Me and Luz sit in front of Mom and Principal Hal with me holding a green snake while Luz holds a doll of Azura
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Luz: And that's the end.
Mom: The end of what?
Atlas: Our book report.
Suddenly, the snake hisses, launches forward, and bites the doll
Atlas: I think we knocked it out of the park.
Principal Hal: Your book report is why you're in here.
He gestures to the door, through which we can see two students running by screaming with snakes biting their heads
Luz: Oh. That's where the backup snakes were.
Mom: And what were you going to do with this?
My eyes grew wide as Mom holds up the several firecrackers tied together
Atlas: That's ummm...
Luz: That was for the Act Three closer.
Mom: Mija, Atlas, I love your two creativity, but it's gotten out of hand. Do you remember why you were in the principal's office the last three times?
[FLASHBACK- 3rd person]
Luz is standing on a stage at an audition for Romeo and Juliet holding a spork
Luz: O happy dagger, give me death!
Luz stabs the spork into her torso before tearing her dress, making several links of sausages fall out. Everyone else on stage screams and runs. Next Atlas is sewing a pigeon head onto a squirrel's body, on a platform labeled "baby griffin".
Atlas: Now for the final anatomically correct touch, spider breath.
He opens the model's beak. Many spiders come out, crawling over him and the table. People scream in terror, throwing objects everywhere. And finally as Atlas sits on the bleachers playing some solitaire with his cards, Luz is doing cheerleading tryouts. One of the girls does a successful backflip. Every other student applauds
