The unknown

Why a DUCK?

  "A duck"- I whispered. 

"Why a duck?"-I asked.

Confused and curious, I tried to see further and further with my confusing and dizzy face. Looking further and further, I happened to see another yellow duck. 

"Two ducks"- I shouted with excitement and shock, extremely flabbergasted. 

Once again, I tried to see deeper, and what surprised me this time was that the two ducks were very close to one another like a boy staying tightly to his girl protecting her. 

"What the ducks," I confusingly shouted. 

Ring Ring!! 

I opened my eyes, and I woke up with confusion. The first thing I saw was not the fan over my head that I saw every day, but the two ducks. And the first word I said that day was not "Oh damn, my alarm clock", but "Oh damn, why ducks". 

I was not fully awake, but I had to go and shut my alarm up. " You are annoying," I shouted to my alarm after switching it off, and throwing it away to the other side of the room. 

I partly opened my eyes, and looked for my phone, a new modern vivo model as my old one was broken, so I had to spend money for this new one. "Where are you, baby?"- I questioned myself. 

And "BABY" was what I named it since I was just a lonely extroverted man without many friends, let alone a girlfriend. "Found you, baby", I suddenly turned the phone on, and guess what I saw. 

"8:00 am" - that was what I saw, which made my two eyes opened as widely as they could like I saw a shining duck flying. "8 am," I shouted with disbelief, adding that "Oh my duck, I am dead".

I was a freshman at a university in the town, and I won a scholarship, so attendance was even more crucial than my exam grade. Failing to attend class for 4 times would result in my death because my mom would kill me if the news ever reached her. 

"It is my first day, how could I wake up so late?" I asked myself, while blaming and cursing myself many times. Luckily, the class took place virtually because of the outbreak of the covid-19 in my city, so all schools were closed and would not be reopened any sooner, and we were all required to study online. "Lucky me, my lazy soul" I calmed down, while clicking on my brand new BABY (phone) looking for my online class. "Found ya, baby" I whispered happily with ease. 

"Ting, Ting" I heard. "What time is it, new duck?" someone asked me. It was the lecturer who asked me. Feeling guilty and scared, I told her that I was sorry because I had dream, so I could not hear my alarm ringing. 

"New duck, since it is your first day of university, your life is spared today, if this ever happens again, I guarantee not," she told me. "Thank you, lecturer," I said to her thankfully, but filling my brain with DUCK, I suddenly asked her unconsciously,  "Why a duck?"

"Because you are a new student, so I call you a new duck" my lecturer explained to me. 

Still filling with doubt and misunderstanding, I asked her repeatedly, "Why not a chicken, or a pig, or a hen", "Why a duck?". At the same time, I heard many of my new classmates, whose faces had not been seen, laughed. I then heard a reply from one of my classmates saying that "Because DUCK is a cute nickname", while another one replied "Duck is a new nickname, a new chicken has been commonly used", while some others laughed. 

I was not really focusing on the lecturer and her lecturer at all for this morning as I had been wondering the whole day with the same confusion. "Why a duck"