Chapter 55

2021.01.14

Sally sent me Amy's wedding photos and also her husband's photo. I replied her, 'The husband is not that handsome. He is fine looking. Anyways they suit each other' I gazed at her photos and saw that she was not innocent as all of us thought. She knew things and she never let anyone know that she knew them. She pretends and asks forgiveness all the time. Which makes everyone think that she vulnerable. If she was a good friend, she would have told others not to hurt me. It was like that I had no feelings and it was absolutely fine and I will get over it. She is strong and a stone. I finally saw through Amy. The phone buzzed, 'Yeah.' followed with a smile emoji. Everything was a lie. All of them. Then I typed, 'we are the real babies not her. See, she is now sleeping with a guy! Who is the baby?!

I threw the phone to the bed and went to stargram page to promote the dresses. They were not selling out at all. I felt my energy draining. I had a conversation with mom and she told me that we try selling to a shop. We agreed and waited till dad comes home to talk it with him.

My mother called me from downstairs. I was in the fourth floor. We live in a five stored house with a garden that surrounds the house. "Yeah mom! What is it?" "Jessica had sent you the photos you asked for." "Coming!" It was almost 2 years now. She sent me the photos after two years. Seriously!

They are the photos of the Get Together of Advanced Level batch 2019. It was after the exams in October. The theme color was Persian blue, white and gray. The organizers were Jessica, Sandra, school captain and their team. I chose to wear red and Persian blue because red is an eye-catching color. I and Sally wanted to exceptional in the hall. So I decide to wear flower crowns that are made out of plastic daisy flowers with Persian blue leaves. My mother and I went to even shop them and paid a generous amount and got them done only for Sally to cancel them at the last moment. I was really pissed off by what she did. It was her mother. Her mother said that it would be too much and blah blah. Then Sally suggested to give the flower crown to Sam. I refused and ended the call. I will wear it!

On the day of the Get together. I got late to get ready for the event. The makeup was going south. All the way down. Sally did not even ring to ask if I was coming to pick her up or not. I asked my mother to give her a ring and ask how she was going to go to the banquet hall. She picked up on the second ring. My mother talked with her and she said that I told her that I will pick her up so she was waiting for me. Then my mother said that if she had not called her now that I was going to leave her and go to the hall. I was mad with her about the flower crown. I got ready in ten minutes and went to the car and we picked up Sally on the way to banquet hall.

It turned out to be that we were not late at all. May be ten minutes or so. After I came to the hall I realized that I had forgotten to put on mascara. Oh Dang! My Lashes! There was no teachers at all, nor the principal or the deputies. I thought they will arrive shortly. It was said that when Jessica and he team were inviting the teachers, they had missed some of them by mistake which angered the teachers and it turned out that they boycotted the event. Only four teachers were present and Mrs. Samantha was present among them. I could see that people were amazed by looks in a formal attire. I could tell why because, the mirror lies to you. I took a photo during the school days full picture and then I realized how baggy and hideous I looked. Why did no one tell me that?! So back to the event. I did not like any of those teachers because they do not like me and favored only a collection of them which included the Sandra's group. Sally and Sam proposed to go and say hello because I will be rude and they will surely talk ill of us if we did not. We linked our arms and went to the teachers that we do not like. Their eyes did not lie when they saw me. It shone as if they saw gold. I know I know I am exaggerating but believe they were in shook from my beauty. Aham! Please guys seriously. Even the photographer who is a female told that I looked stunning. And also the people I knew and some even talked with me even though I did not know them. So, I said hello to the teachers and asked how they were doing and Sam asked if the other teachers will be coming and they said not sure but we already knew that they will not be coming at all.

We went back to our seats and the event started. I did an event. I made a speech about self-love. Oh and yes, Zarina was present in the audience. No, her dress was not that pretty as much as how she boasted it to Sally. No! I am not jealous!

I went from table to table and talked with almost everyone and even took photos with the people I was close and I knew the most. We had our snacks and many of us was not satisfied with it. We did not like it at all. I think the money was a waste in the hall. We could have done in the school hall and spend on the decoration and food and moreover we could have danced and gone wild. Over here we have to maintain the image and blah blah. At the almost end of the day they kept the Prom Queen of Year 2019. They asked to raise their hands for participation. No one did. So, I thought I should go first. I raised my hand and school captain announced my name. And next Zarina raised her hand. Sally nudged me. And everybody followed. Only around twenty participated out of hundred and fifty students. They made us walk down the red carpet and the judges were the teachers and none of them really liked me anyway. I was doing it for the fun.

Afterwards, it was the time to announce the Prom Queen. I stood at the end of the row. The school captain was today's announcer as always. They count downed and the students started calling out my names and also others and she announced my name as the Prom Queen of the Year 2019. Now, I do not know why they chose out of all. May be they were not as bad as I thought they were. Jessica called the teachers to give the award to me but they refused and said Jessica to hand over it to me. I thought they were being lazy. There was no crown. No nothing. It was just a bag with inexpensive chocolates that was filled only 1/4th of the bag. But the bag was quite pretty after all. I thanked and sat back at my seat. But there were more awards just same as mine. I was not bitter of others receiving it. I was bitter because the teachers personally announced them and gave the presents from their bloody hands. I was wrong at first, they hate me indeed. I felt bitter and they were cruel teachers. I pity the students who will come to study with them in the future. Oh and even Kate received an award for being the most different person tonight because she changed her dark skin to brown skin color using makeup which was very impressive to be honest. I glared at her for hours at her makeup and pores.

I saved the photos Jessica sent me in laptop and deleted it from the phone. I sank in my chair. I really did not know what I am doing.

2021.02.10

My cousin sister called me. She said that she had some classes and asked if I can take them over because her schedule was tight and she was now learning in an institute to open up an academy and asked if I can help her out. Now to be clear about teaching there was no one in my family who has studied and passed exams up to my level. So, it was a sure thing that she had to ask me. I said sure because I was going mad having nothing to do at all. She send me London syllabus PDF books through Aatsapp and even sent their contact number. I learnt that I was going to teach students who were in Japan. I did not know if I was qualified enough to teach them. But I am going to anyways. I want to earn a little at least.

2021.02.18

I sold four more dressers today. I was doing very slow progress.

2021.03.13

I got my results. I got three C's'. I was expecting a B for my Biology and as always got an A for English and I even scored high in my general knowledge and my Cut off marks was increased by decimals. I called Mrs. Beth and Mrs. Marinna to inform about the results and they congratulated me and told me to apply for university as well as to become a teacher. I was clearly not interested in becoming a teacher I wanted to become a doctor or a dentist or have my own label. Well, I was going to have my own label anyways. It is going to be my side business.

2021.04.11

It was my birthday and Sally came to my home personally with her mother and gave me a gift and left in a hurry because it was Covid and all. I wanted a mobile phone for my birthday I did not get it at all.

"Anna, can you help me with these assignments? They are killing me!" Engle's energy was drained. She was having her head on the table. Engel was planning to become a teacher and she is skipping her advanced Level and she was going to join my cousin's Academy. And above all my parents are looking for a spouse for me and my sister. Even though my sister was underage they were looking. And she was fine with it and I was not. I was ready to get married at all. But at the end of the day it is my decision to get married to that guy or not.

I finally got an order to do cookies!

2021.04.18

I delivered the cookies and they loved it! And I sold another dress today. My mother told that the dresses are not getting sold out so we took some of the dresses for ourselves and the rest we sent pictures of them to more than six shops to get them sold out. We now have to wait for them to ask for the dresses. I hope it sells out soon.