The afternoon sun rays its light on the carpeted floor of the three girl's classroom. They had to stay behind after class to clean up their classroom, as a punishment for what they did before. They'd found out from Ms. Lita the other day, that someone from their class ratted them out, and told Ms. Lita they did that stupid homework before class. When asked who, Ms. Lita refused to answer.

         "I swear, when we find this 'someone', I'll be the one to tell on them if they did something!"  Melanie complained, whilst wiping the windows, aggressively. 

         "What if they haven't done anything?" Michelle joked, cleaning the whiteboard. "I'll frame them anyway!" Melanie responded. "If you want to find them, you'd need clues and hints, you know?" Miranda suggested, tidying up their classmates' desks. 

         "I don't care about it now. Since I wouldn't get lectured by my parents about it, I really don't  care."

         After a while, the three girls were done cleaning and were about to go home. They tidied up their desks, seats or so and went out the door.

         They decided to not go home yet and maybe play at the school playground first. There are two playgrounds in the yard. One for preschoolers, year 1 and year 2, and one for year 3 to year 6. Even if they are in year 6, they still want to use the other playground. "Nobody's around, why don't we use the year 1 playground?" Melanie suggested, smiling while pointing to it. "No way, we could get in trouble again!" Michelle declined the offer. "I'd rather not get another lecture from my mom!". "Awwe c'mon! Only this one time! I'll take the fault, okay?" She kept on insisting.

The debate goes back and forth and back and forth.

         "Miran! Make the choice for us, please!" Michelle begged Miranda. "Oh! Uh... Maybe we should play, only for a bit though. If we get caught again, it'll probably affect our grades..." Miranda responded. "You heard her, let's play!" Miranda cheered in happiness. They played on it. The swing set, the monkey bars, and the slides were not very suited for their size. But the place gave them memories of when they were little, call it nostalgic if you will.

         Melanie was playing on one of the swings, when she-- out of the blue, asks;

         "So how am I gonna get hints on who the culprit is?"

         "Huh?" Michelle is confused.

"Oh! For that homework thing! Right, right. We should start by asking questions to our classmates. Then-- with the evidence; we can pin-point who did it." Michelle suggested, probably trying to look smart. "Good point! We should try doing that tomorrow! Miran, are you going with us?"

"Hm? Sure, not that I'd have anything better to do anyway."

         It was the day after, the three went to school earlier to interview their classmates. Melanie is going to be the interviewer. Melanie told Michelle to use her pink notebook-- which she doesn't use, to take notes on whatever the interviewee says. Miranda is just there, tagging along. "Alright! Who should we interview first?" Melanie asked the other two.

         "Try asking Aina, she's the popular girl in our class, isn't she?" Miranda said. They then walked up to the girl, Aina. She wears a white headscarf to cover her hair and her skin is of someone from south-east Asia.

         "Aina! Aina! Can ask you a question?" Melanie asked, with a serious yet cheery tone.

         "Hm? Sure. What is it?"

         "Did you see anyone talk to Ms. Lita last week? You know, when we were asked to go to the teachers' room."

         "I think someone did," Aina said. "At lunch break, someone was talking to Ms. Lita." Melanie's face lit up as Michelle is aggressively writing down everything Aina said. "I don't know who it was though." Ah, their face turned blue. "Well. Do you know how they...  looked?" Melanie is desperate. "I think it was a boy... They had really short hair. Oh! And his skin color's like mine. Other than that, I don't know. I only saw his back talking to Ms. Lita." Aina responded. The three thank Aina for the information. Now it's time for them to find another interviewee.

         They were walking down the halls. "Why don't we try to think of who the culprit is?" Michelle suggested. "Aina did give us clues on what he looks like." 'Someone tan... I guess both Hugo and Shubh are tan?' Melanie thought. "It can be either Shubh or Hugo. If you're talking about the ones from our class." Miranda stated.

         While they were thinking, Melanie noticed Mai is walking right in front of them. Mai is this tall black-haired girl from their class that they're quite friendly with. Except for Miranda. Mai is her nemesis because she coincidentally has the same last name as her. Poor Mai, she didn't even do anything.

