LOVE OR FRIENDSHIP?

The Punishment

The next day... Thursday

Juliet's POV

                    I totally forgot about what happened yesterday. I went to school as usual and everything was fine and normal. Olivia was late to school today for some reason or the other. As she arrived at school she reminded us of yesterday and was worried than any of us. We let the guys know about it too.

"Girls, Shall we apologize to Sir Hamdi about yesterday before he drags us into a problem?" 

Olivia said with fear in her tone. She felt bad for what she did because she made fun of a teacher and its something which will affect her, maybe not now but in the future and so on.

"Yeah, lets go" said I to which Anna replied "He's not here yet... He comes to school late usually"

Olivia was praying that Sir comes to school quickly.

Aliza told peeping through the window "Sir just arrived. Lets get going before its too late"

Olivia sighed out of relief. Just as we were exiting our classroom led by Aliza, the receptionist came towards us and told something to Aliza. After she left Allie turned towards us placing her hands on her forehead "Gosh"

"What's it?" I inquired

"We are wanted by Ma'am Hannah at her office right now"

Olivia's expression changed but Aliza consoled her and we left the class.

                        Ma'am Hannah is the directress of our school, Her husband is the director and her mom is the principal. Our school isn't a very old school and it doesn't have a long history either. Ma'am Hannah is a young lady in her late 30's, she looks younger than her age. She looks like she's in her late 20's or early 30's. Smart, strong and talented. A nice lady but strict when it comes to rules and all the students are afraid of her. She wears abaya (a garment what Muslims usually wear) of different colours and drape the hijab around her head.

                      As we left the classroom to go to the office we saw the guys out of their class with terrified looks. 

"What are you guys up to?"

"We are wanted at Ma'am Hannah's office... and I am sure It's because of Humpty Dumpty"

"Same here"

                       We gave high fives to them and kind of satisfied that we have them with us. As one big family we were ready to face anything that is going to happen to us. Off we headed to the office and sighted Sir Hamdi seated on a chair in front of Ma'am's desk. The guys led inside after permission was granted and we followed them immediately. This wasn't the first time we were taken to the office, many a times had we got scolded, warned and punished, we weren't very good students who's praised always nor were we noted as bad students rather we were kind of naughty and we do get scolded but everyone loves us, mostly the teachers because all of us are bright and score good marks.

                     Since we've been warned so many times and it seemed like we didn't learn a lesson, so Ma'am was serious this time and was wilder. So many people had complained about us and our attitude etc. She gave us an annoying, long lecture sternly about respecting teachers, good behavior and so on. The punishment was kind of weird and funny, It wasn't standing by the office or kneeling down in the school playground or getting whacked or anything like that, but it was to make a project on the topic 'Good Behavior'. It was a group project and each one of us had to write 1000 words about it. She gave us one week time, so our due date was next Thursday.

We exited the office after apologizing.

"Didn't she get any other punishment?"

"Silly.. yeah?"

"People are just jealous about us and our friendship maybe"

"Okay. Let's discuss about it later, We have to go now before getting another lecture at class"

                      With that we went back to our classrooms and continued with our studies for the rest of the day. Before we leave we had a bit of free time to discuss about the project and we did.

"Can you imagine writing 10,000 words under a simple topic"

"Of course we'd have the same point being repeated again and again"

" Yah, so we have to keep changing the wordings and manage to finish it on time"

"We can definitely get help from Mr. Google"

"And the worst part is she wants a written project"

"I hate writing and I always suffer with essays in English"

We had a few more conversations and went back home.

...............

Almost five days passed and we didn't even remember about the project, we had totally forgotten about it until we saw the reminder what Aliza had marked on our class calendar the other day. We just had only one day for the due date and reminded the guys about it too.

"We have no other option other than going to someone's place and doing it as a group"

"Who's house shall we go to?"

"I would gladly invite you guys to my place" Said Aliza

So we decided to go to Aliza's place on Wednesday after school because Thursday we had to submit our project.

                       Wednesday after school I went home showered myself and got into a casual dress. That was a blue denim, a white t shirt and a pair of white shoes, putting a high pony and letting my fringe fall on a part of my face. I grabbed my red backpack and put one of my dresses for precaution, some papers and whatever I thought was necessary for the project, bid farewell to mom after having my lunch and came back to school to find the rest of them already there ready to go to Aliza's place. Aliza had already gone home to change her uniform before we go there.

                    All of us were in casual clothes. I was astonished when I saw Salman wearing the same colour as mine. It was really a coincidence which I never expected would happen. He was wearing a Dark blue denim, white t shirt and a white pair of shoes, everything was same as mine except the backpack. He wore a black one while I wore a red. He was looking handsome in White t shirt.

                    I knew no one would notice it but I doubt Aliza. That girl is so keen at times. She notices the insignificant stuffs which no one would notice. I can't hide anything from her, she quickly finds out. Anyways I don't feel comfortable until I tell here even if I hide something from her because she means a lot to me and she's like my other half. She helps me a lot with her advises and so on.

We hired a vehicle and went to Aliza's place without wasting time.

Hello buddies! That's all for today, I guess ;) So how are you guys doing? I hope everything's fine with you all. I wanted to update this chapter during the weekend but i was busy, unfortunately. 

How was the chapter? Isn't it a lame punishment? What do you all think the friends would do? Will they be able to finish the project on time and submit it? Or will they get a severe punishment if they delay it? How will they manage to write 10,000 different points under one topic?

Keep guessing and COMMENTING your views.. VOTE and SHARE too.

Love you guys <3

Blessed Muslimah