“I finally got what I wanted,” that’s exactly what Ayushi said in the very beginning.
Ayushi was an exchange 7th grader in Bandra. From the very start of school, she was labelled as an average dork. No matter how hard she tried, she would always become the unfitted piece of the fancy puzzle. She was nothing but a shadow in the corridors of the prison she never imagined.
One day, when she was regretting her school life and scrolling endlessly at 2:00 a.m., she saw a blinding glam reel… and guess who it was. It was Anaya, the most popular girl at school. She had it all — good in academics, sporty, and everyone revolved around her 24×7. It was like main character energy spreading like a virus in everyone’s heart.
But that night was not a usual one. It was a once-in-a-blue-moon kind of night. The night when an average dork (that’s what everyone called her) decided to become a chic glambot. But she knew that no one could become Anaya just by dreaming at 2:00 a.m.
She began working from head to toe, subjects A+, state-level badminton champ, and an influencer. She was the new Anaya… or she was Ayushi (the girl who did it all).
But was it the same average dork?
No, she certainly wasn’t.
She was wild – so wild that she did something terrible… something no one would have ever thought of. The curse of being famous, noticed, and admired was on her head, and she couldn’t see anything beyond that.
As her popularity grew, she started removing people from her life, no matter who they were. Family — what’s that? Friends — they’re useless. Those were exactly Ayushi’s thoughts.
But one day, when she was posting another reel, her account got hacked.
Everything vanished. Gone.
She was helpless.
And the worst part was that nobody was there to help her.
Now the chic glambot became a “snobbing hamster” (funny, isn’t it? the notification read).
And then, through the tears, the magical words came out…
“I finally got what I wanted.”
Author: Aarna Bajaj, 12 years old (Penned during the weekly class on circular endings in stories)