Since my new school started most of my time usually spend in travelling (home to school and vice versa), talking with Ani and other class mates and studying. So, technically I become more distant from my family and more closed to my friends.
Next day when I reach school, I noticed crowd near the notice board and due to curiosity I moved in that direction and to check put what is happening. I just have to take one step ahead and I would be reading it, same time I heard my name from the back and I see Ani is calling me. I moved back, close to Ani and she told me that on notice board it's written if any girl is interested in playing football are welcome to join school girl's team, it excited me to the core as I wanted to learn something new and I only get my name registered in the team because Ani wanted to be in dance classes as she wanted to do and learn simple and sober not like what I am going to do something crazy.
As we were busy in getting ourselves registered in extra curricular activities, I missed the chance to keep an eye on Erik in the morning, I know once the football training started from tomorrow, I would be missing many more chances like that and while thinking all this, I am sitting with Ani in the canteen and enjoying the lunch break. She looked at my face and ask me why I am making such an irritating face. Like a good friend I share my thoughts with her and as usual she reply with a teasing look in her eyes, "babes, love like this is not healthy, it has become your obsession" and I roll my eyes, by ignoring her I finished drinking my cold coffee.
After our lunch break we picked our bags and leaved for our classes, while walking in corridors suddenly Ani spoke "hey Siya, I am sorry for yesterday". I stopped walking and looked at her face confusingly, asked "why" but before she could reply I remembered "her boyfriend part and my first face to face meeting with Erik". First part turned my mood sour but later part make me smile, I tell told her "its okay, may be you failed to find the right time to share it with me, I understand completely and I am not at all angry from you. Though I felt disappointed yesterday, later that day I meet with Erik and I forget about it."
Ani looked at my face for brief second with a shock, soon I can see mischievous glint in her eyes and teasing smirk forming no her lips and I now that she won't be leaving any single chance to tease me, so I started taking back steps slowly and she took her steps forward in my direction. Before, I could run anywhere she hold me from my waist (position is back hug) and she teased a hell our from me tickled me, in the whole corridor only our laughing sound heard. After 10 minutes we stopped, get apart took deep breaths and I slapped playfully on her shoulder, we giggled for sometime and entered in our classes.
The day ended smoothly, I reached home and told my parents that I would be playing football in my school, from tomorrow. And they got started with their comments, "why football, you should play basketball as this would increase your height, girls don't play football as it's a boys game, and list goes on." I just zipped up my mouth, listen to them but another conversation going on within me (talking to my inner self) and a thought come to my mind why can't they just trust me for once, show confidence in me, I can take my decision too but may be I am incapable of standing on my own.
As usual their lecture goes on for around 30 minutes approximately, I partially listen to it, partially talking to myself and for few seconds my mind jump over to Erik.