The great secret
I don't own recess or any characters, I just love to write. / Sjeherazade
Randall is sneaking around for something to report to miss Finster but what he finds out, will make him want to quit sneaking forever
Randall was sitting alone, hidden behind a tree. His face was white as a ghost. He couldn't put this thing he had found out of his head. He couldn't tell Finster, still this secret was too big for him. He knew it would bring him down, it was too much for him to know but he couldn't find anyone to tell, who would listen…
When they all went inside the building, TJ glanced around for Spinelli, hoping to get a chance to talk to him before class starts. She was nowhere. Class began, no Spinelli. When Recess came around, she was still missing and the friends began to worry. Then they saw Randall coming out from the nurse office.
"Wait, isn't the nurse on holiday?" Gretchen asked. The others agreed, and Randall didn't seem ill, he was up to something.
When these thoughts struck then they forgot about Spinelli and decided to find out what Randall had planed. Lunch finally came around, and Gus sat down at the same table as Randall to try to figure out something.
After a while he gave up. Randall did answer his questions but, for some reason the answers was… too good. Gus thought. He decided to try one last thing before leaving. (Randall hadn't eaten anything of his food – which made Gus think something was very wrong.
"So, what was the last thing you said to Miss Finster?"
Randall honestly told him who he had blabbed on and why, like it was the most natural thing in the world.
Gus couldn't find more to ask after that, this was just too weird. And what was even worse, Randall seemed so tired, maybe he really was looking for the nurse anyway, and maybe he had just forgotten that she was on vacation.
After next class he knew that Randall wasn't ill. Miss Finster came in to the classroom and told them that someone had broken in to the nurse's office and looked in her computer. A serious crime.
The friends looked at each other, trying to figure out what the others were thinking.
No recess until anyone told who it was…
No more recess this entire day.
At one time Mikey had to go to the bathroom, and happened to look in to Randall's classroom. The boy seemed to sleep on his desk.
When he was back in his own classroom he told the others, sending notes.
Gretchen and Vince was the only of the friends who would take the bus that day. They used that time to talk about the long recess less day but also other funnier things.
Vince left the bus as he was home and Gretchen looked around for someone else she wanted to speak with as her stop was still far away. But there were almost only adults, except for one kid from her school. Randall.
He looked out through the window, still seeing nothing. Gretchen knew that glance just too well, she had seen it very often, more often than she wanted to admit to anyone at school*.
Gretchen sighed and walked over to him.
"Hello Randall!"
He didn't notice her, then she sat down beside him.
"Randall I know it was you who sneaked in to the nurse, I saw you…" Gretchen picked her words extremely carefully now, she didn't want to make in worse for him, not this time, it was so obvious that he had found something that he hadn't expected and that it was painful.
Randall signed for himself and turned to her.
"Are you sure you want to know?" Gretchen watched him carefully.
"Yes!"
"I was sneaking as you say, miss Finster wanted to know if someone had faked sick lately… ok I thought she would like to know it was the best thing I could come up with… "
"Ok so what!" Gretchen interrupted, Randall sat quiet for a moment.
"Do you… remember yesterday? Spinelli's father came to school to pick her up before the final class, BEFORE the final class."
"What is it?"
Randall couldn't make himself to say more. And then Gretchen decided to take over his part
"Randall, if you do not speak I will tell Miss Finster!" Then Randall finally looked at her.
"You would blab on me?"
*In my Recess fics Randall is Gretchen's cousin which she hasn't told anyone