In the principal office at Mia’s school
Lakshmi’s POV
“I still don’t understand what exactly you want me to do Lakshmi?. What do you really want?” My female principal sat on her office chair facing me.
“I said I want a reconsideration concerning Bella’s case. I feel that the school management didn’t do justice to it” I kept on insisting.
“What type of reconsideration are you looking for? We gave her the punishment that fits the offense” the principal picked up her pen and was playing with it while she still focused her attention on me.
“You see, that’s the problem I’m having. I don’t want her to have a suspension” I was still firm on my words.
“Even if we are to give her an expulsion, you don’t have the right to tell the school management what to do and what not to do. We know what we are doing” the principal was getting frustrated but I hadn’t even started with her yet.
“I don’t want that either. All I want is for you to call off her suspension, she has been absent for a week already. Isn’t that enough?” I asked rhetorically.
“Her suspension is for one month and that is final. So I suggest that if you don’t want to get a suspension yourself, you should leave my office immediately” the principal was angered and she began to threaten.
“I want her suspension either called off at once or at least shortened. The school management should start considering it because I am the person she offended and not them “I wasn’t shaken by her threats.
“Ok, I have heard that you have to leave my office now,” she pointed at the door with her pen.
“I will go on a protest with other students, I will go to the media. I will tell my dad” I raised an eyebrow and the last sentence rang a bell in her ear. I could tell by the way she moved herself, unrelaxing from her chair.
“Lakshmi what is wrong with you?” The principal placed both hands on the arm of her chair as she pushed her weight forward.
“I have told you what I wanted, it is left for you to decide” I stood up from the seat and was about to open the door when she spoke softly.
“Until I can resolve this complaint of yours, let this not reach your Dad” she said almost in a plea.
“I’ll see what I can do about that. ” I turned around and gave her a fake smile before shutting the door behind me.
Mia, who had been waiting outside anxiously, approached me immediately when she saw me coming out of the principal’s office.
“What did she say?” Mia held both of my palms together, rubbing them.
“She didn’t give me any positive reply but I’m more than sure she will do something about it” I told Mia with so much confidence.
“And why is that?” Mia was quite confused by my last reply.
“Because I threatened to tell my dad about it” I smirked.
“That was wrong, you shouldn’t threaten your school principal” Mia held two of her right fingers with her left hand as she nodded her head while she spoke.
“I know but Mia I didn’t have a choice” I regretted my actions for a short period of time.
“But why would the principal be scared of you telling your dad?” Mia had a faint smile on her face this time.
“That’s because my dad is one of the major donors to this school. Every year my dad donates at least 1 to 3 million dollars in cash, though the management claims the money is being used for the maintenance of the school. I know the money is being shared amongst its staff” I tried my best to explain everything as much as I could.
“There is a lot of corruption in this school” Mia didn’t seem happy about my explanation.
“It’s unfortunate but that’s the world we find ourselves in today” I shrugged.
“I was actually…” I wasn’t able to finish my statement when I heard screams from the far end of the hallway. Mia heard it too and we both ran towards the direction only to discover that one of the male senior students who played for the school football team had been stung by a scorpion, his leg had become swollen and it was obvious that the poison had begun to circulate.
Mia just stood there in complete silence while everybody was panicking, she kept on observing him and after 2 minutes of observing him. She went closer and brought out her handkerchief, she folded it into a triangle and tied the bitten part of his leg very tightly. She didn’t want the poison to spread any further.
“Does anybody have a knife?” She shouted, asking nobody in particular.
It was then that the principal ran out of office in her heels, she had to push some students out of her way just so she could see what the noise was all about as a large number of students had gathered in the hallway and all corners were crowded but the male student was given space, no one wanted to come close to him.
“Does anyone have a small knife? He is dying,” Mia yelled again.
“I think I have one in my office” the principal replied and rushed to her office to bring a knife I guessed she used to peel oranges. Mia was about to cut through his skin with the knife when she suddenly remembered something then she stopped.
She left the hallway and forced her way in between the students just so she could get to the school’s science laboratory.
“Mia, what are you looking for?” I kept on asking her as she was searching for something, she would read the labels on the glasses and then drop them back. She kept on searching until she finally found the one she was looking for.
She ran back to the hallway holding the glass of peracetic acid in her hand but this time the student cleared the way for her. She knelt down in front of the boy and carefully poured it on the knife before she finally cut through his skin at the skin at the exact spot he was stung.
I don’t know what she gave him but he started vomiting all of a sudden he stopped breathing
“Mia what did you feed him?” I could hear one of the students accuse Mia as he had stopped breathing.
“I thought you knew what you were doing, what have you done to him?” One of the players on the football team got upset.
“Just keep quiet, when he was stung all of you just stood there doing nothing. A Lot of you even brought out your phones the record the whole thing and the painful part is that you are still recording and you dare open your mouths to scold the only person that struggled to save his life” I yelled at them at once and the students who were recording became so ashamed they hid the phones away, well some of them. I really couldn’t believe that the boy was actually dead, just like that.