The Wrong Costar by Alexandra Moody

Author:Alexandra Moody [Moody, Alexandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-18T16:00:00+00:00

Mr. Randall had asked me to meet him in his classroom after school. He’d suggested I submit an early draft of our biography assignment for him to review, and I’d taken him up on it because of how important the assignment was. I had a bad feeling I was about to be told I wasn’t living up to my potential yet again.

My suspicions were confirmed when I walked into his classroom and saw the disappointed look in his eyes. I let out a hard exhale as I came to stand at his desk. “My assignment’s terrible, isn’t it?”

“Not terrible,” he replied, though I could tell from his tone of voice that it wasn’t great either. “Why don’t you take a seat, Teagan?”

I eased myself into the chair across from him and clasped my hands tightly on my lap. This meeting meant I wouldn’t be getting a ride home from school with Evan today and I’d have to walk. I had a babysitting job later tonight, so I really couldn’t take too long with Mr. Randall or I’d be late.

“So…” I prompted.

“So, it needs some work,” he replied. “Your writing is clean, but it’s the content I’m concerned about. You’ve written down facts like you would a grocery list. There’s no heart to your story and no thread binding the facts together. I want you to dig deeper and give the reader of your biography a reason to want to keep reading it.”

It was a little hard to dig deeper when Liam hadn’t answered my questions. “I’m finding it difficult to get more information out of my assignment partner,” I said. It was the understatement of the century considering how much of a disaster our interview had been, but something stopped me from ratting Liam out completely.

Mr. Randall let out a tired breath. “Part of this assignment is about learning to work with others and uncovering their story. You need to consider what questions will be most effective in drawing out the answers you want. Why don’t you try questioning Liam again with this in mind?”

I withheld a groan that had worked its way up my throat. I was trying to distance myself from Liam, not get to know him better. I didn’t want to uncover his story, but it was clear my assignment wasn’t going to get me the grade I needed unless I made some improvements. I’d have to work harder on it, that much was obvious, but it didn’t mean I had to interview Liam again. I was just going to need to get more creative.

I started nodding, hoping it would get me out of the classroom quicker. “I’ll think about what you’ve said and do my best to make it better.”

Mr. Randall passed the paper back to me and smiled. He’d gone to a lot of effort making notes all over the page. The notes only made me sad though. They were a reminder of how much I was failing in his class, and it felt like I was letting myself down.

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