As usual the morning school bell rang, which could be heard through out the school. But this didnt in any way helped the biology teacher Ms. Kasturi saving herself from her ninth class student Madhu. He didnt care to return to his class for prayer, but was still bargaining for marks.

Teacher, each point for this 5 mark question carries half a mark. Whatever I have written contains 9 valid points and one wrong part. But you have given me jus 3 marks.

But the part of the answer where you have written it wrongly makes it clear that you havent understood the process

No, not at all. I can explain the process if you want even now. Its just a careless mistake and not out of  purpose.

Ok. the prayer has started. you better go to your class now. Lets talk about this during the lunch break.

Teacher...

Go to the class Madhu.

Ok. thank you.

If you were there, you could see the sigh of relief thats running thru the teacher's face. The prayer has already started, and when Madhu stood outside the class doors, as if asking permission to enter the class, the class teacher Ms.Padma gave him a stare and just nodded and allowed him to enter. May be she would have been in a good mood, cause she didnt talk about it after the prayer. The first hour was english. And Ms. Sathya the english Ma'am was standing outside the door, waiting to barge in. If you could see her staring eyes, you can read the threatening gestures coming from them signalling the class teacher to finish her job and leave the class so that her class time doesnt get wasted. But Madhu's thoughts were quite different. He wants to remind her, of how she wastes time lecturing the class about how the girls and boys should maintain a distance and how she sees the boy girl talk as anti culture. For him the big surprise is, she being a english teacher rather than a tamil teacher who are indeed considered to have such views. Atleast that was what Madhu believed to be at that time.

The class started, and everything was going well for the first 20 minutes and finally it started. All because of Sabari. He was trying to reach Rohini to get a eraser from her. And suddenly some one tapped him in the back using a wooden scale. With a mysterious look Sabari turned back, just to see the english teacher standing behind him.

What are you doing?

Teacher, I am trying to get eraser from her.

Why dont you ask the student sitting near you. Why you need to go across the row, to reach her.

In the mean time Madhu reached and talked with Priya.

Priya, Did you listen to her talking. Why is she thinking in this way.

Shh..! Priya signalled Madhu to be silent and asked him to turn towards the board.

Madhu turn back. Or else she will start lecturing to you and me.

Madhu was very uncomfortable on that. He cant resist talking with the two girls across the bench, Priya and Shobha. From very early school days, they used to tell each other whatever information they know and each one of them cant resist doing that. All three were good friends for more than 6-7 years now. When Vijay saw the irritation in Madhu's face, he simply started laughing. Vijay was the guy sitting near Madhu, and is a good friend of him.

Why are you laughing now stupid?

I was just imagining of what would she lecture to you, when she sees you talking.

Shut up. I just want this class to get over.

Dont worry. Its thursday. We have 2 english classes today. First period in the morning session. and First period after lunch.

Oh..my god...yes...I didnt remember that...hmm..!

The class got over and the remaining classes in the morning session were also getting over very quicker than what Madhu expected. Any ways he felt really happy that, god has answered his prayers.

During the lunch session, Madhu and vijay opened up their lunch boxes and placed it over their table and started eating. As usual Priya, Shobha and Preeti took their lunch boxes and placed it over the cloth which was spreaded in the floor near the class dais and started eating. Some where in the middle priya and preeti started teasing vijay, who was sitting behind them in the bench. Vijay got irritated and he started teasing them back. And Madhu joined Vijay. So this was going on for a while. In general priya is highly short tempered and she got irritated when both vijay and Madhu started teasing her. Finally,

Vijay-
Priya do you remember what happened in our 3rd std. While we were walking back from PT ground to the class, one begger tried to reach you and you started running from him. You were running so hard that, may be if it was a sports day you could have won the contest.

Madhu-
May be I guess, the begger is a relative of yours. and thats the reason he was trying to talk to you.

To Madhu's bad luck, he was now standing outside the bench, very near to the class doors and straight across the 3 girls. At this juncture, priya got very angry and she was trying to reach Madhu to beat him. But Madhu was playing with her and he escaped the first and second time. The third time in order to tease her, he went very close to her and thought of swiftly backing off. But to his badluck, some thing unexpected happened. Shobha who used to be very silent joined Priya and pulled Madhu's shirt.

And Madhu, didnt expect this at all. He lost his balance, and within seconds, he was lying over all the 3 girls. Priya was now happily beating him in his back. Madhu was trying hard to get up but his shoes got entangled to Preethi's food basket. And Preeti was pulling her basket but in a wrong direction. When all this incidents were going on, Shobha silently tapped Priya. And Priya turned towards the doors and was stunned. After seeing both Priya and Shobha staring at the doors, Preeti got puzzled and raised her head to see the doors. And now Vijay couldnt supress the laugh and he started giggling. As the whole class became silent, Madhu who was now lying on his stomach, slowly but hardly twisted his neck and watched the doors.

Near the doors, was his english teacher Sathya, standing and fuming at them.

** __This incident is a true story which took place in my Ninth grade. The person Madhu in this story is no one else but me   :) __ **