Why did she do that?
On the first day of high school, I took the school's bus as I had never taken public bus by myself before, I did not know how to. Yeah I know it is weird that I do not know how to. If only I had known that Alice would be going to same school earlier, I could have gone with her. My stop was the last stop, I had to stand in the bus. It was my new experience. We reached school. I made few friends. When returning from school, I waited for Alice and I went with her and her two friends in a public bus. Her friends were polite. We did this all days. We studied well and travelled together. In my class, my friends were not as good as Alice's friends.
One day, the school organized a modelling contest. The winner would get prize money and awards. I did not want to take part because I knew everything was about beauty although we had to show our one of the talents. However, my friends kept my name without asking me. I went to withdraw my name after knowing but I could not do that as it was a rule. I had no other choice. So, after school, I went home and told my mom to buy me a new dress. She bought me a new dress. I felt that the dress was really beautiful. So, I felt that even if I will not win I will do well.
On the day of contest, when it was time for everyone to dress up and had to do our own makeup. I did not know how to do makeup so I did not do much. I had watched modelling videos and practiced how to walk. So, I was a little confident. However, when I saw others' dresses those were also beautiful and they looked beautiful and confident. I was going to change my dress, one of my friend from my class called me and said one of our teacher had called me. So, without changing I left my dress and went to look for the teacher. When I found the teacher, he said he did not call me. I thought it was a misunderstanding and again went to changing room. I changed to my dress. I looked fine.
We were called one by one on stage. In my turn, when I went on stage and after walking as I reached the edge of stage I bowed, my chain of the dress which was on the backside damaged. My dress became loose and my back skin could be seen and what was worse that the chain was the thing that made my dress fit on me. So, I had to press the dress and protect my dress from falling. I… I did not think about anything and ran towards the changing room. While I ran I could hear laughs behind me. Some people were saying maybe the dress was not fit for me and I damaged the dress. Some of them were saying why would a fatty like me wanted to participate. Some of them even whistled. The host of the program handled the situation.
Tears fell from my eyes and I ran to the changing room. I felt like dying. No one was there, so I locked the main door and sat on the floor and cried. I heard a knock on the door. I wiped my tears and saw it was Alice and Alice's other two friends. I opened the door for them and hugged Alice and I cried. A few minutes later, I went back to normal but my eyes were red. One of her friend, Annie asked me, "What happened to the dress?" I said, "I do not know, it was absolutely fine. I had even practiced wearing the dress in home." Then another friend Marie asked, "Has anyone touched your dress?" I said, "No." Alice asked me, "Remember properly."
I thought for a while and remembered and told them, "Earlier before I wore my dress one of my friend who wrote my name told me that I was called by the teacher and I left the dress here." Alice said, "I guess she had damaged your dress. You should complain about this to the teacher." I then said, "But… but I do not have any proof. How do I do that? She was also the one who helped me put on the chain." I again said, "Why did she have to do that? It’s not like I was her competitor and in fact she was the one to write my name. No one will think that she could have done that. I could hear the announcement and she even won the competition." Annie said, "What should we do then?" "Don't worry." A voice came from the door. I realized that we did not close the door.
->? What do you think? Will she get justice?












