Professor Shehzad tightened his tie for the hundredth time. His knees wobbled, his heart raced like a sports car and sweat trickled down his forehead. Today was his first day as a physics teacher for grade 10. Physics! To teenagers!

He stared at his chalk-stained notes and muttered, “How did I get here?” Then came a flashback… back to his school days. He remembered it all too well.

Back then, he had been the ultimate mischief-maker. He doodled rockets and cars in every notebook, drew a moustache on the headmaster’s photo hanging in the hall, made his friend do the roll call when he was absent, came late just for fun and made weird animal noises to disrupt lessons. And that was just the beginning.

During chemistry experiments, he tried out more than he was supposed to. Once he even mixed sodium and rubidium in........

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