Vanessa pulled the handle and pushed the door open to their classroom. Ms. Darbus was in the middle of a boring explanation about the 'issues' with teenagers and why they should further 'participate' in her drama concerts. "Excuse me Ms. Darbus," Kelsi announced.
"WHO IS IT?! Oh, welcome back Kelsi and Vanessa, take a seat and I will ask someone to give you a brief description about this subject," Ms. Darbus greeted.
"Oh… actually Ms. Darbus, we have a message to tell you," Kelsi reminded.
"Your speech is granted," Ms. Darbus instructed.
"We need to run an errand for the principal, he just stopped us when we were along the way to the toilet and he needs us to patrol the corridors to make sure they're clear," Kelsi explained.
"Here is your hall pass, you must be back by after lunch break," Ms. Darbus insured.
Kelsi and Vanessa grabbed their hall passes and headed out the door, with a tiny smirk on their faces. "Now, here's what we do…you go to the principal's office and watch on Taylor and I'll stand on corridor guard so that if someone comes from our class we can explain what we said to Ms. Darbus," Vanessa ordered.
"Alright, I'll text you when she's out, I'll make a run for it when the principal says his 'I hope you learned from this…' speech," Kelsi explained.
"OK, we'll be late if we don't act now," Vanessa said.
--Kelsi's Mission--
Kelsi tip-toed towards the Principal's office and slid across the floor underneath the classroom windows. "Good morning Ms. McKessie, do you have a message for me?" Kelsi overheard.
"No, I don't actually, Ms. Darbus sent me."
"What for?"
"Well, I need to explain something to you."
"Hang on please Taylor, I need to call Ms. Darbus to ask exactly why you were sent."
The principal picked up the phone and pressed some numbers following a chart to the left of the phone.
"Hello, Ms. Darbus here, who might this be?" Ms. Darbus greeted.
"Oh, hello Ms. Darbus, this is the person calling from the head office," greeted the Principal.
"Hello! I've sent Ms. McKessie to do some explaining," Ms. Darbus explained.
"I know this information already, Ms. McKessie told me. Tell me what sort of explaining," the Principal replied.
"Ms. McKessie was screaming out in an disorderly manner when they were properly warned last night by phone call to keep quiet in the classroom and corridors," Ms. Darbus recalled.
"That is all I needed to find out, thank you Ms. Darbus and I shall see you in the staff room," the Principal signed off.
Kelsi heard a telephone slam down.
"Well Ms. McKessie, I've heard from Ms. Darbus that you have not listened to the message sent personally for you one by one last night and that you have broken our rules," the Principal described.
"Please, call me Taylor," Taylor responded.
"Well Taylor, please tell me what was going through your mind when you were having a yell," the Principal requested.
"I had a bad day last night," Taylor remembered.
"What exactly happened? If you don't mind telling me," the Principal asked with comfort.
"I'm not giving you details, but I just went to visit a friend and she was just sick and kind of unhappy," Taylor stated in short details.
"Well, you seem pretty upset, are there any other people involved in this?" the Principal questioned and wrote some notes down on an assessment paper.
"Troy, Chad, Zeke and Kelsi," Taylor named.
"I'll speak to them, I'm sending you to the student council to speak to someone," the Principal decided. "I'm expecting a 'Student Council Assessment Result' from you after lunch break and Troy, Zeke, Chad and Kelsi will be joining you," the Principal concluded. "Please take this envelope and give it to Mrs. Dennis, please don't open it," the Principal added as he gave Taylor an envelope.
"Thank you," Taylor thanked glumly.
"I hope you've learned from this…" the Principal did his usual concluding statement.
'Statement done and I'm supposed to be in Student Council. Envelope handed,' Kelsi wrote in her text.
'Go 2 toilets,' Vanessa sent in her reply.
Kelsi ran as fast as she could towards the toilets. There was no-one standing outside the doors, so she shoved the door open. No-one there. So Kelsi kicked every toilet door open until she reached the last one. There was Vanessa. "Hey, hey, didn't you see my text?" Vanessa questioned.
"What text?" Kelsi asked. Vanessa peered at her cell phone, she had forgotten to send her message, 'In last toilet. C U there.'
"Sorry, this one," Vanessa answered and pressed send.
BEEP BEEP, BEEP BEEP
"Alright…" Kelsi said confused with a smile on her face. "All that kicking for nothing…" she whispered to herself.
"Explain," Vanessa demanded.
"Well, all I heard was that Taylor or Ms. McKessie giggles was questioned by the Principal about what was going through her mind, blah blah and what happened," Kelsi explained.
"I'm going for my 'Corridor Monitoring' now… alright; you better keep away from Taylor, Chad or Troy. If they ask me where you are, I'll just say I don't know. It'll be hard to keep away from them but I'll keep a close watch-out in the corridor where they are and when they have gone to the Student Council I'll head in the bathroom where you'll just have to wait or in the storeroom," Vanessa instructed. "Oh, and I'd prefer the bathroom over the storeroom," Vanessa added.
"Keep your phone on silent and I'll text you, I'll keep mine on silent too," Kelsi recognised.
"Bye Kelsi," Vanessa departed as she waved.
Kelsi waved back and they were onto their mission.