Shady Secrets

Hiding Under Desks

"Bells are ringing on your alarm clock
It's six in the morning,
man the race don't stop
It's just shower,
shave just make it to the station
Waiting for the train...
goddamn train late again
Hit the streets and they are seething
Ducking, weaving, begging, stealing..."
- John Butler Trio (Livin' in the City)

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I was sitting in the middle of History, listening to Mr Kingsington repeat the names of olden day towns we need to learn for the term. Most. Boring. Lesson. Ever. I personally had had enough of school, I couldn't wait for the holidays, and it was only week one of the term. I want to be a scientist or a football player when I grow up; not a History Teacher for a bunch of kids who don't really care about school anyway. I mean, it's not that I don't like school, it's just that I'm not a fan of people speaking for long periods of time. Thankfully, only ten minutes into the lesson, I was due at my guitar lesson. I put my hand up and said,

"I have to go to a music lesson." He nodded and immediately continued. I packed up my pencil case, grabbed my stuff and headed out of the classroom. I walked down the stairs, sneezing. On the last step, my knee cracked and bent from under me. Shizshizshizshizshizshizshiz!! I sat down on the steps, breathing heavily so as to avoid the whole embarrassing cry-baby thing. Thankfully, it was in the middle of the period, so no one was around. I held on the the railing of the stairs and pulled myself up. I winced and continued, slowly, towards my music lesson.

It was home-room afterwards. Basically, you are in this one classroom catching up on other subjects with your core class. At least I get to see Lucas I thought, then remembered the day before. Actually never mind. The fact that I get to see him just ruined my day. I laughed silently at the thought. When I reached the classroom door, he was already there and walking in just before I did. To my surprise, for the first time EVER, he was nice and held the door open for me. I smiled and said,

"Thanks," while quickly walking in. I sat down and heard as he sat in his usual seat behind me and slightly to my right. I didn't have any homework, but apparently Lucas did. I angled my iPad so that I could see his reflection. I sat there for a while, pretending to do work, when suddenly he looked at my iPad and pulled a moronic face. I pulled a face back, faking it as a coincidence that my iPad just happened to be angled towards him. I quickly looked away and moved my iPad.

"Harper, can you PLEASE pass me the rubber?! I've asked you three times!" Darcy whispered drastically in my earhole, as if it was the end of the world or something. I laughed, opened my pencil case, and handed her the rubber, still embarrassed from the 'Lucas in the iPad' thing. I leaned across Darcy to reach Kim, another of my friends. It was often us three, the Five Nights At Freddy's obsessed fan freaks. But Kim has her own group of awesome friends now, so it's mainly me and Darcy left.

"Oi Kim?" I asked her

"Yeah-" she started but Mr Kingsington cut us off.

"Harper? Kim? Can you please repeat what I just said?" I tried think. The truth was, I really did try to listen, but I just couldn't stand the long talking. So, I shook my head towards the teacher.

"No sorry." I said politely. Kim just shrugged, as if it didn't bother her at all.

"Fine. For tonight's homework, I want you to write out all of the new vocabulary from today ready for tomorrow. Yes?"

"Yes," we muttered in chorus.

"And for the rest of you, please write two paragraphs about one of the towns mentioned, of your choosing." Out of nowhere, the bell rang long and loud. Mr Kingsington instantly said calmly, "Please put your books away and get under the tables." Lockdown...Yes! I thought. Other kids in the classroom started to put down the blinds and the teacher locked the doors. In complete silence, we sat under the tables. I heard I muffled giggle from across the table I was under. I looked in the direction of the noise and saw Kim holding her mouth shut, attempting not to laugh. She saw me looking at her and showed me her iPad, what she was laughing at. It was an image on Pinterest, of a cat in the carrier thing, one end of the carrier was a cage over the cats mouth, another was a stick up its bum. Right... I smiled, but didn't struggle to laugh as much as Darcy did. I turned to her, and saw her face turning a bright red. Darcy showed me her iPad screen and at this, I couldn't help myself from bursting into laughter. It said,

"Normal Friend: Aww, that looks so pretty on you.
Real Friend: Shrek called, he wants his face back."

Apparently this was the beginning of a long-lasting friendship involving a multitude of stupid but hilarious quotes off the internet. For the rest of the lockdown, all three of us sat there looking for funny quotes. In the end, we picked out our top 2. They were:

"My friend thought he was smart.
He said onions were the only food that make you cry.
So I threw a coconut at his face."

And the Shrek quote.

But the time our little "quote marathon" was coming to an end, the fire alarm went and we all made our way to the oval. Another quite boring but at the same time quite interesting day of school finished. And it's only week one...