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Every first school day of the year, our principal called us out for an extremely long assembly. She'd wish us happy new year and ask a lot of silly questions. This year, we'd assembled as usual at the school's multipurpose complex but the look on our principal's face showed that this wasn't our usual extra long assembly meeting.

She wore a tired -and at the same time sad -look on her face. After clearing her throat twice, she began.
"It's very sad that two students of our school have both disappeared. Well,one actually disappeared and one was mysteriously burnt." She closed her eyes as if imagining the scene." Most of you may not know them and at the same time, a good number of you were well acquainted with Amanda Phillips and Mark downs. The police are still investigating the case so you'll be seeing a few of them around".

She continued her sermon on how we should behave 'don't talk to random strangers. Be careful with electrical appliances. Be nice and cooperative with the police '. And the list goes on.

Random strangers. That phrase reminded me of new year.
I turned to look at Dory and she winked at me. She was also thinking what I was thinking.

"That's all for now. You can go back to your classes." Our principal finally said, making me realise I'd zoned out of whatever she was saying.

Sighs of relief were heard from all corners. So I wasn't the only one bored huh?.

I get the fact that she was making good points but that wasn't what I wanted to hear on my first day at school.

"Do you think today will be lecture free?" Dory asked happily beside me.

"I don't know." I said playing with my bracelet. I'd gotten so used to it that the colour change didn't shock me anymore. Today, it was black, matching the long sleeved top I wore. I'd wanted to wear a purple one with an ice cream photo at the front but I saw a little brown stain on it and dropped it. I was always very conscious of stains on my cloth. Even if it was a tiny dot, I feel like it can be seen from Jupiter.

"I hope it is. I don't want to learn on the first day of school. It should be the day we..we..I don't know. Just anything but learn. I'm already tired of everything. " she screamed as she opened the door to the class.

"Well, good morning to you miss. It seems your dream just came true." A man sitting on our teacher's table said.

I knew he wasn't our school teacher because our school teachers sit on chairs or stand or walk around intimidating people who are writing hard tests. Very annoying and frustrating, I know. None has ever sat on the table. And he was also handsome. Very handsome. Center score high school didn't have very handsome male teachers. Sometimes I wonder if they employ our male teachers from an elderly people's home. Okay, I'm exaggerating a bit but some of them might be that old.

"Um, okay. " Dory said pulling me down on a seat on the front row. "Who's that man? " she whispered.

"I don't know."

"You never know anything apart from books." She frowned and looked up at the man again.

"Alright. I believe everyone's here." The man said jumping down from the table. "Now we're going to do something. "

He went round distributing sheets of paper to everyone. So since we can't have lectures, we're having tests. Okay.

"Um,so what do we do with these?" Someone asked from the back.

I wanted to say 'write tests, stupid'. But what came out of this strange guy's lips made me realise I would have been the stupid one.

"These? You're going to write down what you remember about your last encounter with Amanda Phillips and Mark Downs. The colour of the shirts they were wearing, shoes, every single detail. If you need, extra sheets, I've got a whole ream here. Good luck." He said and jumped back on the table. He brought out his phone and started typing. The way he held it made me conclude he was playing a football game. Boys.

I don't know how long I'd been staring at the blank paper in front of me but somewhere along the line, I'd chewed off my pen cover.

Where do I start? What do I write?.

"The last time I saw Amanda Phillips was weeks ago when we had an argument after she put up a fake poster in school and embarrassed me, she met me later and threatened me. Luckily, she never came back.
Oh and Mark, I only saw him once. That rude..."

No way I was writing that. The last times I saw the both of them weren't good at all. I don't want anyone seeing me as a suspect. These people could pick out a little detail and turn it into drama. I already had a lot of drama going on in my life that if it was made into a movie, my kids could binge watch it for months and still won't finish it.

"Psst. Barbie, you haven't written anything." Dory whispered.

The man had started going round,checking what people were writing.

"I don't know what to write. " I whispered back.

"Excuse me sir,can I get an extra sheet?" Someone called from the back.

Seriously? I haven't even put a dot on my paper.

"Just write anything and don't make Amanda look too much if a bitch or you'll be going to the station for further questioning. " Dory said as she wrote "sweet" on her paper.

I turned to the student on my right and saw that she already had her paper filled.

This felt like one of those English assignments where you're asked to write a letter to your brother who lives in Asgard. You have no brother, but you still go ahead and write :hey bro. How's Asgard treating you? I hope you've made up with Thor. I don't like it when you both fight. And you know, I met Loki once in a mall last week. Guess what he was doing? Causing mischief as usual.

That's the kind of lies people were writing. I mean, Dory even wrote 'sweet'. Amanda was anything but sweet.

"OK. Here goes...."

After what felt like hours but was only thirty minutes, I finally finished writing. I could feel my brain heating up from all those thinking of milder synonyms of bitch. You only wrote half a page.
I tried alright.

"All done?" The man- I don't know if I should call him a police officer- said.

"All done." We replied,very exhausted.

"Good." He said as he piled up everyone's report and put them in an envelope. "You have the rest of school hours to yourselves." He bent towards dory. "You got your wish. No classes today." And he left.

"That was weird." She breathed as she stood up.

"You tell me. Trying to sound sexy and all."

"Well," she gave a knowing smile and I knew what she wanted to say.

"Okay, okay. He's a bit fine. " I half admitted.

"Is that a pack of cigarettes on that table?" A boy asked.

"And I thought the police was meant to control these stuffs". Another boy said.

"Did you really look at that guy?" A girl named Princess- she claims she's a real princess- asked. "He looked like all those magazine models and acted like a college student. "

"Acted like a detective to me". Someone else argued.

"Let's get out of here. Don't want to spend my free time arguing about a police officer slash detective". She said leaving the class and I followed her.

"So what do we do now? We can't just sit in school till 3pm. And I don't want to go to that house.

"Let's go pay someone a visit then." She gave a knowing smile.

Guess who?

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