"It is her birthday today,"whispered Susan to herself. As she stared at the photo of a girl with short hair and spectacles, tears rolled down her rosy cheeks. Such bad luck had fallen over Susan, losing one of her most-loved ones - Amy. Flashes of the worst of memories came into Susan's mind...

The two best friends walked to school together, to their college. Never did they thought that they would be separated forever on this fateful day. They finally reached infront of the gate of the college. The building was all white and not to mention huge. Tall trees surrounded it beautifully and at the gate wrote the name of the college - ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE. They entered the the gate, walking side by side. A whole crowd of students were entering too, chit-chatting and some of them laughing loudly. In a few minutes time, assembly started and lessons begin. Susan and Amy, who were in the same class, dragged their feet to Mr Adam's class - History. It was the most dreaded lesson anyone could have. Just after they had sat down in their seats, Mr Adam walked slowly into the class. He was a short man with barely enough hair to cover his whole head and wore round spectacles with a white shirt and pants. He looked more like a bald student wearing adult clothes than a teacher. "Now, do everyone have their books?" Mr Adam asked."Yes," everyone said in dragged voices. Mr Adam then started explaining to us about how the Japanese used to attack the country. "Blahblah, this is so boring!" Amy whispered to Susan. Mr Adam's monotonous lecture went on and on. Until finally - RRRRIIINNNG!!!!! The bell rang, marking the end of History Class. Mr Adam was interrupted in mid-sentence. Before he could even say a word, the whole class was dashing out of the class as soon as possible, glad that it was the end of it. "I am so going to hate that class forever! What was Mr Adam trying to do to us?! Bore us to death, maybe?" Amy complained. Susan snickered, thinking how funny her best friend could get. After going for other few lessons like English, Maths and Gym, it was time for recess. Both of them headed to the cafeteria, drenched with sweat after playing badminton in Gym. After recess, they went to the lab to have Chemistry lesson. They were supposed to test on some liquid. After a few minutes, some of them were having problems with testing the liquids. Suddenly - BOOM!!! At the end of room, one of the liquids have exploded. Probably, the students there must have done something wrong. Smoke filled the air and fire started. Susan's eyes filled with fear and Amy's heart started racing madly. Everyone in there was running out of the room, their arms flailing madly in the air and screaming at the top of their lungs. Students were pushing to get out. In the chaos, Susan had lost Amy. Where was she? "Amy!!!Amy!!! AMY!!!!!" Susan shouted, tears of frustration welled up in her eyes. The inferno became bigger and red flames danced around. It was getting harder to breathe by the second as more smoke was produced. Screams filled the air and Susan looked wildly around. "That sounded like Amy!" she thought. Fear built up in her and her knees and hands went cold and clammy. Sweat started rolling down her forehead as she feared of what could be happening to Amy. Susan suddenly decided to turn around and search for Amy, but was pushed by the crowd. As everyone pushed to the door, light suddenly reached her eyes. By the time she reached outside the room, a whole lot of students and staff was crowded there and shoving the students out of the room. Our chemistry teacher, Mrs Johnson, started a head count to make sure noone is missing or left inside the room while the fire fighters filled the hallway, forcing us to move aside as they barged into the burning room. "Mrs Johnson!!! Amy is missing!! She's still inside!!!NOO!!! Someone help her!! Please!!!!" Susan screamed hysterically, her eyes wide with fear. A few people came to calm her down but their efforts were to no avail. Susan was too frightened of what could happen to Amy. After a few minutes of frustration and fear, the fire fighter finally went out of the room. One of them headed towards us slowly. He reached and began, "I am sorry - " but before he could even finish his sentence, Susan and a few other people had burst into tears. It was too obvious. His face had shown it all - Amy is gone. They all went into the room, which was once filled with red dancing flames. There laid what seemed like a lifeless ragdoll - Amy's body. Her body was so badly burnt until she was unrecognizable. Almost every part of her body seemed to be blackened. The sight was so terrifying that some students ran out of the room straight away, not being able to stand it any longer. Susan slowly went near the body, tears once more filling her eyes and her heart sinking. It was as though someone had squashed the life out of her.

Amy's family was informed and they arrived at the college. Despair, once more filled the area. Amy's mother shouted in despair and ran forward to Amy's body and her father slowly went towards her lifeless body, shooking his head unbelievably. Susan sat beside Amy's body and closed her eyes, tars seeping between her eyelids and rolling down her cheeks.

Susan was jolted out of her thoughts as her cell phone rang - someone was calling. Giving one last glance at her late best friend's photo, she answered the phone. Those last memories with Amy will be etched in Susan's mind forever.

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