I sat perplexed after a complete hour of toil tidying my room. It surely was a long serendipitous day. Certainly, my body was drained without an ounce of strength but my mind replayed every detail of the song from before, awakening afresh the painful harsh embedded memory of You Jun, Mong's brother who died in the quake, way back in 2010, when he was just 13!! It was the last song he wrote, before he...
I recalled how I spent days perfecting the song, with all the skills taught by him.. Ever since then, I have been taught posting songs in the "Friend channel", I created for him, with a stupid belief to bring him back to life or maybe to revive the part of me that was lost after his abrupt absence, never to return again, I was now homesick and I held on tight to the necklace, as warm liquid rolled down my chin.
"Love Sick?"
Ara giggled taking the necklace from my hand.
"So tell me about this special guy of yours whom you're missing so much to the point of making you cry?"
I widened my eyes in bewilderment.
"Come on, don't be shy; your secrets safe with me."
I remained silent as dumb, struggling to utter even a single word after the long waged battle down my memory lane.
"Oh! Wow!! Couple rings!! Cut the suspense when are you planning to..."
I snatched the necklace, without letting her finish her sentence and for the very first time, paid attention to the golden ring attached in my mom's golden chain. It had a peculiar design with space for the upper half of the heart, three vertical lines with spaces between them and some figures almost like maps engraved on the surface of the ring.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to upset you!
My bad, actually it's my mom's, moreover, I'm a fallow land; let's cultivate it together?"
"Awwww.....my dearest Sarine, you're no longer fallow but ploughed by this friend of yours, no, not just friends but sisters for life in all situations." she whispered while giving me a warm hug.
"Promise!"
"Promise", I said entangling my little finger with hers.
I pulled myself to sleep with the explosion of questions leading to the chambers of secrets.
"Sarine, promise me, two sharp at the court. Okay and no excuses!!See ya!!!"
Saying this Kim shoot out.
"The class sure enough was boring but this scene really is interesting!"
Ara smirked.
"What? Seriously, we ain't cooking nothing!"
Then with a sync of understanding we pined our laughter away on our way to the painting club room.....
The room was spacious unlike the ones I attended earlier maybe because of the less number of students enrolled. Today, since it was our first class, we were asked to paint our hearts desire. Firstly, I started to mix the colours and later allowed the colours to paint my emotions. In the course of which I was so much engrossed that I did not pay heed to the enthusiasm created as someone entered the room, but lose my focus as the president announced,
" Attention everyone, for the music feast this year, we will be helping the music club with the presentations and decor. Are you all excited?"
Everybody cheered and agreed with unison, for there stood the star of the music club, "Brin."
He was neatly dressed in the most comfortable fashionable way, had the perfect body, tall, fair skin with sharp jawline. His blacks shiny hair down to his brows and his black eyes deep with emotions contrasting with his gay face. Somehow, our eyes met and I could see him walking towards me, with every graceful step, the footsteps becoming louder. He was only a few centimeters away from me, then, he put his arms around my shoulder and....