It was actually not me, but a friend of mine. I’m not sure whether this is a passive-aggressive thing, but my friend and I got so much satisfaction out of it that we couldn’t stop smiling after it happened.

Before we start, I’m just going to tell you that this is going to be so long, you should probably go fetch some snacks before reading this.

On to the story.

When I was a tenth grade student, nearly all students in my class and grade hated this one person. This person, unfortunately, was from my class, and it’s a he.

I swear, he’s one of the most annoying kid I’ve ever known. He was smug, and he acted like he knows every single thing in the universe, where in fact, he did not. He was weird, and gosh, he’s just so.. unlikeable. I can’t list every single thing that he did that annoyed me and my classmates, but there’s a lot of them.

I tried not to hate him, really. I’ve tried being neutral, in fact I was one of the students that treated him quite nicely. Meanwhile, my other classmates ignored him, isolated him, and when he started doing his annoying antics, my other classmates would look at him, and man, if looks could kill, he would be dead. No one wanted to be in a group with him, because he would act like he’s the leader and start ordering his group-mate.

As I have mentioned before, I was not so bad to him, but that one time, he annoyed me so much that I was this close from punching his face.

Before we get to that, I’m going to explain that this guy, let’s call him X, has a girl friend, and they’re like, super duper close. Students in my grade all said that they were dating, and honestly, I believed it because gosh, they went home together, ate lunch together, and wherever there’s X, there’s this girl. Let’s call her Y.

Now Y is similar to X, and Y is my friend’s classmate and nemesis. My friend hated her guts, because well, Y’s behaviour was similar to X. Plus, Y acted like she’s the most important thing in this world.

Simply put, Y is annoying, just like X.

Now, my school is a Christian school with 900 or more students, and I moved from my previous school to this school with my friend when I started tenth grade. Every Wednesday, all the students in my school have to attend a Student Chapel. After the Student Chapel, the teachers would announce some announcements, and that day the announcement was very important.

Normally, we are not allowed to sit with students from other classes, but somehow that day it was allowed. So another friend of mine sat beside me, while my friend sat in front of me, but not directly in front of me.

Unfortunately, that day, I got the “jackpot”, which means that I have to sit with X. X sat beside me, and beside X was Y. In front of Y was my friend.

While the teacher was announcing that very important information, X decided that it was the perfect time to talk with Y.

“Hey, how was class today?”
“It was good, how was yours?”
“It was amazing. We had Biology and we studied about ___, and ____,—”
“What does ____ means?”
“Oh, that means…,”

And so on, and so on.

I was irked, and tried to tune them out, but they were right beside me and they were talking so loudly—I swear that the students that was sitting three rows in front of me could hear them too—that I couldn’t hear the teacher’s voice.

While I was silently fuming, my friend that was sitting directly in front of Y turned her head, and quietly called my name.

“Nadine, be quiet.”

I raised my brow at her, and she smiled at me. I rolled my eyes, knowing that it was not directed at me.

X and Y did not realise this.

Their talking got louder, and louder, and louder that I had decided that I’ve had enough. I’m not going to lose some important information just because there’s this idiotic couple beside me talking and making lovey-dovey eyes at each other. I remembered that I was so angry that time, hence me being mean.

I snapped my head at X, and said, “X. Be. Quiet. Do you know how loud you were? Can’t you talk about how good today was later? Is it really that important that you need to discuss it with your girlfriend now?”

His mouth hung open and Y’s eyes were trying to pop out of their sockets.

X grumbled and I continued, “Please. Just shut up, both of you. There are other students beside you here that actually wants to listen to what the teacher is talking about and you two are talking so loudly that we can not hear anything.”

I huffed, and crossed my arms and looked straight ahead.

Suddenly my friend called my name and I turned to look at her.

She had turned her head to look at Y, then X, then at me. She smiled at me and she said loudly, “Thank you.”

Through out the announcement, I didn’t even hear X and Y breathe.

I know it was really rude for me to do that, but it’s even more rude for them to talk loudly while everybody else is trying to pay attention to the teacher.

X is still in my class (right now I’m in eleventh grade), he’s still the most annoying kid in the class, but right now we all can tolerate him. A little bit. Y is also still in this school, but it’s been a long time since I’ve seen her, and she’s not in my friend’s class too, much to my friend’s relief.

I’m really sorry if it’s too long, but I really wanted to share this.