The Music of Razors by Cameron Rogers

Author:Cameron Rogers [Rogers, Cameron]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9780345500441
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2007-05-01T06:00:00+00:00

EIGHT

NABBER

OH, HE WAS REALLY GOING TO GET IT THIS TIME.

“What do you mean you ‘lost your homework’?”

Suni’s teacher never liked him anyway. It wasn’t his fault his things kept disappearing. “It’s true,” he said. “I d…d…duh-did it l…luh-luh-last night, l…luh-luh-left it on my desk, woke up this muh-morning and it was gone.”

The class laughed, and Suni didn’t blame them. He lost things all the time, and his excuses sounded stupid even to his own ears. It was what he was best known for, aside from the stutter—but that only came out when he got excited or nervous. It was like a blockage in his throat he had to push and push past to get the words out.

His teacher looked down her nose at him. Suni was a small black-haired, half-Japanese boy, and he hated wearing his glasses. “You will do the assigned work over the weekend,” she said. “As well as a two-hundred-word explanation of just where it is you think these missing things of yours go when you’re not looking. Perhaps that will teach you to be more careful—or perhaps do the work in future.”

Two hundred words? Was she serious?

Suni shuffled. “B-b-buh-but—”

“Sit down.”

“Yes, miss.”

The class was still getting a grin out of the show—except that Hope girl. She just looked at the rest of them and frowned to herself. Somehow it made him feel better. Behind Suni, his friend Kristian bopped him on the back of the head and chuckled, “Good one.”

Suni turned around. “It’s tuh-true. I did do the work. I put it on my desk last night.” Kristian didn’t believe him, either. “I’m sure I did,” Suni mumbled to himself.

“Sure, sure.”

“Mister Buckingham!” That was the teacher’s name for Kristian. “Would you be so kind as to stand up and tell the rest of the class what was so important that you couldn’t wait until after class?”

Suni watched Kristian stand and face the room. He cleared his throat, placed one hand on his chest as if about to recite Shakespeare, and said: “What… was soooo important…that you could not wait…”

Teacher folded her arms, unimpressed. “Yes, thank you, Mr. Buckingham.”

“Until!”

The class was laughing, and Suni knew there was no stopping him now.

“Kristian, that is enough!”

“…after class,” Kristian said quickly and sat down.

Quiet returned, and the class waited expectantly to see what would happen next.

“You may join your friend, Mr. Buckingham, in penning for me a two-hundred-word opus on the nature of comedy.” She returned to the blackboard, satisfied. “Enlighten me.”

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