Swear You Won't Tell? by Vedashree Khambete-Sharma

Author:Vedashree Khambete-Sharma
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
Published: 2018-06-23T04:00:00+00:00

The next few weeks passed in a blur of rehearsals and schoolwork. And the following month, the St Agatha girls proudly lifted the shiny golden trophy for Best Play at the interschool dramatics competition. Miss Shah took her cast out for ice-cream to celebrate and Avantika wished every Friday was as delightful as this one had been.

Her happiness, like all happiness, was short-lived. The following Monday, Miss Shah didn’t show up for her usual English class. Her replacement—Miss Hardikar—was brief in her explanation. Miss Shah was on leave. Yes, it was sudden. No, she didn’t know when Miss Shah would be back. Yes, maybe it was a family emergency, now could everyone please turn to chapter seven in their textbooks? The girls whispered among themselves and the whispers grew. Miss Shah was ill. No, she was on vacation in Seashells. No, she had eloped with an electrician. One girl went around telling anyone who’d listen that after getting a particularly bad grade in her English unit test, she had wished that Miss Shah would disappear and look, her wish had come true!

But it is the nature of news to travel and the nature of salacious news to travel faster than light, so before the week was out, the news was: Miss Shah had been suspended because a student had complained that she had touched her inappropriately. Gasps went up in the corridors of St Agatha, after all the necessary phrases had been looked up in a dictionary. The poor girl! So scary! But who was the poor girl who had made the complaint? The teachers certainly weren’t saying. All that could be said for certain was that Aisha and Shweta couldn’t stop grinning these days.

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