The Not So New Student by Chandrima Saha (life changing books to read txt) 📕

"Mom!" I said. "I will not go to school today!!!!"

"Why? Today is your field trip! Mom said. "Field trip?????? Oh! I almost forgot! Definitely I am going!!!" And I left for school.

I am Kiara. I live in Virginia in suburban city. I am in third grade and I am doing pretty well in school. I have friends but no best friend yet. I got up on the bus. Then I reached to school. After reaching there we boarded the bus again. I was looking for my friend Nicole. She was who I hung around with. She didn't go to school today............. I was upset. Now I'd have no one to talk to!!!!!!

I looked around the bus. Laura was sitting with Kate, Janice with Tyler, Sasha with Jackson and Ryan with Jacob. They were some of my friends. I was going to sit when I spotted a boy who was standing and looking around. "Hey!"I called out. "Hello!" he said. I asked him if he was sitting with anyone. He wasn't. So we both sat on the bus. "I am Kiara." I said while smiling. "Oh, I'm Andrew. "He said. He was a cute looking boy with brown hair, blue eyes and a great smile. I never saw him before. "So are you new?" we asked each other at the same time and laughed. I found out he wasn't new, but he wasn't very popular too. I wasn't the most, but somehow popular. Andrew loved cars and hockey, and well, I didn't like any of them, about so we talked about our classes. We would start having the same classes from next week when our schedule s would change. It was fun talking to him. Oh I guess I didn't mention where we were going.

Well, we were going to the Double D farm. I was excited......... then we got to know that we needed a partner for the day. Andrew and I looked at each other and shrugged, we would be partners for the day. It would be fun. There were amazing things there like a hay maze, corn digging, honey straws and peacock dances. Andrew was really nice to me. He let me have all the good seats and he shared his candy....... I really liked that. We became friends on that day already. But after the trip, I would not see him in any of my classes this week. We looked forward to next week while saying good bye.

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After a month:

"So Andrew, I have got these really cool SpongeBob lollipops... do you want them?" I asked my best friend. Well he became my best friend two weeks ago, and we are so happy!!! We have many classes together. Though we do not share our deepest secrets, we share a few stuff like our feelings.

Our math teacher Mr. Jack had a throat problem. It was really funny hearing him. I and Andrew were laughing our heads off together. I could tell he was my real best friend because once a guy was picking on me; Andrew beat him up, for me. Boy, Andrew was strong. In gym class, when we were partners, I always used to depend on him; actually he helped me with all that while I helped him in math and science. It was really cool working like that in a team.

Our group became bigger. From when Andrew joined, he had brought three friends with him. I had almost seven people in my group. Though our friends circle was big, we never fought or did anything bad with each other. My friends Laura, Tyler, Sasha, Kate, Janice, Ryan and Jacob joined with his friends Zack, Dylan and Harvey. I don't mean to brag, but out of them, I, Janice and Jacob were the only one on the smartest group, so it was just luck that I shared many classes with Andrew. The recess bell rang....... we ran out!!!!I didn't go with Andrew and the other boys because today we had our Barbie show off day today. I brought my two favorite Barbie dolls. Then I saw Molly.

To be truthful, I was kind of scared of her. I thought she would take my Barbies because she was angry all the time. As she approached me, I felt scared. Then she smiled at me and gave me a pencil. I had forgotten about that, I had lent it to her...... Molly was in my smart team too. She became nice to me and was my friend eventually. In the next class which was art, my favorite, we did drawings of our friends. I drew all my friends. First, I drew Andrew. I drew his brown hair, pale face always with a smile on and blue eyes. Then I drew Laura. She had long reddish brown hair and a pretty fair face. Janice had long chocolate brown hair. Nicole had blonde hair and she never wore makeup or skirts, she was a pure tomboy. Kate was a tall girl with blond hair and lots of makeup ... then I drew Ryan and Jacob. They were twins. They had blond hair and were athletic people. Tyler wore glasses and was athletically weak. Zac, Dylan and Harvey looked very alike. They were all guys who had brown hair, played hockey, and they all looked good. Tyler was a very good friend of mine. He wasn't as funny as Andrew but he never was rude to me, for example, he always shared his candy with me even if Andrew wouldn't. I was so happy. I loved my school life.

