Do you remember the time when we were these tiny, annoying brats, we would always whine about how we wanted to grow up? Our elders would always warn us to think before we say that, but why will we ever listen to the ones who had an experience in the field of LIFE.

I don't know about you, but i wanted to grow up because:
1. I could get rid of the studies.
2. So that I would get out the 'hell hole', where we earthlings call it as our 'school'.
3. Who wants to do that stupid, boring, that flies-right-over-our-heads-Math homework. I hate every single second of it.

I guess the same points apply to you as well. Or do you have any?

But we didn't know what we were talking about. We didn't know that life gets harder as we grow up. We didn't know that at one point of our lives, it would turn deadly complicated. Suddenly, silly crushes break up the years long of friendship. We start overthinking every situation. The what if questions arise in our small yet enormous brains. Drama invites itself into our lives without our permission. We get bullied, humiliated, tortured. We get depressed, mood swings, anxiety disorders, panic attacks. And some even go to the extent of ending up their own lives.

And that is the moment we regret big time saying those words. We wish that we could have a Doraemon in our lives so that we could borrow his 'Time Machine' and relive those good ol' days.

But first, slap the shit out of of that young version of you and threaten them to not say those dangerous, venom filled words.

So, not everyone can afford a Time Machine. Wait a second. Actually, nobody can afford a Time Machine because you know, it's a FREAKING TIME MACHINE.

But we can relive those days by doing some things without the need of a Time Machine. We can do some appropriate things that are excusable even in our teenage years.

"Way to ruin the sandcastles, Zach!" Sophia scolds her boyfriend while cleaning the sand off her jeans.

"But I thought it needed more water. Can you blame me for trying to take care of our sandcastle?" Zach replies but Kevin just smacks him on his head.

"Looks like you're gonna loose," Mason mocks them, while laughing at Zach's stupidity.

Meanwhile, i find a small twig and try to trace small lines on our castle, and Dawn gives the finishing touches.

It all started as a silly joke. We all were recalling our childhood days, where we used to come with our parents to the beach, and do all childish stuff like building sandcastles, wrestling with our parents in the sand, picking up the washed away shells on the sea shore and sweet things like that.

Zach wondered if we can still build a castle or were we too old to the childish stuff. Sophia took this as a challenge to prove the point that age doesn't matter to enjoy childish games. In fact, that is when we really enjoy doing it.

We split up in 2 teams. Sophia, Zach, Kevin in one, and Dawn, Mason, me in the other. The loosing team must buy an ice cream to the winners and I'm so psyched to win.

Who in their right mind wants to pass up on an ice cream offer? I, for one will not.

But fate had other plans for me and my team.

"Nooooooooo!", Dawn screams in horror as the waves brutally washes away our not-so-well built sandcastle and reverts back taking away the sand, along with our efforts and my shoes.

Wait, what? Why are my shoes getting carried away whe-

"Oh, shit!" I run to the shore and get my shoes back before they got lost in the water. I pick them up and it doesn't come of as a shock to me that my shoes are totally drenched with the salt water.

I come back to witness my friends laughing at my dismay and even though I'm upset, i softly chuckle along with them.

Zach recovers up from his hardcore laughing session and mocks at my distress. "Oh man, the way you ran for you shoes like they were on fire."

Kevin backs him up. "You looked like a complete cave woman," and crackles up again.

"Ha ha guys, every body here had a great laugh," i dead pan.

"Oh no, honey. We are sorry," Sophia chirps in solemnly, but a man from a cliff can clearly see her shoulders shaking with the laughter she's controlling.

"Fine. You guys can laugh." And that's what I needed to say for them to go on a full blown mode of roaring laughter.

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After the whole beach fiasco, we decided to get ice cream. Although nobody won the competition, Dawn offered to go to the ice cream parlour anyways and also paying for all of us. We didn't needed to be told twice because free food is always enjoyable.

"So I guess we need to fill in the details of all the drama that's happened past week to you, Dawn?" Mason chips in.

"Oh that's not needed. Emma already told me everything." Dawn nods at my direction and i raise my cup at her, gesturing a 'you're welcome' towards her.

Sophia interjects, "Well there must be something that she didn't tell you," and starts reminiscing about all the incidents that happened in the past seven days.

"Did she tell you about the cafeteria fight between the jocks?" Zach asks looking at Dawn.

"She did."

