The Reminiscence of Us

Learning Your Name

Time sure does fly by quickly. The first quarter of Grade 8 went by uneventfully then came our vacation. Now we are in the second month of the second quarter and today happened to be the birthday of one of our teachers, Ma'am Cristy. It's funny though, she just started teaching a month ago yet she is loved by all of us. The bell rang not too long ago and currently my classmates are planning on how to greet her. We decided on closing the lights and hiding and then when she came in we would pop out of our hiding spot then opening the lights and singing 'happy birthday'. Yes it may be childish but that's how much Ma'am had an impact on us, to the point that she brought out the child within ourselves.

"I see Ma'am Cristy! Quick hide!" Said one of my classmates on the lookout. We quickly scurried to our own hiding spots on the signal.

Ma'am opened the door and... Well, looks like the plan went by smoothly. After all that Ma'am thanked us then we had a picture-taking as a memory. When all was done, as usual, we went into study mode.

A few good minutes into the discussion there was a knock on the door.

"Come in!" Said Ma'am.

Cue the birthday song and a bunch of Grade 9 students flooding into the room with a tray full of cupcakes.

'It's probably their Home Economics period right now. Wait...... Aren't they in the same class as h-'
And there he is in all his glory. I tried my best not to get noticed whilst sitting in place. But it seemed that Angela noticed this. It wasn't surprising seeing as she is my seatmate.

"What's wrong?" She asked. As she said that, Zenia also looked at us seemingly confused yet interested since I don't usually make a fuss out of a bunch of students infiltrating into the room.

I looked at Angela as I shook my head. "Nothing, it's just that... You know I'm not good around strangers right?" That wasn't a complete lie. They just shrugged their shoulders at this.

"Hey Josh! Over here!"

I looked towards the source of the voice, which was Ajax, and saw him walking over to said boy.

"Callix! Allen! You guys too!" As Jake said that the other two companions of Josh turned their heads as they heard their names making their way over to Jake as well. Seems like this solves the mystery of their names.

'Geez, I feel like a stalker right now,' I thought to myself disappointingly.
"I really wanna torture someone both mentally and physically then gutting them out one intestine after another and hanging their corpse in the ceiling for everyone to see their demise right now," I unknowingly said this almost above a whisper but this was caught by my seatmates.

"Don't you always want to commit a fucking genocide?" Said Angela in a matter-of-factly way.

I just smirked at her response, "Wanna join the carnage? Wait... But weren't you always within the dark side?"

"Hell yea-"

"Woud you guys quit your merciless talk?" Said a very irked Zenia.

"Why? Are you scared?" This time, it was Angela who did the taunt.

"Like hell I am!"

We just laughed at her outburst.

Hey guys I'm very sorry for the long wait! I was busy this past few days which led me to not having any time to update. But there's 2 chapters to make it up to you readers~