Forever

Wonder Women 👸  (6 members)

Ciara:    When are you free ?

Aliyah:  I am free this whole weekend. Ciara will you be able to fly ? Its new year 🎉 .

Hannah:Girls I really want this new year to be ours . I will do anything for that. Lets make our plan work. 😐

Tamina : I have booked the tickets. It costed me a fortune to get the ticket for next weekend. And where is Diana ?

Diana remained silent as the discussion on the group chat went on, reading them. Her heart was beating louder and happier . The girls are planning to meet for the new year for spending three days together. Nobody has met each other for past five years after high school but often texted messages and making calls keeping in touch.

Diana  : Am here and I am very excited !  I will make the days free ofcourse. Infact I am not very much a social type now 😄  so I am totally free half the time except work 😉 .

Diana replied in the group. Aliyah now work and live in Scotland as a lawyer. And Tamina fashion designer as she had always dreamt of in Los Angeles . Ciara in Paris who unexpectedly turned out to be the model.  Hannah  still live in London working as an assistant in a private company and meet Diana once a while for luncheons.  Diana is a copy editor in London's one of the most renowned publishing company.

Hannah: Hurray ! So we are meeting then finally. ❤

Aliyah :   Looks like that. yes 😍.

Hannah: Ciara you still haven't said anything except for asking whether we are all free. Hello..?

Ciara has totally gone out of hands as she entered a career she never even thought of.

Diana   : Ciara please don't make it like the last two times. We postponed every meeting we ever planned just for you to come so that we can be together like our old days.

Tamina: Yes Ciara she is right. Hold your ramp walks for three days. Any way you are gonna get drunk as fuck attending parties so do it with us.

Ciara     : Okay okay I promise I will be there. Trust me .😉

Hannah: Ok then so its all set. We ' LL all stay at Diana's place what say . She has good space . Diana can we?

Diana    : Why not! sure. my place and so we meet. Girls Thursday night  until Monday morning. Be there .

Aliyah   : Well then.

Tamina : So Thursday it is 😊

Ciara.    : See you all then. Waiting for Thursday . Spa time , bye. 😘

Hannah: Bye

Tamina:  Bye

Aliyah  : Ok bye. Tc.😊

The group went dead in the matter of seconds.

But there were no messages from the sixth member. There has been no messages at all for past five years. Melanie remained to be to silent member forever. Diana went to her store room taking a box that contained her high school and their group things .

Diana , Hannah , Melanie , Ciara , Aliyah and Tamina met when they were in middle school. Ever since then they were best friends. They never sit apart without each other for a day. Half the nights they had sleep overs , mostly in Diana's , Hannah's or Melanie's place.  Even when they were together they had different dreams and aims in life. They all again joined the high school together.

Most of the times people were jealous of them. They were not plastics but stars. Almost everybody knew how each girls meant to each other .

All the families were close . The girls had their freedom for everything . They often went out got late hanging out together with their dates but nothing was an issue. Diana always remained to be the silent and single among them . Ciara and Aliyah the loudest. Melanie was very similar and close to Diana and Ciara . Hannah was the funniest and Tamina the hot kind who had a hot boy friend an now engaged to the same person. Ciara was the dating queen and the one who often influenced Hannah in the habit. Melanie was the darling of the group.

Diana and Hannah had similar interest in studies avoiding the science stream. Diana was always made fun of by the girls for having a crush on a guy in her history class. He had always tried to put a script on her attempting to flirt and take her out. Aliyah was like a book worm and very dedicated to reading books related to laws and crimes. Tamina always had a good fashion sense and Melanie was good in caricatures. Ciara had the habits of breaking rules and introduced everyone to their first beers . Life was so much adventurous and fun until one night in senior year.

Nobody knew that Melanie was going in the wrong path. Many a time she was found hanging around with the other weird groups in school. But nobody dared to question. She was too sensitive that everybody let her make her choices. It was winter. Usually the girls had sleep overs before Christmas but that year they didn't. After the movie on Saturday evening the girl bid good byes but little did they knew that it is going to be the end.

By ten in the morning next day there was a call at everybody's house to go to the hospital immediately. The bad news awaited them there that changed their lives forever. Melanie's body was taken to morgue to do autopsy. The girls stood shocked. They weren't informed what the matter was. Diana and Ciara were the deeply effected ones. Melanie never woke up after going to bed previous night. It was found that she over dosed on some drug  injected and also found alcohol content in the blood .

The funeral got over with shock and terror . The whole school attended the ceremony. The reason was kept silent and spread she had an unexpected silent attack in her sleep. The girls were questioned and tested by their families. The loss of Melanie, the only child made her mom lose her mind and her father blaming the rest of the girls for making his daughter an addict. Ciara was the one who was blamed the most because of her naughtiness. The families started having conflicts and clashes. The girls started having fights and ego between each other manipulated by their parents. They split and chased their dreams going away from each other flying to other countries for pursuing their careers.

There were no calls or meeting for past five years after Melanie left leaving a zillion memories behind. Even she wouldn't have thought that she would die sooner and see the group shattering into pieces.

Tears prickles down Diana's eyes as she went through her high school stuffs and thoughts. Nobody had cared to do anything after that. The bond was broken. Diana never made best friends in her life after school because of her fear. Nobody had contacts until Tamina messaged in their group that she is engaged the next minute she got engaged. It was then the group started to be active.  Even when they cared so much for each other but their ego never let them call the other first except for Diana and Hannah who met sometimes and updated with news.

Five years had gone by and no changes on how they behave or love each other but there has formed a distance that cannot be explained. Diana turned out to be an introvert, still in love with the same guy In the history class whose eyes seems to be blind and  unaware of her existence.   Ciara who now consume more alcohol always partying and less louder.  Aliyah still remains the same greedy and ambitious while Hannah's marriage broke because of the young mistake she made marrying earlier after high school which no one attended except Diana who was left with no choice but see her friend marry a womanizer. And last Tamina who leads a successful life happily.

"May be this meeting will change everything"
Diana said looking at their photographs."  It should. You may have left us Melanie but not from our hearts , nothing will be the same without you but we will try to make a difference this time" . She hanged the photo back in the wall and started preparing for the new year.

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