a wednesday fiasco

it's wednesday, the day i've waited for every week.
yep, it's not friday that i longed to come, but wednesday.
why?
because it's PE (Physical Education) day.
and somehow, the only day in which i can wake up after 8 and freely skip 1 period of my first period of the day, English with Mr Mark Roberts because he, of all teachers, dont give a damn whether you're there or not.
good.
and so, today, like i always did before, i arrived late 15minutes, just on time when everyone's leaving 11.2 for Computer Lab 1 to do some research for our English Assesment Task 3.
however, when i step into my beloved 11.2, i met Angelia, Audi, and Vania, who were talking while waiting for Angelia to finish her breakfast.
and like any good friends will, i stayed behind with them, talking and laughing like usual, for like 10 to 15 minutes.
i was on the phone with my dad's secretary when Vania shrieked.

"si mark dateng!!"

and next, chaos.
my first respond was just continue sweetly to sit there on the table, waiting for him to catch us all, but that's far from what happened.
because Audi and Vania started running so fast into the girls' bathroom next to 11.1
leaving me and Angelia in total panic.
should we run after them or what?
we knew that it's too late for us to run after them
and so we stayed, hiding behind the door, silently laughing like mad.
after 2 minutes that feels like a year, we peeked slowly from the gap of the door and the wall, and we saw blue eyes.
Mr Mark Robert's blue eyes.
we was so shocked that i slammed the door before his face, which is unfortunately useless, for he was blocking the door with his hands.
i know at this moment we should go out and pretend to cry or something that (hopefully) will lessen his anger.
but we dont.
instead, we cant hold ourselves, giving ourselves up to the force that tickle our stomach from our first second hiding.
and he smiled.

"sir, i was late, sorry," i said.

then, i pulled Angel along to go up to the computer lab, when we heard this:

"wait. stay here you are. dont go anywhere."

perplexed, we stood there, half laughing, and waited from him to speak.

"i saw 2 other girls running away from this class. where are they?"

i cant say a word. one, i was still laughing in the inside, and two, i wont give my friends in like that.
then Angel said: "udah lah, jujur aja deh mendingan. AUDI!! VANIA!! CEPET KELUAR!"
a minute later, Audi and Vania came out from the bathroom with Eveline, holding tissue and a pencil case, Audi wore her im-innocent look which made me want to laugh more.

"bathroom sir. bathroom," said Audi while waving the tissue in her palm, trying to make Mr Mark understand that she WAS from the bathroom, no lies.
then i look left to see Mr Mark, and i was afraid for he just stood there, with a smile on his face.

"di, jujur aj ya semuanya. jangan bohong." i and Angel was threatening them to be honest, because something tells me to do it, i dont know what, that that is the right thing to do. the least.

"you guys just... do whatever you like.". with this, he left us alone, tired with our rebellious acts.

and we, well, i, was dumbstruck. dammit. we really done it this time. i silently thought in my head.
then we entered the classroom once again, acting as if it's HIS fault that we cant go to the computer lab, with guilt slowly eating us slowly from the inside.
5 minutes later, guilt won.
we cant stand it anymore.
then we decided that we should apologize to him, considering that it IS our fault from the beginning.
walking up, we share our caught-by-mark-robert-experience, and we laugh at ALL verses like hell. Audi was literaly falling onto the ground in laughter, and we were struggling not to cry, and hopelessly stop our laughter which is killing our stomaches (you know how painful it is right? the more you laugh, the more hurt your stomach will be.)
realizing that we had enough, we wiped our laughter-tears and started to walk up again to reach computer lab and get this over with.

unfortuntely, it was not as easy as you say it,
for we were nervous and still cant stop the force that made us laugh again infront of the computer lab, when the door was pushed open from the inside, and we thought that it's him!
well, half of it was right, but the "who" part is wrong.
the culprit that made us went frozen for that moment is, in fact, Garry Ceban and Kevin.
damn.
well, to make the story short, Audi went in, after minutes of persuading each other to start come in and apologize.
but he rejected us.
without hearing our apology.
he waved his hand, commanding us to go the library, in other words, to get out of his sight.
and so we obeyed.
we went to library, laughing and reading and laughing until break time on 9:30.
during break time, we met again, and decided that we will spend the next 40 minutes (another English period as we have double period English on Wednesday) in the library, and went to apologize on lunch time when he alrady cooled down a little.
however, our generous effort to apologize was once again rejected.
he waved his hand again, murmuring something while seeping his mug, ordering us to go out from the teacher's room.
well, at least we tried.
we were angry at the thought of him send us away like that and decided that that's that.
we wont bother anymore.
have it his way.

this case is not solved yet, let's just see his reaction tomorrow.
this day, however, will be something that we all will remember and laugh about in our old days, telling out grandchildren that their grandmother was once rebels, especially in English classes.

5:51 PM ·