Chapter 3

"Kelly? Are you still with us? Kelly?" usually by 5 minutes or so of this, I would get a book dropped on my desk. "Good, now that you have joined earth again (That's usually when my classmates will burst into laughter.) I am sure you will love to answer my question." Teachers loved to do that to me, put me on the spot like that. So, I daydreamed a lot, is that a crime now? My English teacher was the worst with that. She was soo boring, there was a rumor going around school that since there was a teacher shortage, they needed to wake the dead, and Mrs. Green was one. Ok, so that is very far fetched, but it was the only thing we students could think of why she's so boring. And old. She looks about 25...B.C.! No joke.

So, anyways, when Mrs. Green (aka- Mrs. Gray, but no one dared to call her that, she was also super mean!) would put me on the spot, or anyone on the spot, we would just have to hold our stomachs and claim we are about to puke, and run out. She wasn't exactly the brightest bulb in the bunch, her elevator didn't reach the top. You could claim that you were sick everyday, and she would never question it or think it's weird. But with most teachers, they would have you dead and buried. Yea, it was like if got sick, the teachers would get all worried (or pretend they were worried) and be like "I hope they aren't dying." So, needless to say, teachers are just as weird as parents.

Oh yea, I can't forget homework. Wasn't that always the biggest joy? I don't know which was worse, the fighting that mom and I did, or actually doing it. I think actually doing the homework was worse, actually. But then I got smart. See, instead of actually doing my homework, I would write a letter to David. But after a while, when mom asked me to go do my homework and I would just say "ok" and go up to my room, she caught on fast. For like a week or so she didn't think anything of it, she just thought I was more into school or something (yea, that's likely) but after a while she figured I HAD to be up to something because "I never like to do homework, and that won't just change in a girl." Mothers make me sick at times. Yea, so do you know what mom decided to do? After that whole thing went on for about a month, my mother would come in my room and WATCH me do my homework! Can you believe that? It's like thanks for totally trusting your kid, mom. She trusted Alyssa doing her homework because she did good in school. But I know for a fact she didn't do her homework every night. Ok, so it was one night Alyssa didn't do her homework. She's a nerd, what can I say? Me? I am what I like to call normal! But of course to parents, Alyssa would appear as the normal one. Yea, like I am pretty darn sure the most of kids likes to do homework? But do you know the sickest part? I swear, the teachers got some kind of JOY of assigning homework. Then they would punish the 'not so perfect' kids who would slip up and not do their homework every now and again. And by punish I mean we got zero's. Big fat 0's. Oh yea, I am talking from experience. I used to be known as the '0 Queen' I got so many! Actually, that's kind of sad, ain't it? Well, I was proud of myself at the time. Until Jason 'accidentally' slipped up and called me that in front of my parents. They asked me so many questions, I thought I was on a game show, or something. So, yea, I got grounded for a week cause of that. I couldn't talk to David. That was my punishment. Why didn't they just kill me to get it over with?