The F Team by Rawah Arja

Author:Rawah Arja
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing
Published: 2020-07-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Between the potholes, missed red lights and a completely unused left blinker, I was lucky to survive Miss K’s drive to the girls’ high school for the next poetry workshop. She squinted over the steering wheel most of the way there.

‘You sure you don’t need glasses, Miss?’ I asked, gripping my seatbelt. ‘You’ve crossed a red light again and –’

‘Orange light, thank you very much,’ she said. ‘My fiancé bought me this new car and I’m getting used to it.’

‘Miss, you’ve been engaged for like a million years. When are you going to have your wedding?’

‘Soon,’ she said, then looked at me. ‘And no, you won’t be invited.’

Anwar leaned forward to poke his head between us. ‘Hate to break this up but, Miss, I’m finding it hard to work with Mariam. I’m trying to stick to the topic of “Place”, but all she does is rap Cardi B songs. C’mon, Miss, it’s not fair.’

Miss K turned into the school parking lot before driving up onto the kerb.

I turned around and pushed Anwar’s head back. ‘You almost made Miss lose control of the car.’

‘Relax, it was just a small bump,’ she said. ‘Anwar, we’ll talk about this later. All of you just go to the office and sign in while I get some things from the car.’

Ibby: Huss, where are you? I’m waiting for my V.

PJ: It’s your turn to shout us manoush.

Huss: I’ve got some stuff to do. I’ll see you boys later.

Tariq: Make sure Archie doesn’t catch you

jigging. He’ll kick you out, yeah?

I turned back to see Miss K carrying a few heavy bags. ‘You’re not superwoman, Miss. Let me help.’

‘Thanks, Tariq,’ she said, shaking out her arms. ‘You can be a gentleman when you want to be.’

‘Yeah, yeah, yeah. Am I going to cop another lecture?’

She smiled. ‘I get it. There’s been a lot to take in over the last few weeks. How are you holding up?’

We walked towards the office. ‘Besides Mr Archie and Mr Ahmed not talking to me and Huss mad about the Cronulla captain, yeah, everything’s sweet, Miss.’

‘I heard what happened at training yesterday,’ she said. ‘I was disappointed to hear that you were just pretending.’

I didn’t have an answer for her, so I changed the subject, putting the bags down. ‘What the hell is in these?’

‘Books,’ she said, gesturing at me to keep walking. ‘Our library is about to go under renovations, so I thought the girls’ school could make use of them.’

By the time I reached the library, I thought my arms were going to fall off. Mrs Pepper welcomed us in and gave me a wink. ‘Thanks for bringing those in for us, Tariq.’

‘He’s really sweet when he wants to be,’ Miss K said, smiling. ‘Okay, Tariq just put them next to the computers and get to your partner.’

Jamila was already typing away on her laptop, with a pen held between her teeth, when I made my way over to our desk.

‘Hey,’ I said, putting my bag down opposite her.

She tapped away a bit more then looked up.

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