Humiliated

Secondary school days were fun and also painful especially when I was in senior year one where I still had to deal with some science courses.

At the beginning of the term, everything went smoothly. I really enjoyed physics class and wouldn't miss it for anything but as time went on, it got too complicated as graphs were introduced.

I hate plotting graphs and no matter how hard I've tried to do it, I miss a line and end up failing the whole thing. One time an assignment was given on graph and we were given a week to get our assignments done and submitted to the physics teacher. I was super excited that we were given a week so I pushed the graph somewhere and lived my life.

I totally forgot about the assignment till the day for the submission came. I took my graph book to school very early in the morning just so I could copy from my mates because actually I didn't know what I was going to draw so I had to copy, I'd still have copied even though I did it earlier than the initial submission date.

I waited for one boy that was really good at plotting graphs to come to school. I was sure he'd be on time as he was always punctual. Time was running faster than it should and it was almost time for the submission when the dude arrived. I was pissed, so I handed him my graph book to draw for me but before he could get it from me, the physics teacher arrived and asked us to report to the lab with our assignments.

The kind of sweat that left my body that morning wasn't ordinary. He was kind of enough to open up his own for me to just look through and sketch what I could. Submitting the book like that was actually going to be really bad so I sketched quickly and with a smile on my face I joined the others to submit.

We all submitted and returned to our classrooms. Few hours later, my attention was needed in the physics lab and I knew the devil was at work. My palms were wet as I dragged my feet to the lab.

After a lot of humiliation by all the teachers in the lab that day, I was asked to do the pick a pin punishment. I staggered on one foot and sweater like a goat taken to the slaughter that day. Some junior students came into the lab and saw me in my senior uniform picking pin just because of a simple assignment. The humiliation that day felt as if the ground should have just swallowed me up 😂.

After that day, any assignment given on physics that included graphs was done that same day or the next. Never by me but by the same I aforementioned, he loved my best friend so I used it as bait to make him do my physics assignment. I always threatened that if he didn't help me out, I'd stop my best friend from considering his love proposal. He really believed it because of how close my best friend and I were. We were both liberated when I got in senior year two😂.