Flickers

Chapter 84

March issued in a blink of an eye, I gathered my strength to be able to finish my destination which is our classroom. Well, we have finally resumed classes in the new building that was built in front of the Madrigal High School though there's still a lot of facilities and works needed to be constructed.

The road to reach our building was either the steep, rocky path or the short but dangerous dilapidated stairs that were made of rocks piled up into an unknown shape. After entering the building, you're lucky if you're a TVL strand since you're on the first and second floor but poor me since I have to trek two floors to get to my class as a HUMSS student and the worst of all is the ABM strand, they're in the fourth floor.

The moment you entered the class you want to be able to sit down and rest your aching tired body on a table but we don't have one. We only have our plastic chairs to sit on, no table to use when writing, and no electric fan - but thankfully the wind blows inside our room.

There's only one building that is built for us as our classroom, just beside the building itself is a small area for the canteen and the other two-story building is for the teachers and other future facilities.

So yeah, the moment your stomach urged you for food you just have to walk faster and hope that the TVL students don't buy the food you wanted to eat. Besides, the restroom is also on the first floor, how great is that!

"Ange, have you gotten enough plastic? Sir William told us to go to his table and he'll check out bottles with a patpat"

(AN: Patpat is a slender stick typically used for whipping and to prop oneself up)

Ugh, I forgot but looking at my 1.5 coke bottle it seems pretty filled but one might never know.

And I was right.

"Where will we look for plastics? The garbage has already been taken down!" Jeline yells in disappointment while Jamie filled hers with plastics that she found in her bag.

"Mines already good!"

The four of us, including Alex and Espe, look at Jamie's full-packed bottle enviously and can only look for plastics in our bag but to no avail, it was already clean.

"Should we go down? I reckon there are some plastics on the ground" Alex recalls and we all go down the stairs, trying to take as much plastic as we can see as we were leaving the class.

Thankfully there's not much to do now except to finish the final requirements that some of our teachers wanted.

"We look like freaking garbage collectors" Jeline says as she wiped the sweat coming off of her neck.

"Maybe this will be our future, this is just practice for now" I burst into laugher after hearing Espe's word, she was clearly mocking herself but did it in such a funny way.

(AN: This is not in any way discrimination against garbage collectors, we were just joking around and it does not mean that the job of a garbage collector is low or has any bad connotation around it. If anyone is offended I will remove this now, thank you)

"What are you doing?" I saw Eric yelling on the second floor and I shushed him, it's embarrassing to be seen like this- all sweaty and dirty from picking up plastics.

"Don't yell!" I mouthed at him and he just nodded and proceeds to whip his phone out and take a picture of me which angered me. "Delete that!"

When I saw him ignore my words I yelled his name and he just have me a smirk which made my blood boil.

Fine, I'm going to ignore you today.

"Hey! Respect to those who are single!" Jeline yelled making me burn in embarrassment.

I tug her to the stairs to avoid her from embarrassing me further, fortunately, her attention was easily replaced by the plastics that we saw in the back of our building.

"Hey! Come here! There's loads of it!" I yelled to them and had some debate in my mind seeing that the windows were opened and the students from TVL would see us.

Maybe they would think that we were being crazy going in the back and taking plastics on the ground. But of course, this did not apply to Alex and she happily took the plastics without any care or embarrassment showing on her face. Seeing her I made my decision and just throw my shame away.

Almost half an hour was spent on don't plastics and filling our 1.5 bottles of it, surely this will suffice then?

"Sir! Here's our bottle!"

We went to the teacher's faculty, ignoring the teachers that would always order those students to buy food from the canteen and those that has reprimanded us.

Our teacher took his magical pat pat and skewed it to make sure that we have done right, the pat pat shouldn't bounce away or else we have to go back to picking plastics again.

Thankfully it didn't this time and we finished it today. After seeing Eric's constant messages I sent an angry emotion and relished on his coaxing words before forgiving him.

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Chapter 84 is up!

Fun Fact: There is indeed a project that lets us fill a 1.5 plastic bottle with plastics and we did go down to collect some hahaha. Good old days!

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