Two Decades Of Life And Counting (2/3)

Class 2 at 7 has jumped in,

Teachers playing tricks with the kids,

Those who score full on test,

will be given chocolates,

The biggest of the gift that time it seemed!

8th birthday was also approaching,

Class 3 was awaited with lot of excitement,

An unexpected burn injury followed,

Keeping her in  bed for 3 months .

No school, only the room became her world,

Teachers, relatives and friends coming to cheer her up!

The recovery took a lot of time,

And here came her birthday 9th!

Class 4, new friends, allotment of houses,

Evening slot fixed for the games and Tv noises!

Class five at 10 saw making of friends group in class,

Those silly fights of not talking to anybody in the other group, alas!

Like,

You're not my friend if you talk to her,

You  go in that group if them you want to cheer!

Making best friends was a new concept,

Fights all over about whom to as a BFF accept!

11th Birthday celebrations at home were all going high,

After-all, she was entering a new decade of her life.

Fussing to mom and dad about all her silly demands,

From barbie dolls to those  99 in 1 video games!

In less then a year, the group of friends changed,

From fighting for a seat to pranking with the skirts , it ranged!

Birthday 12th here it was,

Class 7 science began making more sense,

Basketball  and football were the new craze,

Demanding the same at home,

to be bought , played and chased!

First away from home trip approached,

With all excitement bags were packed

and parents to say yes, were forced.

Cried all night when the day to leave for the 5 days trip arrived,

Kid still she was, after-all,

going way from parents  for the first time in life!

Chess and scribble starting making sense in the 13th year of life,

Class 8 was a year of several new friendships for her that would thrive!

Boyfriend and girlfriend were heard of, for the first time ever,

Afraid of all this, she broke up with two of her friends forever.

This forever thou, didn’t last very long,

And they all reunited like the words of a song.

At 14, her studies became a  matter of concern,

From regular home exams to new CCE pattern.

That was a year of class 9 when NOTES came into being,

Studying online and sharing important questions it bring!

New friendships followed through sharing of mere notes,

Whether through landlines, new emerging Facebook,

 or any other modes!