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Arry’s Pov:-

It only has been a month or two since that incident when I joined the karate group of my school. The first day i went down to the ground for practise 

I came across this bossy girl who claimed herself to be one of the oldest students of sir. She was openly slapping other kids on the mistakes they were making. I was pretty much fuming inside but decided to mind my own business and not create a ruckus as it was my first day there. I didn't see that girl around after that first day much and somehow I liked that. After a week or so in practice, our sports day was on the way and I still wasn't  that much of a master in karate. Infact pretty bad. And as luck would have it, this girl who caught my attention pretty interestingly was to train me into the piece that I had to perform. Well, screw my luck was all I could think of. But being totally helpless and not wanting to have to get out of that team, I arrived to practise with her on the school ground. And the first thing that caught my sight as I got down on the ground was pretty pleasing for my eyes to see, Danny playing on the basketball court. “SHIT!!!!!!!! This is gonna be bad.” was all my mind could process. But putting aside all the thoughts, I decided to proceed but before that decided to ask someone about that girl. So I did. I got a junior who was beside me and asked him “Bro, do you by any chance know that girl over there? Actually I have karate practice with her, that's why I’m asking. Don't get me wrong.”. And the reaction was pretty much what i had expected. He looked here and there and whispered “Senior, listen to me. Her name is Amara and she’s in class 10 and according to me, she’s a psycho. She’s always slapping us for our mistakes and shouting as well. And she's not scared of anyone at all. Not even principal. Just be careful. Best of luck. Bye …” I couldn't help but laugh at his scared expression. It's gonna be fun with her. It had been quite some time since I was standing there so I thought I'll just move ahead and introduce myself. As I walked forward something hit my head really hard. I held my head in my hands and stood there looking awfully surprised as to what hit my head so hard but that was until I saw the basketball rolling just in front of my foot. My mind fumbled as to why the basketball would come flying at such a long distance. But that was until I saw Danny standing there with a damn nasty smirk on his face.   Now it all made sense to me. Danny saw me standing and he decided to throw the ball towards me and hit me. Wow!!! Just fantastic.

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 I was standing there wincing silently in pain as I heard him saying “Hey listen up girl. Pass me the ball!!!!! I don't have the whole day for your useless tears.” That was when I realised that tears were streaming down my eyes but it wasn't from the pain of my head getting hit, it was from the stabbing pain of getting humiliated by the person I loved for 6-7 months now with my whole heart. I picked the ball up and threw it to him as I saw him catching it and turning around to continue his game but not before giving me a disgusted look. Among all these I didn’t notice when Amara came into the scene. I realised this when I turned around and almost collided with her. “I’m sorry. I didn't see you there. It’s late enough, I guess we should go on and continue with the practice. Not that we’ll get much time.” I blabbered out before Amara could even utter a word, most probably to hide the embarrassment I just faced. She stared at my face for a moment and said “Yes, you’re right. Let’s start.” She started walking away and I followed but suddenly she turned around and very swiftly her hands came up to my cheeks. I stayed unmoved and her hands wiped the visible tears that were still on my cheeks. “You're brave. I like you.” was all what she said before we continued with our day. She did have something in her that kinda makes me like her. As we continued with our practice with the arrival of sport’s day, me and her bonded pretty well. It would be a lie if I said she didn’t try to boss me around at first but it was a complete no no from my side. So the tries stopped after a point of time and we started being friends. Till the sports day arrived, we almost became inseparable. We would prefer calling each other sisters more than addressing each other as friends or best friends. We would always hang out together. We would often hang around school for hours during our free period and lunch breaks holding on to each other’s hand. My best friends, Rachel and Lisa didn't seem to like that much. They even confronted me once or twice. But because I was pretty adamant about my and Amara’s friendship, they just made peace with the fact that I am not going to leave Amara at any cost, or at least that’s what I wished and hoped for.  For me, this friendship or sisterhood I might say was one of my most prized possessions. This friendship was all fine upto few months but the incident following after made all my life’s decisions questionable. It was the month of august and the last of it going on. There was a major chaos about the upcoming events of teacher’s day. All the heavy preparations were going on and it got busier day by day. After one such heavily tiring day, as I got up onto the bus during dispersal, I noticed weird stares on me. Honestly I’ve been noticing these stares since morning but as I convinced myself to ignore it and focus on the work I’ve been assigned to for teacher’s day. As I seated myself in a seat which I knew would be a near seat where Danny would sit, suddenly Lisa pulled me to a different seat in the corner. I looked up startled at her as she shushed me and said “Firstly stay away from Danny for a few days and please do yourself a favour if not us and stay away from your adorable Amara”. “What the **** are you talking about? Have you lost it completely? I mean I know you don’t like Amara but this?” was my response. Till the conversation reached here, Rachel entered into the scene and her first sentence was “You need to stop living in your strawberry bubble with your little Amara. She’s destroying you” “She’s telling people you are a lesbian and you are in a realtionship with her. And before you ask any questions that defend her, lemme clear it to you. This morning many people asked us if this is true and also our senior Chandler came to us and informed us about this rumour spreading in school. And don’t even say that it might be someone else because kindly burst your bubble and think who else has any motive at all. She’s the one spreading it.” added Lisa with rage in her eyes. I couldn’t form words. One moment I felt like Lisa was right but my heart refused to believe that Amara would do something like this to me. But despite all the motive shit, there was one thing that was rummaging through my mind continuously and that is why would anyone spread a rumour that affects their reputation too? But I decided to not ask neither Lisa nor Rachel this question as they might explode if I ask one question in her defence.But one thing which is true was she knew every bit of this and never thought it was important to tell me about it. On this day, I discovered a new emotion on my journey of life, that is-grief. Somewhere amidst this ruckus the little girl in me who once just knew anger started dying and grief started taking the place. 

