Friday Barnes one shots

Teach me your ways

Friday spun her pencil between her fingers.

Mr McLean had never been so boring. And that was saying something.

Ian was making paper stars out of paper, rocking on the back two legs of his chair.

Melanie was asleep.

Ian put another star on the pile on her desk. He had started giving them to her after he ran out of space in his container.

The door opened silently. Friday wouldn't have known it had opened is she hadn't seen it.

Merlin put a finger to her lips as she shut the door quietly.

She was over half an hour late. That was at least a fortnight's worth of detention.

Mr McLean was writing in the board, talking.

Merlin turned, so she was facing the door, and started walking backwards to her seat.

Friday frowned and Ian watched Merlin, confused.

She was a little over half way to her seat when Mr McLean turned around.

"Miss Knight, where do you think you're going? Sit back down."

Merlin sighed. "Dang it." She muttered.

Mr McLean turned back around.

Merlin had been pretending to leave the class by walking backwards from the door so that if she got caught it would look like she was leaving.

She took the seat next to Ian and stole some of his paper strips to make paper stars.

Ian was staring at her in admiration. "Teach me your ways."

Merlin laughed. "No, they're mine only."

Ian pouted, throwing a paper star at her.

Merlin cut a square of paper and folded it into a heart.

She handed it to Ian. "Pass this to Melanie will you?"

Ian passed the paper heart to Friday, who slipped it under the sleeping girl's arm.