Scenario: All three characters are in the classroom. Edith Smith, the teacher, sits straightbacked in her hardbacked chair at the front of the classroom. Saya Nakamuro is stuffing her mouth with Kit-Kats and sushi rolls while leading an animated discussion with her deskmate, Wichita Rathbone, a tall, gaunt, Goth girl.
Edith Smith says in a monotonous voice: Class, proceed.
The chatter in the classroom dies down--all except for Desk 8, where Saya is chattering about anime to Wichita, who sits silently with a grim expression.
"Saya, Saya, your prattle is worsening my migraine. Desist, you pungent cretin," Wichita says.
"Clause 491 of the School Board's Forbidden Activities in the Classroom expressly forbids the consumption of any edible articles within classroom walls," Edith Smith drones.
Saya keeps eating.
"You're getting crumbs on my cloak, you pestilent rat." Wichita angrily twists away from Saya, who is chattering on about her plans for the evening.
"...I'm going to be getting thirty-two new manga books, twelve boxes of California rolls, seventeen boxes of Kit-Kats, and we're going to be expanding the dining room table so that all my friends can fit..." Saya plunges on.
"Do you ever close that fly trap?" Wichita Rathbone mutters.
"Clause 12 of the Forbidden Activities in Class, draft one by the School Board, expressly states that disturbing, distracting, or otherwise non-pertaining to class primary subjects must stop within no less than two seconds of acknowledgement by the teacher, superintendent, or otherwise authoritative figure in the classroom," Edith Smith intones.
Not a single person in the class hears her over the shrill sound of the school bell.
Friday, December 14, 2007
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