The Craziest Thing I’ve Ever Done

The school bell rang. Students poured out of the campus desperate for freedom and lunch. I hastily collected all my books and joined the procession of those sweating students, frowning under the violent, radiant sun.
“Hey, Cherry! Why not have lunch with us!” Tammy and Lily shouted from a distance. I hardly made my way through the torrent of people to them, and all of us stumbled in the discouraging, sweltering atmosphere with starvation and dizziness. I felt like walking in Sahara Desert. Buildings were melting, trees were burning in the steaming air, and the school gate was still far away.
“It’s so hot,” I couldn’t help complaining.
“ Yeah,” said Lily, trying to fan away the heat away with her hand. “the gate is still a distance away.”
“Let’s just climb the side-door.”
“What!” I shouted.
“Are you insane? We might be seen by teachers!”
Lily and I stared at Tammy, who brought out this crazy idea, but she just shrugged with an “I-don’t-give-a-damn” face.
I hesitated for a moment. In fact, I didn’t mind breaking rules. Instead, it was a tempting idea, as long as we could get out of this scorching heat. But I looked at Tammy and Lily, the tallest girls in class. They were both in jeans. Looking back at myself, one of the Hobbits in class, who never broke through the height of 160 and argued for 0.1 of a centimeter all the time, was in my knee-length uniform skirt! It was impossible for me to do so… or was it?
Despite the danger of being caught and “exposed”, it would be quite exciting, actually. Haven’t I been longing for doing these derailed acts for a long time? It would be such a great opportunity to be a “bad student”! The rebellious thoughts soon conquered my mind and all my conscience and behavior were swept away.
“Yeah! Let’s go about it!”
Tammy and I headed to the side-gate with a reluctant Lily. I looked up to the tremendous steel door with frustration when Tammy started to put down her bag, stepped her leg on the gate, with both her hands clinging to the iron bar. She bent her knee, trying to jump on the door, one, two, three…
“Can I go out by this gate?”
All of us were startled and turned around, (which almost made Tammy fall off) and saw a lady in high-heels with an umbrella in her hand.
“Er…” Lily and I started to stammer when we looked at each other in panic. We were caught ! And we were doomed! Why did I ever agree to do this? I tried to explain why we were here. But Tammy didn’t think so.
“No, you can’t walk out by this door. But you can climb over it, and that’s what we’re doing. Wanna join us?” Tammy said with a mischievous smile on her face.
Checkmate! The lady was shocked by her fearless attitude and her jaw hung in the air for seconds.
“Climb…climb over it? Well… then…I think I’d better find another way out…” she stammered, and left with awkwardness.
We burst out laughing with victory. With a cool leader as Tammy was, everything seemed to be done very well. We smiled with confidence as Tammy practically climbed on the gate, and whoosh! She had landed outside of the campus safely.
“My turn!”
Not knowing where my courage came from, I volunteered to be the next one. Throwing my bag to Tammy, I clung both of my hands on the iron bars, and they were so hot! Or maybe the heat came from my trembling sweating hands? I wouldn’t know. I tried very hard to step on the door with one of my feet.
“Calm down, and take a breath,” I told myself, and pulled—
The breeze gently blew my face. I was sitting on the gate! The view was so good here. I could see the panorama sight of our campus! All my emotions seemed to run away. And, oh, the gate was so torrid! My thighs felt like burning. Maybe I should get down now. Thinking of this, I looked down at the ground, and dizziness racked my brain. It was so high! How could I get down?
“How can I get down?” I shouted to Tammy nervously.
“Jump down, you silly!” she shouted back.
“Ok, ok…” I said, and slowly turned around on the gate. ” I’m jumping!”
“Be care…Shoot! You are wearing a skirt!” Tammy screamed out loud.
“Yeah, thank you for finally noticing this.” I thought. But before I could say anything, I felt a strong wind, my skirt inflated like a cake-like tent while the ground zoomed up and suddenly, I landed! I made it! I was in the school five seconds ago, and now I was as free as a bird! The weather seemed so nice and the flowers, the sky and even the sun were so lovely.
“Whoosh!” Lily had landed, too. We all were laughing, giggling and beaming, carrying our bags and headed to the restaurant. As we turned around and walked on the pavement, a mother and her little girl stared at us with shock and horror in silence, as if they were stunned into stones.
Crazy as we were, being seen or not didn’t mean anything to us anymore. As long as we were happy, why did we have to care whether others think of us as crazy or sane?
Yeah! We were bad girls!