Something that happened in school

Today when we were playing soccer during PE I remembered that Jeremy said that we were going to have a private caning by Mr Chia…

It all happened last week when we were playing soccer during PE. I was a defender for my team and we were all having a fun time. Then we had to fight against another team, this team compared to the previous team were more fierce, better-skilled and all out to win against us. They caught us off guard at the start of the game with their fierce and determined game play and they managed to score a goal. So we then beefed up our defences by stationing ourselves besides the goalpost to try to make scoring virtually impossible. Soon came their onslaught again, and I went up to tackle Marcus who was with the ball, however Marcus tried to do some trick to deter me from getting the ball and as a result instead of kicking the ball, I accidentally kicked Marcus leg. In response he shouted angrily in pain, then he started scolding me and saying that I kicked his leg on purpose, then Daryl joined in and they kept persistently saying that I kicked Marcus on purpose, that we gave in to them and let them have a penalty just for to keep them quiet. In the end they did not score in the penalty, and we lost to them1-0.Later we fought against another team and we managed to beat them 2-0.

  Later during recess when we were changing, Daryl told me that Marcus was no longer angry at me for kicking his leg but at Jeremy as Jeremy also kicked his leg just now, and now Marcus was injured with a limp. The next period which was PE theory, Jeremy told me that he was going to have a private caning with Mr Chia as Marcus told Mr Chia about it and said that I maybe would be caned too as I also kicked Marcus. That got me all flustered up as a private caning would mean a black mark in my report book, and that would mean it would affect the choice of my future school!’ Calm yourself down Kai jie” I told myself. “There is no way such a small thing like this would result in a caning, think about it the last time someone got a caning was for bullying and assaulting someone”, I assured myself. After pondering on it for a while, I decided that, that it should not happen and even if it did I would just tell them the truth.

  Sure enough, nothing happened and I forgot all about it, until today. When I asked Jeremy if he got any caning, he just smiled and said that it was stupid of him to believe Mr Chia words of exaggeration.