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Prologue
Hiya, what could be marvelous than hanging around with your friends when your seventeen?
Going downtown and have a caf with them?
Go shopping and pull the legs of juniors?
Be one of the well-known students of your High School?
What could be more fun that being a celebrity at school?
Or even the teacher's pet!
And have friends to protect you…and make the boys of your class to pay your lemonade or your sandwich?
Yes, all of these are total rocking…
I'm going to miss them a lot.
Oh gosh, I keep blabbering without introducing myself, right nah?
Hello, I am Geet, Geet Handa and I go to one of India's High School. I have great friends and I am one among all the things I just said to you! I love crazy stuff!
But unluckily lady luck isn't on my side. Today, I am leaving my hometown to go to another country, gosh, I feel so left out. I will miss Pinky and Meera and Yash and Saj. I have lots of friends. I am keeping myself strong enough for not bursting into tears! Tell me, does it look cool to have a seventeen year old girl sobbing like a Year 1 student? Definitely gross!
But Essie doesn't think that way. What can you expect? She's only six and she goes to the primary! Duh, she thinks it's great to go in another country in new school! But I know she's going to miss Ella and Beth, her partners in crime! That's what I call them!
But my two years older brother Jeff does not think it's a good idea. And I agree with him! Which I usually rarely do! But Jeffrey isn't coming with us; he'll wait till his exams are over! Lucky duck!
But Eddy thinks its fun. See, I live with my elder sister; she's 23 and my brother-in-law. We don't know much about our mother and father but we don't care, well, I think everyone does, except Essie, but we don't mention it. Aunt Ellie had been nurturing us ever since we were young. We only saw them thrice, they work abroad and they came to give us Essie when she was two! But when Eddy reached 19 she took a job and fell for Jem and we moved on to our house. Eddy is very intelligent; Brain of Britain we call her, she got a very good job so does Jem. They work very hard for us; and their salaries are very high, which is very good. But me and Jeff do odd jobs and had a part-time one. Essie is so small and she calls Eddy "mom" so it doesn't matter. Only I and Jeff keep it in the bottom of our heart. But I don't care; mum ditched us so did Dad.
"Our world is only Eddy and Jem" Jeff had told me. I agreed. I love Jeff and I hate him too, sometimes. But he knows me too well, he always catch me whenever I lie! Gosh, sometimes I hate that! Hehhee…I am NOT boring…buff…but if I go on about my parents; I always moarn about them! Don't tell! I just hate them! I know Eddy has lot of responsibilities! So I and Jeff never complain. I know it upsets Eddy a lot, but it's just to support Jem!
Now, it's getting darker…I can't write anymore…My hands are aching…Essie is sleeping on my lap, and Eddy and Jem are cuddled to each other and Essie's legs on Jem's lap. Good night diary! Sleep tight!
Duh!
Precap:
New House, New High School...who's the head boy 😆😉