Trouble Trouble

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To some of us, high school was an entirely different world with it own rules and that was why many of us had two different personalities back then, one for the real world, the other for high school. And unfortunately for some people, there were some cases where their high school lives had a brief contact with their real world lives and it wasn’t a fun experience.

A good example of what I’m talking about is when we mess up in school and then we’re asked to bring our parents to school the next day, that is both lives finally coming together for a brief moment until that issue is resolved and then they go apart again.

I and my classmates had one of those and it was messy. Not for me though because I might have been devious and bad upstairs (in my head) but to everyone who wasn’t really close to me like the teachers, I was a darling, someone who wouldn’t hurt a fly and that was why when I and my classmates did something we weren’t suppose to do and got caught, I was among those who weren’t really punished that much because they believed I didn’t have much to do with what happened (which was true by the way).

It was the exam week and some of my classmates had stumbled upon one of our exam questions. One of the teachers had gotten sloppy and left the question paper in her drawer without locking the staff room and while my classmates were playing about, they had seen it and instead of just ignoring it or maybe reading a bit of it for themselves, they decided to be good guys and brought it to the attention of the whole class.

We had this private lesson that we do after school when everyone, including the teachers has gone home. The lesson was hosted by our principal and it was only for the final year students, so it was just us and the principal in school that day.

We had finally agreed to all go to one of our mates house to go write out everything so that we can read it and cram it before the day of the exam. It was a master plan and would have been a successful one if everyone had played their part right.

We had given one of us the task of coming to school early the next day to return the questions before anyone comes to school, a task that would have sealed the mission if he had done it right, but instead he arrived too late and before we knew it, the whole thing blew up and it didn’t take long for the teachers to figure it out.

That day had been a terrible one for all of us. We were flogged in the presence of the whole school and were instructed to bring our parents to school the next day. Fortunately for me, my parents business didn’t give them the luxury of attending to such meetings and instead of the teachers to make it a big deal, they decided to let it go because they felt I wasn’t really involved in all of it.

The teacher ended up changing the questions and if you’re wondering if we passed the exam, I can’t remember. 👨‍🦯