HATEFUL MAN!

On the Wednesday of that week, we overhead a couple of kids saying Stella was very sick and had been sick since her parents travelled for work.

Their conversation made me realize I was a bad friend for not realising she had been absent from school for a while.

In fact, I had not noticed because I had so much drama going on in my own life.

Me: we are bad friends.

Sal: That's not true. Don't say that. We had legit reasons to not notice. We had our own things to deal with.

Me: But it's true.

Sal: Stop it. She probably just misses her mom as usual.

Me: yh, probably. Let's go to class.

Sal and I went to our classroom to find a strange man in our class.

Sal: Must be a substitute or Teachers assistant?

Upon looking at the substitute teacher/ T.A I knew he was an attractive man. He was a tall slender man of about 6ft, short cut hair, sexy sleepy eyes, a cute nose and cute pink lips. He was a dimpled light skinned prince who was equally hairy.

One look at him made me blush. Trying to not get caught, I looked at him again from his feet to his head. He had on clean black shoes with a bowtie and a sharply ironed black trousers. To top that, he had put on a sharply ironed white shirt.

Sal and I went in to sit down in our assigned seats but then the man addressed us.

Man: You two! Do you know you are late?

Sal: No.

Me: We are right on time.

Man: Yes. Late. Being right on time is late, young lady. Secondly, where are your manners?

You

Me: Our manners?

To be honest, that came out sounding rude. It did not sound that was in my mind.

The man upon hearing my response, started to walk towards me. He stopped right Infront of me.

Man: Ernest Crown is my name and I will be your Teachers assistant for the next two weeks. Do not think that you can disrespect me because I am an assistant. I in fact should be a full on lecturer but I am on probation for this semester and then I became a full on lecturer in this school. I expect total good manners, good attendance, timelines and neatness. I do not care how old any of you are. you are in my class and you will play by my rules of engagement. Now any student that gets below 50% on the pop up quiz today, will have a punishment.

The whole class went into an uproar.

Mr Crown: Now, you two that just entered. You did not greet nor apologize for being late. Go stand in the walk way. I will call you in when I am ready.

Me: But..

Mr Crown: Anymore back talk and I shall have a talk with the head of your department about you.

Sal: Flame, that's enough. Let's go( Whispers).

Me: Hmm.

Sal: We are sorry sir.

In my head, all I could think of was how hateful Mr Crown was and how I wished he would choke on his own spit and die. Well, not die but to feel pain. I also wished he would trip, fall and break his legs n arms.

I hated that man and nothing would ever change that.

Sal and I stayed in the hallway. We whispered the whole entire time about what we wished would happen to the T.A .We stayed there for some time till he called us back for a pop up quiz. He also made me move to the front of the class and face the class . It was so uncomfortable. I couldn't stop myself from hating Mr Crown.

After we finished the test, he told us to exchange our papers with each other and mark. That was terrible. It's one thing to write a test I could fail but to have another student see it was just embarrassing.

I gave my test to Paul who sat in front of me n had his to mark. We marked as we went through the questions.

Paul had done well enough to get 90% while I got 30%. Upon seeing my test sheets, I knew Mr Crown was going to make a big deal, so I asked permission to go to the washroom.

Walking out, Sal followed me to the washroom to have a told and to calm me down.

Me: I cannot do it.

Sal: Calm down. He was right in a way.

Me: i cannot. No. That man probably woke up thinking he will make my life embarrassing or something.

Sal looked into my eyes and breathed out loudly.

Sal: He is cute tho.

Me: He is ugly.

Sal: ok.

Sal walked closer to me and kissed me on the cheek.

Sal: You are good. You are ok. Just come to class when you are ready.

Sal walked away. I stayed for a few minutes and decided to leave.

When I got closer to the classroom door, a boy was standing at the entrance.

He said he was called Daniel Smith and he liked the fact that I was ready to stand up for myself. He wanted to be friends.

I made a new friend and met a teacher who hated me, what worse could happen, right?

Daniel told me some things about Mr Crown. Apparently they were family friends and Daniel hated Mr Crown because the lady Daniel had a crush on, had a crush on Mr Crown.

Must have been devastating for Daniel.

Daniel:

Facts about Mr Ernest Crown.

Mr Crown is 26years of age right now. He was born to MR Andrew and Miss Blue. They had him when they were both 17. They did not end up together however despite having a son together. Mr Andrew ended up marrying another younger lady at the age of 30.

Mr Crown was 14 when his dad married a 20 years old lovely lady. She took care of him like he was her own child. So Mr Crown has two mother's, so to speak. His Dad however died not long ago from prostate cancer.

His job here as a teaching assistant is because his mom once got drunk and made a mess at the church where the Dean goes to church and the Dean wants to make sure she will not do same at the school if they employ Mr Crown. Aside that, he definitely is a brilliant lecturer .

Me: I see. I still don't like me.

Daniel: Me neither. Girls r always all over him. He isn't that special.

Me: He sure isn't.

I introduced Daniel to Sal and they were cool with each other. We went through the day on a normal level till the day was almost over.

To be continued