Goodbyes

After I realized someone was behind me, I wiped my tears and looked back. I looked back and it was a male. I looked at him from floor but I could not recognize him. I stood up slowly and saw him, he looked like he was few years elder than me. He was handsome. I did not say anything. He said, "Miss, you are soaked in rain. You will get ill if you stay like this. Let me drop you to your building where you are staying.” Although he was a stranger I could know that he was just trying to help me. So, I did not say anything just nodded. He gave me a hand and I stood up. I showed him the building and walked with him under the same umbrella. We walked silently until we reached the door of the building.

I then said, "Thank you for your help. I am Sarah." I extended my hand. He shook it and said, "I am Charlie." Then before I said anything else, Alice came with an umbrella in her hand and said, "Why did it take you so long? Why are you soaked? Who is he?" I said, "He is Charlie, he helped me to get here as it was raining. And Charlie she is Alice my best friend." They both said Hi to each other and I again thanked him and went with Alice to the room.

On the way to our room she said that I did not come so she was going to look for me. However she met me on the door. We reached our assigned room. Thankfully, both of them were sleeping, so I first went to the bathroom to have a shower and change.

When Alice asked me what happened, I just said her that he did not come and as it was raining heavily I stayed for an hour and as the rain did not seem to stop I came and was drenched until Charlie helped me. I knew if I would tell Alice about today she will make a huge fuss which I did not want. So, I just did not tell her and tried to forget everything by chatting with her about other stuffs in the balcony which was attached to our room.

After few minutes we went to sleep. My heart was aching but still I could not cry so I slept as I had to save energy for tomorrow. The next day, we freshened up and went for breakfast. The teacher gave us an hour after breakfast to collect our things and spend few minutes if we wanted to roam around the hotel. We went to collect our things and as we had time we went around the hotel.

We reached the place where Tyler and Tanie kissed yesterday. I suddenly had my eyes wet. I took a turn and looked for the statue pieces, there was not any. Obviously the cleaners had thrown it away. I was lost at a moment so Alice asked me, "What happened?" I said, "Nothing. I guess we should get going now." We went back to the lobby, where our teacher had said to meet. The teacher looked if anyone was missing and as everyone was present, we went to bus.

I sat with Alice. I was on the window side. I did not want to affect Alice's mood, so we talked on the way. The bus stopped, when we got off the bus, we actually came to know about the place. It was an amusement park. We got excited. I had never been to an amusement park before. The teacher said, "You are given two hours’ time, you can play whatever you want by showing your school's identity card. We got more excited as we did not have to pay and could ride anything and play. Then, Alice and I played. We screamed in some rides as we were afraid. However we had lots of fun. Two hours spent very quickly. The teacher again counted all of us and we sat on the bus. After an hour we reached another place and we had lunch. The lunch was tasty. We sat on bus to return. Alice and I both slept on the bus. After a few minutes of sleep I was awake. I saw that Alice was still sleeping.

I did not want to disturb her sleep, so I looked out of the window and just stared out until we reached our homes. I nudged Alice to wake up. We said our goodbyes to teachers and others. Alice and I said our goodbyes too. We hugged each other and I said, "No matter what we will still be in contact, okay?" She nodded and said, "Okay. I will be away for few days after today." I asked, "Where are you going?" She replied, "I am going to my village to meet my grandparents. I will be staying there for few weeks." I said, "Okay then, have fun. Call me when you reach there. I will miss you so much dear." She replied, "I will miss you too very much." We again hugged and separated and headed to our own house.