Chapter 2 2

The bus arrived to the school premises at around 8:30am, making a horn to the Gatekeeper to open the gate so it could drive in. The Gatekeeper, who has been resting and enjoying the cool breeze of the morning on his chair, ran as fast as he could to open the gate. When he opened the gate, he waved up to greet the kids while closing the gate behind after the bus.

The driver looked for an empty space to park and then the student alighted, going to their various classes. Emily, who was very happy to be back in school to meet her friends after a long vacation at home, quickly left Sophia in a hurry. Sophia came down, walking sluggishly out of the bus like the last man standing. She lifted her eyes up to the school building, looking through her glasses when the driver beckoned to her.

"Hey Kid, Are you not going to your classroom?" he asked with a worried look on his face. She came back alive from her thought and turned to face him. She saw the man standing behind her with a towel he was using to clean his sweaty face. She didn't remember what he asked her but the word she heard lastly was "...classroom" so she used every of her brain, trying to think hard if she could grasp a hold of what he said when she was carried away.

As a genius student she is, she decided to play along words when she saw she didn't hear what he said. She nodded and replied with "Nothing". "Then why are you here and not in your classroom?" the driver asked.

"Nothing actually... I was just too much excited over our resumption so that's why I stayed behind to look around the school" she lied, with a pretty smile on her face.

"Oh! That's nice of you... But you can go to your class now because one of your teachers would have been teaching your other classmates inside the class by now" he said.

"Absolutely... Thank you, sir" she smiled and walked sluggishly through the Playground to her classroom while the driver watched her from behind. She kept on walking until she knew she was out of the driver's watch when she quickly ran behind the fence and breathed out heavily.

She brought out a paper from her bag, using it to cover her mouth to lower her anxiety as she breathed into it. Then, she sat down to comport herself when she confirmed that she was okay. Emily who has been inside the classroom since, stood up to look around for her friend when she saw she wasn't coming inside. She looked round the corridors and then to the Bus when the driver told her she left just now. She was worried and her mind clicked on what happened during the last term before their vacation. She ran as fast as she could to the playground, thinking she might see her there. On getting to the playground, she couldn't find her when she saw someone coming from the backdoor. She looked closely to see who the person was and it was Sophia. She ran to meet her while panting heavily as soon as she reached her spot.

"Where have you been?" she stuttered, collapsing on the floor due to the stress she had gone while trying to look for her. Sophia was amazed, seeing her friend panting so heavily. She touched her and tried to look into her eyes to ask what happened. She calm her down, looking around to see if someone was chasing her and when she saw no one was after her, she asked "What's wrong, Emily?".

Emily comported herself and began to talk out of breath "Imagine! I was supposed to ask you that when I didn't see you inside the classroom since we alighted from the bus but you asked me that question instead, because of the stress you took me through when I was looking for you around the school" she rolled her eyes up.

"Looking around for me inside the school?" Sophia asked again and burst into laughter to make sure she didn't mishear what Emily said when she continued "And why would you look around for me when I am not lost or kidnapped?" she tried to hid her emotion.

Just then, Emily heaved a sigh of relief and told Sophia to meet her inside the class if she like, leaving Sophia speechless for a while before she ran to meet up with Emily.

"Wait up, Emily" she screamed, and then continued "I was joking with you". Emily turned to laugh at her, and then she later ran while they turned it into hide and seeks.