Katerina Holmes
Would It Be A Mistake Going To School early?
I wonder if this has happened to any of you right here when you were still in school.
When I was still in secondary school, I had different experiences ranging from how I dress, behaved, and react to people.
My dress was the best and superb. I dress to impress people and most especially my crush. I had a crunch which I have not for once spoken to apart from asking some questions which I do call silly.
Please, can I borrow your notebook? Whereas I have written the note. It was so funny back then as I behaved. I wonder if students these days behave the same way.
I only dress so that my crush would see the kind of best guy I'm. And speaking of early to arrive in school, I have always been the first and would sit waiting for others to come. I do go early to school just because my crunch always comes to school as early as I do. We have been the two most punctual students ever since we got to junior secondary school. As for me, I was enjoying it just because of her presence. Although anytime she comes to school, we don't talk just because of fear of the unknown.
What am I going to say? Which kind of discussion should I bring up? I do get afraid of her not just because of her nature but because of how I'm going to approach her. So, I wanted to get noticed and in fact, it was so not until something kept drawing me backward.
How can I come to school neat in the morning and students see me dirty when they arrive? I was hiding under duress just because of my crunch.
The class is always dirty before all my mates go home and each time I get to school, I would be the one sweeping the class since I was the first to arrive. They now know me as the class sweeper. Even when my crush comes to school to see the dirty, she could not pick up a broom to sweep and instead would wait for me. Although, I was the one who caused it. She was supposed to sweep but just to entice her, I told her not to sweep instead I would do the sweeping.
So, this has been making my clothes look dirty. The dust was just not it.
Do I need to kill myself inhaling dust every day just because of my crush? I always have a cough and my nose is always running every day just because of the dust. I thought twice and one day I said to myself, everyone would get punished by the school authorities today. I got to school and did not sweep the class. She also came and left it unswept thinking I might sweep it. She had forgotten that the class was not swept and sat in the class just like that. It was morning and our teacher was checking the neatness of each class. He got to our class and shouted. He called everyone out and punished us for being dirty.
Yes… at least we have all received punishment and I think this is how we are going to be having it every day.
To be honest, I got home so neat unlike before. This was when I began to withdraw from coming to school early. The fact remains that I must allow my crunch to come to school first before me so that she would taste the happiness behind coming early to school.
She did that for two weeks and was tired. In the third week, the class was left dirty once again. We all got punished. I walked up to her and asked her why she could not sweep the class when she was the first to arrive. Just look at her reply,
Hmmm…. I have a cough and my nose is running. My clothes are always dirty and I don't think I can do it again. We all should receive some punishment than to keep on like this.
I began to laugh. I replied to her "this was what I was facing when I was doing it. Thank God you have experienced it.
Since that day the system has changed. She was coming late to school and so was I.
My student said it when I was teaching them in the morning. She said, "master, I don't think I will be coming early ". I asked her to give reasons for her statement and she said,
Must I be the only one sweeping the class? I'm tired of always sweeping. Just take a look at my clothes, they look so dirty. Ah…I can't do this again.
I began to laugh harder. She got surprised and asked me why the laughing,
I'm laughing just because of what you just reminded me of. This same thing was happening to me but I was doing it to entice my crush not knowing I was harming myself.
Did you later get your crush spoken to? She asked.
I did let her go. How can I be getting dirty every day just because of making someone my girlfriend which I don't think was coming forth?