All About Camillus

Chapter 2: Primary School Section 3: Clarissa

I mentioned her in the 2 sections before this section. And now this section will be dedicated her.

First, let me tell you how we met. During Primary 3, Mrs Corn made a Group Point system and we were divided into different groups. We get into groups of 4 and decided on our group name, and the theme is 'Dinosaurs'. As you know, the boys were all head-over-heels with shitty dinosaurs (I bet they even exist. I sometimes wonder if the archaeologist career is all a wonderful lie, or perhaps the minerals in the ground formed a white, solid bone-like structure.) Since at that time, I knew that the Tyrannosaurus Rex (or T-Rex) is the fiercest and the most superior of all dinosaurs, so ya, my group name is T-Rex. Then, there were other groups (which I had forgotten what the name of their groups are). The only other group that I remember is the Velociraptor group. There are two reasons. 1. The Velociraptor group and the T-Rex group are always the top two (like sometimes Velociraptor group overtook us, and sometimes we overtake them). So the group members are like constantly hating the other group.  2. Because Clarissa was in Velociraptor group, and ya, that is how we met.

During Primary 1 and 2, I was in Class 1D and 2D while Clari is in 1E and 2E. Well, because during P1 or P2, our classes combined together to perform some dance. I bet Clari will be staring at me and thinking: 'What a weird kid there...'

So, you could say that: 'Tore apart by discord, this is our fate.' Nah, that's wrong. But it may be right at the back part. At first, we treated each other like enemies and hated each other during Term 1 because of the groups. Then term 2, our places were switched. Clari was not affected by the changing of seats, but i was affected.

Mrs Corn arranged me to sit beside Clarissa. And that was when I first met her. I felt a weird feeling, or perhaps a premonition, that we could accomplish great things together.

I know, I know, this sounds like a very typical love story, but lol, isn't. Tsk tsk tsk,小小年纪谈恋爱。可恶！

 So, back to the point, I bet Mrs Corn thinks that putting me with the person I hate is the worst choice ever. Nope corn, you get it wrong. This weird feeling made me said a sentence to her, not 'hi', not 'eew!', this is the sentence.

'I promise, I would make your school life filled up with fun.'

I don't know why I said that, but I'm just going with the fact that the premonition caused this.

And Clari just stared blankly at me.

So like, two weeks later, we gradually talked to each other naturally and became friends and she slowly became my best friend. Yup, I know, fate twists around, with a twist here, and another twist there. Fate is just being very weird here.

We shared our thoughts (not food, you psycho) and talked to each other like alot, until corn got so fed up and ATTEMPTED to separate us but failed (woohoo). At that time, I guess it was like P4 and we go together and blah blah blah (sorry I lost track of what am I typing). We just blabbered about the corn and Clari made up the nickname for Mrs Khan, which is corn, and we always laughed about those lengthy answers that annoying corn always give as model answer. And at that time, we made our own card game, our ice-cream stick game, etc. But my parents had thrown it away, so no point asking me to take a picture and show it to you. Seriously, parents never liked their children to keep their childhood stuff.

Never mind about that. Now, we shall barge into our Primary 5 and 6 life, which is a period of my life which is filled with splashes of different hues of colours.

Mr Jonathan had officially came into our life, and we were always talking about him as a 'duck-lipped' teacher and he is kind of gay from looks and his actions and more. Like we could literally sleep in his class. Alas, we didn't. Only me and Clarissa hated Mr Jonathan and the other students liked him alot. If i had a chance to curse him, I will.

Nonetheless, we still entertained ourselves with the little joy that we created ourselves, out of someone's expanse. And this guy was Bennett. I could list out all his shitty character and et cetera, but this is not the appropriate section to sing 'praises' to him. There is also a section dedicated to him.

Me and Clarissa always make fun of him and make parodies out of him with another friend, Exley. Exley too was in another section.

And of course, we hate the ultimate pure gay, Xavier Tham. Like who doesn't?

So ya, during P6, we will be facing the PSLE, the most stressful examination we ever faced. Me and Clarissa's results were quite good all the time during school exams, but still, we were extremely nervous. I still could remember the time when Clarissa and I practiced for the PSLE Oral. Whenever one of us reads the passage, the other will pose as a bratty examiner, showing a stuck-up face. Then both of us will laugh till our stomach cramp. It was like just hilarious.

So, talking about PSLE, our results were excellent. Clarissa was so happy that she got 260 and I got 262+2. I'm pretty contented with my marks tho, and Clari was so elated, because she could go to NJC. And I would just go to HCI (my dream school)

This was when the sad part comes. 1. Clarissa moved her house to Thomson. We actually planned to meet up to go to school together with her during the mornings with a few other friends, but due to location, it is not feasible anymore. 2.The irony is that although HCI and NJC were just opposite each other, we could not even see each other. Sometimes I waited at Tan Kah Kee Station for bus 74 or 852, the bus that she would always take, yet I never saw her. Although sometimes I crossed the bridge and took 74 or 852 and then transfer to 167 (the route she always takes to school and back home.), yet I never see her. Again, we are torn apart by discord, this is our fate...

Mini Confession to Clari: I unknowningly fell in love with you...

There is a secret that you may not know for now.... but maybe later