"I want you to be better then me. That's why I'm so hard on you."
"What if I don't want to be better? Huh? What if I want to be like you? What if I want to have fun? What if I want to act like a child?"
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Natalia Hunter is the younger sister to Sh...
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"I have graded your book reports from last Friday," Mr Feeny told the class.
Cory turned around and stuck a clown nose over his regular nose and started making faces at Shawn and Natalia.
"And after I pass them out we'll discuss them." Mr Feeny finished grabbing the papers and turned just in time to see Cory messing around.
Natalia quickly stopped laughing, turning serious. Mr Feeny walked up behind Cory, and Shawn tried to hide his smile as he watched his friend once again get in trouble.
"Ah, Mr Matthews," said the teacher.
Cory turned slowly to look at his teacher, a smile plastering his face.
"Shall I express my usual disappointment or just ask you to guide my sleigh tonight?"
"Uh," Cory said, taking the clown nose off. "Wrong holiday, Mr Feeny. See, Halloween's coming up and I was just test driving my clown nose."
"Then I insist you stay in the drivers seat," He replied. "put the nose back on."
Cory slowly put the nose back on, his face slowly falling in to one of regret.
"For the rest of the morning." Feeny instructed.
Natalia turned and she and her brother shared a smile. Mr Feeny began passing out the papers,
"Mr Minkus, excellent work as usual. I particularly enjoyed your haiku on Captain Ahab's obsession with the great white whale."
Natalia heard Daniel snort as Minkus recited his haiku.
"The calm blue ocean; Sun lights up the monster's eye; he see's me; whale food."
"It works on so many levels." Mr Feeny told him.
"Brown-noser." Shawn shot at him.
"Troglodyte." He shot back.
Natalia glanced at Daniel who was silently laughing. Shaking her head, she received her paper. "Ms Hunter, I expected nothing less from you. Mr Hunter I expected nothing less from you as well."
Natalia and Shawn looked at their papers. Natalia's had an 'A+' on it, while Shawn's had a 'C+' on it, both in red ink. Cory had also gotten a 'C' and had been asked up front.
"How'd I get a C?" Shawn asked. "I just wrote what you put down!"
Natalia turned to glare at her brother. "You better be lucky I'm not Minkus. Other wise you'd have gotten in trouble by know."
"How come when I make paper airplanes," Cory was saying. "I get detention and he doesn't."
"Because he makes literal art." Natalia said, trying to be anything but helpful.
Cory turned to look at Minkus and he had made a model paper airplane. "I withdraw the question."
Natalia shook her head, tossing a chunk of hair over her shoulder.
