Chapter 2
As the day progressed, a mildly awake Martha reached her hand to the clock to check what time it was. Although it was just an hour before her first lecture at school would commence, she still gave in to the sleep after battling for a few seconds. Just before she had hugged her pillow completely shut her slightly open eyes, her mother called her name.
“Martha, get up hon! Get prepped fast for school!
“Yes mum!” said Martha even as she hugged her pillow tighter and still not combated the sleep that dominated her mind. ‘A warm sleep followed by some delightful waffles with honey.
This day can’t get any better unless I add these extra 5 minutes to my sleep!’ thought Martha as she dozed off after having set the alarm clock for 5 minutes.
Martha walked rapidly towards school as 5 minutes remained before the lecture could start..
Now it was half the time and Martha had to quicken the space to reach her destination on time.
On her way, she met Uncle Belvot whom she had known from her childhood days. He was a flower seller in the village and considered Martha as her daughter. Belvot had a wife and a daughter.
His wife died 1 year later after giving birth to their daughter. His own daughter married a guy who lived far away from the village and since then she’d been living with him, though she visits her father once a month on a Sunday.
Martha used to visit her uncle whenever she needed flowering advice or some special flower seeds, though she hardly ever brought flowers from him.
She in fact never needed them since Belvot himself would give flowers to Martha without accepting any money from her. While walking towards the school and not changing her path, she waved at her uncle with a broad smile and said, “Uncle! Good morning.”
Her uncle, Belvot, who was busy packing a stock of seeds to be sent to the city turned around to find Martha.
He responded to this sweet gesture with a smirk and said, “Good morning my beautiful child.
So you’re hurrying to the school, eh? You should wake up early.
I already saw the last student heading to the school like 10 minutes ago and now my own favorite child has gotten so late.
Hurry up!” Martha attempted to speak but was silenced by the gesture of Belvot extending his finger in front of his lips and then swinging it in the direction in which Martha was heading.
He didn’t want Martha to get late. Martha acknowledged the gesture and headed to school.
Part of her was content too as she was sitting just behind Matthew. Matthew was the guy whom she had a crush on.
While attending the class from the first bench or second bench, she would often turn slightly behind to find out Matthew trying his best to pretend as if he is able to understand everything the teacher is saying since academics was not a cup of tea for Matthew.
On the contrary, he was brilliant at sports, especially soccer, and would hardly miss any chance to prove his love for sports by winning sports tournaments against schools of other villages.
Martha and Matthew had been good friends for a while. The affection developed 5 days ago when they both had gone on a hiking trip with a group of friends.
The group had decided to stay in the woods for the night and had settled themselves under the blanket of twinkling stars.
They had lit a bonfire by using some branches that had fallen off the tree. The night progressed with singing songs and eating marshmallows. After a few rounds of humming the songs, both of them decided to take a brief walk around their encampment.
While strolling around the forest, Matthew's eyes fell on an object that was shining in the dark forest.
“Hey look over there, must be something precious to retain its shine in the dark forest!” said Matthew even as he sped up to pick that peculiar object.
“Even bottle caps shine when they are exposed to the moonlight! Let us not get ourselves lost in the dark” said Martha while going behind Matthew. Martha stood to the left of Matthew while bending a little so as to place her head right beside Matthew’s.
Martha was less interested in what bottle-cap-size treasure Matthew believed to be some precious gem and more interested in examining Matthew’s eyes which, for her, were glittering way more than the object he held in his hand.
Both of them seemed to be lost in their own world. It was Matthew who was first to speak of the two since he had realized the object was just a piece of glass.
He moved the glass away from his sight and turned to face Martha, not really aware of Martha’s face being a few inches away from his own.
“It’s just a damned…..” Matthew didn’t get to complete his sentence once he got aware of how close he was to Martha, or maybe the other way round.
To make things worse, he had put his own lips on Martha’s while speaking which left the sentence incomplete.
It was somewhat a peck which even pulled out Martha out of her state of unreality. She too now was as uncomfortable as Matthew was.
She lowered her eyes, not being able to look directly into the eyes of his crush. Matthew however no longer felt embarrassed and in fact lifted Martha’s face by her chin and implanted a deep kiss on Martha’s glossy lips.
The kiss lasted for not more than 10 seconds and it was Martha who had backed out of it.
As quickly as she withdrew herself from the kiss, she made quick steps towards the encampment and after a few steps, she stopped and turned behind to Matthew “Let’s get back to the encampment or other might get worried” As she lost the sight of Matthew after turning back and walking towards the encampment, a smile made its way on Martha’s lips since deep inside, she was melting like a hot chocolate by remembering the tender way in which Matthew had lifted her chin and kissed her.
On the contrary, Matthew panicked as he believed he made a mistake by kissing Martha without her consent.
He quickly followed up with Martha when they were just a few meters away from the camp, fearing if she would blurt out everything in front of others.
He couldn’t even muster up the courage to talk to her and chose to leave everything on fate. They reached the camping venue, much to Matthew’s surprise; Martha acted very normally in front of everyone but constantly avoided taking a look at him, let alone talking to him.
