Characters: Me Tom, Dick, Harry, Mr Beng, Lenny the prefect (not their real names)

This happened when our school was struck by H1N1 aka. Swine flu. Our class got owned by the flu and about 16 people got sent home. Thus, we had to be moved to a special classroom where the last swine flu – infected class got hit. This is what happened in the morning of the first day in our new class

Upon reaching the class, Tom, Dick and, sat down with their friends while Harry sat isolated in a corner as he was very unpopular with the class and had an especially long feud with Dick. Thus, Dick started cutting up erasers to throw at Harry.  He had also secretly placed a stash of the cut up erasers on an unsuspecting and innocent Tom’s table so that he could push the blame if he got caught. Tom, unknowing and innocent, did not mind that Dick placed on his table and continued talking away happily.

 Soon, Dick went too far in the eraser throwing and Harry started getting angrier and angrier. Seeing this, Dick decided to dump his whole ammunition feed on him. This made Harry go berserk and he whirled around. Dick pretended to be innocent and nonchalantly walked to the toilet. Meanwhile, Harry espied the stash of erasers on Tom’s table and deduced that he was the culprit that was pelting him with erasers the whole time. Nobody anticipated his next move; Harry rushed an unsuspecting Tom, threw his pencil box out of the window, and started reining blows on him! Tom was dumbstruck and tried to defend himself. Fortunately, the brawl did not last long as Lenny, the prefect, stepped in the nick of time to stop the fight while I went to fetch Mr Beng, our form teacher.

Mr Beng, entered the fray and put order to it. He severely reprimanded Dick for shifting the blame and Harry for hitting without investigating further. He passed the verdict that Dick would have a 12 hour detention while Harry only had 6. However, Harry had to apologise to Tom, which he did with much difficulty. Tom, being magnanimous, took the shabby apology and forgave Harry.

What a “nice” and “exciting” way to start the new week of school!