Absurd and disappointment.

It’s not a good day for me.

Today my friends and I was called by a teacher who in charge with library. She accused us for not returning books for more than one month.

WHAT? That’s what I thought in the first place. I remembered the last time I borrowed book from library was a month ago, when we were having our Mathematics trial paper. And I was very sure that I had returned it in time.

We tried to explain to the teacher, and she asked us to find the books from library if we really had returned it.

Fine, I thought, and then we went to library during recess.

The library didn't open.

Good, that was what we expected, as our school library was infamous of being…irresponsible somehow. We often found the library closed, or the worse, open and there was nobody inside, I mean, the librarians.

Finally later, I found it was opened, and I went to find the book that she “declared” I didn't return.

In my “surprise”, there was one book there, which I recognized as the book I borrowed before. However the code number did not match the one which teacher had gave me. I could swear it was the one because I remember there were some notes at the spaces in some pages, and I even checked on what were written. And the returned date stated on the book matched the date I returned. I approached the librarian who was happened to be there and told her the whole incident. She checked for me, and really, my name was in the ‘blacklist’ with the number different from the book, and yet the title of the book was the same! The librarian analyzed that maybe the code was mistaken as the book was the same and asked me to ignore the problem.

Ignore?? I couldn't satisfy with the answer she gave me. What if the teacher call me again and ask me to compensate? I asked over and over again but the librarian asked me to ‘biarkan sahaja’. I gave up, but I jotted down the name of the librarian before I left.

I do not know what is going to happen next, but probably the teacher will not trust me, and accuse me for losing the book. If it really happens, I will not have other way out but to compensate for a book which ‘disappeared and exchanged’ mysteriously.

It is so absurd, right? I don’t know how the things went wrong so dramatically. This form 6 was a year full of unexpected things for me.