Sammy the Bed Monster by T Jondral

Author:T Jondral [Jondral, T]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-02-12T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 9

“Wait!” I exclaim, “I know how to answer it!”

Mrs. McNally stops walking and I accidentally bump into her.

“Really?” She snorts. “Show me then, if you think you’re so smart.”

She lets go of my arm suddenly, and I stagger backwards. She gestures towards the whiteboard and I go towards it. I pick up the blue whiteboard marker that she left open on top of her desk. Luke’s hand is shaking and I can tell he’s still scared even though he already knows the answer.

I look up at Mrs McNally to make sure I have her approval to write on the board. She is still standing in the middle of the room, her arms crossed, and her feet tapping impatiently on the floor.

“Well, first of all you need to find a common denominator. In this case it’s 16,” I explain, “I multiply the first denominator by four to get to 16, so now I must multiply the numerator also by four. The second fraction stays the same because it already had a denominator of 16.”

I write “12/16+ 1/16” on the whiteboard. I glimpse at the teacher, but she shows no sign that what I’m doing is either wrong or right. So I just continue.

“Now, I just add the numerators together and put their sum over the denominator.”

I write the answer next to the question and put the whiteboard marker back down on the desk. All of my classmates gape at the whiteboard. The silence is excruciating.

Finally, Mrs McNally clears her throat and says briskly, “Yes, that is correct.”

The class claps and looks at me in surprise.

“Well done!” Marcus, the red-haired boy beside me, says, as I am walking towards my desk.

“SILENCE!” Mrs McNally yells, before I even have a chance to thank Marcus. The whole class quietens instantly.

I shuffle back quickly towards my desk and take a seat. Wow, I feel so relieved! I’m sure that when Luke wakes up tomorrow he will get up and rush to complete the question in the real worksheet. He definitely won’t have to worry about not understanding adding fractions, and can move on to learning much more in school. If I ever come back to his dream I may have to learn even more Maths to help him and his brain will teach me!

I felt my face smiling; I guess this nightmare was feeling more like a dream right now. But, this night isn’t over and neither is this dream, I still have work to do. I keep thinking back to the statue of a young girl that I saw at the beginning of the dream. I’m sure it was nothing, but my mind keeps wandering back to it. The statue was so realistic, it is amazing how a sculptor would be able to sculpt such fine details, especially the eyelashes that were so delicate. But it was the look of pain and fear that causes me to worry, why would they keep a statue of a panicked girl in a school?

Suddenly, the class becomes really quiet now, and this shakes me out of all the thinking and worrying.

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