He was charming. They told me he didn’t speak english. That was crap.
I sat next to him in class. He never took notes, or raised his hand.
He and his friend talked to each other instead of listening to the teacher. I think they were talking about me. It was in a foreign language.
Finally, my time had come. He didn’t have a textbook. I offered to share mine.
“Study hall?” He asked pointing to his schedule.
“No,” I shook my head shyly. “I don’t have study hall with you.” He looked frustrated and babbled rapidly in a tongue unknown to me. In a frenzy, he wrote on a piece of paper: This class have book? “No. You do work from the rest of the day. Or rather, that’s what you’re supposed to do. Most people don’t.” He smiled at me.
“Lunch 2?” I nodded with a small smile.
“Yeah, do you want to sit with me?”
About the author
Laine P. Grey
At a charming little cattle farm, near a pretty deadly lake
I got my copy of Breaking Dawn at 12:04 AM, Saturday, August 2, 2008! Oh yeah, number 15.
I am now officially in the League of Awesomeness as The Sarcastic Scribe
There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like life, particularly a good one, which is well worth staying up all night to finish. —Lemony Snicket
Start of Billy Joel song Series
http://ficlets.com/stories/36126
Start of Leningrad
http://ficlets.com/stories/37014
As it were, summer is drawing to a close…This year, I am undertaking an internet radio station. Yes, I know.
So, if I’m not on Ficlets as much as I used to be, deal with it.
Most of my Ficlets are inspired by books, Billy Joel, or Jack Johnson songs.
So, if you’ve read Adverbs by Daniel Handler, then you know that each chapter is titled with a different adverb, and contains the same character names although, each story is essentially separate. The characters often repeat a phrase in another story or they mention a character that was in the previous story. That is what I’m going to do with the “Goode Callen” story, but mine will be titled with verbs. It starts with my entry in a challenge: http://ficlets.com/stories/39031
“I was born in ‘49, a Cold War kid in McCarthy times. Stop ‘em at the 38th parallel, blow those yellow reds to hell. Cold War kids were hard to kill under their desks in an air raid drill. Haven’t they heard we’ve won the war, what do they keep on fighting for?”—“Leningrad”, Billy Joel (Part of the Billy Joel Posse with T. F. Torrey, pens&feathers, and BARomero.)
Published on September 15, 2007.
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