c h a p t e r 1 3
donkey kicks
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NATASHA'S POV

I turned a page over while giving Mrs. Stephani a stink eye. It seemed unfair that while we were burdened with the heavy task of reading a stupid history chapter about some indigenous colonisation period; she sat comfortably on her desk grading some junior test papers while enjoying a cup of tea.

Bullshit! That's what I call this.

How come she is allowed to sip a cup of tea but I can't chew a gum? Where is that so called talk about setting an example gone now huh ?

And why on earth should I waste my time reading about some stupid fight that took place eons before my birth that has nothing to do with today's world.

Who cares about history anyways? It's history!

People cannot even learn from a mistake they might have committed an hour ago and here these useless education system's useless educators want us to learn something from the age when people painted their bodies with mud and used bamboo sticks to fight ?

Bullshit !

Slouching down on my seat I flipped through the pages to see where the chapter ended.

"Another 8 pages left? What the heck this is too much" I turned my wide panicked eyes at Ester.

"Didn't you finished a 180 pages book the other day in one seating?" she mumbled raising her eyebrows at me.

I slumped further down into my seat.

"It's not the same thing" I whisper hissed at her, closing the book in irritation. Ester gave me one last look before focusing her attention back on the chapter.

Not wanting to look at the book again I started looking here and there in search of something less life threatening.

People can die of boredom too after all. 

As I twisted and played with my hairs, tied neatly in a ponytail an idea stuck me. Taking off my hairband I let my hair softly fall around my shoulders, cupping my face.

Tucking the loose strands behind my ear I used the hairband to make a catapult and an eraser as my weapon. Once done I started looking for an aim to hit.

My eyes sat on Maria seating at the front bench engrossed in her readings and a satisfied smile lit my face.

"Target acquired. Positioning the weapon and-" I mumbled giving a tug to the band.

Boom!

A junior barged into our class suddenly. Huffing and puffing, no doubt from the run she must have had to make from the primary school to our high school section. Taking a deep breath, she informed all that I was called to Ms. Famina's office, Immediately.

Distracted by the sudden announcement I let go of my sling without looking at where I had aimed. A loud shrike makes my head whip to the right.

My dangerous eraser had gone and hit Mrs. Stephani in the eye.

Oops.

While she clutched onto her face and screamed my name in a curse I scurried the hell out of the class and made my way to Ms. Famina's office, wondering why she called for me.

As far as I knew, I hadn't done anything worth being called to the office for. Yet.

There were mid month tests going on in all the three schools. Which gave us little to no time in trying to come up with big enough pranks. For past three weeks all I had concentrated on was the stupid tests.

Sure, there had been few silly little pranks in between but nothing major. The last prank I remember playing was a week ago, when I had rubbed sugar in Maria's rob and towels after sticking sticky gummy bears in one of the shower head and then making sure she used that bathroom specifically. 

The sweet substance had made her all sticky and eekie. The poor girl had taken more than five showers but still felt disgustingly sticky every time she stepped out of it. That was one hell of a sticky situation to be in.

*wink wink*

Though a highly entertaining prank, it wasn't worth being called to the office for. So maybe it had something to do with the tests. Maybe I had failed in each and every subject and was being summoned to be told what a utter failure I am.

The later felt more and more possible to me as I took in the notice boards that I passed by.

The toppers from every class with their outstanding scores were posted up on the boards and unfortunately my name was nowhere to be seen in them. The last board right outside of Ms. Famina's office though, had Kate's name and score posted and that made me smile a little.

Not bothering to knock, I stormed right inside.

"Whatever I did, I have proof I didn't do it" I announced walking ahead to take a seat but stop mid way, when I saw who sat opposite Ms. Famina.

She looked up at the sound of my entry and scowled at my lack of manners.

"Ms. Famina, why is there a donkey in your office?" I asked, ignoring her condescending looks, as I fixed my eyes at the wannabe ass named Warner, who sat on one of the seats smirking.

"I was going to ask the same thing" he threw back over his shoulder not bothering to turn around and face me.

"Running out of comebacks are we?" With a smirk I stalked over to her desk and took my seat, not waiting for her permission.

While I settled down, I made sure to purposely jab my elbow in his right shoulder which I knew must still be soar. Sure enough he winced a little and shot me a death glare.

"Oops! Almost forgot...how is your arm?" I faked a worried look and batted my eyes at him as he continued to glare.
A second later though he slipped back into his treadmark smirk.

