"Are you sure you are going to be okay?"Stacy asks me while looking seriously worried.
"I am fine now I feel much more great,"I answer assuringly. "Sorry about what my mom did to you,"she apologetically says to me with such sympathy in her eyes.
"Don't worry,"I say as I now stand up on my two feet.
This is the first time Stacy is talking to me like this I mean like she does not even say hie to me,she is very distant and to be honest I like it that way because I would not want to be venting out my thoughts to her concerning her mom.
"Dad I am leaving for school,"I say as I am standing infront of this wooden door.
"Come in,"he says.
"I will be going to school now,"I tell him while thinking of how I am going to convince him.
"I think for today you should stay at home maybe that random burning is going to start again,"he says.
"But I have a test today,"I say while making a sad face and he is going to fall for it completely.
"Honey I think you should let her go to school I mean after all it is very important that she has to write the test,"the woman with evil intentions lurking around in her heart says as she is coming out of the bathroom.
Something is very off about this woman today I mean is it the way she is trying to hide her mysterious smirk or is it about the fact that she is trying to support the fact that I have to go to school to write my examinations I mean it is not adding up. But one thing is adding up,the fact that this event has me thinking of many facts hahaha.
"Okay you may go,"he now gives up.
"Thank you daddy,"I say now excited to go and be tested,I just don't know why life is like this,even at school I am tested like life is full of tests but for some reason I am totally okay with this fact.
......Back to the present...
"Desho I am coming I just want to go to the whitehouse,"Sharma say as she stands up but looking all weak and frustrated.
The moment she steps her foot out of the dooe,she comes back running in a sneaky way as if she is running away from the teacher or something.
"And then?"I ask.
"Desho!"She says while her head is bent,"the papers are coming,"she says while looking all shocked, I join her in being shocked because this is completely unexepcted.
"She is already done?"I ask as I notice that the classroom has now a dense atmosphere and is crowded with fearfull minds as everybody that was outside takes their seats quietly.
"I am done marking the papers,"this was the first approach that she had to give the moment she found her way to stand infront of the class making the heartbeats of many echo in the classroom.
"Ehhhhh!"This is all what most of them could say as we were left bamboozled to how she could be done marking the papers that had so many questions only during breaktime.
I guess that mystery will remain unsolved as we would take it that it is her secret or something like that.
"And I am disappointed to say that you did not do well at all,"she increases our worry even more.
"Ehh madam please don't do this to us,"the jokester of the class says while holding out his shirt like his heart is about rupture.
"And you will be the first person to recive your paper,"the teacher says with a very no-nosense tone,"and because of the way you have scored,I will publicly reveal your scores in this class,you should be very ashamed of yourselves,"she finishes.
"Ehhhh! Mayo!!"Everybody exclamates while most show the 'I am dead' expression.
"All of the food has evaporated ehh,"a certain guy at the corner says.
.........The names are being mentioned and the scores are not good at all. I am just waiting for the sound of my name to be produced because the sound of my heartbeat is clogging my ears.
"Sharma,65%,"the teacher calls out and the class starts to clap hands for her because as of now she is the one with the highest score,"and who told you to clap your hands?What is 65% huh?She is not the highest of this paper,"she says and like that the class return back to jts sikence like the spirits are passing.
"Dalitso,46%,"she calls out my name whilst looking shocked.
I think I have not heard it right like this is really me?How?The way I studied for this paper how can this happen?
"Dalitso are you coming to take your average or what?"She ruthlesly and yet disappointedly says.
I am obviously shocked and everybody is gasping and I take my paper,look at the score and finally finish the disappointment with a brief but yet disappointed sigh.I look around the class and I can literaly see some people gossiping about me,oh well.
"Tadala,the gang leader,the gossiper herself,you are busy gossiping about your friends and you,yourslef, you did nothing sensible on this paper just blatant nosense,wasting my precious and expensive red ink,"she explains while very mad.
All Tadala could think of is glaring hahahaha the ring leader has been embarrassed and humiliated by the very same teacher she claims can not do anything to her.
"Come get your 0% when you stop glaring at me,"the teacher breakes the ultimate 5 seconds of silence.
"Whooooo,"many of us gasp at the shocking and yet not suprising news hahahaha.
You might be wondering as you are reading to why I am busy laughing when I myself did not do well,it's just that it's very funny to see how she puts others to the test and she comes out victorious and yet when an exmaination paper puts her to the test she always crumbles.This is when you realise that bullies are best at bullying so you should not waste your time entertaining such rather shame them by working hard so that they can see that you are worth more than that.
"Now to our highest,"she finally says,"let's atleast give a hand for Bris,"the teacher finally announces the highest and it has just left everybody in shock and the class is full of silence,"I said let us give a hand please,he got 86%."
I am so shocked just like everybody and including the highest himself that we made eye contact.
"Desho are you going to have lunch?"Sharma comes in the class while carrying a bottle of yonse bho.
"No I'll pass,"I say while looking at my paper with so much interest as I am busy revising this already revised paper. "Desho get over it,it happens basi I mean like you can not change the fact that it has happened,"she says while looking at me with so much concern.
"Mh I hear you alright desho but I still need to go through some things right away,"I say now looking at her.
