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"WHEN YOU ARE YOUNG THEY ASSUME YOU KNOW NOTHING"


"he's a teacher man, keep ragging on him and he's gonna make your whole sixth grade year miserable" shawn said to cory as he sat down at the table with us. "i'm gonna be miserable anyhow, least this way im taking it with me" cory said making me and shawn look at each other "hey whose that" shawn said looking up "shawn theres at least 50 people in here who are you talking about" i said making him roll his eyes "in the corner, with feeny" he said making me christan and cory look up "i think she's new" i say making shawn look directly at me "well obviously she's new or she wouldn't be sitting with feeny" shawn said making me laugh a little "ok so how late did you stay up last night" nicolas said making me look over at cory "monologue" cory answered making nicolas look at shawn "monologue first guest" he said intimately "monologue first guest bad sketch" shawn said playing in "monologue first guest bad sketch funny zoo animal" cory said making me put my head down to hide my laughter "monologue first guest bad sketch funny zoo animal steve lawrence" nicolas said making cory and shawn go woahhh "steve lawrence?" shawn asked shocked but the bell rang before christan could answer "that's the bell" shawn said "4 hours til lunch" cory said making me laugh.

"she's dead, mr bornihay. pick up the knife and kill yourself" mr feeny said to nicolas as he stood over vanessa, we were learning about shakespeare so feeny thought it would be a good idea to have us reinact the scenes. "come on mr feeny, you and i both know she's not really dead. may I please stab her a few times just to make sure?" nicolas said with a smirk on his face as vanessa sat up quickly, looking nicolas dead in the face. "hey! you touch me with that knife, you better kill me the first time" vanessa said with her finger now in his face "MR FEENY" nicolas yelled out terried as he looked at feeny for help."all right all right" feeny said walking over to them making me look back at shawn and cory "cory, cory" shawn whispered into cory's ear. as cory has his hand cupped around his right ear making me relize he is most definitely listening to the game. "what" cory whispered back making shawn look up at me before making at cory "whats the score" shawn asked making cory turn around "bottom of the third, two out" cory starts getting louder making feeny start walkover over to him "dykstrass on second, kruks on first, 3 and 2 to alton-" cory gets cut off by feenys hand pulling corys hand away from his ear, revealing his small headphone. "whats this mr matthews?" feeny asks making me look at shawn, who was holding in laugher just like me. "huh? what did you say mr feeny, you took my hearing aid" cory said putting his hand up to his ear as feeny pulled at the cord and puts the headphone in his ear. "smoltz delivers, dalton swings, oh he got a piece of that one. its a long drive deep to center, otis nixon back, back to the warning track, climbs up the wall, and..." feeny finish turning off the radio making cory burry his face in hands sighing "nooo" cory said disappointed as feebly started rapping the headphone wire around corys radio "mr matthews, omeo and jluliet is shakespeares ultimate testament of love between a man and a woman." feeny said folding his arms before being interrupted by a scream "help! help! mr feeny! help!" nicolas screamed while being pinned to the desk by vanessa, who's trying to stab him with the fake knife "HELP ME!" nicolas yelled out making feeny rush over, taking the knife from vanessa "ms kincaid, thank you for that, uh, vigorous interpretation." feeny said making vanessa shrug and smile as he placed the knife & radio on his desk, turning to cory "mr matthews, you do not listen to the ballgame in the middle of my class." feeny said to cory as he stood up "mr feeny, who cares about some guy who killed himself over some dumb girl?" cory said making feeny shake his head as he paced towards cory "the tragedy here, mr matthews, is not about a dumb girl or the boy who killed himself because of her. its about the all consuming power of love and the inevitability of its influence on each of our lives" feeny said making cory look at him with confusion "are you aware that im on eleven years old" cory said making feeny scoff "are" you aware that you have detention friday afternoon" feeny said looking straight at cory "no, actually I did not know that." cory said making feeny nod and head back to his desk

"well, mine's got fuzz" shawn said looking at his disgusting meat-type product "mine's got lips" cory said poking his lunch as nicolas took his lunch from a brown paper bag and then puts the bag aside. "hey bag man, rough life being an only child huh" shawn said making nicolas put his hands up "yeah. rougher life being an orphan, which is what I am as of last night" cory said making me and shawn look directly at each other with a smirk on his face "what happened" nicolas asked "i dumped my family and my family dumped me, it was mutual, they're keeping the house" cory said still poking at his food "well we're here for you cory" shawn said. "thanks, you guys are my new brothers" cory said patting shawn and nicolas arms before looking over at me "and sister" he added patting my head making shawn raise his eyebrow at me. "hey how about we go to the game friday night" cory asked us "i thought the game was sold out" nicolas asked cory as he ate his home food "it is, so we go down early. theres always guys with extra tickets" cory replied "dont you have detention friday" shawn said making cory think for a moment "uhhhh, don't worry about detention i can handle feeny, he loves me" cory said making me laugh "feeny hates you" i said "well it's one of the two, we will see who's right" cory said as he walked over to the table where feeny is sitting alone. "mr feeny, may I sit down" cory said to him as shawn whispered in my ear "5 bucks he gets more detention" he said making me look up at him "deal" i said making shawn sit down as we listened "this is my lunch period, my respite from the fray. i spend four hours with you every morning and three hours with you every afternoon. now for gods sake get out of my face" feeny said making cory look terrified "evelyn" mr feeny yelled out standing up "george" the woman replied walking over "i saved a seat for you" mr feeny said as the woman sat down "oh aren't you sweet, and who is this young man" she asked looking at cory "uh name's cory matthews. mr feenys my teacher he hates me" cory said making the other teacher reply "now cory, im sure that mr feeny doesn't hate you" feeny and cory exchanged sarcastic smiles as me and shawn burst into laughter.

"two days in a row" nicolas said as we looked over at at mr feeny and the woman. "she just dosent learn" shawn added looking over at me and cory "maybe she likes him" i said making the boys look at me in a shock "someone liking feeny" cory said with a disgusted face "gross" shawn added as he looked over at them "let's listen" he said making the four of us turn to face the two teachers "evelyn i hope im not being too forward but instead of cafeteria lunch maybe one evening we could have dinner together" fenny said looking over at the woman "of course george, i'd love it" she said as cory gave us a confused look. we watched mr feeny and the woman get up as they started to walk away "im quite the cook you know" mr feeny said as they walked "really" she asked while mr feeny turned to face her "oh yes, just the other night i prepared a lovely salad nicoise for my sister, but she had to cancel at the last moment" he said while the woman walked out leaving cory looking extremely confused as me feeny walked towards him "confused mr mattews" mr feeny asked cory "i am sir" cory replied looking at feeny for an answer "as it should be" mr feeny said before walking out of the cafeteria.


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