         "Why don't we ask Mai over there?" Melanie suggested.

         "No! I don't want to even be near her. Let alone ask her something."

         "I've told you many times! That is a really petty reason to hate someone!" Michelle commented. "I don't care! I'm going back to class." Miranda runs off to their classroom, leaving the two behind. They didn't have any hooks to catch on right now, so they went up to Mai and Melanie asked her the same question, "Hey Mai, I wanna ask you something, did you see anyone talk to Ms. Lita last week? When Michelle and I were asked  to go to the teachers' room."

         "Oh, I'm pretty sure Evelyn told me; Hugo asked her where Ms. Lita was, and she told me he told her he wanted to talk to Ms. Lita about something-something-homework. Are you guys trying to find who told on you?" Mai smugly explained. They found it! The culprit who told on them! Hugo, the boy who sits right next to Melanie, was the culprit! Melanie and Michelle both thank Mai for helping them and rush to their classroom.

         "HUGO!" Melanie screamed at the top of her lungs. Alerting other students present, including Miranda.

         "Hm? You need something?" Hugo gullibly asked her.

         "OH, you know what she's talking about," Michelle says as she takes on the role of main character, which she never does. I should improve on that later. Hugo is confused, as he'd forgotten what he did. Melanie and Michelle went up to him. "What? What do you need? Is there something wrong?" Hugo is still confused and now confuzzled.

         "You know... I feel a bit nice. So why don't we talk about this at the lunch tables?" "Uhm... Okay?"

         Melanie got a grip on his wrist and walked until they were at said area. They went down the stairs, out of the main school building, through the halls, and the library.

The three of them are now sitting at one of the tables.

         "So... Is there something wrong?" Hugo asked her

        "Why did you tell on us!?" Melanie stood up and banged her hands on the table, leaving a loud 'Bam!' sound. He realized what he did.

        "Ooh! That's what you meant." Hugo answered. "Remember that one time I told Tes I came in late to class was because I stayed up late? You told on me, you said I was lying. Which isn't wrong, but I specifically told you not to tell her. And you did! This is just simply payback for that."

        "That's so petty! I was 7 at the time! I've grown you know! I'm in year 6 now, I'm about to graduate!" Melanie responded. "And you know, I saw you yesterday; you swore while you were playing on top of the monkey bars! I heard you say the F word."

        "WAIT, NO! Don't tell her!" Hugo begged. Melanie kept on teasing him, saying she'd tell on him for revenge on his revenge. They went back and forth and back and forth, just like how it is when someone gets into an argument with Melanie. Michelle was just looking at them, she had no role in this.

It was getting boring. It really was. And Michelle had had enough of it.

         "Alright. This is enough. Can we stop now?" She stated. "Hugo, Why can't you just apologize already?'"

         "Don't blame me! She was the one who started it!"

         "Just say sorry! Are you mute?"

It took a while for him to think about just saying 'Sorry'. And when he did, it wasn't very satisfactory.  

         "I'm sorry. There. I said it. Isn't what you want?" The boy said after a while of complete silence.

"At least say it like you mean it!" Melanie complained. "Well, I don't mean it!". "Hugo! Just say it already! I'm starting to worry if you're also deaf." It-- again, took a while.

         The temperature was cold. Of course, it was, it was morning after all. You could hear the rustling leaves as the wind flows by. The color of the leaves was still green since it was not autumn yet. Michelle looked at the trees, still rustling, then looked back at the boy with his head looking down.     

         "I'm sorry." He said. To which he then ran through the halls as fast as he can leaving the two girls behind. Just to say, they were quite surprised. Even so, they didn't try to catch him and decided to just go back to the classroom. Melanie complained about him as they are walking through the now quite busy halls.

         "So, are you gonna tell on him?" Michelle asked Melanie.

         "I am." The girl answered.

         "Why? He already apologized to you."

         "You think that's an apology?" Melanie sarcastically responded, "He said sorry, even if he just ran off after." Michelle replied.

         "You have a point, I guess I'm keeping it a secret for a while" Melanie didn't want to tell on him from the beginning, she was just mad at him; that's all. I don't want any romance here between the two. I think they're better off friends and nothing more :).