"Okay what do you want me to buy for you?"She asks while looking sincerly at me.
"You want to buy lunch for me like really?"I ask.
"Yes,"she says while nodding her head in agreement.
"Okay I just want something simple how about two samoosas,"I say while smiling.
"Okay three samoosas on the way ma'am,"she says while now heading out to go,"she says while now she is heading out. "Yooooo what's popping?"Bris now comes and sits next to me. "Nothing is popping,"I say while giving him a little bit of an attitude.
"Let's go and have lunch,"he ignores the attitude but notices it.
"On your bill,"I say while smiling because nothing makes me happy than eating food on someone else' bill,as if I even feed myself.
"Ofcourse not you the rich kid here and not me,anyways you okay?"He asks.
"How can I be okay?"I ask him now being sincere,"like I am just totally confused to like how can this seriously happen after I prepared for this exam like really well,"I say.
"It's not everything that we prepare for that goes well as planned,examinations are full of unpredictabilities,"he says as he takes out a packet of jiggies,opens it and then starts to eat.
"You are seriously eating that amidst this important conva?"I ask glaring at him and giving him the'are you serious?'look.
"It's lunch time man give me a break,"he says as he still continues to comfortably crunch on his little snack,"what exactly happened?"He asks.
"Exactly,what exactly happened is what I don't know,"I answer while thinking how this can actually happen.
"What do you mean? "He asks me.
"Right now that question is more like asking me why the sky is blue and I don't know the answer just yet,"I say.
"Girl,"he now gives me the 'really?' face,"you could have just said you don't know,anyways I am off to lunch,"he now says as he stands up.
"Clean up this mess before you leave,"I tell him as I point on the desk.
"Ain't happening girl,"he says while he walks out dramatically.
I keep on gulping and fear just keeps on rumbling in my guts as I get to think about the disappointment my father is going to have.It would be a perfect excuse for me to just plainly tell him about the misery that his wife has been putting me through however he will not trust me and besides,that should never be an excuse because I still was pushing hard. With disappointment,I have decided to tell him of my grades.
"I thought you were writing exams today,"he tells me as he keeps skimming through the article he is reading.
I did not have the encouragement to tell him and he just did it himself.
"Uhm....yes,"with sweaty palms,I nervously answer.
"When are the expected results to come out?"He does not hesirate but asks with full confidence in his ashamed daughter.
"Well,the results already came out today,"I say whilst maintaining a safe distance.
I do know that my father has never resulted to violence whe it comes to me that unlike my poor mother,but this time,I feel like a new record might be set and a complete change in history will be recorded so it's best for me to just keep a distance.
"Show me,"he says as he quietly leaves his tablet on the table and he looks at me,in the eye.
I take out the paper from my back pocket as I knew that this moment might have arrived,peacefully hand it over to him and before I can even say anything,he decides to cut the suspenseful silence.
"Oh wow!"He says.
"I wasn't feeling fine during the exams,this will not repeat itself dad,"I quickly say before he could even say anything. "Making up an excuse for failure huh,"he comments.
I fail to say anything and then decide to further my distance.
"This is why people never move foward,they make up excuses,this is why people never repent from the heart,they make up excuses,"he starts to furiously explain.
"It won't happene again dad,"this is all I could come up with in my head.
"Some failures are unpredictable and next time let it be better,I am glad that you have admitted your failure and also have comitted yourself to improving but then whatever factor caused this,I want it cancelled out immediately,"he commands.
"understood?"He asks
"Yes dad,"I say with a sigh of relief that it did not go beyond words.
She finally decides to show up at this scene and then snatches the paper away from him and takes a look at it.The moment her eyes spots the 46%,she beams with delight like it's so insightful to her and smiles as she looks at him. "Wow, you did exceptionally poor dear,what happened?"She asks as she tries so hard to hide her smirk but fails.
"I'll be upstairs dad,"I say as I try to avoid answering this woman.
"Okay,"he says.
Here I am trying to put two in two together as I am completely bamboozled to how all my hardwork could yield such especiallywith the great memory that I have.I'm starting to think that this woman has involed witchcraft into this fight and I am not going to fall easily into her trap again this time.
"Hey sis,"Stacy says as she walks up to me.
"Hey,"I answer back with a little bit of confusion to what she is doing here.
"I brought you a cup of juice,"she says as she carefully leaves the cup of juice on my dressing table.
"I didn't ask for it,"I rudely answer her like she is guilty of something when in all of this,she is just a victim of circumstance as I am right now.
"I know but then I just feel sad for you that's all,"She answers.
"Okay thank you,"I say not planning to even drink it.
"Come on,drink it,"she says while gesturing it to me.
"Later,"I say while I look away.
"Okay fine just a sip would do,"she says.
"Why are you pushing me to drink it?"I ask now starting to smell foul play.
"I know that you won't drink it so I just have to be sure that you will drink it like you have said,"she confidently answers and I have never seen her so confident like this eversince she stepped her foot into this house.
"Okay,"I give up and take a little sip.
"Thank you,byee,"she leaves the room while hopping like a grasshoper.
....After some minutes of being on the same page for some minutes,I feel weird and boom!Down on the floor and I am feeling so weak that I can not even pull a single muscle right now and shut!There,my eyelids give up on me.