I met Rachel when I was 7 years old , as far as I remember ,it was my aunt Helen who introduced me to her . We met occasionally during parties at that time . Since Rachel ,Justin and I were of same age ,we used to played together , Justin always pinched her cheeks slightly just to look at her face turning red and he never missed a chance to see her reaction whenever he teased her , it was a kind of satisfaction for him to tease her and that didn"t still change today . Even though Justin always teased her ,he took care of her whenever she was depressed . He knew her before me as their mothers were best friends .I was ten years old when Rachel"s parents took divorce . She always cried , it was very difficult for her to see her parents getting apart in front of her . Justin"s mother brought Rachel to her house for few days and then Rachel was transferred to my school . My aunt and my uncle love her a lot , sometimes I wondered if Justin was their own child looking at the way they used to treat her . I often used to go to my aunt"s house to meet her and play with her . We grew together and we never hid anything from eacthother . There were times we argued and didn"t talk to each other but at the end we always used to sort it out at the end . I never thought that things would change between us .

It was in the month of august , five and a half months ago . Just like everyday I went to fill my bottle to see Austin . He changed a lot in these two years , he looked handsome than before . I filled bottle and glanced at him before leaving and then I left , while coming towards my cla.s.s I saw the notice board . It was about the compet.i.tions held by our school to select few students to partic.i.p.ate in Q.A.E.S .

Q.A.E.S( Q Archdiocese of Educational Society) is one of the largest chain school in YYY country . There are 20 schools and are managed by the Archdiocese . Every year compet.i.tions are held by Q.A.E.S in the month of February in which students of all those 20 schools partic.i.p.ate in the compet.i.tions . The compet.i.tions include sports , cultural , elocution and essay writing .

Rachel came and stood beside me , she looked at the notice board and then at me , she understood what I was thinking just by looking at my face .

Are you sure about this , she asked me.

I nodded to her and said a yes .

what do you say ? shall we partic.i.p.ate in this year"s compet.i.tion ? , I asked her and raising her hands to her shoulder level and taking a step back she said , " not even in my dreams ."

I laughed looking at the way she replied .

Okay , I"m not forcing you to partic.i.p.ate with me ,I said while laughing .

Thankyou for your kindness , let"s go to the cla.s.s now since you saw your guy , she said and grabbed my wrist and we headed towards our cla.s.s .

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Sometimes , things we do unintentionally cause a big change in our life . It might turn out into a good thing or a bad thing . That time I didn"t know that my wish to partic.i.p.ate in the compet.i.tion would be a cause for a change in our friendship .