St. Helena Vineyard Series: A Perfect Proposal (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Lulu M. Sylvian

Author:Lulu M. Sylvian [Sylvian, Lulu M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2017-11-13T05:00:00+00:00

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Another paper airplane whizzed past his desk. Craig barely noticed. As long as he kept the class of twenty-three tenth-graders relatively quiet, no one else would notice either.

The weeks between Thanksgiving and winter break were always so drawn out and slow. In the upcoming weeks, they would participate in holiday activity after holiday activity, and no one would get any learning done.

Craig couldn’t focus on his lesson, so he gave the students open study time. He didn’t feel like telling them about the Crusades, or how this was the period that set the backdrop for the King Arthur legend. His favorite combination of history and myth and an academic excuse for them to watch any number of given movies.

Craig’s hook for teaching history was to tie it into the stories and myths the kids knew. He made sure to include those movies, shows, and graphic novels into his lesson plans. So far it seemed to be working. His students were learning, as demonstrated by the dreaded standardized tests. And they were enjoying history, as demonstrated by students telling him they named their new dog/cat/goldfish/gofer/hamster/rat Caesar, or Leonidas, or Nebuchadnezzar.

Today he wanted to tell his class how he met a beautiful girl and she kissed him, and the world stopped. Instead he mentioned that he played with some puppies over at the dog rescue, and he was considering adopting one or two of them. Which somehow dissolved into a discussion of what movies everyone wanted to see, and then he had completely lost control.

One thing Craig knew—once the room was lost, it was in his best interest to just do noise control and let the kids do their own thing. Tomorrow everyone would be focused again. The problem was, this wasn’t happening in only one of his classes. It had been going on all day. He hadn’t managed to deliver one single meaningful piece of historical information in any of his classes. With seventh period, he hadn’t even bothered and just told everyone it was open study. He gave passes to those students who needed to get other work from their lockers.

Yesterday he had been able to focus and deliver his lessons. Last night he had wanted to call Lysia but didn’t want to pester her. Today he was going in to pick up the steamed and pressed tux after school.

God, he could remember with crystal clarity the expression on her face when she’d measured his inseam and gazed up with those big green eyes. He needed to halt this line of thought. He was in a room of hormonal teenagers. Someone would hone in on the teacher getting a boner faster than sharks on chum.

Margaret Thatcher naked. He shivered, and his blood ran cold.

The bell rang. Students scampered like roaches under a switched-on light. He really needed to stop thinking in animalistic metaphor about the kids. Then again, it did fit. Hot on their tails, he zoomed out of the building as soon as the teacher dismissal bell rang thirty minutes later.

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