Loving It All... NOT! Part 1 pg2

Loving It All... NOT!

~*Gauri Patel's Blog*~:

Hey Diary! My name is Gauri Patel. I'm fourteen and a half years old but I'll be fifteen years old like by December and a junior at Normandy High School. It's great here even though I'm the youngest one here but because I look so old for my age that I can very well just camouflage like a chamele—no! Ew... Yuck! I don't even want to think about them right now. Oh, please! Don't think of me as some stuck up cheerleader for god's sake! It's just that I can't stand anything with green or slimy skin like frogs, snakes, chameleon's... ughhh.... Ok, I'm freaking my own self now. Ugh... I really do hate them, no really. It's not just something that every kid's afraid of and then eventually gets over it. My fear is hard core. I get nightmares that I can actually remember every other day and God, is it bad. I even think about them when I'm walking in the fields. Am I scaring you? I hope not. Really! I'm not that weird. Everyone has their own quirks. Well... and that's one of them. Yeah... just one of them. I've got a couple more but I'm not the only one with more than one quirks. It's actually pretty normal. Well, yeah. Really! Fine! Don't believe me! Ok well... Whatever.

Anyways, you might be wondering how am I fifteen and a junior... well the truth is I moved here, the United States, from India after 5^th grade and in India, children start school a year earlier than here. After coming here, I was given an aptitude test to which I passed with flying colors since school there is so fudgin' hard and the Parma City Schools district school board thought I should be promoted by a year so here I am in my junior year.

I'm thinking of graduating this year so that I can save another year and head towards college. Well... that's not really the reason, I actually want to graduate for some other reasons as well. And I'm not trying to be modest or I don't want you to get any idea such that I'm a very good hearted person, I'll tell you straight out that I'm mean, stubborn and selfish person but I just really feel guilty about my parents living separately. I feel like it's my entire fault because my mom, Chandni Patel, brought us, my brother, Samay, and me here for our education and has been living here for the last three years away from my dad, Jayesh but he prefers Jay.

He says it enhances the youth in him. He's a fun dad, but one thing I don't like about is that he hides his problems from us. He's kind of justified since he doesn't want to worry us. But if I ever have kids I would at least tell them what was going on. With my dad, I don't know what's happening even if it affects us. His anger, too, is unbearable and thankfully I have not experienced that too much. But I've heard him blast off at other people when he didn't know of my presence and boy is it scary!

Even though he doesn't say it to face, I know that he misses my mom's presence quite a lot. My parents love each other a lot, and I can tell that too, but a few days before we came to the United States they started arguing a lot. Before that, I swear to God, I honestly don't remember even once when they'd fought. I swear. They never did before and the last few days, it had been bad. I hadn't seen any tears but I knew they were hurting. Well, I hope I haven't bugged you too much with my parent's fighting. So back to why I want to graduate this year itself is so that I'll be graduating the same year as my brother; we both can go to college and live in dorms and then my mom will finally be able to go back to India. To my father.

Oh yeah, there's another thing I forgot to tell you guys, I am a United States citizen and was born here too. Now, you will be wondering, how is that possible? Well, my mom's side of the family lives here, in Ohio. So during her pregnancy she'd come here to my nani's house. My brother too is an American citizen and was born here as well. Same situation. But after our birth, my mom returned back to India. We were brought up there but if you think about it I actually "grew up" here. Grew up here in the sense of matured but according to other people's thinking that I'm still immature is a different thing. Ahem, Ahem! These 'people' is actually only one guy. He's sweet, two years older than me but we're still in almost all classes together. He honestly is a nice guy and from all the Indian guys I know he's the best one. Yeah, he can be a devil and also an ass sometimes but what the heck! He's still awesome and fun to hang out with! Samay and Shiv, that's his name, are like a mirror.

Oh, yeah! And before we moved into this house, when we'd just come from India, we'd lived with my mom's brother, Sumir Mama and his wife and their two daughter, Priya and Riya. Priya's my age… but to be quite frank I'm not too fond of her. Let's just say we use to be hardcore enemies. But Riya's a sweetheart. True, she can have here mood swings and everything but she's very good from heart. But thank god! Our problems are solved but we're just not friends…

I'm still in touch with my friends in India. I might go this summer to India to see my dad, relatives, friends and of course my very good friend, Brunell… but that's a story for another day. I'll tell you all about them some time else and that's if you guys are still interested.

Part 1: http://india-forums.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=732137&TPN=2

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Well, Hey guys! That's basically all the background information I thought you'd want to know of. I won't be continuing too often. Whenever I get a break from my busy some life, I promise to write. Right now, the future I'm thinking for this ff I really doubt it to be anything similar to my previous ff- Oblivious to the Obvious.

hehehehe nice part!!!i find Gauri so funny!!!pls do continue soon

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Omg! Thank you guys! You're so sweet. i'm runnin late so i can't reply to the messages... Nothing much... So enjoy!

Part 1:

Gauri ran down the stairs almost tripping over the rug in the living with her famously over-stuffed shoulder bag hanging behind her. With her hair up in a messy bun with several strands of soft, glossy, almond hair falling out on the side of her face, she looked awfully tired already.

The baggy sweat shirt over her sweat pants

She looked at the time and sighed. Ugh... Why does she have to set her room clock fifteen minutes early and forget about it. She grabbed an apple and was just making her way towards her brother's room to see if he was ready or not when she remembered he had study hall first period and that he'd gotten himself a year-round pass for late arrival. The lucky dork!

God! Both her parents had left for work. Now she'd have to go wake the dumb duffus, next door up to drive her to school since she was too young to have a driver's license. A whole god damn year left! She jumped the fence in one swing, and entered his house. door open knowing it would be quite impossible opening it gently since there's always trash blocking the way. She saw the figure under the blanket sleeping away and that angered her. Jumping on him, she started her screaming.

