School/college Breaks Up - fairyage

SCHOOL BREAKS UP

Adeel strode out of the examination hall, on the last day. Standing in the veranda, he turned back and looked into the hall and felt slightly uneasy. He would have felt more comfortable if all the boys had given their papers as the had done, twenty minutes before time.

Adeel suddenly wished that he had not come out so soon.

Out of the six questions set, he had answered the first question to his satisfaction, the second was doubtful, the third was satisfactory, the fourth, he knew, was clearly wrong (but then, he did not know the correct answer). The sixth answer was the best of the lot. It took only a minute to answer it.

The bell rang. In twos and threes boys came out of the hall. There was the din of excited chatter.

'What have you written for the last question?' Adeel asked a class-mate.

'one page,' said the class-mate.

Adeel did not like this answer. He had written only a line.

A little later he found Azhar and Jabber. 'Well, boys, how did you find the paper?'

'How did you find it?' Jabbar asked.

'Not Bad,' Adeel said.

'I was afraid only of English,' said Azhar, 'now I think I am safe. I think I may get passing marks.'

'Look here,' Adeel said, 'Some fools have written a page for that moral question.'

'I wrote only three-quarters of a page,' Azhar said.

'And I only a little more than half,' said Jabbar, who was an  authority on these matters.

'I too wrote about that lenght, about half a page,' lied Adeel.

'Boys, do you remember that we have no school from tomorrow?'

'Well, what are you going to do with yourselves.' somebody asked.

'I am going to use my books as fuel in the kitchen, 'Adeel said.

'My father has bought a lot of books for me to read during the vacation,' said Jabbar.

The bell rang again fifteen minutes later. The whole school crowded into the hall. There was joy in every face and good-fellowship in every word. Even the teachers tried to be familiar and pleasant. Ebenezar, when he saw Mani, asked: ' Hallo, block-head, how are you going to waste your vacation?'

'I am going to sleep, sir,' Mani said, winking at his friends.

'Are you likely to improve your head by the time you return to the school?'

'How is it possible, sir, uless you cut off Jabbar's head and present it to me?' A great roar of laughter followed this. There would have been roars of laughter at anything; the mood was such.

The Head Master appeared on the platform, and after waiting for the noise to subside, began a short speech, in which he said that the school would remain closed till the nineteenth of June and open again on the twentieth. He hoped that the boys would not waste their time but read story-books and keep glancing throught the books prescribed for their next classes, to which, he hoped, most of them were going to be promoted. And now a minute more, there would be a prayer, after which the boys might disperse and go home.

At the end of the prayer, the storm burst. With the loudest, lustiest cries, the gathering flooded out of the hall in one body.

here...feeling's...the original contents by www.sensualityface.com or www.fairyage.com / describe with the help of R.K. Narayan.