Stalling

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"Nicole Nixon..." Mr Connelly starts.
"Yes?" I answer back.
"Name an animal starting with 't'?" Mr Connelly asks.
"Tortoise... Sir!" I say in a sarcastic tone. I know what he's trying to start, and it's not happening. "Thanks!" He replies with a sneaky annoying little grin on his face.
So, after about 45 minutes of class, working on parenthesis. Only because Sarah Thompson has the dumbest bloody brain, in the universe. I mean, she can't even tell the difference between parallel and horizontal, it's not that hard. I look at the clock, 2 minutes before the bell will go. "Don't start packing up yet, the bell hasn't gone!" Mr Connelly says. The whole class groans and sits back down.
"So, what's the rush?" Mr Connelly asks rhetorically. "Just some of us DON'T want to die of starvation!" Lilly Andrews explains. Mr Connelly looks at us and smiles. "Well I'm sure the canteen will let u eat if your late out,"
The bell rings and everyone quickly races out so Mr Connelly can't stop us!

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