Pathum POV (August 2020)

  I am so lucky to have a girl like scarlet, so lucky, the fact that she stood for me against her own mother and sister tell how much she loves me and how much she wanted me . I am so grateful to have a girl like her.

  My precious lil angel

  I wish I had the money to go to her directly , so that theres no waiting , but life doesnt happen like that , life don’t give us opportunities like that, if it so what would life be right ? life without obstacles well I don’t have that kind of a life, but I am fine, I have scarlet, she’s everything for me.

  I finished breakfast and focused on biology , I was struggling on physics so I focused on biology which is my favourite subject, so I studied studied about photosynthesis and did some past paper questions. I got them well.

  “Son aren’t you going to class today??” Mom asked me coming into the room.

  “Going.”

  “Go bath and come soon or you would be late.”

  “Okay.”

  Since the schools began and the corona lockdown thing ended, tuition classes too began and ours was no exception.

  So I bathed which took me an hour and few minutes which included toilet and bathing the body and washing the clothes.

  I bet my butt cheeks more fair than my face because I wash my butt more than I wash my face.

  If there ever was contest for the fairest butt I do know I knock my opponents in seconds

  Am I funny?

  I dressed and mom fed me lunch and after worshipping both mom and grandma I was on my way to class. Which is an hour ride, in two busses.

  The first bus ride was okay, though the bus was full of people and I made sure that I carefully touched the seats and bars making sure I never contact someone’s armpit because I am foot shorter than the average man. Also I was searching for my friends but none were there.

  Also there were few girls on the bus and on the bus stand and I paid no attention or even glance at them because why would I anymore?

  Because I got a girl, an angel!

  I was actually proud that I didn’t glance at them because all these ignorance is for the wellbeing of my girl. I mean I ignore all these girls for the sake of my angel. I know she wouldn’t mind even if I look at girls. But that makes no sense I shouldn’t look at any girl cause I have one, I have an girlfriend and it is my responsibility to take care of her and give her credits and make her feel like she owns the world.

  Are you trying to score points from her?

  I am not trying to score anything I am just doing what it is right and righteous. Every boy should be like me, and it is my dream to inspire other young boys to do the right thing.

  Are you mocking yourself? How come you be the perfect boy?

  I never said I am the perfect boy, I am just saying boys who has a girlfriend shouldn’t glace at any other girl other than his girlfriend. That doesn’t mean those boys cannot talk to any other girl but it just mean being loyal to your dearest girl.

  After getting down from the first bus I got into the second bus and it was less crowded than the first.

  While I was on my way into the class, my friends are already there.

  I saw my classmate Nipun staring at my direction as I made my way into the class opening the gate. And also I saw a fellow girl, a friend of his whispering some things to him while also staring at me, and the only thing I heard was

  ‘’It’s him’’ and I saw Nipun smirking and nodding at her. I kept my bag and smiled at Nipun as if I never heard them or their concerned looks over mine.

  The first thing I did when I came into the class was remove my bag and then go to the washroom.

  To pee?

  Oh not for that

  Then?

  To poo

  Go to hell you can’t do that here. There’s no soap and there’s people here you cannot linger here any longer

  Gosh ofcourse I am not gonna pee or poo, I am here to wash my hands, and why would I ?

  Why wouldn’t I ? I used public transport and how come I lick my hands without washing them properly? I thoroughly washed my hands close to a minute since there weren’t any soap. After drying my hands I applied hand sanitizer, I felt the burning sensation as the dirts and germs screamed in terror.

  “Where are the others?” Nipun asked looking at my direction.

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  “On their way I guess.” I replied and he stared at that girl he was talking before maybe winked at her I dont know and neither do I care.

  They don’t know

  So?

  Why not tell them?

  They don’t deserve anything, let them sing their song and let me walk my path for I know my path is righteous and I don’t need their consent. Fifteen minutes later Kavishka came.

  He’s my former best friend’s kinda bestie. Not mine.

  I mean he’s fine, not disturbing annoying person, but still I don’t have close friends except Scarlet.

  And I don’t need anyone other than Scarlet!

  “Aren’t Kamal gonna come?” Nipun asked Kavishka.

  “No he won’t.”

  “Dudes crazy!”

  Kamal, my former bestie did not attended the online classes since it started in April of this year and I was the one who sent him all the note. Also Kavishka didn’t had a phone so he didn’t attended the class. And during this lockdown I met a new friend who is nice and better than most of my real life friends, her name is Sewwandi. She’s the one who sent me the notes when I missed the class or when I could’nt properly write due to network issues.

  Eventhough we did talked a lot online I never even shared a single word with her, I mean it’s just I am incapable of it, just I am stuttering thing.

  Stuttering foool!

  Anyway I want to tell Kavishka about Scarlet, cause I trust him but still I don’t know how to do it. I told Manoj and Kamal but I didn’t told anyone else and part of me is feeling guilty to keeping those news to myself. I mean I do all of them to protect her. It’s not that I hate anyone it’s just I want to protect Scarlet.

