The Good Ones

Last day of freshmen year

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       "All right, it's the last day of school. We've got five minutes to go over all of american history." Mr. Iglesias says while pacing around the room.

       Marisol lists, "Wiped out the indigenous people, oppressed the blacks, did some good stuff around World War II, and now the sun is setting on our empire." She makes sure to emphasize that last part.

       Mikey looks at her in pure awe, well not surprisingly because she's beautiful and a genius, but definitely feels like a kick to the gut knowing that he is so in love with her. Some heads nod slightly after she is finished, agreeing especially on that last part. Mr. Iglesias looks like he's going over all of the history of our 300 year old country, in his head.

       He shakes his head and sighs as he says, "Yeah, I guess we did cover it all."

       "Yeah, and even some stuff that didn't happen. Like... landing on the moon." Lorenzo scoffs, "come on!" in disbelief then laughs. He looks around the room looking for anyone to agree with him. You look to the right of you, at him, tilting your head and scrunching your eyebrows together, silently saying, 'really?'

       "I really gotta get you off Reddit, Lorenzo," Mr. Iglesias replies to him. Lorenzo looked him in the eye and raises his arms like 'what?' and turns his head and looks away in disbelief. You nod your head in agreement with Mr. Iglesias. You and Lorenzo locked eyes and you silently clarify to him that 'he's not lying.'

       "All right, I see everybody gazing, looking out the window, ready to full braveheart on everyone." he walks over to the window and yells in a scotish accent, "They might take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!" He goes back to his normal voice and shouts, "Sorry, Ms. Thompson! I didn't mean to scare you!" You all laugh hysterically and he walks back from the window.

       He says, "Oh, that's not gonna end well." "Of course, England did take Scotland's freedom, and they've had it for over 700 years. Don't tell Mel Gibson."

       You let out a little laugh at his joke.

       Mikey turns to look up at Mr. Iglesias and asks, "Wait, Mel Gibson lost?"

       "Yeah, it was kind of the beginning of a long losing streak for him," Mr. Iglesias answers. "All right bonus points," he announces, "What did America have that Scotland didn't have, besides men who wear pants... This is coming from a guy wearing shorts."

       Walt raises his hand and says, "I got this." Oh this is going to be good. "Weapons." 

       Mr. Iglesias looks away from him and his eyes go wide in concern. He then looks back at walt and asks seriously, "Seriously. Walt? You-- You think the Scots got to the battlefield and were like, [in a scotish accent] 'Hey, Angus, is there something were forgetting?'"

       The entire class is laughing his interpretation of Walt's answer.

       "'Oh, no, I got my charger and my Bluetooth speakers.' 'What are we forgetting?' 'Weapons!'" all of us continue to laugh.

       Marisol gives the answer in all seriousness, "America was basically a castle with a 3,000-mile moat. It's called the Atlantic Ocean."

       "Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding! Marisol is right once again! Oh! You're always right. You're worse than my ex." He jokes, receiving some giggles, including your own, in reply. "All right, look, you guys. It took the British 2 months to sail food all the way across to here, all right?" he explains as he shows us on the map up in front of the class. "They could've just called Domino's"

       "Ooh! I'll split a meat-lovers," Walt says.

       Mr. Iglesias chuckles and replies, "My man," then they fist bump.

       "Okay, Lightning round. Who remembers the Monroe Doctrine?" he questions the class. The only one to raise their hand was Marisol, of course. Without even turning his head he says, "anyone else?"

       You are a big history buff, of course you knew it, but there was no way you were going to take a chance to have to answer that question in front of the entire class. But then you thought about it for a second. Part of what Mikey admires about Marisol is her intelligence. Which he knows about because she always knows the answers Mr. Iglesias questions and raises her hand. You know the answers too, once again, history buff. But you never dared to raise your hand to risk being called on, social anxiety. So no one would ever know that you actually do know the answer, you're just too scared to say it out loud. You decide that you are actually gonna try and show your history knowledge and impress Mikey instead of sticking to the shadows like usually. Plus if you do mess up, its the last day so you won't see him for the entire summer anyway, so he probably wouldn't even remember that you got it wrong next year if you do answer it incorrectly. So you raise your hand to show that you too know the answer to his question.

       "Y/N, please enlighten the class with your extensive knowledge of history that you just now decided to show to the class and not just me."

       All eyes turn to you and you look down with your cheeks burning up and rubbing behind your ear in embarrassment and anxiety.

       "..."

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To be continued.