Dearest Nippa…. (How the brown haired girl I hated so much became my best friend )

Ok here im writing again inspired by how u guys motivated me to write when I complained about bed resting for I don’t know till when…

And since pachi gave me permission to write about Nippa first, here I go…..

Dearest Nippa…. (How the brown haired girl I hated so much became my best friend… )

Can u believe its just 17 more days to go? And a new beggining of your life is gonna start… damn… we are not kids anymore, hold it… we are growing old aren’t we…. :P

I still can remember this tall brown haired girl in school, (grade 3 we were I think) who was standing in front row with socks upto her knees… “we are not allowed to wear socks like that” I wanted to come and tell you… then I thought “maybe teachers are favouring her because she has brown hair”

Then few months later, u joined our school van… you were LOUD… I was horrified, how can be a person so loud… ? I wasn’t the loudest anymore… remember how we had to wait outside school till the van came pickin those slutty Lindsay girls? Once I asked you to hold my water bottle till I tied my shoe lace… that’s how we became friends….

But not for long!!!! Soon there were two teams in the van, one for u and one for me….

We were forced to sit next to each other in the van… last seat, last row…. Remember? i had gotten a new suitcase to take to school (for some crazy reason that was in fashion those days) and the next day u bought the same….. u copied me!!!!!! and the very next day…., I bought a different bag…. Hmpfffff…….

17 more days darling…. I’m excited… for u….hold it, im elated!!!! U should lose that double chin soooon, I agree with aunty on this, take my braces that ll help you starve in style like I did ;)

I couldn’t believe my eyes when we became class mates in grade 9…. The seat next to you was the only one vacant so I had no choice… I thought “crap…..” Didn’t realize it was fate back then….. but now I know it was ;-)

it didn’t take us long to fight again….

U ate all my food… !!!!

u liked Nick Carter!!! Nick??? How could someone like that mushroom haired pumpkin faced guy??

u told me Steven Gately was GAY!!! How could u ever……… say that??? (well you were right and I was heart broken later….. )

Remember that awful fight we had in the middle of the class? Anurika miss had to settle it… I was annoyed and u were outrageous….. the entire class laughed out loud…. I changed seats… and sat next to Hosh and Pachi…

And that’s when I became best friends with pachee…. (now that’s a another story :p)

Its less than 3 weeks….. and ur gonna get married!!! it was one of my dreams.… to see u as a bride next to the man u love….

Grade 10 trip to Kotmale was one of the most unforgettable trips…. apart from me getting slapped (that’s a different story again) that’s when we became enemies to best friends… During the camp fire, remember Anurika miss came and dragged us together in middle of the bon fire and said

“you two better be friends again….. enough of your stubbornness and nonsense”

I remember saying “im sorry… can we be friends again…..?” I couldn’t hear what u said coz the entire class clapped and cheered…. (now im thinking, why did I apologize??? Ur the one who ate my food :p) and seriously what did u tell that time?

but it will be the best apology I made in my life…. It always will be….

So then the brown haired girl became my best friend …

we still had fights…. But luckily for me, u had pachee to fight with since then… and I became the good one between u two ;P (I still am, and I still secretly enjoy the fights between u two…. evil laugh)

You ate our food!!! And instead of me, pachee started fighting with u :p (Hoshala was too innocent to fight and became the innocent victim of gastritis…. )

and we used to talk loudly annoyed, “the way she eats she better marry an iron man one day…. naththan honeymoon eke kota uda thamai“

a best friend can never curse…. even a curse will become a blessing…. and IRON MAN he was…. Who ran a marathon half of a City… handsome enough to suit you, sensible enough to stand by you and strong enough to run half a mile carrying you….. I knew it since the first day that he is the one for u….and didn’t u blast me off when I told u that…. :P nikan neme… with your famous word F…. (Prasad u owe me a HOT bestman for all this praising ;)

The brown haired girl I hated became my best friend…., the best friend I counted on and was protective over…. I still can remember how I get annoyed when boys used to tell “aaaaaaah nangie kondey malakada kaaala da??” I told off a guy at shakthi when we went for classes…. Thank god it soon became a fashion to colour hair or I would have bashed a few guys by now ;)

I still remember how u came to my place on my worst birthday ever when thaththi was sick and I was at home with him…. (since then u always came over every birthday), How u used to listen when I cried… and how u blasted and shutted me up when I didn’t stop crying….

We had to take turns to console and comfort each other…..yell and scream to convince each other…. sometimes 1am in the night or sometimes 6am in the morning…. We grew up… a part of us still are….

We got punished in school, we danced in the rain, we got attacked by crows everyday at canteen, we got harassed by school buses, we fought, we have practically killed each other, we have bitched about all men we knew (oh we do that still), we have laughed till we fell off the bed, we have cried till morning for silly reasons, we have slept together (as in not how it sounds), we have exchanged bras, we have secretly dressed in changing rooms with ugliest cloths and taken pictures to get blasted and almost arrested for shop lifting… and the list will go on….

Dear nippa,

I never thought the brown haired girl I hated so much would be the best friend who would come from Kalubowila to Nugegoda during a lunch break to give me medicine when im sick….

Never imagined that the brown haired girl I hated the guts out was the first person ill call when I got scared in hospital seeing my scans and reports….

I never even dreamed that the brown haired girl would be my best friend and psycho therapist to control me whenever I lost it…. (well this continues….and u still scream to prove a point)

I never thought that the brown haired girl who ate my food back then, would sit on the hospital bed with me and force me to eat that horrible food when I was sick…. (well I know what pachee is thinking, “hey its hospital food that’s why… :P )

I never thought I’d end up being the bridesmaid of that brown haired girl I hated soo much…

Remember how I had to yell at you couple of times to convince you he is the one…. :P (yes Prasad she is stubborn) u owe me a life time for this babe :P (yes yes I know that u will remind me where I should be when I lose track…. :)

Dearest Nippa,

the sister I never had, my best friend who yells at me to put sense to my head,

my psycho therapist who gives me medical definitions so I cant argue back,

my doctor who tells me the truth even though it will freak me out….,

Deciding to become friends with you in grade 10 is one of the best choices iv made in my life….

I’m excited….. I cant wait to get out of bed to go shopping for the big day, to wrap cake, to go for final fittons…. I cant wait…. to see you dressed as the most beautiful bride….

So here I am counting days…. Looking forward…. 17, 16, 15, 14….… I cant wait!!!!