Waterfalls

12... Operation Cheese

"Oh, you poor thing? Did he hurt you?" Amy asked after I narrated the previous scene with Ace.

"no, but he looked like he wanted to."

"It's all Sandra's fault" Precious said.

"No, it's not" I tried to defend Sandra. "All she wanted to do was to talk to Ace and I offered to help. I think the Rainforest Trip is at fault here."

"that reminds me, Amara here." She handed me a sheet of paper. "these are the list of things we need. Please, give it to Sandra later."

"okay, back to what happened to you Amara" Precious said quickly. "do you need me to confront him, to find out what went wrong between the two of you?"

"No that's stupid."

"Actually, Amy, it's not stupid" I said.

"huh?" they both said.

"Yeah, Precious can go talk to him. She can record everything on her phone and we can listen to it when she comes back."

"Are you alright? Don't you think he'll notice when I hold up my phone to his face and ask him questions."

"No silly. You'll hold your phone down, but not up to his face, and then you'll record what he'll say. I don't need to see his face to hear whatever he's saying."

"okay"

"I still think this is a stupid idea" Amy said after a long silence. "not everyone needs to like you Amara, just those that matter. I'm pretty sure you can avoid him"

"In case you haven't noticed, Ace has made himself matter in my life. We both do music with Mr. Brown; we are in the same branch of the same class; we are both Sandra's assistants; he is my twin brother's best friend; he is my mom's closest friend's son, thus making it very easy for me to see him almost every day in school and at home; and to top it all he has now threatened to make my life a living nightmare. How on Earth am I supposed to avoid such a person? Please, if you have an answer I desperately need it right now."

"Well, I guess you just have to do the plan" Amy said after she thought for a while."

"so we are calling it... operation cheese."

"Precious, that's the worst operation name ever" Amy said

"do you have a better name?" I asked

"nope" she sighed

"so, operation cheese it is!!" Precious said sounding like a 5 year old.

Then we did a group high five.

**********

"Precious, you don't have to do this" Amy said to Precious as she was rummaging her wardrobe.

It's almost been a week since we made up operation cheese. Today, is the day operation cheese is to be carried out. We had planned everything; she would go and meet him and ask him some planned out questions and record their conversation.

"I have to."

"you don't have to wear something dark because you want to record your conversation with someone."

"I do. I have to have a stealth outfit" after sometime, she said "Aha. I finally found the prefect outfit."

In case you're wondering, her perfect outfit consisted of, a grey sweater, black jeans, grey converse, a grey beanie and shades.

It looks something like this:

So much for stealth outfit.

"Precious, if you want to go in stealth mode, you have to be wearing all black."

"Well, this is the closest to black that I have."

"whatever"

*RING*

"I guess we have to go for breakfast" I said

"okay"

When we entered the lunch room, it was literally empty.

Then I checked my watch.

"I guess we missed breakfast"

"Thanks a lot Precious" Amy said.

"No problem" Precious giggled as Amy rolled her eyes.

"we have to hurry up. We have less than a minute before class. And we have Chemistry/ Government for first period." I said

"whoever made that timetable needs help. Who on Earth puts those subjects as the first on Monday, beginning of the week?" Precious groaned

"Any ways let's hurry up."

We ran as swift as ever.

Precious made it to Government class just before the bell rang, but Amy and I didn't and Mr. Flart wasn't so pleased to see us come to class five minutes late. Let's just say that Amy and I are now kneeling down outside, while carrying two very heavy books each and are going to write a test with twenty questions on the topic he is teaching today which is going to be our test 2 (10% of our final grade in Chemistry). To make matters worse, we are writing the test during prep today.

After our punishment, we had English. I was totally stressed from that punishment. Did I mention chemistry was a double period (i.e. 80 minutes of punishment)?

During English class, as usual, Ace was as annoying as ever. Making noise and obstructing my view. I was about to talk to him when someone sat beside me.

"hey Amara"

"hi Noah"

"sorry about chemistry"

"no problem"

"here is my note. You and Amy can read it before prep."

"Thank you so much Noah, you're the best!" I said. I guess I was a little loud because the whole class turned to look at me.

"Amara, I there anything you want to share with the class?" Mrs. Adeleke asked.

"No ma'am"

"okay. Please you don't disturb my class unless you want to be writing a 10-thousand-word essay on noisemaking." I felt so embarrassed.

To be honest, the punishments given in this school are straight from the pit of hell.

I don't think anything could get worse.

Today just isn't my day.

During break, I showed Amy Noah's note. We read and learned it for about twenty minutes. No scratch that. We crammed every line in twenty minutes. We had about ten minutes to eat.

"I am so hungry" Amy said as we entered the lunch room.

"me too"

We entered and ate quickly to avoid entering late to any other class.

As we were going to class, I bumped into an SS2 student and her fruit smoothie spilled on my shirt. Just perfect.

I think I am jinxed.

"I am so sorry" she said

"no problem"

A just cleaned it with some tissue and wore my jacket on my shirt to cover the stain.

The rest of school was horrible. I almost got detention twice. I'm suspended from basketball and music practice for a week because of Ace framed me. Apparently, I stole the math's teacher's test book; and I am certain that it was Ace that did it.

**********

"Guys, we finally did it" Precious said. Then she looked at me "oooh, what happened to you"

"well, I got an 80-minute punishment, wrote a test for a class I didn't attend, I have smoothie on my shirt, I almost got detention... twice and I can't play basketball or any musical instrument, which are the only two things that can get me relaxed in this kind of situation. Today was perfect"

"well, I am so sorry for that. Anyways, I have it." Precious said raising up her phone.

"Let's play it" I said.

Precious pressed the play button on her phone.

"I can't believe it." I could hear Precious' voice "This is Operation Cheese"