"Well, what do we have here?" I˙ve set my eyes on the lost object, and I was thinking to myself: "That's quite a shitty day to have." Out of the 650 students in my school, which one of them is today gonna have to go without lunch. I was having a free period at the time and I was wasting it on a couch that were on the hallway of our school and every now and then a professor walked past me, but somehow all of them were unable to see the black wallet. "Just take it to the secretary Lara."
It was the logical option right, but I was really getting curious, I didn't know everyone at our school but enough, to where I could recognize probably 35% of people that the wallet could belong to. I walked myself to the object, when all of the sudden...The bell rang and I started hearing a stampede of students coming through. I had to think quick, I took the wallet slipped it in my pocket and I went to the modern economy class.
While listening about marketing the wallet was rubbing against my leg in my pocket, I still didn't check whose it was as I didn't want to open it in front of my classmates, cause I didn't know what would be more awkward, if it was one of them or some completely random student, probably the first one. But there was one more person in my mind, that one person came from a bit more educated part of school than myself and was in general are...Nah, it can't be them.
After the last bell rang, I went to the restroom, just in case so that nobody would see me. There I waited for a bit, before I collected the guts to finally open it. When I opened it, I originally didn't see anything but I decided to dive a little bit deeper, and then I finally saw their ID..."Well fucking great." I exhaled and put the card back in the wallet. The school was already done, so most of the students were already gone, but I saw the secretary before I went to the bathroom. "Well I'll just take it to her and leave it there." For a second, it was solved, the problem was gone. I took a stroll down to her office with the wallet in my hand and grabbed the door knob.
LOCKED. HOW? WHY? It looked like I wasted just enough time in the bathroom, that she left school. Now I had to deal with the dilemma. Leaving it there was out of the question, because risking it getting stolen was just that more dumb. I guess my only choice now was to take it home. I threw the wallet in my backpack and I went home.
While at home, I was laying in my bed, trying to think of all the scenarios that could happen tomorrow at school. I was thinking of the ways to tell him that I found his wallet. At first I thought that it would be best if I just gave it to him completely nonchalantly. Just tell him, give it to him. I was also thinking that maybe I should just give it to their teacher and tell them not to tell him. But i was way to much of a egomaniac to do that. Also, I made an idiot of myself in front of him to just pass this opportunity. I tried getting some sleep at night, but I just couldn't stop thinking about it.
The next day i went to my locker and left my jacket there. Him and his classmates had a class in the classroom close to us during the fifth period. During lunch I went to pick up some notebooks when we locked eyes on the stairway. I quickly looked away and thought to myself: "No, too early." And finally the fifth period came. And we were standing in front of the classroom. Alen was speaking to me: "Hey, what did you get for the sixth question?" " I don't remember."
By this point I had completely forgot there even was an exam. And finally their class arrived and we locked eyes again. Finally I went up to him, my heart was pounding, but I had practiced this scenario 50 times in my head, I thought that I was gonna approach him like I was John fucking Travolta.
And finally I came up to him, his friend was looking at me and I managed to vomit out the softest: "Hey, found your wallet." "Oh my god, thank you so much." He said, but by the time he reached the end of the sentence I was already back with Alen, who decided to ignore the situation. We just went inside of the classroom. During the class, I just kept staring at the celling. I went home and sunk into my couch.
Should've just took the cash.
LARA PETEK 12.1.2025