My Very Worst Enemy (Part 3)

Roselind Tedong

Her name was beautiful like a rose but beware of the thorn that might make your hands in pain and her dad’s name’s meaning cobra in English. That is Roselind Tedong. For God sake, I don’t know what’s in her mind? She was like a black widow spider that strikes her victim with her deadliest venom whenever the victim hasn’t ready yet to runaway to save their lives. This bitch of all bitches in my school years had clearly making chaos all over the place, not only the school but also at home. I don’t mean she is one person that likes to do physical vandalism. She is more like mental vandalism whereas she is one quiet person that likes to stay at the back near the corner while she’s rolling her eyes just to find someone to become her victim. This kind of person is very dangerous person. I swear to God! When she doesn’t like you, she will try very hard to make your life a mess! Usually, this kind of person doesn’t have many friends. That because everyone around her is just like her enemies. Although, she might treat everybody like that, my parent had always asked me to be nice with her. Okay, that because Roselind was my cousin and besides, her parent was very nice person. Her sister, Zainab, who’d been adopted by her aunty which was married to Muslim man also very nice person compares to her. Her other cousins also behave nicely. Am I the one who’d lost my mind? I don’t know. Even her cousin had told me that she was very evil person. So many years had been passed by and then, I just realized that she was very lonely jealous person who bears a grudge that is very unhappy with her life.

I’ve met Roselind when I was entering primary 1 in 1987 in SRK Tatau. During that time, she was at 1A class while I am at 1B class. Just I used to tell you before – the B class is stand for ‘Best’ class because almost all good students at my class that time. She laughed and keeps on joking about how I am being bullied by Runsur. She thought bullying is the funniest thing that ever happens to me. I know she thinks that I deserved to be bullied by Runsur because I am a fat, ugly and useless girl. What is so cool about being skinny? Hey, even angel had nice big beautiful body. Her body is more like a skinny devil that comes from the hell. (Sigh: That’s why I don’t really do diet! It’s horrible.)Years after years until I have entering primary 5, that’s when I have been put together with her in the same class. I can’t believe what I’ve been through with her except, during that time I’m busy having a fight with Laura (we’ll talk about that later.) and Madam Patricia. We’ve been split again when we’re entering form 1 till form 3 until we’ve been put together once again during form 4 and 5. For two years, it seems like she’s started to ‘declare a war’ with me. I don’t know why but everything that I do, she’ll definitely catch up with me. Day after day, I can sense something is not right. The way she look at me like I was her prey. At first, I can’t believe she had just defeated me during the monthly exam. Wow! I said that was very good ‘punch’. The second, the third, the fourth until had gone to first semester exam, she was over stepped me. Huh! What’s going on I thought?

From that first semester, I’m started to fight her until I was graduated from the school and taking my SPM exam. During that time, I was found Roselind was ‘one of the selected targets’ from many students in the school. I can’t believe this Roselind was in involved in the perfect school’s conspiracy. That means, once she had selected target, there’s no way that I can fight with them because they had guidance at the back to save them whenever they fall. I never told to anyone about this until one day I confessed to my close ‘friend’ about this problem. This was arisen again when one day, I heard Roselind was fall sick. She was put in the hospital as she had found incautious by her friend. I’ve met her uncle and asked about her condition. Even my dad also asked about her condition too. According to both of them, Roselind was fall sick because she didn’t take her meal. I’m feeling little sympathized to her. Then, I was talked about this problem with my two friends where they’ve told me that perhaps she was infected by ‘one paragraph a day’ syndrome. That means, perhaps, she had doing her assignments whereas some students done their assignment only one paragraph a day. I was shocked to hear that. Supposedly, it was one page day but one paragraph a day, that’s way too much! I thought. I must admit she was turns drastically good at the critical subject like math and science. But one thing she’s can’t fight me which is, English. English was supposed to become one of the critical subjects and then again, I don’t care if she can’t beat me at the art. Something wasn’t very right going on here but that time I was closing my two eyes and keep on blaming myself.

Since her drastic good marks had becomes one of the major topics among of my classmates, my uncle Bened think it was odd. I doubt about it too but like I said at the first place, I’m just lazy. Since she was categorized as the top student at my class, her behavior is also change drastically. I can see she was getting arrogant day after day. I don’t care if she stole others from me but she’s also steals my best friend, Sulastrie. Perhaps, Sulastrie didn’t realize this but I’m always to tell her to stay from Roselind as far as she could because her aura is evil. I feel I was entirely left again and I feel I was dying in my heart after she stole my friendship. Although, I thought I was lost in the battle, I could never believe that Sulastrie had come back for me. Even after I was gone, I’m never ever told her this, not to anyone and not to my parent until one day I’ve decided to tell the truth to someone else especially my parent. Some other times, she acted nice but I don’t believe her. I don’t fall into her trap. She can fool anyone else but definitely not me. I guess, she’s the one who falls into her own trap because she haven’t met her real match and even in the real game of life. Years after years, I heard she was getting married. Although, I think it’s good for her but the controversy rumors had sparks again over her marriage. This one, I keep this secret just doesn’t want to make things hard for her. It’s already more than enough as she had learned her lesson (I hope so (-_-)). Whatever happens to Roselind, I hope she’s happy with her life now.

To be continue…