  The class was good, I was able to write note perfectly, I think my handwriting is something to admire. I mean back in 2012 I won a award/medal for best ‘copy writing’. Yeah I know I am quite the thing to be admired. Gosh I am kidding, my writing is okay sometimes it sucks and sometimes I love those beautiful letters.

  The class was two hours. Most tuition classes in Sri lanka, I mean most A/Level tuition classes last between three hours to eight or something like that with intervals included. But I think two hours perfect. No need of interval just let us go home right?

  Exactly

  We didn’t talked much except about how’s chemistry going on and how physics is behind us. Because my physics tuition class was not held in corona lockdown period from march to August. So we were ages behind everyone but it doesn’t matter evenif we were ahead we will still or I will not able to understand those concepts

  Is it because I have a low IQ or the ones teaching doesn’t know how to teach?

  I don’t know.

  So as I said before I had to go in two buses. One is a longer ride about close to thirty minutes and the other is about five minutes in distance but takes usually fifteen minutes to cover that distant mainly due to train station. Shouldn’t they implement a better traffic system?

  Who?

  The government. I mean this is government who I like, they did handled the first wave of corona successfully. I hope they would do better in future.

  The sun bus ride to home , which is the longer but also the fastest bus travel. What I am trying to say is this bus travel way faster than the other but also it takes a long time since there’s a long distance to cover. Whatever let’s not talk about stupid buses and travel.

  So this bus was hectic,

  Why?

  Because first we entered from the back and the bus was already packed with people and everyone was glued to each other so that means all sort of germs, sweat, saliva and what not were together like a curry given to you.

  Disgusting! Why the heck did I born to go through this?

  My friend Kavishka had none of my problems, he was a foot taller than me and he didn’t had ocd, atleast to my knowledge. Since he was taller few were intimidated by him but guess what ? It wasn’t so sweet from my end and what can I do but nod and shut my mouth?

  Twenty five minutes later bus arrived to Warakapola my city . I bid him farewell and within ten minutes I was at home. Before I went inside the house first thing was wash my hands which I did gladly making sure those sweat,saliva or whatever form of bodily secretions were washed away. And then I dry the hands and then add hand sanitizer and burn the hands and then and then only I take my phone, like a precious baby. I make sure no germ or dirt touch my phone. I kept my phone to charge and hurried to the well to bath.

  I didn’t text Scarlet because I need to first bath and be clean enough to talk to her, I think mainly I need comfort it’s very difficult to text with this dirt and stress.

  It took me few minutes to wash my clothes, especially the denim I hate washing them cause it takes so long and half of our energy get spent trying to battle with it.

  So yes I bathed again for the second the time, but it was the most refreshing and comforting thing to do the whole journey of my biology class.

  A bath a new life

  Once I came from bath I grabbed my phone, it was fully charged and texted her.

  Pathum : Good morning sweetie! It was a hectic ride so wait let me explain things for you. So it took me an hour and twenty to bath and get ready. The ride was fine. So about girls yes there were few girls but I didn’t glance at them. Not even one Pathum? Absolutely not! Why not? Because I got an angel in home waiting for me, that’s why. Am I trying to score points right now? No ma’am absolutely not! The reason I tell you is the reason why I don’t look at them. And pardon me what is it? I am just mental. Hehehe!!! No sweetie I don’t think I need to tell whether I am trying to score something or just letting go my burden. You know the answer. If someone telling you otherwise just know I AM not trying to score I JUST want you to know what happened in my life from the tiny bit of ant to the giant rabbit on moon. So I ingored all those girls and it was a fun, I mean where was the fun in going in public transport? Disgusting types of peoples, sick and other sorts of people travel and it is no fun. Never !! so as you know I traavelled on two buses. Everything was fine I never contacted anyone’s armpit or body or else I was safe. It was fine until that smirk of my friend. A SMIRK? Well that’s a exagerations ma’am. There was not a smirk but there was a look, you know that bloody high headed looks guys give, and there was a bitch oh yes excuse me for my language, a tiny bitch was murmuring whispering things to him and guess what I never heard a single thing they uttered but I know what they talking. Remember my second crush? This little bitch is a friend of her. So yes, maybe it’s just I assume things. Huh?! Hell no, just trust me somewhere along the line they did talked about me, trust me I don’t give a shit nevertheless. Again sorry for my language.

  I am sick and tired of this explaining this crap!

  Suddenly out of nowhere I got mad instantly. But nevertheless I continued writing the message and forwarded it to her because that’s what I do, everytime I go somewhere I would type everything to her and explain to her though she don’t demand me to rtell her everything I guess it is part of my OCD ,it makes me say everything without leaving a single thing and I AM GLAD THAT I HAVE THIS TYPE OF OCD, because it is a good thing due to it I simply cannot lie. It’s absolutely fine! Happily she slept more than eight hours and my girl deserve that much of sleep due to the things she go through on a daily basis and I am glad she took it.

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