BEWARE!!

“I want her to fight with me even though she knows she can’t beat me with her strength but her love; I want her to make promises, break them; I want her to obstruct me with her childish tantrums but never leave me alone; I want her to guide me to make the right decision; I want her to just play with her hair with her fingers and never hide her dazzling eyes with the specs she own; I want her to be at her worst without even the normal makeup; I want her to cuddle with me even though her nose is red and she is sick; I want her to scold me whenever something good has happened to me and help me do better; I want her to make me the reason for her smile; I want her, her to be there…Just be there in my every ups and downs.”  With every sips of coffee I was dreaming about Zoya, the love of my life and waiting for my friend Rex in a nearby café to enter into our new college.

The summer was just about to bid good bye and the raindrops were trying to soothe up the temperature along with the friendship of thunder and lightning. The new session were on welcoming the new batches and bidding farewell to the senior batches at “Roadside School of Arts”.

The new session was about to start with some new faces and the second last semester promoted to the last semester.

I along with Rex was excited to step into a new phase of undergraduate degree. We were ready to dive into a new level of education.

The roads have been inviting for the people to travel but the weather had been crying its tears out making it tough for them to get out of the house. The soothing weather sometimes would act like a cooler as the season followed the summer.

Rex was finally there where we decided to meet. Rex, shrugging off his jacket and closing his umbrella and placing it beside the table, resting it on the chair, “Sorry Sean, the weather and the traffic, I am sorry man.”

“It’s okay” I just replied with a smile even though I knew he has always been the super late of our group since the high school.

He then ordered for a cup of coffee and was rubbing his hands to offer it, the warmth of friction. Rex was fair, five feet 10 inch guy, with his big, wide geeky spectacles; he has always been very good at studies, and his heart always kind and helpful as always.

We both stood up as the clock had already struck 8:55, Rex proceeded to the payment counter to pay for the coffee and I, a little bit shorter than Rex, was standing behind him.

We hurriedly rushed out of the café and entered the college premises. We thought the steps inside the college would gift us with something good but we didn’t know that the dark clouds were already there waiting to overshadow our rays of happiness.

The college seemed pretty fun in the first hours and Rex and me could be together for only one class as the subjects we chose were different. Rex was always concentrating on studies and no matter what always in a hurry for everything. Maybe the nerd and studious people tend to do everything faster than the normal assholes.

Rex, who was going for his next class was arranging something in his closet, couldn’t see the person standing behind him and collided with him. He was a fat spoiled brat and Rex couldn’t blame anyone for his unluckiness. The fat brat whose name was Kyle whose face turned reddish with anger and was about to strangle Rex when Rex uttered, “I am sorry” in a low tone.

“Messing with the seniors on the first day, you keep that shit face away from me, the next time.” He let him go with a grin on his face.

Kyle had two other people, Lance and Hibbert with him laughing at the poor Rex, both of them were his puppets of sycophancy. They all left patting Rex’s head hard and teasing him.

Rex was okay after a few minutes as he thought that they would let the minor mistakes go away and was ready for his next class. The classes for that day were over and I finally met Rex after the classes.

Rex headed towards home and I could finally meet Zoya so I called her and decided to meet at the same old park where we used to meet.

The date was too short as the time couldn’t cooperate with us and Zoya had to leave early so the day was over for me finally and my feet wanted me to go home and let them rest for a while as they seemed pretty tired.

Rex was staring at the sky thinking about the first day and hoping for something good to happen in the future and finally decided to let his eyes rest for the day.

The next day, he woke up to call me to meet him at the same place ten minutes before the classes start. We met at the same place and headed towards our respective classes. Rex, on his way had to pass through Kyle and his gang and he was not sure if he could take that way or not after the last day’s incident.

Rex was about to turn back and had decided not to face them but to his utmost bad luck, one of Kyle’s gang member, Hibbert saw him and informed Kyle about Rex; Kyle then shouted,” hey you nerdy idiot, get your fucking ass out here!”

Rex was terrified with the sweats rolling down his forehead; he turned back and walked slowly towards Kyle.

Kyle with a laugh, supported by two of his followers, grabbed his collar and pushed him, “That was for yesterday”

“Can I leave now?” Rex said with his head down and begging for permission to leave.

“You can but I want you to run around this ground for five times first.” Kyle Said and Lance snatched his bags and passed it to Hibbert.

“Please Sir, I am getting late for my class.” Rex was uttering some words and gazing the situation with his big wide specs.

“What class? We are the class you must concentrate from now on.” Lance pushed him with a warning.

Rex had no other option but to run around that huge playground for five times. After the fifth round his heart was beating faster and the respiration seemed to become uneasy for him as he had some kind of Asthma problem.

