"May the fleas of a thousand camels invade your stinky armpits!" she muttered under her breath and glared furiously at the lady in purple. The time now was 11.52am. Today was the big day... The day which ten years of education was going to lead to. She cranked her head to the left and was returned with looks of anxiety and nonchalance; girls were seen crossing and uncrossing their legs, boys were leaning back on their chairs and staring, with arms crossed, at the spinning fans above them.
"R-r-r-iiiinnnnggg!" went the bell. Everyone looked at each other eagerly. Who would be the one to lead the pack of eager students to the place where those pieces of paper were pasted? Soon, in a blink of an eye, only she was left in her seat. She hurriedly grabbed her packet of tissue paper and made a beeline for office.
"1, 2, 3, 4... Hi-5!" with the ever-so-familiar theme song of that show playing in her mind. She looked at the rest of the students fighting their way to the front. But all she had to know she already did. Nothing could change the fact that that was what she had studied for. Fighting back her tears, she hastily rummaged through her skirt pocket and tightened her fingers around the black key chain. With a flick of a wrist, the keypad slided open and she punched in the numbers, albeit very reluctantly.
"Hello... Gong Gong... I've just gotten back my results..." she mumbled softly.
"HAH? What...? Who are you?" replied the voice at the other end of the line in mandarin. She rolled her eyes and repeated herself once more. Before long, that call soon ended and she preceded to break the "good" news again, this time to her mother and tuition teacher.
"Just do your best the next time.." The words kept ringing in her mind while she trode back to the classroom on the fourth floor alone.
"If all the raindrops were lemon drops and gum drops, oh what a rain that would be..."
*And Sihui reminds everyone politely that please do not in any way, claim this as your own as she has had to kill her brain cells by trying to come up with all this,waste electricity and has also spent a lot of time writing/typing it out okay. Bleeeh.
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