Personal Recount - Shameful thing you did,

It was a regular day in school with nothing special happening, Jim and his friends were hanging out near the canteen beside the washroom. Jim was a teacher’s pet, he did everything the teacher told him to, he would not forget to do any of his homework and he always listened to them. However, that day, Jim was feeling low and was not himself. He forgot to bring his homework and was to stay back after school.

Jim was not the only one who had to stay back, one of his friends had to stay back too. And that friend was me. I was reluctant to go but Jim dragged me along. He said it was compulsory to go, I tried to sneak in away into the washroom to hide but Jim found me. He pushed me out of the cubicle I was hiding in, but accidentally, the door slammed shut right after I was pushed out and Jim was stuck in the cubicle.

I tried to get the door open but it was futile, the door would not budge. I asked some of my friends to help, but by the time I went to look for help, everyone had already gone home. I finally managed to get Jim out but we were late for out meeting with our teacher. We hurried over to our teacher’s room and found her punishing the other student as we were late.

We stood and the door, dumbfounded. I bit my lower lip and forced myself to go in ahead of Jim. I stood in front of our teacher and finally blurted out, “ Sorry we were late, Jim was stuck in a washroom cubicle and the door would not open…” The teacher did not seem to believe our story and accused us of using excuses. I shook my head in denial.

After half an hour of reasoning with the teacher, she finally believed our story, I was so happy the moment I saw the time and realized we had wasted enough time reasoning that the punishment of going to be over soon. However, my happiness started to seep away when the teacher read out a list of names that had to stay back the next day for another day of punishment. And as predicted, Jim and my name were called. That was the last time I used the washroom cubicle again.