Grape! by Gabriel Arquilevich

Author:Gabriel Arquilevich
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Regal House Publishing
Published: 2019-01-26T01:07:25+00:00

The next day I saw Clair at the drinking fountain and in the library, and the thing is, I tried to say something and give her the invitation, but whenever I got close my mouth froze.

Then something happened to me again.

During math Clair dropped her pencil and it rolled down the aisle and I jumped out of my chair and grabbed it, and sort of talked to her.

I wanted to say, “Here, Clair, your pencil fell.”

But I didn’t. I said, “Rolled away, pencil, here.”

“Oh, thank you, Grape.”

She knew my name!

“You’re welcoming. And hey, so, yeah, well, I, um…birthday.”

I pulled the invitation out of my pocket and set it on her desk.

The next morning Clair walked right up to me.

“I would love to go to your birthday party, Grape. Thank you for inviting me.”

Mrs. C, things were going great! The Eskimo unit was starting, and after that the whale watching trip, and after that my birthday, and after that Tammy was coming back!

Well, that’s when the trouble started.

Miss Roof began class by taking roll and tapping her long red nails on the desk, then pacing like one of the lawyers in Movie of the Week, super slow and serious.

“This afternoon,” she said, “we will begin our Eskimo unit by watching a documentary.”

So far it didn’t seem so serious.

“The documentary is true to life, so I’m expecting that we will be mature about it.”

The spiders started spinning.

She tilted her head and peeked over her glasses at me.

The bell rang.

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