11. THE WATCH

We had P.E. and during the session this boy Alva had an argument with a boy called Amar. It was just over something stupid: a game or something. At the end of P.E. we all went into the changing rooms and got changed and it was about to be home time and then Alva told our teacher that his watch was gone so the P.E. teacher called a senior teacher and the senior teacher said that, well because no one had owned up, she sent everyone to this classroom and said they would have to search our bags which they did.

I think it must have been after about twenty minutes of having our bags searched this boy Amar said, "Oh, maybe his watch fell behind the bench," but he didn't say that. He gave, like, a precise location! Like, you know were we were sitting, maybe it fell off the bench behind the punching bag. It was something really obvious like that. So, Alva and the P.E. teacher went downstairs while we were supervised by the senior teacher and we waited for, like, three minutes and Alva came back with his watch and then this boy, Amar, was like, "Oh, I swear, it was just a lucky guess," although it was blatantly a lie and then we were allowed to go but Amar was kept back so the teacher could talk to him so just because this one boy hid a watch the whole class had to stay back for about twenty-five minutes. He never admitted that he had hidden it though; he stuck with his story that it was a lucky guess.