What issue did you cause in your school?
Mum asked and before I thought of the best reply to give to her, she went on by saying, ‘do you not realize that teachers are the guardians in school?’
I chuckled, my chuckle resulted in a laugh and I busted it out in my heart.
I just couldn’t help but ask myself if it was my mum speaking about guardianship. But, whatever the case may be, I got on my knees and offered words of apology to her.
Suddenly, the day smiled at me as my mother ordered my discharge to the room. I had a direct turn to the room but got my support by picturing what happened in the school.
It was nothing really but then, a lot happened.
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It started in the mid-semester when a new student arrived in my class.
You would say that it wasn’t my burden but, see oh, this teen came in as a loner. She spoke to and embraced no one. I thought it was due to her newness in the class but, this act of hers went on even to the teachers, she always gave the class questions mute replies. I was dazed by this! I questioned her personality and judged them in my reactions towards her in class.
All along, I never knew I was being watched by a clique in my class.
On an active day, we were all seated in the classroom awaiting our teacher, this new bea stepped in and I watched her steps with my eyes rolling to each corner she walked into.
While withdrawing my stare back to its normal position. I heard a few teenagers say ‘see pot calling the kettle black’. Instantly, my mind roamed back to our kitchen at home. I pictured what mum’s pot looked like and how our kettle was. I imagined both together and I saw that they had the same color. While I was still trying to figure out the evident correlation, the scenario of how that same statement was said in my street flashed in. Just then, the meaning of what it was dawned on me, and I went down into the dumps.
The thought of who I was and what was said stepped in. My class teacher came in a few minutes ago. I knew but wasn’t aware. He ordered that everyone be seated but I heard ‘analyze what your classmate just called you.
Unaware, I felt a hit on my back, I got awakened back to the classroom with an insulting yell which got my teacher angry.
It was just too much trying to fix it all at that moment. Still in the middle of pulling my thoughts and reality together, I left the class to assemble myself at home and I met mum’s question.