"SHIV! Would you get up, already! We're getting late! And this time if I get tardy, I'll tell Mr. Forney it was all your fault! He'll give you such a long lecture that you'd probably shoot yourself instead.

"Go away, Gauri! Let me sleep! You're such a looser."No response. He could feel her glaring at his back. His groan was muffled by the pillow as he sat up but didn't even bother opening his eyes.

She went up to his ear and screamed until he tackled her down and then pushed her out of his bed, but she tagged him along with her on her way down. Tickling her had always been fun. She had the funniest screaming laughs he'd ever heard. It started off with a murmur and then she would scream loud, shake violently and then struggle against him and then go all wacko and kick around like some monkey was attacking her.

"Stop! … Shiv! Stop it! Please…." A couple more giggles. "Please! Please, Ang—" she broke out in giggles again. One thing that could get her to lose control would be tickling. She's just too ticklish. And Shiv knew about this weakness of hers. "No…"

"then say I'm the smartest and hottest person on this planet." Giggles.

"I'm the smartest and the hottest person on this planet." She giggled again but she had another reason to. "Pulling my leg at a time like this is not going to do you any good, Missy." He tickled her more and then when she apologized and said, "Okay," giggles. "Shiv you're the best!"And he left her and collapsed back sighing. She got up in her unruly and messy phase and screamed "NOT!" they had a chase inside the dinning room and then into the living room. Around the sofa and then Gauri collapsed on the sofa and Shiv pounced on top of her! "SHIV!!!!! You weigh ten million tons! Get your ass off me or I'll smack your head off your neck and then we'll be crowning the headless hottest man! And all thanks to me." He was pushed of her lap and kicked to her side. "Gauri. I feel so bad for you. You throw the lamest jokes, thinking they're so good but they're so pathetic that they're not even worth my puke." She gave him another mean look to which Shiv rolled his eyes.

Ass! He was going to make her late again. Well, there that's what friends do, make you late all the time and tickle you until you feel like you're going to suffer a heart attack. Well, at least my friend does.

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So... unsurprisingly, they were late to their first class, Mr. Forney being the uptight, strict ass that he is, caught us sneaking into our seats five minutes after the bell and gave us both a half-hour detention. The detention, originally, was supposed to be only fifteen minutes but because of Shiv's over confidence and great persuasion skills we ended up attempting to sneak in, and thinking that Forney might not see a thing we landed a double detention for doing the things the wrong way. Yeah, so first period was a complete disaster.

And now Gauri headed out of the room in a huff. Turning the knob on the lock, she stood there muttering under her breathe of how stupid she was to wait for Shiv to drive her, instead if she would have just walked it would have taken fifteen minutes and she wouldn't have had to stand in front of Forney and see his mouth yapping up and down, wasting away half the period and then she wouldn't have landed up with a detention, either. Shiv comes from behind her and to her right and is just about to open his mouth to, most probably, say something stupid like, "Oh, come on Gauri. It wasn't my fault. It was you—"when her lock finally unlocked and the locker opened with a jerk that it smacks his face hard.

I let out a giggle while seeing him rub his nose and complaining about how mean that was and blah blah and that's when I was just going to tune him out when Anupam chooses to make his entry. Crossing his right foot over his left, he let out a sigh. "So what's my best friend doing?.... and what's with you Shiv?" Shiv was holding his face high and covering his nose and rushed off while mumbling "nose bleed…" Gauri smiled wickedly. Raising his brows, he questioned her, "Monday morning and you're already up to mischief?"

She let out a giggle. "Anupam! I didn't do anything this time. I just opened my locker and it smacked him." She gave him an innocent flutter of her lashes which did nothing to blind Anupam to the truth. "Don't look at me like that! He got me a detention!"

"So you gave him a nose bleed!?" he asked incredulously. "NO! It was an accident. I just don't feel bad for him because I think he deserves it since he got me a detention… Whatever!" She stalked off after that. The rest of the day went pretty good except for the fact that Shiv just couldn't stop staring at her. Ok, well it wasn't really staring. It was more of glaring. Lunch wasn't in her schedule so she was extremely hungry by the last period. Gosh! Stupid counselor! It's all her mistake that I don't have lunch in my schedule. So now I'm in AP biology. That's a college course offered to high school students and it's really hard. I mean really hard. At least for her it is and you want to know what the best part of it is? Shiv's in the same class too! Ugh... Ignoring him, I took the seat behind him. The class was also going perfectly ok, except for her grumbling stomach, when the teacher started talking about a field trip 27^th October(next week)… to the zoo… taking first graders around explaining the animals to them and their conditions… explaining them simple terms like vertebrates and invertebrates… blah blah… yada yada… in groups of two… Mary and Josh… Mark and Leah… Jason and Jessie… Shea and Brandon… Shiv and Gauri… Mia—wait what? Shiv and Gauri… Shiv and Gauri… Shiv and Gauri… NO! She screamed. The whole class turned around looking at her. Oh mi god! Did I just scream that out loud? "Do you have a problem Ms. Sharma?" Uhmm… She already hated Mr. Benitt and he was making it only worse by grouping Shiv and her. She personally loves the zoo and is also an animal lover and she doesn't mind kids either but Shiv? No offense or anything he's great fun for like an hour and everything but then he goes blah! Honestly. He gets so annoying after that one hour that you just want to… to… chop his head off! Oh, yeah. The teacher and class was still looking at her while she was lost in her own world. "Oh, umm… yeah… actually no… umm… no problem at all sir." She looked at him while he just grinned back. It's most definitely going to be one hell of a time!