My Final Days In High School

💕Chapter 6💕

You all know that feeling that your day is going horribly and you feel it can't get any worse. But you're wrong and your day got ten times worse than you ever imagined it could get. Well, I hate to break it to you but I was having one of such days.

It all started with our annoying house mistress waking me up at an ungodly hour to complain about the untidiness of the hostel, as though it was my fault. She didn't stop at that, she kept myself and all the other prefects up all morning talking our ear off about responsibility and good manners.

Devotion was even worse, the person that led seemed like she had been sent to punish us. She turned a thirty minute devotion into a two hour affair keeping all of us on our feet throughout.

The only good thing about the day was that it was a public holiday and I wasn't going to school today.

Hallelujah!

But like I said today has been doomed from the start. The principal couldn't have chosen the perfect time to come for his inspection and whenever there's an inspection Miss P keeps everybody up on their toes with a half day sanitation exercise of which the prefects suffer the most.

Like clockwork, the principal came at exactly 2pm to inspect the hostel. His inspection started at the girls hostel. His eagle eye scanning every nook and cranny of our hostel. His eyes never seemed to miss a thing, be it a speck of dust on the floor or a stray cobweb hanging down the ceiling. In an hour, he was done. He rated us a fair score of 45 percent before proceeding to call all the prefects and giving us the "cleanliness is next to godliness" speech and how he was "utterly unimpressed" with the state of our hostel. And my humble self, being the head girl had to bear the brunt of his anger.

By the time the principal had left, I was already tired and it wasn't even time for prep yet. I went into my room where I met Jenny and some of the other girls gisting about the day's events. I wished I could join them but I didn't have the energy, neither did I have the strength to. I just lay down on my bed letting my mind drift off as I listened half heartedly to their conversation. They had been talking about the teachers and how they all behaved. I didn't know I had dozed off until Jenny came to tap me.

"Get up, you lazy child!" She all but screamed "It's time for sport"

I got up grudgingly trying to get myself to process what was going on and why I was here. I looked around the room spotting all the others in their beautiful t-shirts of various colours and back coloured tracksuits. I got up to changing into my red sport shirt and black tracks. I then wore my black sneakers and rushed to meet up with the others in the basketball court in the hostel.

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Jenny was the first to welcome me when I got to the court. She had a wide grin on her face and I wondered how the grin stayed on her face without coming out of her face. She seemed excited about something and for some reason I felt her excitement too.

"What's going on?" I asked admist all the squeals and shouts of the excited students.

"Miss. P has paired us all into two groups to play against each other. All the senior student are to coach the junior students and the winning team gets the Principal's punctuality award."

"What??" I screamed, my eyes almost bulging out of my head "How is that possible?"

"Apparently, we tied with the boys for our inspection" she then proceeded to roll her eyes " So he wants us to practice teamwork, now both boys and girls are paired together"

I looked at her incredulously, trying to decipher what she had just said. Jenny was about to assure me when the house mistress yelled my name.