Episode 9 Can't get enough of it!

Some people sacrifice their lives for some degnified reasons. Some may do so for their countries. Some for families, love, friendships, works and so on. For Nico, it was little giggles that she got by tickling other's funny bone. The sound of giggles is the loveliest sound of all to her ears. She wouldn't mind at all to do some

 extra works for the reward.

 

It was the month of one of the big events at her school, The Sport Day. For some reasons, all the teachers and some students took a great pride in the event, especially a performance called "Cheering battle."

All the girls had to practice daily until they get the brilliantly synchronized performance. After school, all the pleasuable lazy hours were consumed by the long and painful practice. What Nico can't stand is anything called routine work. And the practice was nothing but one of them. Every single day, all the girls had to

work on their performance for a few hours for a month. It seemed a decade or even a century for Nico to

see those serious faces of teachers, yelling at them while students got sweaty and smelly to do their

tasks. It turned out to be just like a long lasting nightmare since Nico was not good at a team sport. She was always a bit too fast or too slow whatever the movement she made. So, she was the one who destroy the harmony.

"Harmony, my ass!"

She mumbled one time after the long preach of the importance of it by Mrs White.

Her ears never let Nico's words go.

"Excuse me, Miss Bloomer. Would you like say something?"

Nico went,

"No, ma'am. No. Nothing at all. I'm quite happy here."

"Oh, it is quite lucky of you. However, unfortunately, we are not as happy as you are about your poor

performance. Perhaps you need some private lessons during the lunch break. Let's start it from tomorrow."

"Damn!"

It came out before Nico covered her mouth with her hands. she ended up taking another painfully long hour of moral lesson at the principal office.

 

From the day on, all her fun hours at school were exploited with millions of "Oh. no. You are awful. One

more go, Miss Bloomer!" Nico got really sick of being a slave for a stupid performance which she didn't take interest at all. She needed a good giggle to get over the traumatic experience.

 

On the night before the very last day of the practice, Nico was busy for preparation. The preparation for a

good giggle, possibly great giggles. On the last day, Mrs White told Nico to perform her moves she had

learned in front of the class, of course, in order to make Nico embarassmed. Mrs White was amazingly

excellent at finding faults of her students and genius at making them feel terrible. Nico thought to herself,

"If she is gonna make me a laugh, I might as well give it a big one."

And she worked for long hours for the preparation on the night.

 

Next day, she danced into the classroom and put the sportswear she "prepared" on the previous night very quickly and danced out of the classroom with a blink. Whe all the girls lined up in front of all the teachers for the final practice, Mrs White announced,

"Girls, Miss Bloomer has been practicing quite hard and would like to show you all how hard she has worked today. "

The girls cheered. Then, Miss White called Nico to the front.

As Nico walked to the front, some giggles started. And by the time she got to the front, the whole school started laughing at her.

"Quiet! Order, girls! Order! What is wrong with you!"

Mrs White shouted at them but it was out of control. Most girls started laughing out loud. Some tried to strifle their laughter so hard that tears came out of their eyes.

She found out the cause as she looked at Nico. She was standing in front of the students, showing her shorts patched with upside-down heart-shaped red cloth on the bottom part.

Nico looked at the furious face of Miss White and said,

"It was the only cloth I got at home. I had to mend this shorts with it for I found a big hole on it. Perhaps it was from the extra practices I have done even at home in order to get better... "

The great giggle last all day long. It was Miss White's turn to have a day like a long never-ending nightmare.

 

Moral: What goes around, comes around.