The first day at home, Marie did not think about anything to do with school. She did not even do anything much at all except for lying on the bed and playing with Shadow. Her bags were still kept on one side of the room, and that was pissing off her step-mom because they were still unpacked. Marie had some clothes in the cupboard at home, and she was changing into those because it had been months that she had been wearing the selected ones which she had taken to the hostel. She wanted to be in different clothes now that she had holidays from school, and there was nothing wrong with that. Everyone needs options and gets bored with monotony. Be it clothes or books or routine or even people these days. For Marie, it was her life; the struggle that she had to go through every time she changed her locations from the hostel to home only because she was not comfortable with any kind of changes. She wanted things to remain the way they were and not

Jean’s reply to her message really made her very excited, and both of them started chatting with each other by sending one message after the other person replied, and that was happening in a jiffy because both of them were sitting with their phones in their hands. Marie: “I have been at home only. It is just that I got no time at all. I am sorry.”Jean: “No problem. Good you messaged me today. What are your plans for the day?”Marie: “Nothing much. I studied a little, and I think that is what I am going to do.”Jean: “Take a break! Your holidays have just started. Stop studying.”Marie: “Studying is my favorite hobby. Taking a break from it is not possible.”Jean: “How can studying be a hobby?”Marie: “The same way playing basketball can be a hobby.”Jean: “Oh please! Playing is very different from studying.”

The next morning also Marie woke up early without an alarm. Maybe someone said it right, there is nothing that you cannot achieve if you truly want it and have your mind fixed on it. That was the reason that Marie did not need an alarm to wake up early only because she had plans of meeting Jean and despite the fact that she was not a morning person. In school and in the hostel everything was fine, but even if she woke up in the morning to have breakfast on the weekends, she would still get in bed soon after and stay lazy for the whole time. That would even happen during her holidays at home, but this time it was different. Waking up so early was not her thing to do, and her parents knew it very well. But seeing her up and ready the second morning as well was enough to make her step-mom doubt even more strongly that something was definitely up with her. Delilah purposely did not say anything to Marie when she offered to take Shadow for his mo

The driver parked the car right in front of the main staircase that headed to the hall where the party had to happen, and the girls quickly hopped off the car very excitedly. The exhilaration was to meet all the other people from school in their best dresses. It was not as if the other students had not seen everybody in their casual attire because they had seen their friends in all kinds of garments. It was nothing new to them because in the hostel they would see each other wearing such clothes except for the fact that there were only a few occasions that they were allowed to show off their party wear clothes to create uniformity because not everybody could afford expensive looking clothes. They were only allowed to wear very simple clothes in the hostel daily and not like the backless dresses, sheer clothing, crop tops, shorts, etc. clothing they were dressed in at the party. The young boys and girls were impeccably dressed and everyone was

The demand that was kept forward by Jean did not feel awkward to Marie at all. In fact, it gave her the feeling of butterflies in her stomach. She was expecting it, but she did not want to take the initiative herself. Instead, she wanted Jean to take the lead in their bond. And now that the time had come with Jean asking Marie for a kiss, she did not want to delay it anymore. She started to think if it would be possible to kiss her at the party with everyone looking at them, especially after what happened just a few minutes ago when Jean almost confessed that Marie could be her girlfriend in the time to come. Mind you, both of them were adolescents and did not understand figures of speech. For all they knew, just a mild peck on the cheek was a kiss, and that is what Jean meant when she laid down her demand. It was all new to the two girls because until now, only their family had kissed them. Getting it from their friend was pretty much a big