Adventures in Reekler

A nice friend,a noisy class and the latecomers

Melissa stood by the door of her new class,afraid to open,different thoughts on her mind,she wondered how her new school would be like,would it be nicer or worst than her old school?,

While deep in thoughts, she felt the presence of someone,standing behind her, a short brown skinned girl with braided hair,smiling.

"Hi,Nice to meet you,I'm Sarah Olusegun from Yoruba Nigeria,how about you?" she introduced

"Am Melissa from Utah USA" She replied nervouse because she never thought that she'd meet a nice person soon.

They shook hands.

"Well you are a new student I know,and I would love to be your seat and lab partner if you don't mind" Sarah said enthusiastically

"I don't mind, I'd love to be your partner too"Melissa replied.

" Okay,you are nervous right I know its normal first day in a new school well let's go in so we'd have a few time before classes begin" saying so Sarah pulled Melissa into their class.

Wowww,Melissa could only say in her mind when she saw her classroom

Wide with lots of triple seats not less than fifteen,two big windows beside each other the class was near the school's field so one who sat near the window could gaze at the green grass while watching butterflies. A well conditioned room with two ceiling fans,and four light bulbs,a wide white board was placed at the centre of the classroom. Though a science class,students could be seen chattering noisily as it wasn't time for lectures yet.When she came in with Sarah all eyes focused on the duo, Sarah a bold type could only smile and said.

"Hi guys,meet my new friend Melissa, she's new here and I hope we can make her feel comfortable too,thank you" She said quickly and took Melissa to sit with her,luckily for Melissa, Sarah's seat was close to the window.

Sarah had only one seat partner who had not yet arrived, most peolplebavoided her because she was a Nigerian and didn't have white ski like theirs but she was never sad for a day,knowing that she'll meet someone who would accept her the way she was.

Her father a Yoruba man from Nigeria got married to a Scottish woman but they lived at Hawaii,USA because of their work. Her father never failed to take her to her hometown on holidays so she had many fun stories to tell about Africa most especially Nigeria but never had anyone to share it with.

While on their seats,Sarah aided Melissa by going through some noted with her, just then a teacher walked in. Mrs. Seo Hwa, a Korean woman with small eyes, permed black hair wearing a grey suit with some books on her hands,she was their Geography teacher.

She dropped the books in a table close to the board while scanning the room. Everyone became quiet immediately she arrived, the sound of a fallen needle could be heard if one was to be dropped by a mistake.

"Good morning class", she said

" Morning Madam" they replied

"I guess we have a new student here" she said /while looking at Melissa.

"Introduce yourself" She added quickly.

"My name is..." Before Melissa could answer,everyone in the class laughed suddenly.

Mrs. Seo Hwa and Melissa turned to see the cause of laughter. A plump boy had just walked in sweating holding a packet of chocolates while chewing one. When the teacher so it,she bursted out,,

"You are always late Andrew and I'll keep on punishing you for that ,Now come and stand with me in front of the class" She said

The plump boy named Andrew walked with a pitied face towards her,"Good morning ma'am "He said

" I'd. only answer your greetings,the day you come early, now share those chocolates to the whole class "She said calmly

" Huh",Andrew whose head was bowed looked up surprise with an eyebrow raised.

"Yes,that's my little punishment,when you are done distributing it you go to your seat or if you object to that,then walk our of my class" she said

Andrew who also knew how Mrs. Hwa was strict could only agree and distributed his chocolates to the class after which he went to his seat,he was a seat partner to Sarah now also Melissa's, he covered his face with his palms and cried.

The class only laughed more at his childish behaviour. Mrs Hwa threw a stern gaze to the class just as she was about to say something the class door opened again.

A very tall boy with short black wavy hair,brown eyes,smooth white skin, his white shirt was tight on him showing his abs and the long navy blue pants fitted him well making his legs look longer. Immediately he came in, all the girls blushed red, some could be seen arranging their uniforms, using their phones as mirror to check of there was a stain on their face or tooth.

This disgusted Mrs. Hwa more "who do you think you are",she bursted out.

" Good morning ma'am, I am Alexander,you can call me Alex"he said while chewing a gum smiling.

"You i***t,I didn't ask of your name,why are you coming by this time" Mrs Hwa said

"Ohh am sorry,I woke up late and so missed the school bus and got into a train late" He answered with no remorse.

"Hmmm, I'm not wasting more time with you,meet me during lunch time". Mrs Hwa said.

Alex walked briskly to his seat which was the back seat were other boys were already seated probably his gang. Melissa was still standing,because she had not yet introduced herself.

" Sorry dear, I'd surely deal with those late comers, now introduce yourself"Mrs Seo Hwa said

"I'm Miss Melissa Hubert,from Utah USA, I'm 16years old,only child of my parents. Thank you" She introduced briefly and sat down.

Whispers could be heard from behind among both boys and girls

"She's pretty" Some girls said in envy

"Well not more than me" Another said

"Hey, you are no match" another said.

They continued ranting while most boys tried to grab her attention by winking and blowing whistles,Alex only sat with a smiling face. When they noticed Mrs. Seo Hwa's stern face,they quickly came to their senses.

"You are welcome" The class retorted.

"Good Miss Hubert, I hope you enjoy your new school" She said

"Well we have barely 15 minutes left because of the interruptions, We'd be talking about speech writing a well known topic, I'd offer a few pointers on it and then an assignment to be submitted immediately after lunch time". She said.

After giving the pointers and assignments she left the class.