Rex then came begging them to let him go; they all laughed at him and threw the bag on his face, “you better practice, we’ll meet soon.” They left with a threat.

Rex then went to the washroom to wash his miserable face and went to attend his class and he got scolded for his late arrival and he couldn’t enter he class as a punishment.

The other classes went normal but his mind was still somewhere else as the second day of the college was haunting him like a recurring nightmare. I could not even find out about his sadness so I decided to leave him to himself so that he could sort it out himself.

I left Rex after the classes ended for the day as Zoya was waiting for me outside the college and we needed to spend some time together.

Rex then headed towards home where he was obstructed by Kyle and his bodyguards who were on their bikes, who threw some sticky gum at Rex and went away pointing their middle fingers at him, “LOSER!!”

Rex ran back to his home as fast as he could and cried his tears out for the fate as he knew he couldn’t share it to his parents or even his friend and he was not strong enough to fight with them.

Rex would always want to dive into tomorrow as hoping the things would get better. The time passed by and their ragging didn’t stop at all but increased day by day; Rex couldn’t even talk about it to his friend as they would threaten to kill him if he talked about their session to anyone.

The change was inevitable but in his case, change was always expected. The raindrops also couldn’t swipe away his problems with it. He would curse himself for colliding with the wrong guy on the first day and always blame his fate for the days he had to go through. I always tried to ask him what has happened as his grades were degrading but he didn’t even utter a word.

I finally found out after two months about those guys from other sources and went to meet them, the fatty and the boss always would act like a villain but a coward from inside as in the movies and the sycophants were always the entertainment seeker.

“You three stay away from my friend. You are three cowards pouring your shit tantrums towards a weak link; you touch him again and the whole school will bid you three goodbyes with an order of expulsion from the principal.” The words struck with the force of rage and anger.

“…and he is not alone for fuck’s sake.” I left with the words which stuck them right by their hearts and Kyle was speechless and other two obviously couldn’t speak as their boss couldn’t utter a word because of the fear.

I went to Rex to comfort him with a warm hug. “ don’t worry. They won’t torture you again and you call me a friend? You don’t even share anything when you needed help from me.”

“…I didn’t expect that from you but I am sorry mate.” I added.

“Thank you Sean, I was too frightened as they threatened me to torture me more if I talk about it to anyone.” Rex said.

We both went home after that day and Kyle and his gang didn’t even show us their faces for the next fifteen days. Then we thought everything would be normal from now and Rex was also getting back to normal.

At first I’d walk with Rex to his class so that the assholes wouldn’t threaten him again but after a month when we thought everything was normal then we head towards our class respectively.

After a month and a half, we didn’t know that the anger had been stored in Kyle’s heart and they were waiting for the right moment to storm it out on Rex, their day came finally when they met Rex alone in the washroom.

Rex was just about to leave when Kyle stopped him with a punch, he was so badly hurt and the rashes would be seen on his face. Rex was shocked then Lance and Hibbert locked the washroom from inside.

“What did you think? We would let you go that easily, you told your friend about this and he humiliated us, you got yourself in so much trouble.” Kyle scared him with his strong words.

“You are a piece of shite, a loser, weak shithead.” Lance added when Hibbert was standing right next to the door to see if anyone comes.

“You are the compliment to the word ‘Ugly’; you must have been a mistake made by the God.” Kyle added.

The slaughtering words struck like an arrow right to his heart which could not even hide his tears with his fake smile.

They then peeled off his clothes one by one and took them away with them and said, “Let the whole college observe your ugliness with us.”

Rex was forced out of the restroom by those three and left him alone with the whole college watching; I finally entered the scene when the whole school was laughing and those three out of the sight.

I finally took him away from the scene covering him with my pullover and left him home, “Don’t worry, we’ll talk to the Principal about it tomorrow, everything will be fine.”

I then left him comforting him with a hug and Rex walked towards his room like a mentally disabled person thinking about many things, finally he entered his room quietly.

He then sat on his bed relishing the pains and felt it from the depth of his heart. He was humiliated in front of the whole college and the next day could never be better as everyone would look at him the other way.

His mind was unconscious and the scene was intense and the imprompto decision taken by him led him to some other world. He hung himself with the help of the ceiling fan and his eyes rested in peace forever sucking him away from this black hole. He hoped for some place better before he decided to change his fate one last time with death.

The death invited him as the pains and scars were never leaving him. He was in need of amnesia to forget who he was and the long sleep was the best option for that thing. The leaves which were green at the first day decayed with every action taken by them to damage his feelings playing with his emotions with their every tantrum.

He was in peace finally, his mind was free and safe from those shit bullies and the closed eyes could take him somewhere safe and secure.