"How are you feeling now?" Aliza asked squeezing my hands gently.

"I'm feeling better now" I smiled.

"We missed you" Anna said to which Olivia responded "A lot"

"Same here, I was all alone and its damn boring here" I paused "By the way I never expected you guys to come here" I said looking at the boys.

"Of course! We do care for you Juliet"

"Yeah, but how do you'll know that I was seriously sick" I questioned.

"Why not? Aliza told us"

"She told us everything"

"We came here half an hour ago and you were fast asleep, so we went back"

"Oh yah, after I had a nap I feel better" I replied.

After half an hour of random talking,

"Aren't you people going back to class?" I asked

"No..."

"We don't want to leave you"

"We'll bunk class"

"Just for you Juliet"

"Because we love you"

"We care for you"

I smile at the fact that I have such loving and caring friends. I am indeed lucky. They are always around me no matter what the situation is, compassionate and helpful. They are ready to skip lessons just for me, but I feel bad for them. I don't want them to ruin their studies just because of me. I tried many times convincing them to go back to class and that I can be alone but I failed.

"What subject are we having now?" I questioned Aliza

"We have ICT, fortunately Miss is absent today"

"What about you'll" I ask the guys.

"We have English Literature"

"Won't Sir punish you?"

"Probably no, because he didn't see us since morning"

"Let him think that we are absent"

"What if the others in class say that you all were present today?"

"We'll say that one of us were sick and in the sickroom or in the washroom or whatever excuse we could make"

"Why think about it and ruin our current moment"

"Let's enjoy!"

After chatting for a while, Kaym said, "I feel hungry when I see the fridge"

"Same here" Some of them replied.

Edgar stood up and went to the refrigerator, opened the door and started searching for food. We immediately spotted a black forest cake. I wonder why the school has had a black forest in the refrigerator, maybe they got it as a gift from someone, or maybe they got it for a visitor or something. Whatever reason it may be.

Edgar took the cake out,

"Shall we share it amongst ourselves?"

"No! We can't get caught again"

"They would know its us who did it because they know that Juliet is sick and in the sickroom"

Edgar took out some yoghurts as well,

"Shall we eat this then?"

"No Kaym! There's only two yoghurts in the fridge and we would definitely get caught"

"Let's eat something which isn't noticeable"

"Yeah, I want to eat something badly"

"I have a suggestion, Let's have the cherries on the cake"

"Oh yuh, they would think it has fallen down or something"

"LOL! Lame, But that's the only thing we could come up with, I guess"

"No other suggestions?"

"Nope"

"Ok then, let's agree with the cherries"

"Yeah"


There were five cherries and we, ten of us, shared it. Just after we had finished eating we slightly heard the bell for the last period, already. We would definitely get whacked out of school if we were caught here bunking many lessons. 

We heard a knock on the door after which it opened immediately which frightened us up and we had nowhere to hide. There walked in Miss Rozani just to check on me. She stood by the door surprisingly watching at us.

"What are you guys doing here?"

She asked placing her right hand on her right hip.

"Um.. Miss, Just now we came to see if Juliet was alright"

Aliza succeeded lying and Miss believed,

"Oh is it so? Okay darlings, now go back to your classes"

She commanded and everyone left leaving behind Miss and I alone. 

She then checked on my condition and told me to lie down until school finishes and she told me to leave once my driver comes to pick me. She also told me that she won't be coming this way again.  She asked me if I can stay alone and I nodded with a smile. 

Again I was left alone with my thoughts. I remembered Salman, he spoke less today and I don't know why. 

Salman's POV

During the break, I was at the far end of the playground. I didn't notice Juliet seated on the rock until Omar screamed her name and asked her what was wrong with her. By the time I reached, the others had already come to her and sadly I couldn't g close to her. They were almost blocking my view from her but since I was tall I managed to see her from the place I was standing. 

She was looking pale and not fine. I wanted to ask her what was wrong with her but before I could ask Kaym asked and I got the answer. I couldn't speak to her since I was quite far from her and I'm not used to talking to her when everyone is around. I don't feel comfortable. I only speak to her when no one's there. I think only Aliza had seen me speaking to Juliet. I don't know why I feel awkward and I know she too does.

I thought of speaking to her later maybe if I meet her after break or after school.

After the English teacher left our classroom, Aliza hurried to our class, excused herself and told us that Juliet was severely sick and was at the sickroom. Fortunately no teacher was at class so we went downstairs to the sickroom to visit her. 

Aliza knocked on the door and entered after waiting for a minute since we didn't get any reply. She was fast asleep peacefully. Looking at her sleeping peacefully gave me a smile on my face. I wish I could stay there looking at her sleeping. 

I didn't realize the others exited the room until Aliza come in again and pull me by my arm.

"What are you wondering staring at her?" She smirked

I feel my cheeks flush out of embarrassment,

"Uh... No... I.. I just didn't realize you people left"

"Hmm, Yah, I know you were in your dream world" With that she pulled me out of the room and closed the door behind her. 

The others were waiting for us outside and once we went out of the room we headed back to class thinking of coming back after a while, after Juliet wakes up. 

We came back to visit Juliet and she was awake. She looked better than before. Now also I tried to sit somewhere close by her but I couldn't. Before I get hold of a place the others sat, so I ended up sitting on the bed parallel to hers but it was quite far from it. 

This time also I didn't speak much because I didn't sit near her and as I told before I don't like to talk in front of everybody. I was very much jealous of Aliza because she was sitting right next to Juliet and holding her hands. I wished I was in her place. I was quite jealous of Omar too because he sat a few inches away from Juliet. 

Shit! Couldn't I at least sit where Omar or Kaym sat? My own fault for being late and not barging in. I had the urge to somehow talk to her sitting by her side and if fate agrees with me I'll do it definitely.

We enjoyed a lot stealing cherries and chatting, then we got caught to Miss Rozani and Aliza saved us by giving some lame reason and we escaped.

So finally Salman didn't get to speak to Juliet, yeah? 

When will he get the chance to speak to her again? 

Keep guessing and commenting your opinions. 

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