Stuck on Snuckel

Chapter One: Mondays Suck

A/N: Hey! So! Little suspension of disbelief required here. Brian and Brock are the only members of the crew who are adults. Everyone else is a student. Also, if anyone is good at making covers, mine sucks lol. Anyway, I hope you enjoy!

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"Good morning, students," Brian said distractedly, his fingers skimming through the papers on his mess of a desk to locate his lesson plan. He read through it quickly to remind himself before moving to the front of the room. Some of the noise in the room died down, but there were a few students who kept talking.

"Good morning, students," Brian repeated loudly, speaking clearly above the noise. The last students quieted down, giving Brian the floor to speak. "So, hopefully someone will be able to remind me, did we finish talking about foils on Friday?" The students that were actually awake and paying attention nodded. "Good, good. That means we are going to be doing a project!" Groans echoed around the room.

"Mr. T, can we just... not?" One student, Evan, asked.

"Would you all rather write an essay?" He raised his eyebrows. "That's what I thought." Brian-or as the students call him, The Grading Terroriser's English class was notorious for the rigor and constant essays. He was a hard teacher, but his students left his class prepared for the next year.

He clapped his hands together to get everyone's attention before he began to pace the front of the room. "Alright, so, does anyone want to refresh the class's memory on what a character's foil is?" Several students raised their hands. "Yes, Lui?"

"A foil is a character who contrasts with another character, usually the protagonist, in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character!" He recited in a high-pitched squeak.

Brian rolled his eyes. "Thank you, Lui, for reciting the definition as if you were reading it from the Wikipedia page."

"You're welcome!" Lui replied with a cheeky grin.

Brian rolled his eyes again. "Now that we're all up to speed, for this project, you and a partner-"

"Will we be choosing our partners?" Craig interrupted.

Brian rolled his eyes before attempting to repeat himself, plowing on as though the interruption hadn't happened. "You and a partner-"

"Yeah, but can we pick our partner?" Tyler asked.

An exasperated sigh escaped Brian's lips. "You guys are my AP kids. You're not supposed to be this bloody rude."

"Does that mean we do get to pick partners?" Marcel asked.

"If I let you pick your partners will you all stop talking?" There was a chorus of 'yes's. "Then fine. You can pick your bloody partners. Now let me speak."

He sighed before going back into his description of the assignment. "You and a partner," he held up a hand before someone could ask again, "yes, a partner you chose, will be creating a script to perform later this week. Since we have spent the last week discussing what makes a dynamic duo, your characters will have to complement one another's personalities. You will have time in class today, tomorrow, and Wednesday, and we will present these scenes on Thursday. Any questions?" Several hands shot up. "Yes, Evan?"

"Do we have to make up these characters?" Brian blinked, slightly surprised it wasn't another troll-tastic question. Sometime AP students were a bit of a handful, those smartasses .

"Good question," Brian said after a moment. "You can, but you do not have to make up your characters. You can use characters that already exist, but do not assume that I will know anything about them. Your scene has to give me enough information that I believe they are a good pair. Treat any character you use as if they are your own original character, because I might see them as such. Any more questions? Yes, Nogla?"