Crossover II Evalius

Chapter 16 Freaky Friday

Chapter 16

Freaky Friday

    Aria sat nervously at Myrtle’s desk as she watched the students enter the classroom for Homeroom. As far as she can remember back, Aria has hated standing up in front of the class to speak about anything. Maybe as a teacher it would not be as bad. However, Aria’s hearted still jumped, like always, when she realized all eyes were upon her, waiting for her to say something.

    “Um… good morning class,” Aria began fidgeting her fingers while looking down desperately trying to think of something to say, soon finding herself muttering, “I, um…  not really sure how to begin.”

    “Don’t you usually take roll, Ms. Malone?” Myrtle asked, sitting up straight with her hands folded on top of Aria’s usual desk, smirking.

    “Right! I should take roll.” Aria shuffled through papers on Myrtle’s desk, but could not find the list of students’ names. She wanted to ask Myrtle where she kept it though it would seem too odd to the other students. “Well, I think everyone is here so I don’t see a reason to go down the list.”

    “Edmund’s not here,” Kendal pointed out.

    “Oh, right…him,” Aria muttered bitterly as she pretended to note this on a piece of paper. “Anyone else not here?”

    A few students offered a small shrug but other than that Aria did not get much of an answer. Aria spent the next few minutes reading what she thought were the day’s announcements, but they described events from last month at Sheerwood. Fortunately, no one seemed to be listening to her. Aria noticed most people were whispering to one another while looking sideways at the clock. A couple minutes before the bell rang, Aria heard books being shuffled around and the moment the ding sounded, the students stood up, chatting, ready to leave.

    Aria sat down at the teacher’s desk and called out, “Myr… er, Miss Rosenberg. Can I see you at my desk, please?”

    Myrtle smiled as she threw Aria’s backpack over her shoulder. “Certainly, Ms. Malone.”

    As Myrtle confidently marched up to the front of the classroom, Aria noticed Derek stop just outside the door to the classroom and remained there. Meanwhile, Vanessa, who had English next period, sat at her desk, arms crossed, staring intently at Aria and Myrtle. Aria felt slightly glad that despite everything both Vanessa and Derek still seemed to care. Since the other students were chattering so loudly, they could not hear the conversation that then took place between Aria and Myrtle.

    “So what is it you would like to talk to me about,” Myrtle asked, slightly smirking.

    “What am I suppose to do now?” Aria asked her in frustration. “I could barely handle Homeroom. How am I supposed to teach English?”  

    Myrtle continued to smile. “You’re in luck. Today we were going to watch Twilight, remember?”

     A rush of relief swept through Aria seeing as this would not require her to try to lecture or even say anything in front of the class. This should be a pretty easy day for her.

    Myrtle started to turn to leave but then added, “By the way, it would be extremely helpful if you graded yesterday’s quizzes. Maybe then I would do too much damage to your reputation as long as I occupy your body.”

     Aria let out a sigh. “Fine, but how am I supposed to grade them. There’s no answer key. They were all opinion questions.”

    “Easy,” Myrtle replied. “If you agree with their answer then mark it correct and if you don’t, mark it wrong.”