"Don't worry my hand is doing better than your ego" He countered with a wink, boiling my blood in an instant.

The goat was no doubt hinting at his position in the bet.

Even though I had pulled of an epic prank it still hadn't gotten me more votes while he continued to be in a lead. Not because he pulled of a fucking genius prank or something but because he had fucking broken his hand and still won the game.

These past days I am starting to wonder if the stupid bet is rigged. How is it even fair if he gets vote for any and every shit he does while I get bets only on the basis of my pranks.

Next thing you know he will win the bloody bet just for breathing!

Oh How I regret helping him that day. I really should have twisted his hand in the other direction and ripped it off its sockets, like my brain had suggested. Then I wouldn't have been in this position.

If everyone hadn't been worshiping him before they sure as hell did now and I hated the fact that I had a hand in it.

The worst part though was thinking back to his words. Was he right? Was I really going to help him win?

It sure fucking looked like it. Dear brain, whose side are you on?

"Who's out of a comeback now. Cat got your tongue" he taunted me. A triumphant smile on his face.

Impulsively, I reach for the paper weight on the desk with the thought of using it to knock his teeth out.

Ms. Famina quickly got on to my plan somehow, when she saw me grab the paper weight and
apparently, she didn't seem to like the idea much; as she whacked on my arm with her wooden stick, making me drop the paper weight.

I did however take some solace in the 'scared out of his wits' look that washed over Blaze's face briefly before he schooled his expressions.

I needed to get rid of that stick.

This was the third time I got acquainted with it. The first time had been after the porn CD prank and the second one had been when I was caught drawing an inappropriate drawing in one of my juniors textbook.

I rubbed the spot she had hit me on and sulked. She hadn't said it but her eyes had already indicated both of us to shut up and so we did.

"I have asked you two here because you both have scored highest grades in the day before yesterday's General Knowledge quiz" she passed us our score cards and patiently waited for us to quickly glance over it before she began.

I had scored a total of 96% with only losing some score in maths. I cast a side look at Blaze's scorecard while he did the same. He immediately smirked when he saw I had scored two points less than him. Clutching the card tightly I turned my attention back at Ms. Famina.

"Now listen to me carefully. Every year their is a scholastic event held at Delegres Public School in the district of Delegres, where the highest scores from both St. Joseph and St. Mary participate as a team to compete against the Delegres Public School." She took a brief pause before continuing.

"Since this year both of you have scored the highest, you both will be representing both our schools and a team" she finished leaning back in her seat and took in our blank faces.

There was complete silence in the office for few seconds before Blaze and I both yelled at her together.

"The Fuck did you say?" I blinked blankly.

"Fuck no" Blaze cursed.

"Language!" Ms. Famina shouted seating up straight and fixing her hard angry gaze at us.

"Mm..mh...nah..nope...not happening..ever...never" I shook my head repeatedly, like a bobby head doll.

"Me and her in a team..yeah right" Blaze scoffed.

"Yup.. sorry find someone else" I started getting up but she angrily gestured me to sit back down.

"It's non negotiable. I don't care about whatever issues you two have. You two are going to pack up your bag for a three day trip and leave tomorrow morning at 4am. That is final" she crossed her fingers together and sat them on the table, letting us know through her actions that she had made up her mind.

"Oh come on.." I whined.

"You can't force us to go if we don't want to.." Blaze pointed an accusing finger at her but she looked unfazed by it.

"I don't want to take part in this stupid contest...especially with her" he then jabbed a finger at me.

"Same here buddy..I am not dying to go anywhere with you either" I snapped at him.

"Are you sure that even is her real score?" Ignoring me, Blaze questioned Ms. Famina, snatching away my score card to shove it under her nose. 

"Ha! Like you could ever get 98% without any help...I am telling you Ms. Famina he has cheated" I pulled back my card from him and smacked my hand on the desk to get Ms. Famina attention, but she had on a bored expression on her face as she busied herself with some papers.

"Don't blame what you did on me. It's no doubt you who has cheated" he kept waving and pointing his finger in my face as he accused again.

"I don't need to cheat for something as stupid as this....why am I even arguing with you...I am not going anywhere with him...send the second highest in my place!" Pushing his hand away from my face I chose to ignore him and instead try to get myself out of this situation.

I crossed my arms and stared her down. Internally begging her to relieve me from entering a nightmare.

"Good idea...she will probably end up making us loose anyway" Blaze said, mocking me.

"Looks like you forgot because of whom did you win your motherfucking match you piece of dog shit" Tired of his yapping I started biting back.

