Meeting friends

yeah, first day of school and you've walked the 2 km to get there and it's just a bit sunny to do so, even though your school bag is empty. There's a lot of cars on the road and they're a bit impatient but they don't honk their horns too much because the morning is kind of too early and lazy for that. Walking by the cars and other boys walking to school and construction workers who've started probably an hour earlier reminds me of my school sandwich for some reason, and I might have forgotten it but I can get money from Abi at school so it's alright inshAllah.

Everyone's in the break yard by then and you recognise your friends in a group some way off and they spot you when you break out from the crowd. As soon as you're close enough to see each other you make eye contact with one of them. You look happily surprised like you just noticed him. Your eyebrows bounce up and you simultaneously blink both eyelids wide open.

As you approach you must look extremely delighted. This can be done by arranging your mouth so it looks like you're trying to suppress a massive smile 'cause you're so happy. Your face actually looks like you're trying to use the bathroom and you have constipation.

As soon as you cover the distance you can hug each other, which is a relief because your head is now behind his face, and you can totally relax your features if no-one is looking. Unfortunately there's probably a group of friends waiting for their turn, so you can't just do that yet. You've got to close your eyes lightly and smile a bit like it's the best feeling in the world to hug someone you haven't seen in four months and who got enough dandruff in his hair to look like a silverback gorilla.

See, it's so awkward going through all this every time you meet someone you haven't seen for a while. Unfortunately it's what my friends expect from me because I've always been like that since I had friends, and if I stop and walk in school with no visible emotion they might think I was really angry over my AS grades, or that my school sandwich had cucumber which wouldn't make me angry anyway because I forgot it at home.