The next class was English. The teacher was very nice to me and I love English.

I answered most of the questions she raised in class and I hope that she got a pretty good impression on me. The class went on well and she ended by giving us some homework.

I planned to clean my new haunted locker during my lunch break. I had my lunch as fast as I could and went to clean the locker. No one was found roaming there so this made my job easier. Later Lia too joined to clean her locker and our cleaning work got over in no time.

After school I was waiting for Mike; because only he knows the way not me. I could see some girls talking to him in husky tones. I was waiting for more than 10 minutes. Then he waved bye to all of them and approached towards me. I frowned at him.

"Why do you frown?" he asked.

"Is it right to make someone wait for you for a long time?" I raised.

"If you want to get the person you love it's not wrong to wait even for a thousand years" he said with a wink in his eye.

My heartbeat skipped.

"Look, it's not the case here; I am just waiting for you, not for my loved one, okay?" I spoke.

"Wait, it's just a movie dialogue; Don't think I am telling this to you!" he said raising an eyebrow.

"Sorry, I din't know that movie!"
"Wish I could learn the way soon." I murmured within myself.

We reached the bus stop and boarded the bus. The bus was full and we were left to stand.

"Ouch!!... Don't stamp my leg, minion!" Mike groaned in pain.

"Sooorryy! I din't see" I replied with an evil smile, well I did that purposely.

Then the bus stood at Mike's stop, he got down. After moving from a couple of stops the bus reached mine. I could see my dad waiting for me. He smiled at me warmly and so do I.

"How was your first day in bus dear?" he asked me.

"Fine dad! I liked it." I replied in a normal tone.

"Any school students belonging to your stop?" he questioned.

The guy I never wanted. I thought.

"Hmm, one fellow! Mike" I said.

"Atleast you're not alone" said my father. I just nodded. 'You don't know about him dad, it's better to be alone than with him was my mind voice.

We reached home and I relaxed for some time. I completed my English homework fast and was viewing some pics on Instagram. Just then my phone started ringing and the contact name read

'Aaysha.'

Aaysha is my childhood friend. She is a 18 year old Muslim girl. We were neighbors from childhood, both our families knew each other very well; we always had picnics in the weekends and enjoyed our childhood like heaven.

But when she was 13, her family moved to Saudi. We both were more like sisters than friends. I could still remember her explaining about Mecca when I visited Saudi 2 years ago.
I picked up the call with excitement,

"Salaam alaikum! Aaysha how are you?" I started.

"Alaikum salaam! I am doing well, how is your new school?" she asked.

I have already said her that my school opens by August.

"Not bad, fine" I said.

"Mina I have a happy news for you!" she added.

"What's that" I asked her eagerly, coming forward from my eased position.

"You know, we are coming to Canada in 2 months!" she voiced happily.

"What? That's so cool! How many of you?" I asked her for more details.

"Me, my father, my mother, Arshad and Siddique." She replied.

That made my eyes gleam with joy. Arshad is Aaysha's elder brother, he is 25 years old and he is an Engineer. Siddique is Aaysha's younger brother of 17 years old. He is a good looking fellow and I always had a crush on him.

"Hello, Mina? You there?" Aaysha called.

"Yes, I am" I replied. "Is it a vacation or you're shifting?" I asked.

"No, it's only for a fortnight vacation, but I am sure I will shift to Canada for my higher studies" she said.

Then we chatted and ended up after a long conversation of one and a half an hour. It was nearly 3 months since I talked with her.

"Ok! We'll catch later" she ended.

I ran downstairs to tell my parents about this good news! There I could see my mom and dad having a video call with someone. I was curious who it was, because my parents were very happy when they conversed with the person on the phone. I thought it must be Aaysha's parents.

"Mina! You're here come and see who it is?" my mom called me near her to see who it was.

I went close and was delighted to see Daniel; my elder brother! It was indeed a great surprise. The last time I saw him was before 4 months when he went to Paris for his architecture studies. I was there at the airport waving my hand toward him with tear soaked eyes.
He used to text me or call me once in a week but din't come on a video call after that. This was the first time.

"You crazy stupid! You forgot us?" I yelled at him over the video.

I scolded him for few minutes till my anger subsided.

"Ok cool! Cutie pie! I was very busy the last few months. I swear that I will come on a video call once in a week, pinky promise?" he asked.

"Promise must be a promise" I reminded him and gave him a pinky promise.

We were talking with him for nearly 3 hours and finally the call ended automatically because the battery went dead.

I had my dinner and returned to my room. I was lying at the bed and was gazing my wall clock ,it showed 9:15 p.m. I felt that I was missing something, forgetting something to do. I was recalling what it was, then I remembered the 15 sums what Mr. Kim gave.

I am done!

I quickly got up from the bed, but I was feeling very sleepy at that moment.

"You better complete the work or you will end up with punishments"

Someone on my right said. It was the good creature; I mean the good conscience.

"Yah! That's so boring, you can set the alarm early tomorrow and you'll finish the work in the morning. The other one said.

"Why you guys appear from nowhere at random times?" I asked.

"We are only allowed to come when you are alone." The good one replied.

"Yes so that you can listen to us without any confusion, now sleep!" commanded the evil one.

"But deciding between you both gives me the biggest confusion" I said.

"There is nothing hard to decide, go do your work!" ordered the good one pointing its tiny finger towards my study table.

"No you better sleep! You look tired" said the evil one looking at my eyes and sang a lullaby.

"No! Wake up Mina" the good one shouted.

But I was overtaken by the lullaby and soon my mind began to cloud with dreams.

The next day I was waken up by dazzling sunlight from my window. I looked at my phone and the time is already 6:45.

Damn! I am screwed!

I have no time to complete my work; all the sums were big too. I tried my level hard to complete as many sums as I could.

I was stopped from doing my work by my father who was knocking the door reminding that it's getting late. I counted the sums I completed and it came only 4. How will I complete the rest? I was questioning myself. It was like head breaking!
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