I saw her sitting there, with her face slumped on the table out of
sheer exhaustion. He arm was stretched across the table. Her face was
facing towards my direction and I was admiring her beauty. Her snow
white skin with those red plummet cheeks and her, well there's nothing
to talk about her because for me, she's the most beautiful person I have
ever seen. The class was very noisy although it was night 'prep', which
was supposed to mean that the students should be quiet. Night 'prep' is
called silent hour for a reason. I should have been able to hear if
nails were to drop on the floor if they ,my classmate, would follow the
rules. However, no matter how much I tried to get myself annoyed by the
busy environment around me, seeing her makes it all go away. Nothing
else matters. Not the sweet smell of almond cookies that one of my
classmates brought to class earlier on neither the fact that my
classmates were quarreling over some idiotic stuff. All that matters was
her.
"Hey, aren't you supposed to be the one making sure things are toned down here?" said a soft gentle but somehow raspy voice.
There stood in front of me, a boy about three quarter of my height,
dark olive skin, dark brown eyes starring me with intent as if trying to
dig my deepest darkest secrets. The boy have elfish features, broad
square face, a little crooked nose (just a little. Not even half of it) a
broad smile with dimples on the left side of his cheeks, except for the
fact that he does not have pointy ears. Give him a green hat with a
dingle bell on top and a green tracksuit any time of day, with those
muscular body of his, he could be an elf weightlifter.
"Are you listening to me?"
I snapped out of my trance. "Oh, yeah..." I was still a little dazed
from.... you know from what...
"Now go on. The juniors are making quiet
a ruckus." I lifted my self from the chair,although I wanted to stay,
but he was right.
It is my duty.You see a few months prior to this event I was elected
to be one of the prefect board's members. I'm the Head of Academics. If
you are thinking :
"WOW!! THAT'S AMAZING! You must be really smart!" take that back. When I was given this responsibility I actually felt like I was being handed my death sentence.
Needless to say, I
DON'T like it. Despite that,
there's always a trump card being a PB(Prefect Board) member. I can be
very 'convincing' with people.I walk up the flight of stairs, face down,
watching the pavement of grey with it crooked edges. The staircase is a
little steep. The architect that built this school was certainly not
trying to do his best in designing the school. As I climbed up the
stairs the noise became louder. In my head I was thinking,
'It must be them again'
I reached the 3rd floor where only the form 1's and 2's were up here.
Divided by the staircase heading upstairs where the form 1's block on
the left side and the form 2's on the right side. It was clear to me
that the form 2's are the one making the noise, and I have a pretty good
guess that I know who it is.
I take the right turn from the stairs and headed towards the second
class from the center staircase. The night breeze is rustling through my
hair, whistling in my ears and the cold is lingering through my spine. I
dared myself to face left, betting that it was the same group of
students. The moment of truth awaits as I turned my head to the right.
There' in the middle of the class stood a group of boys, one or two
taller than me, the rest shorter or about the same height as me, talking
like they were miles apart but in fact were just next to each other. I
can guarantee if they pick up their volume just a little bit more, than
the whole school could here them and I would
DEFINITELY get into trouble... The noise just keeps getting louder by the minute.
'
I must do something'
I thought to my self.
As lazy as I was, these are my juniors for
heaven's sake. I don't want them to get into any trouble... I put on a
smile on my face and gave the classroom door a knock.
KNOCK!
No respond? Two knocks then.
KNOCK! KNOCK!
"Excuse me?
" I said aloud. The class went silent.
"Hey, it's
the R-Man!!" Said a boy from the group.
He is a tad taller than me.
Fine, he's around 15cm taller than me. Happy? He wore a very thick black
rim glasses over those dark, deep, brown eyes of his. He have a white
pale skin and his hair is neatly combed to the front right. They were
oily, black and thick. Luscious in a way. The whole class went silent
and just stares at me.I was getting nervous. Eyes were starring at me
and I can't read all of them.
Happy? Surprised? Distaste?
I couldn't
tell... All I could tell was that all of them were waiting. Waiting for
me to say something.
"Ok, guys... err.. and girls..The whole class
easily!!"
They all looked at me awkwardly."I'm not here to tell you guys
to keep quiet, although it's silent hour and you're suppose to, but, we
are still humans... In fact, my own class couldn't even keep silent.."
They laugh.
Well, in fact that was the truth. No sane student would ever keep
themselves shut for more than an hour!! It's tiresome and completely
dead boring.
"You guys can talk but please!! PLEASE!!! I'M BEGGING YOU!! Keep the
volume at a minimum. Kay?" I begged.
They paused. Thinking of something?
What exactly. "Okay bro!! Thanks" said the whole class.
"Thanks."I muttered.
I
turned my self, ready to head away from the class, when suddenly I
remembered something. I turned around and stick my head at the front of
the door once more and said
"Could I see those group of guys outside of
class?"
They all stared at me and one by one, they walked out to the
corridor.
The cold night was not doing me a favor as I was sitting on a ledge,
my back on iron bars, the only thing that differs me from alive and
sitting and falling dead flat on the pavement three floors below. The
group of boys were sitting across me, leaning on the classroom windows.
They were quiet a few of them. I remembered was one of them was stub,
chubby with a soldier style haircut. Another was skinny, olive skin,
shorter by two inces than me and had a scrawny look on his face. The
glasses boy is also there.
I took a short breath and puffed, "Ok, boys. What is going on? This
is like the 5th time I caught you guys talking aloud like this. What's
the problem?"
They shared a look with one another and then stared at me again.
"Well?" I asked.
"You swear you would never tell anyone?" The black
glasses guys asked in an aggressive tone to more like demanding.
"It
depends.."I shrugged.
"Swore!" He asked whilst staring.
"Fine, I'll swore to it!" I give
in.
"It's about the form 4's and you new prefect board's members." He
whispered in my ears...
Hearing it makes my heart raced..
'What is it about us? What is he talking about? What rumor is lingering at this school about us?'What did we do wrong?''
My eyes stared into his in horror. He sneered. He have something
juicy on us and I can just smell it. He have that evil look as he utter
the next sentence. Something that happened that night still took time
for my brain to fathom. However, something that he said next was still
ringing in my head.
"The form 4's end"
To be continued.....