The day we recieved our results...

River Valley High School auditorium was filled with pupils wearing ankle socks, holding various models of handphones, and some couples could be seen holding hands and whispering conspirationally to each other. Girls gathered around each other talking excitedly, boys were gathered around the girls and shouting at each other. Near the stage, Mrs Look was.. smiling.

'Looook at them, so excited to be back. We'll see if they can be as spirited when they get their results back, uhh..'she grunted to nobody in particular.

A few students from 4A heard her and looked very indignant

With her gaze still fixed on a particularly good looking boy, she tilted her head towards where she supposed the Principal was and said, 'I think we can start now, Miss Ek... Miss ek?...Ek arh, where are you?'

The 4A pupils tittered.

A few meters away, Miss EK waddled out of the teachers' toilet and grunted her assent to Mr Ong, who happened to be drinking from the water cooler because his experiment to create water from thin air failed miserably. Very surprised that the Great and Revered Miss EK would care to speak to him, Mr Ong accidentally acted like a whale in his haste to express his heartfelt compliance. He then apologised profusely, sweating due to his nervousness. Suddenly he froze. How could he have forgotten!

Everyone present and tall enough were very much entertained by the sight of Mr Ong jerking towards the auditorium, his short little legs pedalling for all he was worth, his chubby round body wobbling like a bowl of jelly, arms flailing about, his face red and contorted, mouth puckered up, and finally unleashing a howl so terrible that the flowers nearby wilted...

'Meesus LooK!! Mees Eggk say Go Ahead!!'

The unfortunate spectators near to him had to wipe his spittle off themselves.

Mrs Look was most alarmed to see a soddy maroon ball roaring towards her. With startling speed and gracelessness, she clambered onto the stage. The students saw a flash of pink and roared.

Miss Ek had just managed to free herself from the unrelenting grip of the narrow stairway leading up to the stage when she decided she had enough. She grabbed for the microphone and somehow managed to overbalance. And she shrieked.

Her shriek transversed through the microphone... the amplifier... got rejected by the loudspeaker, got amplified again, rejected, amplified, rejected...till it finally burst through the loudspeaker as a disembodied blaring screech. It succeeded in making all the living things cover their ears, including the grass, flowers, ants... thus causing complete silence in the whole school compound. (The HDB blocks nearby went silent too.)

The silence was broken by birds hitting the ground.