Past, Chapter 3: The 5-dollar Crush (Part 9)

When a guy like me pons lessons because of a girl, then you know he must feel something for her. I pon-ed GP. Okay, not just for her only. Partly because it was the last day of the ‘first 3 months’, and I don’t like GP, and I confirmed that my results can get into AJC. But most important, it was mostly due to her, otherwise I would not put pen to paper.

Here’s how the story goes. Days, if not months in AJC has equipped me with information of her hang-outs in school. After all AJC wasn’t that big and she wasn’t hard to miss (at least in my eyes she wasn’t). She always sat at the Ohana area before morning assembly (MA) and I always sat at the canteen area. So I would always excuse myself to the toilet to catch a glimpse of her. Today was different, she was not there. Could she have been late? I wondered.

I checked at the rows where classes were supposed to stand during MA. She would normally be in front but there was no sign of her. Though it was the last day, I never would believe that she would skip lessons like that. She was my classmate after all. I sent a message over, asking if she really did pon-ed school. It was the first ‘beyond school stuff’ kind of message if you know what I mean.

The message came during lunch-time. She said she was having a fever, unlike what I thought in the first place. I felt like going straight to her house, then it struck me that I didn’t know where. I wanted to send thoughtful words, but I didn’t know how. This was the first time I thought hard on how to phrase a reply. In the end, I sent 2 words back—take care. This was the best reply a normal friend like me could send.

The news intensified my desire to pon, only an hour of GP remained.

Reasons for pon-ing in a no order of merit:

1. It’s the last day.

2. I never pon-ed before and this may be the only time I can do it without leaving a bad record.

3. It’s GP.

4. I will not absorb anything even if I stayed.

5. She was sick, even if I stayed there’s no chance of seeing her.

6. I may never see her again, it’s only fair that I went home to emo.

7. I will show my classmates I’m not as school rule-abiding as they think I am.

And so I pon-ed.