"You fucking bi-" Blaze started to yell back but got cut off by the sound of a loud smack, when Ms. Famina angrily whacked her wooden ruler on the desk and screamed.

"Enough !"

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A sudden jolt made my eyes fly open and my body to sit up straight. I looked around, alarmed and caught a blurry sight of Blaze's retrieving back that shook with the signs of laughter.

The donkey fucking kicked me awake !!

Running my hands through my hair, I yawned softly and blinked a couple of times to get the water out of my eyes. It was light outside. Now that the sun had finally risen in the sky painting the sky a lovely shade of pale blue.

I stretched my legs and took a look around.

Two hours! Two hours spent yesterday, in persuading, begging and relentlessly arguing with Ms. Famina. All which had gotten us nowhere. We both were still forced to leave for Delegres today.

My eyes had barely been open when I had climbed our train. Frankly speaking I don't even recall if I had brushed my teeth or how I had managed to get into my skinny jeans. What I do recall is falling face first on my seat and passing out for three straight hours. Waking up only now.

I looked out of the window yet again to see why the train had slowed down and saw us nearing a station.

If my memory served me right, there was still two to three hours more to cover before we finally reached our destination Delegres and I was already tired.

I looked back at the seat opposite me where Blaze's bag was lying and a mischievous idea struck me.

Time to teach the asshole a lesson.

He thought it was funny kicking people while they slept peacefully? Now I would show him how to really kick people to get proper giggles.

Besides, I already had to endure him for three days so why not turn this three days into poking Blaze days. Besides, I needed my daily dose of entertainment from somewhere and there is only so much one can do in trains.

Okay that's not true. One can do a lot of things in trains.

I quickly grabbed his bag and headed towards the nearest entrance gate. The train had come to a stop now allowing the  passengers to either get off or on the train.

I stepped down and walked up to the middle of the platform and dumped his bag down. With a pleased grin I turned around and came face to face with an angry Blaze. Surprised I took a step back and saw what he held in his hands.

My bag !

Without saying a word he threw my bag in the far away corner of the platform.

"What the fuck!" I ran over and quickly grabbed my bag.

Dusting it off I shouldered it and ran back to Balze's retreating back, shoving him from behind.

"How dare you throw my bag like that" I barked at him.

"Oh how very double standard of you. I was only returning the favour princess" he winked. Thinking himself quite clever at catching me in the act. He forgot though, that I was twice of what he is.

"Fine then" I screamed and kicked him hard in his joy stick.

His mouth popped open and his eyes rolled back as he fell down on his knees clutching his precious jewel and letting out a weird sound that sounded awful a lot like a hippo moaning. Or maybe like a squirrel choking.

Oh I don't know take your pick.

I stepped back and bit my lips. Not being able to hold more than a second though I burst out laughing as his legs weirdly twitched on the ground.

"Why.... the... hell... did ...you do that... for?" He chocked the words out. Each word coming out more pained then before.

"I was only returning the favour" I threw his words back at him with a wink.

I flicked my hair and gave him one last satisfied smile and walked past him. He suddenly grabbed my ankle making me stumble upon one of the passenger that was passing by, holding a cup of hot coffee.

Scalding hot coffee poured all over my tee, that seeped into my clothes and burned my skin. If that wasn't enough the old man who I tripped on even yelled at me for ruining his apparently quite costly coffee.

After the guy left cursing about 'kids this days' and waving his angry fist in the air, I turned around to face Balze who had now composed himself and once again stood smirking at me.

Should I kick him again?

"You-" I raised my angry finger at him but cut myself off and angrily stomped my way over to the newspaper stand.

I grabbed the papers and started rubbing off the coffee off my tee, having no other options in sight. When some guy started asking for money I yelled like a monster in his face and he immediately backed away.

To my right I saw Blaze grab a cold can of soda and gently press it to his crouch.

Ew !

He caught me starting and started to glare. I too threw the used newspaper down and glared back at him with twice as much fury.

I don't know whether or not we stayed glaring daggers at each other for five seconds or five minutes before both of us together saw each others eyes getting wide as our ears and brains started registering the sound of our train leaving.

Our heads whipped to the right. The train was catching speed. We both grabbed our bags and ran behind it. It was going too fast and the station was coming to an end.

I came to a sudden halt right at the edge of the station. The train was already far away for my eyes to catch.

Fuck.

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Boy this ain't good.
So, tell me a funny incident that made you miss your flight/ train/ cab or whatever.

Love N.