Chapter 1: Adjusting to the city life
In This Chapter Skyler will face the difficult challenge also dealing with his erratic personal life....
Hi, My name is Skyler and I just moved to the city for college, I live with my sister Sharla who is older than me and is here for completing her graduation. We live in a small 1BHK apartment.
At first, things were all great as I was a young guy receiving money from my parents I was enjoying my life and spending most of the money going around the city and having fun with my friends but soon my parents discovered (due to my sister) what I was doing and cut my money to half and said if I want money I need to score good marks.
Due to this, I started working hard towards my education but due to not paying attention I started working extra hard and had to cut down my expenses. Because of overworking and mistakenly drinking Contaminated water, I got sick my sister took me to the doctor who advised me to rest for 6 months. (Well, that sucks and I can't tell that my parents and if I told them I'll have to go back to my village.) So I just told them I was under the weather I will be better in 2 to 3 days and resume my study.
I got pretty bored in the apartment so I started doing household work like cleaning, washing clothes.
One day, I saw this woman who had the same frustrated and bored expression on her face. I didn't say anything because you know as a bachelor people think it's creepy. So I stayed silent but she said hi instead and we started talking. Her name was Sarah she was married and has a small girl(Amy) and they moved to the city recently too. That being the common point we got along pretty well.
As we both had nothing else to do after our housework we started hanging out and talking. I did not have a TV or pc and her TV was right in front of the door. So we sat near the balcony in front of her door and watched movies & series while we start chit-chatting. Days passed and I started helping her out in cooking and in return, she used to teach me new recipes.
Life was great until my sister pointed out something thing...
Sharla: Hey Skye! did you noticed something about you?
Skyler: What?
Sharla: Something has changed about you?
Skyler: Well my hair has grown longer as I haven't had a haircut in 7 months they are almost past my shoulder.
Sharla: That is an obvious thing.
Skyler: Then what?!
Sharla: You are like me!
Skyler: *SHOCKED*what are you saying?
Sharla: let me explain ok. So you wake up prepare food, eat, wash clothes, chit-chat with the neighbor lady, talk about serials. So basically you are a housewife without a husband
*sarcastic laughs*
I started blushing not knowing how to react in that situation. Well realistically speaking she is right because that's all that I do all day. I just laughed and shrugged my shoulders trying to ignore and not make matters worse and avoid any further discussion. Days passed by fast and I made sure to void any such discussion by talking about something or the other.
I've always wanted to grow my hair long but my parents were very traditional and didn't allow me to grow my hair long. When I received the news that I was going to live with my sister for further studies I started growing my hair even before coming to the city.
Months passed and my hair has gotten long till my middle back and I always kept it neat in a ponytail. I've never really had a full beard and it only grows a bit on the bottom of my chin which makes me look like a goat so I always shave it off. Even though I've been growing it for a while once my hair reached my mid-back it started looking feminine. As it is quite thick and straight and also the fact that it's more visible to people when I move around.
There were 2 vacant apartments for a while on the floor we lived in. ( there are a total of 4 apartments per floor) I saw 2 girls (i think of my age) who were shifting in and I and my sister were on the balcony and looking at them. One of the girls was very beautiful and she had long dark hair till her lower back she was wearing a black t-shirt and blue denim jeans. The other girl was pretty too but I liked the first girl. Sharla saw me looking at her and started teasing me. And as always I started blushing!
I woke up and made breakfast for me and my sister and was standing on the balcony and talking to sis and drinking tea and suddenly. I heard a voice from behind "excuse me, sister?". I knew it sounded new and guessed it was probably one of the new girls who moved to the next apartment as I saw she went upstairs to dry her clothes. Sharla saw her and asked her what she wanted but the girl said "not you sister I am talking to this sister in a blue tracksuit". I was shocked.
She thought I was a girl and to make matters worse she called me a girl in front of my sister. My sister was shocked and looked at me without blinking and just suddenly burst into laughter. I put my head down and turned around. I was expecting her to apologize for mistaking me for a girl but instead she "sister sorry I used ur hangers and the string to dry my clothes as mine were not enough and I didn't tie the string for my clothes yet. Just let me know if you want to dry ur clothes. I'll remove mine". I was silent and trying to understand what was happening and just kept looking at her and in shock, I just said OK. She smiled and left not understanding why the girl behind me was laughing like crazy.
Sharla said that she would tell her later that she made a mistake of recognizing me as a girl But I felt it would be embarrassing so I tried my best not to let her speak. And she kept silent for the time being. Few days passed by after the embarrassing situation but it wasn't the last time.
A few days later. While I & Sarah were chit-chatting on the balcony I got a call from my college that I was failed due to me not giving the semester examination I got nervous and told my sister about this, She said that she will take off a day and we will meet the principal tomorrow and talk about this....next day I and my sister got ready early and went to my principal to discuss this.
We entered the principal's office (Her name is Mrs. Sunit Gupta she is in her 50s I guess) At first she didn't recognize me that she adjusted her glasses (I don't know why teachers do this) And Said Principal: Ohh Mr. Skyler is that you!
Skyler: Yes ma'am.
Principal: growing longhair it seems I almost didn't recognize you.
Skyler: Due to some circumstances I had to ma'am.
(My sister was holder her laughter)
She gave me a weird look and explained my situation to me and my sister. She told us that I first have to pass my previous semester examination then only I can attend the next semester classes & the next exam is in 7 months (Again I was stuck) She said I can attend the extra classes for the failed students which are beginning in a week or I can study at home.
After this, my sister & I got out of college and went home. At Home, she asked me what I wanted to do I told her if I feel ok will attend the extra classes.
A month passed I tried attending the extra classes but it was not that great teachers those teaching here were mostly exhausted due to the classes being after college hours and the students who were attending the classes were idiots.
Some days later. While we(Me, Sharla & Sarah) were chit-chatting on the balcony Wind started blowing and it was getting uncomfortable for me to handle my hair. I couldn't even get my hair into a ponytail as It got knotted with the wind.
Sister wanted to help me after trying to convince me for a while I gave up and said OK. She went in and brought shampoo and conditioner and gave them to me and asked me to wash my hair and apply conditioner and once done I have to call her then so she can come to me. And I did exactly as she said and called her and she came to my room and I was sitting there with dripping wet hair and a wet t-shirt because of my wet hair.
She started towel drying my hair and once it was 80% dry she applied few pumps of leave-in spray and started combing mine. It felt so damn good when she was combing my hair I just can't tell you guys how good it felt. I mean like the comb just went sliding down and then she started brushing my hair with this wooden brush. She asked me to go & look in the mirror and I just couldn't believe what I was seeing. I looked like a girl in some hair commercial with straight long hair which she parted from the middle.
