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I watched as Sister Lauren stepped down from the Chapel stage right after delivering her usual Sunday speech, which comprised what she regarded as the reigning news and events around the world. And also, a speech of gratitude to the Father who celebrated the Mass. I watched on as she walked back to her pew at the other side of the Chapel. It was Sunday, a new week, the week Faridah was traveling out and the very next day to be specific.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you Sister." The reverend Father who celebrated the mass smiled as he climbed onto the stage right after Sister Lauren. There were different Fathers who came celebrating the Holy Mass on Mass days, but the face of this particular Reverend was the most consistent.
I still wasn't certain of his name even though Sister Lauren mentioned it everytime she made her speech of gratitude. I just wasn't interested,
all I noticed was that he somewhat had a big head and that was how I identified him. Reverend Father big head.
"The Lord be with you." He declared.
"And with your spirit." We all chorused.
"Go in peace, the mass is ended." He sang.
"Thanks be to God!" We sang in response and I heard someone snap their fingers loudly right behind me, the choir began the ending hymn, as the Father and the alter servers walked out.
"It's time for meditation!" Ms ordered shortly after, her voice loud and commanding as usual.
I couldn't understand why she always took the pain and stress of controlling everyone the entire Mass. There were other House Mistresses and adults present, the mass wasn't only for the Ss3's. Silence instantly descended after her words and I couldn't help laughing at the effect she had on even the junior students. It was obvious that even they had heard the stories of her evil doings, no other reason they would have kept shut that easily.
The Meditation period was the period after mass we all kept quiet and prayed silently and individually...or at least that's what it was to me.
Snap! The loud clicking of someone's fingers came again, it's already loud sound was amplified by the silence in the Chapel.
Drama time!
I knew all to well who it was without even having to look back, it was lovely Ms Peculiar. "Snap snap!" It came again. No one was reacting to it...yet.
"Snap,snap,snap,snap,snap,snap!" She went on and on like a crazy person. I didn't bother looking up and back from my prayer. We all were used to her desperate antics to distract every person in the chapel with her with her annoying finger snapping. She often did it right in the middle of an ongoing Mass.
"This woman sha." Kosi sighed and turned around. She was seated next to me on the pew right in front of the very last pew on the left tier. The tier partly for the SSS3's.
"Hey! I'm talking to you!" Ms Peculiar yelled in her forcedly accented voice. Murmurings begin and I was forced to look back as well.
"Who is she even talking to?" I wondered aloud.
"I think it's..." Kosi mused scanning the area. I looked in the direction Ms Peculiar snapped her fingers and figured she was tying to get the attention of someone seated at the end of her pew, although I'm not certain whose exactly.
She had by now succeeded in getting everyone else's attention, as the murmurings got louder and louder I looked forward in Ms direction, I chuckled wickedly as I sighted her.
