Four Years Apart

Now a Senior

~Kerri's POV~

I awoke, realising that today was the first day of school. As a senior. The thought of being a senior shocked me awake. I sat up in my bed, thinking to myself, this will mark the fifth year of me being in this school, and I am now a senior. All along I've never really studied all that hard, which probably explained why I almost could not get into this school via my crappy Promotional Examinations results. I barely passed the cut off point for this school. My parents had not expected me to achieve such results already, let along get into this school. All my peers are probably revising for hours on end and mugging non-stop. Me? I will just sit on the sofa and watch a little anime...

Snapping out of my thoughts, I headed to the bathroom to brush my teeth and get ready for school. Travelling to school wouldn't really take a long time as my father fetched me to school every single day. However, it will still take around twenty minutes. Despite coming off as a very happy go lucky person, stress free and care free person, I still didn't want to be late for school, even though if I really was, I would not care anyways. In school, I was always kind of invisible, at least to a point where I rarely got into trouble with teachers. School life is, well, just okay. I had a small group of loyal and loving friends who I really cannot live without. They literally light up my life.

Once I was done getting ready for school, I realised my father was already waiting for me. I hurried towards him and we walked to the car together. I was nervous and excited to be a senior. I felt kind of old, although I'm only seventeen. All a matter of one's perspective, I guess. Now that I think about it, my academics aren't really giving me a headache like all my peers seem to experience. In fact, my friends will ask me for help sometimes for their homework. Now that I'm a senior, I can't stop thinking about the last four years I have spent in this school at a junior. Those years have flown past so quickly, all that's left of it are the memories I have stored in my brain. Thinking ahead, being a senior also means graduating from this place. I will really miss this school. Sure enough, my eyelids started to feel heavier in the car and before I knew it, I had dosed off.

"We're here." I heard my father say. I woke up from my short nap, feeling a little groggy. I looked around, before realising that we had already reached school. That felt like such a short ride. I thanked my father for the ride, hugged him, and walked to the steps outside the hall. While most of the people normally go to their classrooms to wait for morning assembly to roll around, I would sit at the steps outside the hall and look at the steady flow of pupils streaming in from the side gate which was just beside the hall. The Vikings around the school were pretty low, so sitting at the hall steps meant a breathtaking scenery and occasional gushes of the cool morning air. The hall steps was one of my favourite places in school, so serene, so peaceful.

I was sitting at the hall steps, waiting for my friend. I took out a math worksheet and started to attempt it. Math was my favourite subject. I simply cannot live without it. Being around numbers just makes me happy. I quickly got lost in the sea of numbers. I was calculating the sums, taking my time. It was still a little early, so not many people were coming in from the side gate. The small winds that picked up were so refreshing to the soul, as if reassuring me that today was going to be all right. However, there was still that little bit of nervousness in my heart that I somehow just cannot brush away. I decided to plug in my earphones to my phone and started to listen to music while doing my maths. My brain was so happy floating around in musical notes and numbers. I could literally hear my brain just laughing and see my brain smiling.

Being the blur person I was, I just realised that there will be a new batch of year ones! At that sudden thought, my mind drifted off to my life back in Year one. Back then, studies were sometimes I would never think about. It was all play and no work. Miraculously, I still managed to cope surprisingly well and ended up scoring quite well. Needless to say, math was, and is, and will always be my strongest subject. Although, I did take quite a liking in the sciences too, which was why I had to go through two interview sessions before managing to finally secure a place in the science subjecy combination batch. One of the most memorable moments as a junior though, was not too long ago. It was in year four. We were in the hall, awaiting the receiving of our end of years result slips. I was pretty nervous for a usually chill person like me. The principal announced the top ten scorers in the cohort. "Tenth place goes to... Kerri Hefeild of class 4P!" I was shocked beyond words. For a moment, I really couldn't believe my ears. I remember almost crying tears of joy while going up on stage to receive a token from the school. However, that was last year. I am almost positive that my results will drop terribly this year, like most of the graduating seniors said.

"Hi Kerri!" I heard my friend calling at me. I snapped my head up from my math worksheet. I spotted her and waved to her. She came over to sit beside me. "You ready to take on Senior High?" She asked me. I nodded my head not too confidently and fistbumped her. Let's hope that this school year will go easy on me.