Everything I wanted her to know.

As A Freshman.

I found myself waking up late on such an important day. I got dressed and rushed to go to my first day of my new high school. "Oh shit. I cannot be late on the very first day of school. What am I going to do? Will I make it in time?" I thought. I peered into my watch and saw that I had only 10 minutes late. I started to run and when I reached close to the gates I found another person rushing along with me. Both of us tried to reach there on time. But we were stopped by the security placed at the gates.

The man in a security guard uniform looks at us disappointingly and said," Boys, you're late. I'm sorry to say that although it is your first day you will have to face the punishment. Go to the dean's office and tell him that you were late. For now, leave your bag here and go."

I tried to negotiate with him. I said," We were only 5 minutes late. Can't you consider this as our first mistake and allow us to go through like nothing happened. Please sir." The other guy who was late also tried to convince him, but we just ended up wasting more of our time. After that we ended up going to the dean's office. I had expected him to be considerate as we were only 5 minutes late.

He said," I am highly disappointed in your deeds. You were late on the very first day here. You have just spoiled the nature and the attributes that we expect from our students. We expect them to be the very best an ideal part of the society. Since, you were late you will be given detention. You two will stay in the library till 5:30 after the classes have been over. Is that understood?"

"Yes sir .", we said while we tried not to talk back to him. After we left the dean's room, I talked with the other guy. I ask, "So what's your name? I guess it would be fine if we introduce ourselves. After all we will be stuck in the library till 5:30 anyways."

" It's Ryan. And what's yours, detention buddy?" He says.

"Its Raphael. Nothing worse can happen now, I guess. I mean getting late on the very first day, getting a detention and having to listen to the dean's lecture. I don't even know what to expect anymore now. Let's go check our classes." I suggested him.

We moved down the hallways towards the notice board and try to find our classrooms. While I tried to search for my classroom Ryan says ," Hey, lucky boy. Guess what we are in the same classroom. I guess you got something that you hadn't expected." We move up the stairs to the third floor and to a room labelled "R1 B".  As we got in, we find a teacher in the classroom. He was taking the attendance while we came in.

Ryan whispered to me, " I guess this day is trying to ruin our entire lives."  After the teacher ended the attendance, he called the two of us in front of the classroom in a grand fashion and asked us to introduce ourselves along with the reasons why we were late. Unwillingly, we moved to the front of the class. Ryan goes first and exaggerated on how he had spent the entire vacation doing hard work and so he did deserve the sleep that he got today and that was the reason he was late. The entire classroom burst into laughter. I simply went and said that I got up late as I had slept quite late at night. Nothing fancy.

After that the teacher asked all the students to introduce themselves and share something interesting about them. After the introductions ended, the teacher says, "I am Mr. Kevin and I am your homeroom teacher and I will be teaching you English literature this year. So I don't want any of the acts like sleeping in my class or showing up late. If you do any of these things, I'll make sure that you reach to a fucking state where you can't do any of those again. I hope we can have a good year together."

"DAMN. Now that's a way you introduce yourself as a teacher." I thought. After that we had the welcome ceremony. I was seated along with Ryan as the two of us had to face a really long day here. After the ceremony ended, we were given snacks and the school was over for the day. Well, at least for most of them. The dean came to us and escorted us to the library and told us to stay there till 5:30. The library was mostly empty since it was already the end of the day. We spent the entire time talking with each other and sharing our fun experiences in middle school. As the time ended, a beautiful girl in a cute skirt approached Ryan and hit him hard on the head.

"Ouch. Why did you do that?" He said.

The girl replied ," What do you expect asshole ? Coming late on the very first day and acting like you're a hero of some sort. You expect me to let you loose for that. Forget it, asshole."

I asked Ryan," Who is she?"

He replied in a subtle way, " This disgrace to humanity right here is whom I identify as my sister. She is called Claudia by the rest of the world, but I identify her as a evil witch whose intentions are to make my life miserable." Claudia pinched him extremely hard and he screamed loudly. The librarian warned us to keep it down in a harsh manner. 

Claudia and I introduced ourselves. Apparently, she was in the same class as the two of us. We head out of school and walk the way back home together. Our houses were relatively close together. After I reached home and got changed, I jumped to my bed and took a long deep sigh and thought what happened today. Although the day was clearly not in my favor, I felt a feeling of relief as I made two friends on the very first day. "Now the days are going to be way different. I guess its all for the best." I think.

Then I moved to my study table and read the books that my father had placed on my desk. It read "Biology in Context". I slowly flipped through the pages and tried to study for a bit, but I was too tired and just went to sleep instead.

(Next Chapter : So it begins.)