A Movie That Witnessed Friendship

I walked through the corridor, which seemed too long, my heart thumping, time frozen. The enthusiasm I had making the movie, and the friendship that bonded us together making a masterpiece… everything was now over. I opened the door of the teachers` office slowly, my best friend followed. Our class teacher was sitting stiffly in his wooden chair, reading a newspaper. We walked in front of the desk, and the teacher raised his head.

"What an interesting life you are living," the teacher said seriously. "But never forget you are now a sophomore student in high school. At this time next year, you will take Gaokao (the college entrance examination in China). You should have spent all of your time studying! How come you have time to make such naive movies?" We didn`t answer.

After a short moment of silence, the teacher spoke again, "I have watched your masterpiece! You and some other students in our class mimicked many teachers in your movies! Do you think that is funny? You showed no respect to teachers!"

"No! We did not mean to mimic," I tried to argue, "We just wanted to reproduce some interesting moments that happened in our class, and we do respect all of our teachers!"

But it didn`t work. It was not until we had stood there for half an hour listening to his speech that he let us go. Before we left, he reminded, "Ask your parents to call me this evening!"

We went out of the door of the teachers` office, back to the corridor again. The next class had already begun, so there was no one outside except us. It was so quiet that the only thing I could hear were footsteps. My friend walked far in front of me. My heart was full of guilt and sadness. I wanted to go back to my seat as soon as possible, but the corridor was still too long. So I tried to say something to avoid that embarrassment. But what should I say? Sorry? Or just say "That`s not a big deal!" Finally, I chose silence.

After class, I tried to talk with him to make him feel better. But he didn`t look at me and did not even reply with a single word. I thought he was sad, so I left him in peace. The next day, I talked to him; he still ignored me. I got angry and pushed him, "What`s wrong with you? Cat got your tongue?"

"Stay away," He snapped seriously, "It`s because of you that we were punished!"

"But we did that together and we made a really good movie, didn`t we?"

He didn`t reply and I didn’t want to talk, either.

Memory flooded in my mind. Three weeks ago, I took my camera to school and put forward the idea to make a movie about school life. He was so glad about the idea and wanted to be a director. Then, we started to talk about the story, the music, the actors and so on. I can hardly forget the days when we repeated the same scene again and again to make it perfect, when we debated on some details of the story, and when we didn`t sleep until morning in order to edit the movie. It was exciting to see that the movie shocked all of the students in our high school after our great efforts. But now, when we were punished, my good partner, instead of facing it together, blamed everything on me. What a disappointment!

It was a really hard time when dream broke up and I had to bury this bitterness into loneliness. I thought the friendship had finished just like the bankruptcy of the movie, and we would be enemies or strangers forever. But a few days later, he apologized for his selfishness and his lack of responsibility. I was angry but generally forgave, of course.

Luckily, our friendship was strong enough to pull us through. A few days later, we had fun together like nothing had ever happened. But after that, we knew more about friendship---To have fun together, and to deal with difficulties together.