2007-10-09
It's not what you think!
Today just so happened to be the day of the O-level Physics practical for sec fours. As such, we naturally had to maintain the proper level of silence throughout the day to avoid distracting the seniors from thoughts of refraction and electricity.
And just this recess, it just so happened that I was on the third floor halfway through a mad search for the beloved Natalie Wong and Charlotte Tan. By some chance I glanced over the railings to see them strolling peaceably through the courtyard, engaged in pleasant conversation. Being three storeys up and barely one floor above the laboratries (where the Sec fours were bent over their examination booklets), I was completely prohibited of any form of beckoning using my voice.
As such, I was reduced to wild gesticulations and strangled whispers in order to capture their attention. However, since we are very down-to-earth people who barely have any desires to glance upwards, they continued their little walk without so much a peek at the crazed girl waving her arms off on the third floor.
Halfway through my rendition of Swan Lake in its hysterical version, I heard a cough behind me. Of course, considering my luck in this sort of scenario, it was with little surprise that I whirled round to find myself face to face with a teacher, complete with an unsuccessfully stifled grin on her face.
Despite myself being considerably used to such situations, it still threw me quite off balance to the point that my first reaction was to apologize. And quite profusely, just in case.
Amused, she attempted to diffuse (or in this case, laugh silently at me further) the awkwardness by asking pleasantly, "Looking for someone?"
Horrified, I choked out a yes, mumbled a change in action (no more Kallang waves on the third floor) and fled, hoping that she would not notice the look of pure murder on my face.
P/S.
It's okay, Charlotte and Natalie still live.
For now.
abstracity at 6:31 p.m.