HIS SAD EYES

Sal totally caught me off guard since I wasn't expecting to see her.

Sal: why sneaking around all day?

Me: Avoiding Mr Frown because...

Sal: Mr Frown?

Me: Yh, Mr Crown is always wearing that disgusting frown.

Sal: Only to you because you refuse to conform.

Me: What? Whose side are you on?

Sal: I think I am Neutral.

Me: As someone you

love, you should be on my side.

Sal: I beg to differ. Anyway, good luck sneaking around, super spy.

We both laughed and went on our day. I was lucky enough to not meet Mr Crown on that day.

On that Friday, I woke up early especially to get to class before Mr Frown( my nickname for Mr Crown).

I took my bath, got dressed and took my breakfast. It was still very early. My dad asked why I was going out so early and I told him I wanted to take a long walk before heading to school.

I walked out of the house, plugged in my MP3 and put in the earpiece. I had "Rolling in the deep" by Adele on replay as I slowly walked off from the house heading towards Sal's House. I kept walking, looking at the environment and everything around blindly. I have to confess I probably sung out loud and out of tune on my way. I walked for about 10 minutes and then I started feeling I made a bad mistake. Should have gone with a bus.

I stopped, thinking of what to do next. As I thought, a black Audi pulled over a few metres in front of me. I looked away because I had no interest In the car nor the person in the car who I assumed I would not know.

I heard the door to the car open and shut and then I heard it, a voice I could swear I had heard before. I turned to look at who it was and I was right. I definitely knew that hateful sexy voice. It was Mr Frown( Mr Crown). He was the one in the car. He pulled over to drop a woman who looked like she was in her late 40s. Mr Crown had a sugar mom. Fantastic, I found myself some information to use as Leverage.

Honestly, I didn't know how I would do this blackmail. But I figured, It wouldn't work unless I let him know that I saw. If he knew I saw his nasty secret, he would want it kept secret and he would be a better human being to me .

I started walking towards them with my music still playing. I can swear, I felt amazing, it was as if I was walking on sunshine. Walking down that road, towards Mr Frown to make his life a mess, walking according to the beat from the music I was playing. I felt like a super hero of sorts. I would have walked in slow motion if I could have videoed it. "Oh happy day".

As I walked down the road, Mr Frown spotted me as I was getting closer. At that moment, we had eye contact. I looked into his confused pretty face as he looked into my mischievous face. We both looked serious and held each others gaze for a few seconds and before looking away, I smirked. This in turn made him put on a confused look. Target achieved! I had to prevent myself from screaming "check mate".

With him aware that I had seen him, he would be weary of me telling others. Hopefully.

My day was beautiful and shiny. I felt so light and exited .

I got to the school premises and decided to sit outside in one of the school park benches. I was sitting there admiring everything when I suddenly felt a hand on my right arm. I turned and there he was. The man of the hours. Mr Frown.

Mr Crown: Young lady, follow me to my office. We need to talk.

Yes, I felt accomplished. My thoughts were, he was going to beg me to keep his secret.

Mr Crown and I walked through the hallway, took the stairs, passed the offices of other lecturers and eventually got to his office.

Mr Crown: Sit down.

He then sat in his office chair after taking off his coat.

Mr Crown: First of all, how do you do?

Me: How do u do?

Mr Crown: Secondly, why have you been missing my lectures, miss.. ?

Me: Flame, Sung Flame.

Mr Crown: Yes, Miss Sung. Why does it seem like you avoid my lectures?

Me: Mr Crown, with all due respect, I have a better question. What would you do to keep your secret?

Mr Crown: I have a secret, you say?

Me: I clearly saw you and your cougar. A young lecturer like yourself, what would happen if word got out? You being on probation and all?

Mr : So, blackmail is your game.

Me: It is simple. I keep your secret and in turn you stay off my back.

Mr Crown: So you want me to stop pushing you to be better because you saw me with my mother this morning.

Me: What...

Mr Crown: Young lady, you have nothing on me.

Me: That's bulls**t.

Mr Crown: You cannot use that kind of language in my office.

I was pissed. That man was trying to play with my intelligence. I couldn't stand for it. I got up and stormed out without a word.

When I got to the hallway, all I could think off was the number of inappropriate things I wanted to tell him.

I stood on that hallway trying to regain my composure. I was only partly successful after 5minutes.

Between anger and calm, I walked into Mr Crown's office without knocking.

Upon entering, I lost my purpose for going Into his office for what I saw.

Mr Crown was leaning over his desk with a sad expression on. He looked more handsome with that expression. I sort of felt bad for making him this way.

So when he looked up at me, I just had to retrace my steps out of his office. I had no more aggression nor disrespect to channel.

After that encounter, Mr Crown stopped disturbing me and stopped acknowledging my presence. At first I liked it and started attending his lectures again. But over some time, I longed for his acknowledgment. I started doing extra and got interactive but he still did not acknowledge my performance.

His lack of emotions towards me became a burden on my heart which I desperately wanted to fix anytime I saw him with a sad expression occasionally.

I tried gaining sympathy from Sal but she didn't think I deserved. So I stopped.

TO BE CONTINUED...