before he starts to question, I told him that I have to talk to that girl. His expression was like I was talking about going to space. I gave a small hit to his head and asked him once more about helping me.
He was always welcome for these things. Then she was coming out of the canteen. Now there is a bottle of water in her hand. The bottle was beautiful in her hand. I didn't know, is that the beauty of the bottle or the feeling that whatever becomes beautiful coming near to her.
Now she just turned her head to the right and gave me a look in the eye. I freeze for a second. All the hormones inside me started to flow. It was the moment I realised the love can get you high.
That look only existed for seconds and she left there. We started to follow her. She had short hair. After a few steps, her friend looked back and saw us. She told about us to her. I waited for her to look back. But she was not looking.
Finally, we reached the stage where Sanskrit dramas we're played. There were not many fans for that. Her friend was playing a role in one of that she bought the water for her. When she gave them water she talked to something to them with just lips moving. Then all the actors on the drama at the backstage looked at us.
We took a place to sit in front of the stage, it was a small one. After some chit chat's with her friend she came to sit and chose a seat that was at the right side of us. I started to look at her beauty for a little more time. After some seconds the icebreaker happened. My friend who was sitting next to me told me to ask some water to her.
At first, I said to him that she was not gonna reply to that. When he started to call me curse words, I asked her some water. The reply was unexpected, she just searched around her and walked towards the backstage and came back with the bottle of water.
She gave me it, and when I took it from her hand I gave a smile of an innocent. She also smiled. That moment was beautiful. The reality is I'm striving here to explain that inside my vocabulary. It was one of the moments I really wanna go back if I can Time Travel.
I noticed her friend she was not that much happy about me interacting with her. I still don't even know why she was like that. Then it was the time for beautiful smiles, I have ever seen in my life.
Whenever she slightly turned her head, I smiled at her. It was the day I felt my smile was beautiful too. She gave a lot of expressions which are I still can't leave behind. We talked less, she was a few meters away from me. First I thought about going to a seat near to her, but her friend's attitude made it totally vulnerable.
We asked each other's name. It was a hard task. It took time to grasp her lip movements. I can't hear any words because she was this much far from me and also there was the sound from the speakers for the drama playing onstage.
Those moments, I felt like the most handsome guy because of her interest in talking to me 😄.
Time passed and the drama has finished. I asked her which school she was from it was a little bit far from ours for me at that time. Her friends started to pack everything, at that moment I realized it's all going to end.
I grabbed a piece of paper and wrote my Facebook ID and my number on it. It was my friend's idea. She didn't have any phone in her and so she must be using her mom's or dad's phone to contact people. So I knew that it was not gonna work out if I just gave my number it's why added the Facebook ID.
They saw me doing all this. The next moment a girl came from outside told them that the school bus's leaving. I walked towards her and I extended the paper towards her. She thought for a second, her friend hold in her hand she moved out of the auditorium.
I was just starting to say
"I need to talk to you more..."
They half-heard it. They walked towards the bus. I lost all my confidence after this incident happened in the auditorium. But I followed her towards the bus because I knew it was the last chance I've got.
They entered the bus. I am at the side of it now. I can see her inside. I got near towards the bus and extended my hands towards her again.
This time she took it and read it. I tried to pass a smile. I looked at her like I was sad to get sympathy from her. Then her friend grabbed the paper from her and tore it into pieces. She threw it towards me. The bus started to move. I tried to control my anger as much as I can. Because I knew that I don't
have any more time to do anything.
I just looked at her with my sad face, I had nothing to say. So I just looked at her with a broken heart. The bus got into the driveway and passed out of my sight. There was a look on her face that I still didn't understand.
Is that sadness or some kind of making fun of me?. I still don't know. I haven't seen her after that.
For a few weeks, I thought that she knows my Facebook ID and she will text me.
Because she read the paper. My friends also supported me in that. I waited for her message for about two weeks.
There wasn't any message. Maybe it was hard for her to by heart.
When I look back now, I was getting some funny ideas like yelling my Facebook name multiple times at her. For some days, I tried some ways to find her by friends near their school. But eventually, she became a memory.
Like any other desire, I left her behind as a memory. We are human, it's hard for us forget things.
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