The Chronicles of Peace

Chapter 30: Final Day, Part 1

It was finally the last day of the first semester as a secondary 3 student! When I woke up, I wistfully thought back to my memories as a secondary 3 over the last 5 months, and how my secondary school life changed ever since I became a member of 3 Peace.
Flashback
In my previous class, my best friend CJ was the only person that actually wanted to be with me. The rest either had their own clique or didn't want to associate with me. Rather, they saw me as "CJ's best friend", and the pressure to live up to that name caused me to be with her all the time; to text her all the time. Yes, it affected me inside out.

Maybe it's because I bothered to reach out to my classmates, but 3 Peace respected my wish to have many friends. And finally, I was able to have a real secondary school life. Gone were the days when I could just talk to my best friend about the same old stories. Now I was helping my class succeed in every single way.
Present day
During recess, I had chocolate ice cream (which wasn't too bad because it's Milo) and created a friendship bracelet, recalling everyone I have met in my secondary school life whilst helping my best friend twine her beads together. We then had it tied and walked back from recess, vlogging our cameras for the world to see.

Getting back from recess, it was a social affair. I talked to my Swifite friend about friendship bracelets before showing her that I finally passed art. We had a quick celebration before she went to compare results with Fawn (they're childhood friends).

We cleaned the classroom together. Mr Chen guided us to clean the windows the traditional way with the newspaper and I also took on an additional duty of finding a classmate to check they actually went to trash trash and not meet their ex classmates. And there was an additional fangirl moment while doing my duty...
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"Omg hey Crystal!"

"Hey," I replied coolly like I always did. "What's up?"

"I love you! Do you want to dance?"

"Sorry, I'm busy."
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"Make way for queen Crystal!" Everyone declared while I was clearing trash. My soul left my body. I was only expecting my juniors to idolise me, didn't think my influence would rub off the seniors.
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"Crystal!" Another group of boys screamed. "You know he likes you?"

"Wow, I didn't know that," I replied coolly, even though my heart was embedded with doubt of the truth.

"Ya, I'm not lying!" Even the SLB president chimed in. I didn't think much of the SLB president retaining me and I had things to do, so I decided to carry on with it.
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We finished cleaning the classroom, so this was a time to socialise! (Of course) I talked to one of my friends Jerome until it was time for the end of semester mass. We had to proceed to the hall due to our school chapel not having enough space for us.
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At the end of semester mass, our principal left us with some well wishes during the end of the semester and a montage of everything that happened. I happened to spot myself for the sports day event playing a game of Risk, although it's part of my head only. We then sang some hymns and the school song, and I left school with a heavy heart and magical feeling.

I survived the first semester of my third year! No, I thrived.

I met an amazing class and made so many memories. For a secondary school student, I had so many firsts. First time having one form teacher, first time having boys that treated me genuinely. I hope from this point, the boys in my school would only leave me because we drifted and no other reason.

But boys aside!! I'm so happy to live the life I've always wanted to live albeit my terrible Math grades. I have a subject combination that's perfect for my strengths and future career. I'm finally the popular girl I've always dreamed of. My only hope is to never let go of all this the following semester!