"Mom, I am leaving for the school.", said Aurora while rushing to the main entrance door.
"Hey, wait. Did you have something to eat???", questioned her mother while rushing out of the kitchen.
"Yup, mom. I had some cookies.", said Aurora while stopping in front of the door.
"It's still raining outside. Are you sure that you want to rush to the school in this weather???", asked her mom while trying to peep out of the window from where she was standing.
"It's okay, mom. It has been raining non-stoppable since the dawn. I have already got late because of this rain. But now I got to go. You know that I don't want to break my record as the only regular student of the whole school. Moreover, there is only a month left for the first term. I don't want to miss any class.", said Aurora while putting on her shoes.
"Ok as you wish. Take care.", said her mom with a helpless expression as she knew that no matter what Aurora would end up attending to the school.
"Take care, mom. See you. And don't worry. After all, school is only a few steps away from our home. Look, mom, we can see the school building from our home. It will take only three to five minutes for me to reach there. And see it's only drizzling now.", said Aurora happily while stepping out of the house by opening up her umbrella.
Afterwards, she walked to her school while enjoying the view of nature.
"Although it's a sudden rain out of the blue yet It's renewed the nature. So beautiful and the smell of the freshness is also amazing.", Aurora kept walking happily while admiring the surrounding in her thoughts.
"Oh, I have already come near to the school but what is this??? None on the road. On other days, the whole road is full of the students either with seniors or juniors. Is it because of the rain or is it a holiday today??? Let me take a look.", Aurora rushed to the school entrance in a hurry while portraying the yet familiar but unfamiliar surrounding in her mind.
"Thank God, it's not a holiday. There go a few juniors with their friends. Seems like the attendance is a little less today. The school seemed to be so quiet and peaceful today. There are no loud noises of the students or the busyness in the environment.", she entered into the school with some junior students ahead to her while enjoying the sudden peaceful environment of the school.
"Hey, Aurora. You finally came.", said her friends who were seemed to go somewhere through the playground while rushing to her.
"Hi, guys. The school seems so quiet today.", said Aurora with a smile as a greeting while looking around.
"The attendance is so less today. We are the only ones who have arrived on time in our class. We can have fun together.", said Abigail excitedly.
"Don't forget that we are not the only one, but there are also some boys. You know, those punks from our area.", said Scarlett while giving an expressionless look.
"Ooh. By the way, are you guys going somewhere???", asked Aurora curiously.
"Yes, we are going to the canteen to have an inspection section. You know what I mean...", said Emily with a teasing smirk.
"Ok fine, then go ahead. I won't delay you all.", said Aurora with a smile.
"Hey, wait. I have sat on the second bench. You can sit with me. Moreover, Chloe seems not coming today.", said Scarlett happily while hugging Aurora's arms.
"Okay, done. Thanks.", said Aurora happily.
"By the way, can you go alone or do you want us to go with you???", Madison interrogated Aurora excitedly.
"Yes, she is right. If you want, we will accompany you to the classroom and then go to the canteen or, we will wait for you here till you keep the bag in the there and come to us if you want to join with us.", said Ophelia while pulling Aurora with them.
"Thanks but no, guys. Don't bother with me. You guys carry on. I will go by myself.", said Aurora with a smile.
"Ok then, be careful. The whole floor of our class is totally empty today. Don't be afraid. I truly hate the first floor of that building where our class is.", said Madison worriedly.
"Not only you, buddy but all of us hate that classroom because of the floor it's situated. Really, man, the sunlight doesn't reach to that floor properly and if it reaches also the classrooms and the whole floor still remain with its lacking of light. Whether it is sunny or rainy, full or empty, the whole floor is always gloomy and dull with less light even though we always light up excessive lights.", said Emily while making faces where others were nodding their head to her words as an agreement.
"Okay, guys. I know it. Don't worry, I will be fine. Now go fast and come soon. I will be waiting for you in the classroom. See you.", said Aurora happily.
