I asked him to look through his stuff again incase he had misplaced it somewhere. But he said that there is no point of looking for it again since I had taken the phone. He kept threatening me that if I didn’t give it back to him, he would tell the head master. I was really angry at the time. I was trying to help him but he turned to me and said that I was the thief. I didn’t even know that he left his phone in the school for half term. And it was pathetic how he blamed it on me because I was the only one that stayed in school. Anyone could have come back to school and took his phone.
I tried to clam myself down, because I knew that it wouldn’t help if I kept on shouting. When I was calm, I tried to explain to him that anyone could have done it. But he did not believe me, and almost wanted to fight with me because he thought that I was lying. At the time everyone was around us, and watching what was going on, because we made so much noise. I felt that every one was on his side, since that I couldn’t came up with any good explanations. I really wished that I hadn’t stayed in for that half term. I only stayed there because my mum went to France for her job, and I had no where else to stay.
Everyone was pointing at me and calling me a thief. No one was on my side, not a single person. At this point I burst in to tears, and ran to my bed and covered my head with the cover. I cried for almost an hour. But no one came and no one tried to help me.
There was a check for all boarders at ten, but I didn’t go. Michael went and told the head master, Mr. Alexander about it. I don’t know what he said to him but Mr. Alexander seemed to believe him at the time. It was about quarter pass ten; Mr. Alexander came around to our dorm to do the ‘lights out’. I was still crying at the time, he came near my bed and asked me if I had taken Michael’s phone. I didn’t answer him. I couldn’t trust any one at the time. All I wanted to do was to go home, to get away from school, to get way from all those horrible children.
Mr. Alexander knew that I wouldn’t talk to him. He knew that there was some thing wrong. He turned around and asked Michael if he was sure that I was me who took his phone. Michael said yes with out hesitating. Although I didn’t want to speak to any one them but I was still listening to what they were saying. I was shocked when he said yes to Mr. Alexander, because he had no proof what so ever. There were three other people in our dorm apart from Michael and me. They were obviously on Michael’s side since that the rest of the school was. Ken, whose bed was right next to mine, was shouting out about how any one could go to jail for stealing mobile phones. I was really scared that Mr. Alexander would have believed what he said, and tell my parents about it. At that time, one of the things that I was most afraid of was to get shouted at by my parents. I really didn’t know what to do at the time. Even if I had told the head master that I didn’t take it , he wouldn’t have believed me. Well, that’s what I thought at the time.
The head master was very different from what I thought he was. I thought that he was going to punish me and send a letter to my parents telling them how bad I had behaved at school. But instead, he asked the whole school to do a search for the phone. And there he was sitting next to me, and telling me that they couldn’t accuse me for it unless they saw me taking the phone. I turned my head and looked at him in the eyes, I could see in it, that he believed it wasn’t me who took the phone. I felt so much better at the time, because at least one person was on my side.
Everyone was complaining how they had to waste their time on searching for some thing that I had already stolen, according to Michael. But the good news came the minutes later. It must have been one of the best moments in my life. Michael came in the dorm with the phone in his hand, and said that he misplaced it in his school bag. He said it so quietly that we could hardly hear him. He couldn’t even look at me in the eyes, his face was pointing down. Mr. Alexander made him apologize to me, and he did so. We shake hands and he asked me if we would still be friends. I said to him why not since that all the problems were solved.
I didn’t blame him after he had found the phone and proofed that I was innocent. If I were in his situation I would have probably done the same. The head master looked at me and smiled. I never felt better. He turned the lights of and said good night to us. I slept really well that night and had a really nice dream.
The huge pressure that I had was finally gone. Michael was really friendly to me after what happened. We became best friends. Since then I never got accused for any thing that I didn’t do again.
