Chapter 1

Batool Imran

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"Age is just a number-one does not depend on age to fall in love"-Anonymous

She entered the large, dimly lit corridor, a huge frown all over her face, and her heart filled with utter disappointment. She hadn't imagined her first week at High School to be this hopeless, after what seemed like 3 months of suffering homesickness, and Ma's learn your household chores rants all day long, she had awaited a joyous orientation week at school. But well, she sighed to herself, Devi Maiyan had always been unfair towards her, no matter what it was, either the scholarship she lost by a one percent last year, or the elections she had lost on account of her opposing candidate being the daughter of the headmistress, everything in her life had always been unusual.

Sulking all over, she walked away towards the third classroom on the left, a part of her grieved over leaving an awesome class behind, and entering into one which she intercepted to be of total wilderness. If she had been sent here to fill the quota of girls in the class, than there was not much she could expect out of the 23 boys that populated the class, not to mention that she didn't know a single soul out there.

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He kept his hand on his forehand, leaning against the wall behind, which he rested his tired back on. All his efforts to keep his eyes open were in vain, as he desperately tried to get the boring lecture of the Biology teacher into his head. His other hand scribbled onto the page of copy opened in front of him, which he had earlier intended to take in notes on, but like every time had failed to do so, upon realizing that his brain activity would stoop a bit too low in the Biology period.

It was a poke from his best friend, who sat next to him, that brought him back to the class, and amazingly a bit too early that he realized that the class seemed unknowingly quiet. His eyes opened to full length, for the first time in the last 45 minutes as his eyes eyed the girl that everybody seemed to be eyeing standing on the door, her bag on her shoulder, throwing a most annoying expression at the ultimate stare party of his class. He wanted to giggle a bit, at the girl's odd reaction, but chose to subside that for the time being, as the girl told the teacher of whom and where she had come from. He tried to get his eyes off the silly girl, but somehow his vision kept hooked in her direction, and for some reason or the other, he already knew, this girl was someone he couldn't get his eyes off from.

She looked at everyone in the class staring at her, the only two girls present in the lot, passing uneasy looks at her, and the boys dumbfounded by her entire being. Their reaction was the weirdest she had seen, and that moment for her was enough to regret being sent here; however she knew little, that this class would end up being the best year of her life.

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