"Awkwardness"
"Loneliness"
"Strangeness"
-These are the feelings we all deal with while entering a new place. But, hell! No one gets time on how they are going to deal with them- as till we finally get our attention over them, We found them being stomped down by our actions in a few days passing by.
But, The first day is 'the first day'! - You can't overcome these feelings on the first day.
I looked all over the ground before my School- only to make the situation to be worsening.worst. As at that moment, there were no Students on the whole ground, the place was as quiet as if my ears have stopped working-
I, who's standing directly at the entrance of the school building was the only person standing there! Yeah, I came too early before the entry time.
I thought I should go back to the gates and wait for the only person from my old school, who was the only recognizable person for me, studying here- But, Even after searching faces in the increasing number of students over and over, I found myself in the need of Searching myself-
The faces of all the teachers and friends I've met in my old school flared before my eyes- The mischievous deeds of us in Skyline* was known wide all over the whole Uma Nagar*; -at least, it was what I believed that time! The loss of my childhood friends was aching me a lot. The new faces were everywhere -
The 'Crowd' was a total stranger for me as I knew no one in there. For a moment, I kept feeling so low that I thought I should run away from here, as the gates were still open. But, having no experience in Bunking classes restrained my mischievous mind. Sometimes being a good student sucks, making us being out of tricks every time.
"Which school you were from?", A friendly voice tapped my shoulders, as I turned the voice added on-"Which section bro?"
I paused for a moment, seeing the face of the person who's the voice it was. From any angle, I couldn't speculate any of his intentions or interests by his face- but I was sure; he is also a new student definitely, as his uniform still had the clippings of price tags attached to his side collars.
"S-e-c-t-ion F", being overwhelmed by the memories of my old friends, my voice trembled a bit- "F-f-from Skyline*, A-a-and you?"
"I am from the 'Convent'. Is it your first day here buddy?", he showed interest.
I, warding off a friendly aura, gave him a small smile. "Yeah, brother! I sense it's the same case for you too?"
"Not really, I came here yesterday too. But yeah! I am too a new student here- but, just a little bit' less new than you.", he answered drawing his eyes 'a little bit' smaller to express the littleness of his novicity.
We would have talked a little more, but as the ringing of the bells indicated the 'entry'- He just disappeared from my 'radar' in the long lines of students before the entrance gate of the school's building.
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As I tried to enter the building, I was seived out of the line by a teacher standing there. Don't having the courage to ask why, I thought- Am I the only unlucky guy who got stopped by these teachers? just because not wearing the 'School uniform' on the first day?
But, As I turned back to see if I'm the one unlucky here-
It was a lined up-crowd of 'Unlucky' Students not wearing the 'Standard Uniform' like me, standing beside. Suddenly! I realized that out of no reason all of them were standing behind me, making me the first person in front of the large line!
As I thought to swap my position, the guy behind me gave me a terrific look like he was saying- 'Don't you dare try to change your position!!'
Well, I dropped the idea as I found that along with all the students behind him as well as, the guy standing at the end of the line- seemed to give off the same aura of threatening. Getting no other choice, I stood piteously in the front; trying to get a chance to swap my position.
"Hey, bruh! why are we stopped by that Fatty?", One of the students over the group spoke over themselves.
After listening for a while, I pieced up that they were talking about the Teacher who had made us stop right at the entrance in such a way- which was rude to be experiencing on the first day of school for a new student like me.
While others wearing full uniforms were entering, we were like the convicts waiting to be given punishment.
"They are intending to give us Punishment!", One of the students from our line replied the question. Nevertheless, it ended up causing an intensive moment of discussion and chattering inside our linear Group of 'Unlucky' students.
As others continued to chatter on this punishment, that Fatty person found a student like us barging in through the moving line- Getting his hands over the small boy, he just bashed him down so badly that, even standing away from the boy- we can feel the impact of each blow landing on the poor back of the young boy, who immediately burst into tears due to that.
But, little we new students realized, this was a common thing here- Whilst everyone laughed and giggled over the poor Guy on the surface, We all shared the same feeling of fear building up at some corner of our hearts.
"Hey you!" a crackling voice surprised me out of my deepening thoughts. I turned over, and found the same Fat person approaching towards me like an elephant coming to stomp off!- "Where's your uniform!!?... Grrrr...Where it is? Don't you all know the notice the principal issued yesterday?"
As he boomed these questions on us- Me, being the first in the line was already out of my breath due to the panic-
'What notice? I don't know- no one had told me.'
I tried to remember if I missed it on the day of Admission, Afterall I may have forgotten something like this- But, all I can remember was them asking us to come to classes as early we could!
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I gulped over my confusion, As the ferocious person stared his glare over me- But, somehow a prick of self-respect kept me from being blasted off with his death stance..