Impossible "Win"

Ten to twenty one

They thought that I was dumb enough

To think that they won

This haiku is about the day of the badminton tournament during my PE class. Two girls who haven't liked me since the beginning of the school year were on a team against me. Another kid had showed up and made the number of students uneven. Since I joined this year in 8th grade, a lot of people see me and probably think "oh hey look, it's the weird new girl," since I have a different sense of fashion and a different music taste. Since I was new and everyone already had their group of friends to be with, I was left alone. The two girls took advantage of this, and they obviously cheated. They served the birdie illegally, and made it impossible for me to get any points. They had ten points, I had zero. Then, just when I had almost had enough, one of the girls said "We won! Twenty one to zero!" I was done. I went to the teacher; internally furious, but calm on the outside, and I told him about what had happened. "About three seconds ago, they had ten points. Now they're saying that they have twenty one points. It physically impossible to go from ten to twenty one points in three seconds." Thankfully, he had been watching, and he gave me the win for that round. Afterwards, I wrote this poem.