Our final exams came and went and all that was left was for our result to be released. All that was left for us now was to plan our valedictory service. And when I say plan, I don't mean we're planning the whole event. We just have to agree on what we are going to wear. That's planning to right? We're going to be the main focus of the event so we have to look good.
Our principal Mr Bode made it mandatory for us to all wear suits! Both boys and girls! We girls were annoyed, I mean its a valedictory service and not a job interview. Wearing a suit is boring, so we decided to rebel and go against the principal.
We girls decided to go to the valedictory service in blue dresses. After all the VS will be our last official day in the school and our principal can't exactly chase us away from our own VS.
My mum and I went shopping for a blue dress and I found one that was absolutely beautiful. The upper part was fitted and covered with lace, then it flowed down from my waist to my knee. It's sleeves were made of tulle and it reached my elbows. We also bought red pumps to go with the dress.
The day of our VS finally arrived and I would never forget the look on Mr Bode's face when he saw us girls in our classroom. He was shocked. We tried our best to hold our laughter in but we just couldn't. Dunni was the first to break and this caused a chain reaction in all of us and we all just started laughing. Our principal was so angry, I thought he was going to explode.
"Shut up! All of you!" He screamed, the veins in his neck were visible.
"We're sorry sir." We chorused while still trying to stifle our laughter.
"What the fu... , What is wrong with you people? Why can't you just graduate from this school in a peaceful manner? Must you always be disobedient? Ehn?"
Wait... Was our principal about to use the 'f' word? Oh this is rich. This only made it harder for us to keep our laughter in, but I'm proud to tell you that we didn't laugh. We can be strong when we put our mind to it.
We didn't answer him. What could we possibly say? And frankly I don't think any of us could open our mouth without bursting into laughter.
"You girls had better find a solution to this problem you have created for yourselves because I must not see you guys in the hall dressed like this. Its either you show up wearing suits or you don't show up at all!" He stated and left our class.
"What do we do now? We can't purchase a suit now. The service starts in ten minutes!" Naomi whined.
The boys had no problem as they were all wearing suits with blue ties. What else could they even possibly wear? A dress? Ha. Boys wardrobe is so boring.
I don't know why, maybe it was the adrenaline from leaving secondary school, but I was feeling rebellious and I thought to myself "Fuck the principal and his stupid rules." And then I opened my mouth and said,"Forget what Mr Bode said jo, we're going to the hall like this, let's see maybe he'll chase us out in the presence of our parents and the other guests."
"It's true sef."
"Let's go jo."
"He no go fit do anything."
"The man is all bark and no bite."
"Shebi today is our last day sef."
I felt proud as I heard this utterances from my friends. We all packed our belongings and headed for the hall as one formidable group. Let's see who will stop us.
We entered the hall and got stares of admiration and comments from people on how good we looked. Some people even hailed us attracting the attention of Mr Bode. He looked at us and just looked away shaking his head and looking defeated.
We all looked at each other in amusement and triumph. We won! Yayy! We tried not to laugh though as we didn't want to tick him off. We went to our assigned seats and the service started without much ado.
The VS was a mixture of boring and exciting. Boring when someone is making a speech and exciting when a performance is going on.
But then, the service ended on a good note and we had to face the hardest part of the day. Saying goodbye. There would be some people that I would probably never see again and I was fully aware of it as I was saying my good byes. I tried my best not to cry and I didn't, but I had this huge lump in my throat that I had to swallow down each time I felt the urge to cry.
I'll miss them all.
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So I finally updated again😏. Its been long I know, sorry about that. I think this is my longest chapter yet. It may not seem long to some people but I'm just a budding writer and I'm proud that I'm able to write these many words in one chapter. Hopefully I'll be able to write longer ones in the future.
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