Mary My Student

Episode 36

The principal tried in vain to silence the happy crowd. He had to beckon on me to come and help me quiet down the crowd. I mounted the stage and waved my hands and the students kept mum immediately. I felt a little proud that I could do that what the principal didn’t succeed in doing.

” But that wouldn’t have been possible if not for your teacher Mr Callum Wilson. How many of you know Mary Jasper?
” That lazy cat.” A student said unconsciously, ” everyone knows her.”
” Fine!” the principal went on ” I didn’t believe Mr Collins went he said that Mary offered her sex in exchange for grades and not only that, she also asked him to be her sex slave. So Mr Collins rejected it and ordered her out of his office and she promised the man that she would taint his name and kept to her word and accused him of rape. She put everything in the right order and forced us to believe her instead of the truth. This made Me Collins to lose his job and good reputation.
But here.” The principal held up my hand.” Mr Callum Wilson is your hero.” The students were all smiles now and were looking at me with proud eyes with made me feel a little shy.
” And how did he do it, he installed a camera in his office and Mary Jasper went to repeat the same nonsense he tried with Mr Collins, not knowing that everything she said was being recorded, it was here that Mr Wilson tricked her to admit that she actually set up Mr Collins because he rejected her request, she used the incident to threaten Mr Wilson, but since the camera was there Mr Wilson wasn’t shaken, he turned down her malicious request and dared her to do her worst and she did, last week she went and reported to the police that Mr Wilson raped her just as she did with Mr Collins and the police came here and arrested Mr Wilson, I’m sure most of you didn’t notice?”
” I’m sure sir, throughout last week we didn’t see any police squad car in the school premises and I didn’t skip any day.” A student answered while the other students agreed with a nod. The hall was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

” It was because they didn’t come here with a squad car and also they wore mufti that’s why nobody noticed. As I was saying, it was after Mr Wilson was arrested that everything came out to light, it was there Mary was being exposed as a liar, it was there it now became known Mr Peter Collins was innocent and how many of you knew that she was an atheist and a pagan? I’m sure nobody did.”

This brought a gasp of surprise from the students as they shook their heads vigorously.
” Does anyone know what happened to Mary Jasper?”
” No sir!” A female student volunteered an answer. ” We haven’t seen her since last week.”

” Well you won’t be seeing her anymore, she has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for her atrocious act.”
“Yessssss!!!!!!!!!!!!” Another loud joyous cheer came from the students, louder than before.

” Now I want to warn you students, I hope you now know that there is a camera in Mr Wilson’s office, so if you go there to try any nonsense the camera would record you and when he brings it to us we would deal with you properly. Now I use this medium to warn and advise you to be hardworking and be attentive in class, ask questions where you don’t understand and stop the bad habit of skipping classes. Had Mary been hardworking would anything had led her to try to blackmail a teacher thereby landing herself in jail?”
” No!” The students answered.
” Now I want three hurrays for your hero Mr Callum Wilson.
” Hip hip hip.”

” Hurray” the students answered each hurrays louder than the former.
” Sir we don’t we try this hero clap
It goes like this, Hero, clapclap, clapclap*clap! Hero!” A student suggested. The other agreed with him and without being prompted, they started doing that. They clapped for me without tiring, it was obvious that they were happy.