A certain girl called Nana (pseudonym for protection) who is an Indian with a curly hair and a puttu on her forehead in between her eyebrows, wasn't paying attention when I called the class to read. But she has a pair of big eyes that appeared like eagles' ones and seemed to be very sensitive to my presence and position. Hence, she would constantly be aware if I were looking at her at one point of time.
It was a reading session and everyone's eyes were on the board to read a passage that I flashed on the screen using a projector. The students were to read it out loud. As usual, Nana was thinking of something else and had once again failed to follow my instruction and most importantly, other students' reading pace. I started to turn my head and my eyes so that they were fixed on hers right away. She, as expected, sensed it and like any normal living thing would do, would resort to ways to protect herself.
Her eyes met mine and I knew she hadn't been reading all the while. She was lost and didn't know where the other students were reading at. So she started moving her bottom lip, vibrating it fast and randomly in a motion that seemed to resemble one producing sound as what she heard her friends were uttering concurrently. For a moment she looked like she was chanting. Darn obvious. But I let her go. At least she tried. lol.
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| Nana's possible imagination of what I might do to her. |
