Adventures in Reekler

A new school

Lying on the sofa near her bed smuggled on the sheets,Melissa seems to have spaced out just gazing at the ceiling of her room with random thoughts in her mind.

Unlike most girls who loved pink, her favorite colour was yellow.Her room was filled with yellow,yellow bed sheets, curtains, sofa,table,lampstand,closet.

With everything yellow her room was bright as the sun,no need to open the curtains for more sunlight.A sofa close to her windoe and at the centre of her room, a big bed with a table beside it and a small chair,used for reading. The table was filled with books for she had a great hunger for books,she loved reading even though a science student she read all kinds of books not just school books but magazine,novels and comics.

Her parents bought a little shelf for her on her sixteenth birthday,it was painted yellow and placed at a corner in her room,with this she could arrange her books according to their subjects,it would be much easier to find any she wanted to read.

The door to her room opened quietly,a woman walked in slowly and sat beside her,placing her hand gently on Melissa's shoulder.

"Good morning mum" Melissa said.

"Morning Lissa, we'd be going yo your new school today,so you should start preparing" her mum named Harriet said.

"Am tired of going to school,all schools are the same mum,am tired of being bullied,embarrassed, mocked and isolated from others, when your weaknesses are known instead of being closer to you and make you feel loved instead they spread they news and avoid you like a plague,I'm tired mum!!" Melissa said emotionally.

"I understand Lissa,I feel your pains too,I know how it feels like to be lonely st school with no true friend who you can confide in,but you know what?,,make that a stepping stone to your success,nothing good comes easy,you are smart and have a bright future my child,don't be afraid to prove yourself,never retreat like a tortoise or snail into its shell,,,instead pride yourself like a peacock and let them know you are the best. Use your weakness my dear to grow stronger...Her mum advised her st length.

Melissa could only sob while listening to her mother's words..

" I love you mum",she said as she hugged her mum.

"I love you too my princess, be strong for me",,,

" Now prepare for school and don't let the words and action of others tear you"Her mum quickly added.

"Thank you mum",, she said and quickly stood up from the sofa.

Her mother left her room to check on what the maids were preparing for breakfast while Melissa took a shower.

While coming out of Melissa's room,she bumped into her husband,,Mr.Hubert,he was standing by the door.

" How is she now"?,he asked.

"She's okay hunnie",Harriet said.

" Let's give her sometime alone then "Hubert said

" Yeah",,

While Harriett went to check on the food being prepared Mr.Hubert went to their room to also take a shower.

All these took place around six in the morning.Melissa was the only child of her parents,her mother, averaged height,fair skinned,black hair,brown eyes like Melissa's was a neurosurgeon at a public hospital working with other doctors in her teams to save lives,even though she had enough capital and resources to open her hospital she chosed to remain in the hospital where she was an intern. She was loved by other doctors and nurses and also the patients for apart from carrying out operations on the brain,she advised her patients to be happy,her bright spirit filled those around her because if one were to be sad,he or she would be cheerful once she chatted with the person

Her husband was a businessman who had several companies,he was also a shareholder in the hospital his pretty wife worked at. People were always nervous around him for he was huge,handsome but always wore a serious face,one would hardly see him smile unless a very close friend or his family. Melissa got her height from her father.

Stopping in front of a huge gate with the inscription:Reekler high school; A ladder to greater heights while waiting for the gates to be opened,Mr.Hubert had decided to drive his family to Melissa's school with his guards and personal chauffeur in two more cars waiting to drive him to work.

The large gates were opened by the securities and Mr Hubert drove inside while his guards waited outside not wanting to cause any commotion.

The trio entered the principal's office,it was a large room painted in white, on the wall was the principal's picture below it was written Mr.Arnold,,Principal of Reekler high school beside it was the picture of the countries president.

At the center of the room was a man with bald hair,using a lens, wearing a blue shirt and a brown trousers with a short multi colored tie,he was sitting on an office chair his eyes focused on his system typing swiftly,taking a quick scan at the room cabinets were arranged neatly at a corner,the other corner a large table on it several cups,gold,silver and bronze with different medals,an envelope with several award certificates,The items on the table were the pride of the school,mostly won by brilliant students from competitions and others preserved to be given out as awards to those kind of students and also best athletics after the sports week which was held occasionally.

A student wearing a short navy blue flay skirt with a long black hose,and a white shirt was stood beside her father who was sitting opposite the principal, it seemed that the girl was being reprimanded by the principal and was issued a letter while her father could only remain silent gazing at his daughter. After exchanging pleasantries with the student's father they left.

Melissa and her parents were received by the principal and after all formalities and procedures, She was directed to her new class while her parents left for their different businesses, Mr Hubert dropping his wife at the hospital and moving on to his company.