4
What actually Happened?
(read previous chapters 1-3 if u haven't)
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Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Chapter 4 - The story
Mugan Shan
Yes! Yes! The finishing line is before me, YES! I’m gonna win, win, yeah yeah! Now Kok Lam can’t boast to me about his athletic ranks anymore, Shan thought. His brain released a few happy endorphins as he stretched out his hand to feel the finishing line ribbon. Aha, gotcha’!
He felt so happy. Once again, he had got the Grand Title. In the midst of his excitement his legs became like jelly and he sank to the floor. With his eyes closed, he embraced the moment of glory, with the crowds present at the Kundang Hall chanting his name. Maybe next time I can join the Olympics.
A few moments later, he opened his eyes and got a big shock.
“Wait a minute, this isn’t the Kundang Hall… this…” Shan blinked and ribbed his eyes. “This… a stadium… I thought, I thought…” A feeling of fear and confusion gripped him. He simply has no idea what happened. Then he noticed a tall, skinny, Indian guy with handsome features walking towards him.
Oh no. Who is he? I think he’s 19 or 20 years old by the looks of his physique. And he’s coming towards ME! Oh no, oh no no! I want my pa, I want my amma!
The tall guy came nearer and extended a hand towards poor Shan. Shan froze.
“I… I… Uh…” his brain just could not find the response to give.
“Hi,” said the tall guy. “Congrats on the win,”
“Uh… thanks… I… Uh…”
“What’s your name? You have a great potential to be a runner, like me when I was 15 years old,”
“My… uh… name is.. M-Mugan Shan…”
“Now THAT’s is indeed a surprise,”
The tall guy pulled Shan to his feet.
“Why a surprise?”
“Well,” Said the tall guy as he shook hands with Shan, “I represent Malaysia in running and racing tournaments, and my name also happens to be Mugan Shan. But I prefer to be called Mugan.”
Poor Shan thought he would faint, there and then.
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Jhaneni and Yimay
Just a few minutes before the school bell, Jhanenie sluggishly headed for the stairs after the prefect’s daily meetings. Just before she reached the stairs, a weird school nurse came up to her and ushered her forcibly into the school’s dental room. The room was empty and dark. Only a spotlight shone above an empty dental chair.
“Take a seat,” said the nurse nonchalantly. “The doctor will be here in a moment.”
“But…” Jhanenie opened her mouth to protest, but the nurse had already left, without a word.
Puzzled and dizzy, she went obediently and lied down on the dental chair. She settled down and began to drift off to sleep when all of a sudden, a voice boomed out of nowhere.
“Just on time, student,”
A man came into her view, presumably the doctor. Jhanenie tried to get up, shivering with fright but she failed because she felt strength-less.
“That’s right, girl, relax, relax… RELAX…”
Strange enough, she allowed herself to relax, submitting herself to the dentist.
“Now, I need you to open your mouth,”
The dentist’s voice was harsh but in a way, polite and almost comforting as well. Jhanenie opened her mouth and felt jabs here and there in her mouth.
“Yes… the incisor is growing… nurse, record down that experiment 2 is successful,” the dentist whispered. Jhanenie pricked up her ears and thought for a moment.
“Incisor? Isn’t that a vamp…” before she could finish her sentence, she screamed. The dentist, not really bothered by her reaction, seemed to know what she was thinking. He laughed gleefuly.
“Hee ha ha… yes, girl, you’re right. I planted it there when you got your braces on last year. I grew it, cultivated it… It’s my baby… Ha ha…”
Jhanenie was thrown by the statement. She rushed out of the dental room, up the stairs, and back to class without hesitation.
Meanwhile, Yimay was having some problems with some Indian boys at one of the huts near the canteen.
“Hey, you! Pick that up please,” Yimay shouted for the second time. The boys laughed. One culprit replied sarcastically.
“Was she talking to me?”
The three boys burst into roars of laughter. Yimay tried her luck again.
“You are so damn right, and if you don’t pick that up in five seconds, my dear boy, you’ll be history,” said Yimay as she flipped open her prefect notebook. The guy stared straight into her eyes and this time, he wasn’t guffawing.
“Are you threatening me? Do you think I’m afraid of YOU?”
The guy snatched Yimay’s notebook and threw it on top of the canteen’s roof. He got nearer to her. Only then did Yimay realize the way he towered above her.
Man, this guy’s huge. Yimay swallowed her fear.
“Eh hem. You’ve just done another mistake by doing THAT to a prefect. I am now going to see Puan Munah and have your rude ass kicked out of this school.”
Yimay slipped to the side and tried to escape. Too late. The three boys had already cornered her. The culprit dude snatched her by the wrist and flung her across the room, causing Yimay to bump her head on the table. She went sprawling to the ground. Ouch. Silence. Her teeth braces fell out with a “click”.
The guys laughed and gawked.
“Come on, let’s go. Better luck next time, Miss Prefect!” and they went off, blabbering away in Tamil.
Yimay blinked back hot tears. It was truly an embarrassing moment. No one bothered to help her. Blood trickled down from her nose down to her lips. She adjusted her braces and licked her lips.
Eww… blood… yummy… not bad, she thought. Her short and plump fingers reached for her nose. It was throbbing and bleeding slightly. She licked her finger.
Later, Yimay told Puan Munah about the incident, who in response, kicked the guy out of school after calling his parents and giving him a last half-an-hour lecture. Yimay was satisfied, she got her own back.
She felt really mad to think that she was embarrassed in such a way. After all, she was one of the ‘great’ prefects. She could remember the way the guy jested her, humiliated her, and sent her sprawling to the ground.
But mostly she remembered the taste of blood. She closed her eyes and licked her lips, yearning for the ‘spaghetti-sauce’ taste.
Cut it out, girl, I’m a human, not a cannibal… or a vampire, she paused, and felt her teeth. Oh, sharp. The first thing that clicked into her mind was the Twilight series about vampires that she’d recently read. She was sure those 4 incisors of hers were growing longer… sharper… like a… a-- Oh no, because the teeth braces were somehow pulling it longer. That was her hypothesis. She was afraid before, but now she had to admit it.
She hurried back to class. Late. Not very good for my prestige as a prefect. She was too busy contemplating the previous happenings that she crashed into Jhanenie while turning a corner. Their gaze locked. No need to say anything. Roughly, they knew what the other was thinking.
They rushed into class and sat down in their seats, and said nothing. Shock, fear, and confused thoughts filled their brains.
“Yi May, how come you’re late? You woke up late?” asked Ellie.
Yimay just shook her head.
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Suping Tan
Suping’s eyes swept the waiting room. She analyzed the images in her confused brain.
Mum’s not here. Everything looks so different, so sophisticated, so…Her thoughts were interrupted when two teenage girls (propably aged 19) who were tall, beautiful and talkative came into the room.
Ah ya, they look so much like older versions of Kho Jiat and Yeinn Ng back in school, though Suping.
Obviously they just went shopping because their hands were full of shopping bags. The two girls strolled over to another girl sitting on the chair, next to an aunty. The girl next to the aunty looked sick with fever, cold, and coughs. The two girls went over to her and said—
“Hey Suping! Are you feeling better?” they chorused.
“KJS. Yeinn! How come you’re here?”
Poor Suping who was watching the scene nearly fainted.
I want my ma ma! Was all she could think of...
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to be cont.
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2 comments:
wth short and fat fingers. KOK lam, hahaha
Eh That part Kat write one ah... NO blame me...
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