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I was too much into my thoughts to see Danny get into the bus already and was seated with his friends. “Arry get your bag and sit right in the middle of me and Rachel and positively ignore and avoid Danny for a few days if you don’t want trouble.” was what Lisa said, bringing me out of my own trapped mind. I got up to get my bag and as fate would have it, I came face to face with Danny and his group. Danny’s nasty smirk as soon as he saw me already told me that my day wouldn’t end very nicely, rather the worst till date but I could never apprehend the terrible things he and his group of friends would say. “Oho!!!!! Here comes the lesbian i see. So miss LGBTQ where is your little girlfriend?” commented one of his friends. I stood there silently like a statue with my head lowered. “Bro!!! Be careful, they learn karate you know. Might hit you… oh my bad!!! They can’t leave each other's hand, how will they hit you?” and they burst out laughing. “Aye girl, listen no.. can you please tell us why you guys are always holding hands with her? I swear to Jesus Christ that we don’t want your little girlfriend. She’s as ugly as you are.” said another. I still stood there holding Rachel's hand who was almost ready to hit the shit out of them. I wanted to see if and when Danny is pushed for his turn to humiliate me, would he give me even a bit of sympathy. And then breaking the wait, Danny was pushed forward for the final blow of humiliation on me. I looked up for the first time to look at his eyes and his eyes contained some unknown emotions but did i see a little hurt and sympathy but that disappeared within seconds as it got replaced with his nasty smirk and his disgusted eyes when he looked at me. He looked at his friends and began his marvellous speech. “Attention guys!!!! This girl right here has a huge *** crush on me. She has been positively stalking me and following me everywhere. I know and totally agree she is ugly but i might have thought of dating her bcuz as you all know, i go for personality but guess what she’s a lesbian. How wonderful is that? I may consider modelling as my career because i am so very handsome that even lesbians has a crush on me. Wow!!!” He stopped to look at me and I was standing there with non-stop tears from my eyes with my head lowered looking at my shoes. I guess Rachel noticed the tears as she even looked at me with him. As he began again “This girl’s name is Ar-” “DON’T YOU FUCKING DARE TAKE HER NAME WITH YOUR FILTHY BLOODY MOUTH OR ELSE IT’LL BE THE LAST DAY YOU’LL SEE YOUR MOTHER’S FACE” growled out rachel and every person there just shut up and looked at her. “You bloody motherfuckers, filthy dogs, you better leave her alone and mind your own business or else you'll meet the satan too soon for your age. I’ve been listening for too long now. You guys need to shut up and get your own bloody lives. This shit is a rumour but you assheads decided to believe in that and dare to insult her. If i could, i would kill you but i can't but i can surely break your heads and i will if you don't stop. Let’s go, Arry. And if you wanna live, leave her alone.” growled Rachel before taking me from there. “Moron assholes,” said Lisa to them before joining us. 

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As Lisa and Rachel hugged me, all I did was cry and howl silently. “You're not the Arry we know, you should've shut them up with one kick in their faces. What happened to you?” questioned Rachel putting her hand on my back. “Yes she’s right. What’s wrong sweetheart?” Lisa agreed. But all I did was cry and cry. The full bus looked at me with sympathy and few with empathy but all i wanted was a glitch of sympathy is his eyes which i wasn't fated to. His eyes were stone cold and my heart was rock heavy. I continued crying till I couldn't anymore and fell asleep on Rachel’s lap with tear stained cheeks.

While the whole bus was teary for my situation, including a few of Danny’s friends , there was one person who was enjoying the scene. After all, who isn’t happy when their plan is successful and going as it is supposed to be?

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