My Introvert Days

The Smoker

"And after thirty minutes you will be able to see the crystallized compound, but since the time is almost up you guys can come and check it at the end of the day. You all can leave now, class is over." said the teacher as she ended the lab class.

I joined up with the gang as they went downstairs. Karter rushed to the restroom before I could ask him about what he was doing before so I decided to ask Harry.

"Hey Harry, what were you both looking for in the shelf?"

"Hmm...The Shelf? Which shelf? When? I didn't take any matchbox out of the shelf."

"Matchbox?" I  asked him "What matchbox?"

"Nothing! Nothing at all, nope. When did I say matchbox. Hehe!"

"You are a terrible liar so spill the truth already" Greg told him as we all entered our class.

He agreed to explain and told us all to group at the last bench. We took our places and Harry started speaking at last.

"Before, Karter told that the question will be nullified if we burn the paper right. For that Karter took a matchbox out of the shelf to burn the paper, that's all."

"That's all? Are you nuts! so what, Karter rushed to the restroom to burn it."

"I think, mostly yeah." replied Harry with an innocent smile.

I told him to go and stop Karter before he burns down the restroom.

"Hey look, Its Karter." Patrick told as he saw Karter running into the class.

He didn't bother to look at as as we called him and he rushed to the corner window of our class and stood still. We had no clue what was going on until we saw smoke coming out from where he stood. He was actually burning the paper inside the classroom. From our point of view it literally looked like he was smoking. Me and Patrick rushed towards him to stop him before any teacher arrived.

"Hey look, Rodney just ran out of the class." said Harry.

Yup, Karter was doomed. He definitely went to bring the teacher.

"Hey Karter stop this nonsense. If a teacher spots you, you are toast."

"KARTER!! What are you doing? Drop the cigarette now at this instant" Great, of all the teachers it had to be Miss Ava. Now all we had to do was pray for him.

"Cigarette? No ma'am, this is just normal paper." replied Karter to prove that he held no cigarette. As if that reason could save him.

"You are saying that you were burning paper inside the class." Miss Ava looked totally pissed off which made it impossible for Karter to open his mouth.

After she kept asking him to justify his actions he finally opened his mouth to blame it on Harry.

"Harry told me to do it."

"Cue THE LINE" I thought to myself as I predicted the words that would come out of her mouth.

"If he told you to jump out of the window, will you jump?" She said that and that was enough to make Karter accept his fault. 

She gave both of them a long and boring lecture. Few minutes later our class teacher arrived on seeing the commotion and got an earful from her also. Both were definitely getting chewed up by the teachers. The bell had rung a few minutes back and our English teacher was waiting at the door.

Since they didn't want to waste the English teacher's time Karter and Harry were called to the floor head's desk for further question while we all sat down for our English class.

In between the class ,both of them came back looking like the warriors who returned home from war. Karter stayed silent the whole day but Harry was in a cheered up mood because the paper was burned, which means he escaped death or so he says.

Well there were some of the break time events I've experienced, pretty sure Karter would wish to forget this memory. 

Time flew fast , Dad came home from work and freshened up. It was finally dinner time, we had our fill and after an hour of doing nothing we both went upstairs to sleep.