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After one year:

"Mommy what did you say you would tell me today? I asked putting my head up from my pile of homework. Homework was good but the smart team homework was very irritating.

"Well, this is something which we have discussed. My mom said.

"What is it?" I asked

"Remember how we thought we would go back to India"- she started, but I cut her off.

"Yay!" 

We are going for a vacation to India again? Hurrah!!!!!" I shouted.

"No, no!!!!What I was saying is that we will return back to India, and STAY there." she said stressing on the word stay.

"But???? What about--no, I am so happy but so sad!" I said and tried to explain.

"It's okay, dear," my mom said.

"So are you sure we won't come back???? I'll miss all of my friends a lot. "I said upset again.

"It's okay honey. And just think about meeting your grandparents and family members in India and we will not come back to Virginia anymore." she assured me.

"Forever?" I asked my mom.

"forever." she confirmed.

I felt a tear in my eye.

Five years later: "Back to school again!!!!! I love the summer but I was bored......" Kavya says looking out of our window. "Just wait for two days. Then you go to your dream school." I said to her.

Looking at my other friend Puja, I said, "I don't know what she finds so amazing in this school." Well, here I was, in India in eighth grade(class 8) in a school beside my house. I know it sounds weird but it was so close that my house and school shared the same boundary and my balcony was facing our classroom. In India we called it class eight. Anyways, I was with my best friend and my friends sitting in my balcony looking at our school.

I finally adjusted to the surrounding..........Well I had to, considering the fact that I have lived here for four whole years, almost five actually. Then my best friend Kavya asked me a question which made me remember those days in our elementary, the cedar ridge elementary. She said, so how was your school so much better than this one? I know that it's IN the USA!!!!!! " All my friends thought that the US was like heaven or something. I started daydreaming.....why the other school was better............. I remember........

"Kiara!! Will you be my partner for the multiplication activity?" It was at this time I had started to like Andrew. I was about to say yes when I saw a piece of folded paper on my desk. I opened it "will you be my partner?" It said. I looked across the classroom and saw Tyler smiling. He obviously might have sent it before. "Well," I said loudly, motioning for Tyler to come here, "let's do eenie meenie minie mo and see" they both agreed to do that. Well, Tyler won. Andrew made a sad face and left to find another partner. Working with Tyler wasn't fun considering that he was too smart and wouldn't make me laugh. If Andrew would be there, he'd make me laugh............

Then I stopped daydreaming as Puja poked me hard. "What?" I screamed irritated at her for breaking my dream session. "Stop dreaming about your prince charming. Why don't you even try and find him? There is Facebook for a reason." Kavya said. "I know, but I don't have a Facebook account....."I sadly said. "So? What are best friends for? I'll check for you.....what's his name again?" "It's Andrew. Andrew Menches." I confirmed. "Kay! Let's get to work. "She said as she opened the laptop and then fb. We searched for almost half an hour but there was no Andrew Menches. "Okay, so do remember any other friends? "She asked "Well, I remember only their first names."

"Then it's impossible........, .there are so many people!!!!! Ughhhh!!!!!!!" We browsed the Internet some more. Suddenly something happened. I just felt like saying it. "I wish I could go back to Virginia. I want to meet him, um, I mean them." I sighed. "A What?????????? Shut up Kiara!!!!!!! We don't want you to go! They said together. "Sorry, I just said it without thinking. How might they look now?" I must have gone crazy. I never blabbed like that before.

Well, I go crazy a lot nowadays as my friends say.......I don't even know why but I keep on thinking about Andrew. Maybe he looks the same. Maybe he's popular like the other guys. Or he might be really good looking now. He might be a loner too, all ugly and with few friends. I don't know, maybe he has a girlfriend........or not......... I should stop saying all this. After two days, in school I went to my classroom and saw my friends and almost the whole class gathered up at our desk. I went up to them. "Noooo! You can't come here!" Yesha, another friend of mine said. I actually made all good friends this year. Yup, u r thinking right, it took me three years to make good friends.

I loved my school life as I got good grades and had great friends. It looked like they had something written up and a girl had a cell phone with her. What could it be? Maybe they were discussing stuff about me , or maybe not. "What is it?" I asked. Everyone quieted down. I wasn't a bad person. Then they showed me a website of some middle school of Virginia. It had pictures in it