‘’And, it’s recording!’’ I said as I held the old-school video camera, recording my friends dancing in the spacious gymnasium of our school. Even though the gymnasium was full of chattering and hollering from the other students playing other sports, the music coming from our speaker was loud enough for us to hear and dance to it.
As the girls were dancing meticulously in synchronization some guy that was playing basketball at the back piqued my curiosity. I couldn’t help but gazing him as he kept playing basketball with his schoolmates. I was so enamored that I didn’t realize the girls stopped dancing and circled me until one of them snapped her finger right in front of my eyes. ‘’Hey, you there?’’ They were looking into my eyes with concerned faces, they looked like a bunch of bunnies as their eyes get bigger when they are concerned. Just as I turned my head to face those bunny-like faces the ear-piercing school bell rang. All of the students were rushing out of the gymnasium since it was the end of after school and everyone had to get prepared for the New Year’s party. In less than a minute, everyone but us and a few more students had left the gymnasium. I was about to tell the girls I was okay so they’ll stop looking at me with concern I saw the guy that caught my attention staring at me. I couldn’t help myself but panic and leave the gymnasium and go outside to chill out.
It was freezing outside since it was December. The last day of December and the whole year. I forgot about the freezing weather as I started thinking about the whole year. Since the school I am attending is a boarding school we spent all our year in this campus. So it didn’t felt like a year has passed. As I kept thinking about that I had spent more than my ‘’preparation time” for the New Years’ party, outside in freezing cold sitting in the pergola in the garden near our dorm.
The girls had watched me as I sat alone, from our dorm’s window. Around 11 pm they were all ready and they sat next to me in the pergola. They didn’t say a word neither did I. We just sat there for minutes. When the music from the school’s dining hall started playing we all got up and walked slowly to the entrance of the dining hall. Everyone was dressed well, I was the only one that had her uniform on.
As time passed the already noisy dining hall was getting noisier. The principal of the school took a microphone that was on the stage. Everyone knew it was only seconds before the new year. And just then he piqued my curiosity again. It felt like I was dissociated from everything but him. I glanced at the video camera in my hand and looked back at him. I opened the camera and pushed the record button as he smiled at me through the camera lens.