five dollar words

"I ate lunch in Bert's classroom again, with the usual group of kids who didn't have anywhere else to go. Bert didn't mind. 'You're like a club,' he kept telling us. We really weren't - I hadn't spoken to anyone in there since October. But Bert seemed to think otherwise. Bert always thought otherwise."

Every day is the same for Mila and the other sophomores eating lunch in their English teacher's classroom, until things start to get out of hand.