This was this year’s first class week. As to celebrate, I had to do something really stupid in the middle of the week.
It was Wednesday. That day we had the official overture of this school year. It basically consists on a presentation of the most important theachers on school; and, since last year, diplomas for the Board of Honor students and medals for the Futsal Interclasses Championship winners are handed.
When the ceremony finished we were given half the Physics & Chemistry to be on the playgrounds. That was when it happened. Me and a friend of mine suddenly decided to o chase a student that’s always running inside our school. We started running after him and, some time after, he stopped; he talked with a friend and then he restarted his run. This time he noticed us (we had no intention in not being noticed) and some secs. later he started sprinting as to escape. I was about three and a half metres away from him when I started sprinting too. We eventually reached full speed, and then I realized I was faster. Eventually, we had no more place to run to, and so, we entered a corridor. We stopped, (exchanged two words?) and started running once again, downstairs. Then, we ran through the 3rd cycle covered area and, eventually, we rushed down some stairs that lead to the fields. Those stairs make an L shape and, instead of running both the L’s segments, the guy we were chasing jumped of the stairs at the corner of the L, in a Parkour-fashioned way. I half-expected he’d do that, and, as he did, I followed.
The thing is: he has done that more than once before; I had never done it, meaning I did not have the experience to jump from that high (about one and a half of myself). Also, someone was passing by on the moment I was to jump, and I feared to hurt him/her.
But now, you’re asking yourself what happened after the jump. Well… I landed with both my heels and flexed my legs, and, in result of landing with the hells, I lost my balance and fell back, smashing my coccyx against the ground. I started running immediately after that to continue the chase, knowing that that fall had not been good for sure. I found the chased guy resting and preparing to drink some water.
I sat down, starting to feel dizzy, and some friends came to see me. About two minutes later I has clambering some stairs in order to get to my classroom. There, I sat once again. When the Physics class started I felt so dizzy that, during some secs., I saw people as black stains against the white light coming through the windows. One friend insisted I should go to the infirmary; I refused, not wanting to lose the class. My face must have looked pretty pale, for the teacher understood I was not right. My concentration certainly fell about 60%, because I found it impossible to sit in a manner that made my coccyx not to hurt.
Because that afternoon I was class-free, I came home; or, should I write, I was driven home by the parents of one friend. At home I lay in bed all afternoon, with ice on my heels, my coccyx always hurting.
I have some more details here.