One of Martha’s friends, Jessie, teasingly asked the reason for their absence for a good 15 minutes. Before Matthew could speak, Martha joked that on their way to the camp, Matthew had found a strange looking object which he believed to be a piece of diamond someone had dropped by mistake while burying a treasure in the forest while in reality, it was just a piece of glass.
A huge laugh escaped from the mouth of everyone sitting there. Even Matthew himself giggled while being relieved that Martha didn’t spill the beans. However, he was still worried since Martha didn’t seem to be on talking terms with him.
Over the past 4 days or so, Matthew had made few attempts to break the ice between them but Martha showed no interest in having a word with him which made Matthew reduce his efforts so as to not cause her any trouble.
Matthew was still not convinced by Martha’s behavior of brushing off his approaches to talk to her.
Therefore, he desperately wanted to talk to her and wanted to tell her how his heart felt for her and that he didn’t kiss her deliberately but rather did so in the spur of the moment.
While being lost in the memories of the camp night and how she’d been brushing away Matthew’s efforts to talk to her over the few days, Martha finally came back to reality when she realized the teacher called out for her.
“Yes sir!” said Martha
“Oh my child! That’s too little trouble.You must learn to cope with circumstances that are not in your favor.Remember that you all are in your last year of high school and soon will be leaving the village to attend the college.Therefore, you all would be stepping into a new city you’re not accustomed to living in.This is why you all must learn to adapt to the circumstances and never let the circumstances influence you.Or to state this otherwise, always find your way out of the problems you are or would be in. That’s too big an advice for you, too little trouble, yet I feel you must stick to this advice for the rest of your life. It will help you a lot.” Concluded the professor just before the school bell rang. Martha understood the professor’s word and made a mental note to remember it when stuck in
As commanded, Matthew promptly exited the class with the hope that Martha would read the letter.Martha again felt bad for Matthew as she blamed herself for not taking the letter from his hand early that led to him making such a silly excuse.“But wait, I am not to be blamed entirely. He deserved this punishment to make such a foolish excuse. Glad that I have been avoiding such a guy all this while who can’t even come up with good excuses” thought Martha while comforting herself a bit.The school bell rang and finally the mathematics lecture came to a halt and Mrs. Bennett left the classroom. Martha closed the notebook which brought to her sight the paper that Matthew had handed over to her.When she had taken the paper from Matthew’s hand, she quickly hid it underneath her notebook.She opened the folds to find a message by Matthew. It read –Hey love!
Then there cannot be anything better than this in the world” said Matthew, tears filling up in his eyes and smiling widely as does a child when the snowfall for the first time in a year.“Then consider it like that only” Said Martha, trying to lift her eyes to meet Matthew’s.“Oh don’t play with me. Just say you love me and caress your lips just like the way I did last time.”“I am madly in love with you Matthew!”This was enough for Matthew to plant a deep kiss on Martha's lips. Martha too didn’t back off this time and gave into it completely.The two of them kept on exploring the flavors of love into each other’s lips for what felt like an eternity. Martha had been leaning against the wall with both her hands on the side tightly under the grip of Matthew’s hands. Slowly, Matthew let go one of Martha’s hands and sli
“You want to taste it too?” asked Matthew to which Martha replied with a nod. He ran his fingers across his vagina and brought them close to her mouth. Whenever Martha lifted her head so as to get a taste of Matthew’s hands, he would purportedly lift them even higher in a way to tease his new love.He finally slid his fingers deep into her mouth so to let her taste what love feels like. “It tastes nothing but immense love” said Martha.“So allow me to give you an even better sense of love” said Matthew as he began to undo his own pants.Martha didn’t want to take things so far so she said, “I am afraid. I am not ready for it right now Matt. Maybe next time?” asked MarthaHey! Please don’t think as if I am the dominating one among the two of us. We both are equally into this and so I would never do anything that is a
So long as you remain unemployed, it would be difficult for us to get married since there are a lot of things to plan pre and post marriage.Like wedding budget, household budget, savings for the time when we will welcome a newborn to our house and what not” said Martha“Wait who told you we are going to get married and all, huh? Did I forget to tell you that you’re just my side chick and I already have a girlfriend who is taller than you? Oh don’t feel bad but I already made these marriage plans with her so you might find someone else now” said Matthew in an almost apologetic tone.But Martha was too well versed with this guy to understand his humour beneath his stupid statements.“You better stop fooling around or I will bring this relationship to a halt where neither of us would see each other again” fumed Martha, having finally fed up with his silly jokes.
She shut the door behind her and fell on the bed in a way that her face was now staring at the ceiling.She ran her hand across her stomach and giggled to herself, “Butterflies!”Martha’s father arrived almost half an hour later than Martha did.The three of them sat together for lunch which wasn’t their usual course of routine.Usually, Martha along with her mother would take lunch in the noon and after some time, her father would arrive and have lunch. Today, things were happening in a different way. The three of them began to have lunch together.After partaking some lasagna from the serving bowl, her father said, “It has been a while the three of us had taken the lunch together. What brought the change today?” “Martha arrived late from school.You too were going to arrive after sometime so I thought it better that w
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