"The difficult Math test we wrote, which I'm damn sure that I'm gonna fail?" Mason asks the question.

"Dude! Do you even know me? I messaged her as soon as we finished our test and got our phones back." I reply to him.

"The toupee incident of our Chemistry teacher?" Sophia chirps in.

"Oh, shit!" I curse slowly under my breath.

"What toupee incident?" Dawn asks us.

Kevin starts laughing, maybe remembering the whole scenario and starts narrating the highlight of the week. "So, it was Chemistry class. The same routine was going on- students at the back sleeping, the nerds vigorously taking notes, the girls gossiping, the jocks disturbing the class and stuff."

By this time, everyone around our table turned deadly silent and more eager to recall the incident, well except for Dawn. The only sound we can hear is Mason's milkshake slurring all the way from his straw.

Zach interjects quickly to be the one to finish the story. "So the weather suddenly changes from a hot sunny day to a cool breezy afternoon. Now this huge gush of wind flows through our window and..."

"The toupee flies off from our teacher!" Sophia and I finish off the story and once again everyone are cackling up at our table, also gaining a few looks from the others.

"So this whole time, Mr. Wilson was wearing a wig over his head?!" Dawn asks amused. We all nod in response. "Ew. Oh, god."

"The whole class was incredibly silent for the first time in his class. The whole incident was so hilarious, but we didn't even dare to giggle because he was on the urge of having a big outburst." Zach fills in.

"Yeah. But Jay had the guts to go up to Mr. Wilson's table and give his toupee back. Only he was man enough to go up to him. And the others were scared as shit." I reply or rather boast about my crush.

In return, I hear some groans followed by some 'crush alert' and 'here we go again'.

Dawn turns at me so quickly that I'm afraid she might get a head rush. "Girl! We didn't talk about Jay today. Any latest news you wanna update me on?" She wiggles her eyebrows with a huge smirk on her face.

"No juicy details to give you because nothing happened this past week." I sigh and reach across the table to grab some tissues.

Jay has been my crush since a year and a half. No, he was not my crush-at-first-sight. Rather like my crush-at-nineteenth-sight(no I'm not counting, I just put in a random number). I don't know what striked through me when I saw him sitting alone on a bench at the beach, before I had a crush on him. I wanted to clear my head so I decided to take a stroll by the sea and wanted to spend my time with my phone and earphones.

I spotted him sitting alone, just staring into the space. At first, I thought he was waiting for his friends to hang out with. But an hour passed and they didn't turn up.

That guy is full of life. He is smart, witty, stands up to everyone, helps them. You name it and he has that good quality in him. And it's not a shock that girls always swoon whenever he passes by.

But that Jay Evans, when I saw that hollow look in his eyes, the rays of the sun glistening on his body, and the wind blowing his hair in an uneven manner, I was mesmerises. I was so intrigued looking at that boy lost in his own world. That was when I realised that every human being has a side- the one that is never known to his loved ones. But only to himself.

"Reminiscing about the first day you met lover boy, I see?" I turn around to see Sophia along with four other faces with giant smirks sticking on their faces.

Sometimes, it scares me shit as hell to know that my best friends know every teeny weeny detail about me.

I try to cover my blush that's slowly working it's way along my neck. "Of course not. I'm just thinking about a way to submit my Math assignment tomorrow," and that's when it sinks that I actually have to do it.

We all have different expressions on our faces. Three being relaxed, two being worried, and one being confused. And that is Zach.

"But isn't it due Wednesday?" He asks us.

"No idiot, it's due tomorrow." Mason replies him, more like shouting.

"Will you guys please let us copy yours?" Mason asks with a lot of hope shining from his eyes, speaking on behalf of me and Zach, to Kevin and Sophia.

"Of course not," the betraying friends of ours reply in sync.

"Fine! I think it's time we part our ways. Adios, muchachos!" Like usual, Mason leaves in style and we all follow suit after Dawn paying the bill.

"Meet you guys in school tomorrow." Dawn hugs us all and we all part ways to our respective homes.

Sorry for a long one, but I'll make sure to keep it short the next one.

Also, do you guys wish you could go back in time and stay a child forever or be a grown up, and face all the hurdles that will stumble across your way? Leave it in the comments.

And also, who hear loves Mathematics? (I will not ask 'who hates' cause 83% of people hate that awful subject. Except for people Like Einsteins!)

Vote and comment peeps!