"Okay then. See you there. Take care on the way.", said all of them while heading to the canteen.
After their leaving Aurora happily headed to their classroom. Her friends were right. The whole way to her classroom was empty without anyone's presence. She took the stairs to the first floor happily while humming a tune. Then entered the corridor of that floor and saw that there was none so far. She kept moving forward while humming the tune happily and focusing on arranging her umbrella. But out of the blue, she could see a figure standing ahead of the corridor by facing to the playground and enjoying the drizzling.
"Oops, someone seems to be there. But what does it have to do with me??? How dumb I am!!! Drop it. But I think, it's better to stop humming.", she ridiculed herself while focussing back to her umbrella and kept walking forward by stopped humming.
But all of a sudden she could feel like someone was standing in the middle of her way and she took a slight look at the front and got to see slightly a pair of shoes which was indicating that someone was standing only a few step ahead from her.
She was immediately frozen to the place where she was standing and gulped before taking a proper look at the person standing there.
Then she raised her head slowly while examining that person from toe to head. She could see that the person was a fairly tall boy with an impressive well-built physique despite his age and he was totally dressed in black- black jeans, black polo collar t-shirt, black sneakers and black leather watch which were making him looked more handsome and charming. He had short chestnut brown hair with slight bangs, along with light brown, almost golden, eyes. Every feature of his clear, pale face was well defined- the sharp jaws, the straight high nose, the pair of thicker but well-shaped thinner eyebrows, the pinkish, soft, smooth fuller lips and his mesmerising eyes that caught her eyes. In one word, he was totally a package of hotness and charm.
The moment she made eye contact with that unknown charming stranger the time seemed to be stopped moving its wheels and the surrounding seemed to be standstill. Both of them were losing in the eyes of each other without even realising.
Aurora who couldn't understand the situation immediately took her eyes away from him while looking towards the playground embarrassingly. Then she took a proper look at the situation and got to realized that while walking focussed on her umbrella by thinking none was there it was her who came middle of his way out of nowhere by causing all that.
"I am really sorry for blocking your way. I was being careless. Sorry, it wasn't deliberately.", she said while moving aside from his way in an embarrassed voice.
He nodded to her words politely and left from there hurriedly.
"Dumb me. Shit. How could I be so careless??? How embarrassing!!! I should find a hole to hide.", Aurora ridiculed herself in her mind while walking to her class.
"But who was he??? Was he a junior, after all, he was standing in front of the grade- 9 but he doesn't seem to be a junior with his extraordinary appearance. Then he is maybe a senior but this floor doesn't have any senior grades and our class is the only senior grade in this floor where the rest are all junior grades and also he seems to be older than us so he can't be a classmate of ours. Moreover, he was not wearing any uniform. Then what was he doing here??? Maybe he is the elder brother of someone who came to visit his sibling. Yup, that seems right.", she entered into the class while lost in her thoughts.
Then she kept her bag on the bench where Scarlett told her to sit and came out of the classroom to the corridor to wait for her friends' return.
That stranger she met a while ago was nowhere to be seen and not only him there was none on that whole floor which was ensuring that she was the only one in that empty floor without anyone.
After a few minutes, her friends arrived joyfully while carrying a lot of snacks and Scarlett and Ophelia jumped on to Alora while squeezing her into their side hugs.
At the same time, they could see that Nora, Lucy and Julia were also heading towards them hurriedly to catch up with them wearing bright smiles by waving their hands from afar while fixing their umbrellas.
"Hey, wait for us. We will join you guys in a second.", said three of them while rushing into the classroom where Aurora and others were nodding to them happily.
After placing their bags they came out and join the others.
"I thought that you guys are not going to come today...", said Madison while offering her potato chips to them.
"Yup, me too. Usually, it's rare to see you three in the school during the rainy days. So, what's so special today, Nora???", said Abigail while slapping Nora's shoulder with a teasing expression.
