A brief story of an event that happened during school two days ago...
Seriously? Who buys a triangular yard and digs a pond that's shaped like an irregular figure? I muttered silently to myself. I scribbled down the figure in my notebook, and quickly figured out the perimeter and the area. Really, who does that? Smirking quietly, I began to coast through the test into the next problem. The glimmering atmosphere around me seemed to spiral unevenly. With the lights flicked off and the class room twinkling with the vibrancy of the computer screens, the room seemed like some top secret detective agency. I began to copy down the next equation down when my leg abruptly swung forward and snagged on the network of cords beneath the desk.
Gah! I tugged at my leg, weaving through the cables until... something flashed. The warm, royal blue blaze of something sparkled from below before it went black. Weird. I glimpsed the dizzy blackness underneath the desk once more before letting my gaze flicker back up to the computer screen--which was now bland and blank. "Wha.. what?" I extended my hand and dragged the mouse across the table. Nothing. For a long moment, I was stiff with silence, until Katie's gaze raked up to her computer screen.
"What happened to m--Cammy!" For some unusual reason, Katie just knew I was the cause of this. She whirled around, eyes blazing with cold fire as she spoke, "What did you do?"
"I dunno," I admitted, "My foot snagged on something..."
"And it disconnected our two computers?"
"Hey, where's my test?" Carmen spoke up from the other side of the table.
"You disconnected Carmen's too!" Katie grinned wildly. Sarah grunted with surprise next to me as she too stared at her blank screen. "C'mon, we gotta fix this."
Within an instant we all dropped into crouches as we examined the outlets. I scanned the area. All the plugs were in, all the cords situated properly, and everything seemed fine. I glanced over a switch on a power strip. I fiddled with the switch for a moment, and then several beams of light shimmered on beside us. "It's funny that Mr. Op'toph hasn't realized a band of students are hanging around under a desk while everyone else is taking a test." I snickered. We all hoisted ourselves up onto our seats and found our spot in the test again.
Wherever I go, trouble comes with me. :)
2 comments:
You are so good at describing that! A similar thing happened to me when I was in junior high school!
"Trouble he will find you no matter where you go, oh oh!"
Haha, you are a good storyteller. That's funny. I did that once. I was cleaning up paperclips under the desks at work, and I think I tripped the phones. They were off for a good hour before the people came to fix them. I fired myself.
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