MISS D—— OF COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOL’ EPISODE 1

‘MISS D—— OF COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOL’ 
by Odubiyi Sodeeq.
EPISODE 1
The student’s faces beamed with happiness, and as some embraced themselves in their new uniforms—obviously the new intakes and those in their last year in school—some stood in groups, pointing, jesting, and walking along the corridor with an air of seniority. It was the beginning of a new session—and the first day—the exact date it is difficult to recall, but I knew perfectly well, it was one of the declining days in September. I need not aid the reader of what happens on the first day of resumption—I believe the reader had been to school. The story is not different in Comprehensive High School, Ayetoro(snr), where our curiosity as to the purpose of this story shall find proper gratification. Students were in high spirits as some old faces had vanished the school, and new faces—the formal JSS3 students—have been transferred to the ‘senior school’—thus we call it. Mingled together in such freshness of disposition, the new SS3 students—in their pairs of trousers—carried their legs uncommonly as they walked in front of their juniors, who, as it is to be expected, are extremely happy with the green lines worked in the hands of their new shirt—to distinguish them from the junior school students.
 Before we start our story in earnest, it is worthy of record—though not uncommon—that there is a considerable difference in the structure of ‘junior school’ and ‘senior school’ in Comprehensive High School, Ayetoro. The consequence of which placed the senior school students above, in many respects, the junior school students. In junior school, we have five classes which can be mentioned in the following terms: HG, SG, CW, CG and HW—each having its own meaning that will be related sometimes later in the course of this story. And these classes are in no way different from one another, only that a structure was divided into five to avoid over-population in a classroom. It is however a belief among the students that these classes can be regarded in terms of the students that constituted them. SG is known to be the poorest among all and CG, as the constitution states, inhabited bright scholars. Rumor, flying batlike in the school premises, had it that a considerable percentage of prefects in the school are chosen from CG. How the other classes are regarded, I consider it unnecessary at this point.
There is, however, a marked difference in the structure of ‘senior school’. Each class represents a department. Such that CG is the Commercial Class; SG, Science Class; HG, Art Class; and CW, Technical Class. Strange to say, the clear difference in these classes doesn't convey that they cannot be ranked as we have seen regarding the junior school. There are ranks. But here, I beg your pardon to only reveal the best of all. The SG class. That's according to the constitution, from time immemorial, SG has been the best of all and has continue to maintain the standard in the course of time. Giants the scholars were, that no class has never lead any session, lest it is the formidable ES-GEE.
Such was the situation of things when this story opens with our protagonist, whose actual identity, this writer has dared to conceal and whose person, I have given the fictitious name of MISS D——.