"There is nothing special. Who thought that it would be raining today.", said Nora while looking at the pouring weather with a disappointed face.
"Hmm, truly none expected that today it would be raining. This rain started out of blue without any forecasting.", said Scarlet while gently touching the water droplets on the leaves of the tree which was standing next to the one side of their corridor where they were hanging out.
"True, it's said that it usually rains out of the blue when there is about something to take place. Like- the beginning of some romantic stories or predestined meeting of the lovers. In the rain like this usually, the relation that connects two hearts together with the red thread starts by without letting anyone know or notice.", said Julia while catching the raindrops by expanding her hands out of the balcony and exposing them to the drizzle.
"What nice lines!!! So expressive. Well said, Julia.", said Aurora while standing next to Scarlet and enjoying the view of tiny rain droplets on those tree leaves.
"Stop it, Julia. You are changing the topic with those filmy lines. Now, come on, tell us the reason for breaking your records of not available during the rainy days all of a sudden.", said Emily while pinching Julia's cheeks.
"Don't pinch my cheeks. What I said was not a cooked up story. It's a belief of many others. Nora, say something.", said Julia while struggling to free her cheeks from Emily's pinching.
"Oh really, then I might have a chance to meet a handsome hunk who will fall for me right at our first encounter.", said Ophelia while daydreaming by happily wrapping her cheeks in her palms and closing her eyes.
"Leave the cheeks of the stupid Julia. Actually, we three had a plan to go to the old bookstore near downtown because we got to know from our secret source early in the morning that the crushes of three of us are heading there today to buy some books. We don't want to miss this golden opportunity to have a glimpse of them.", said Nora excitedly while hugging her hands to her face.
"This is the reason we had to come to school even though we didn't want to come. Oh my prince charming.", said Lucy while hiding her face behind her palms shyly.
"The atmosphere around us changed drastically. It's become all pink and why I can see that the heart-shaped bubbles are flying around us???", said Madison while looking at Lucy, Julia, Nora and Ophelia who were soaking in their daydreaming by enjoying her potato crunches with Abigail and Emily.
"Even we can see the same things but the reason, don't know.", said both Emily and Abigail by watching them curiously while putting the potato crunches into their mouths cluelessly.
Aurora and Scarlet were also watching the pinkish atmosphere with the heart-shaped bubbles in the air surrounding them curiously by taking back a minute from their interest in those tree leaves.
"Huh??? What's going on???", asked Aurora curiously.
"Not something for a minor like you to see. Open the mouth. Chew the chewing gum quietly and enjoy the view of the rain by turning here.", said Scarlet while putting a chewing gum into Aurora's mouth and turning her to face back the rain by ignoring those dummy who was drooling over their crushes.
After a few minutes, all of them got back to their normal forms and started to enjoy the view of drizzling all together while having a nice chat.
Meanwhile, the bell for their class rang out and all of them happily entered their classroom and took their seats while the male students were entering the classroom out of nowhere and taking their seats.
In a few minutes, their mathematics teacher, Mr Mathew entered the classroom while exchanging greeting with one another. Then he put his textbook and his teacher's copy on one side of the teacher's table and was about to start the lesson when he was interrupted by one of the peons of the school by calling him out for a while. Then Mr Mathew rushed to the entrance door of the classroom and had a chat with the peon for a several second and then headed back to his teacher's table which was right in front of the classroom and also in the front of the whiteboard and with a gentle smile he said, "Okay everyone, sorry for the delay. Before starting the lesson for today, I am going to borrow a few minutes more of us because today we have a new transfer student to welcome."
"What??? A new transfer student??? At this time of the year??? Huh??? What did he say??? Student??? That too new???", everyone started to exclaimed curiously and surprisingly to one another.
"Oh cool down everyone and stay quite. Please come in and give your introduction.", said Mr Mathew while gently calling the new student who was waiting outside to enter in.