letters from mother (ON HOLD)

chapter 7

nell and I looked over at each other as if we realized the same thing at the same time. "a-are we.." I tried to get my words to form but couldn't. nell
just nodded. well, this should be interesting i thought as the teacher rounded up role call and began teaching. Nell and I stood there listening to the teacher and watching adam, our father. he wasn't very interesting and slumped in his chair a lot. then the door opened. a girl walked in and handed the teacher a late pass. I looked back over at adam. he was sitting up straight now and he watched the girl take her seat on the opposite side of the classroom. she had long dark hair just like mine and large puppy dog brown eyes. she was mid-size and sort of chubby. the exact opposite of adam who was tall and slender. I looked over at the girl who seemed to have no interest in adam whatsoever as she paid full attention to the teacher. this must be my mother. I move closer to nell. " the girl must be mom" I inquired to her. nell glanced over to the direction of the girl who was yet to be named. "they would make an odd couple norah, I don't think that's her." "no it has to be. she has the eyes and the hair that aunt claire described to us." "true" she
replied. "still, such an odd pairing. it seems like she's quieter than him and she's like, Ya know.." she did a gesture with her hands around her stomach signaling that she thought that she was chubby. I glared and she stopped immediately. we were pulled from our conversation when the teacher started yelling in our direction, obviously yelling at adam.
"mr. Christensen! I don't know what is so interesting that you must talk during my class but that is an
after school detention for you!" he blushed bright red as she yelled and the friends that were sitting around him laughed. "what assholes" I thought and adam glanced over to the girl again. who knows what he was thinking about..
the class seemed to drag on just as it did everyday. that teacher ruined the entire subject for me. it was so boring that I fell asleep but when I awoke I was not in the classroom anymore but I was back in the hallway at aunt Claire's house with the book on my face and no time had passed. nell was next to me and I shook her awake. "did you have any strange dreams last night?" i asked. "yeah"
she groggily replied. that's when I knew it was the same "dream"
as me. I looked at the book and there were words on the first page of the book. I skimmed them. they told what had just happened from the point of view of an outside source, just like we saw it. an alarm sounded from our Room and we heard the shuffling of feet signaling that the girls were up. how were we gonna get back there? what was gonna happen with the girl? then the line of girls trudged out and aunt claire came down from her room. she came over to me and looked at my hands strangely. I had been holding the book up but now the book was gone.