Hi! Remember me? I sure hope so! How have you all been? Welcome to my new story- My Life:Herbert. The title isn't that appealing but if you have a better one, feel free to suggest it. Enjoy!
I am Herbert. Full name Herbert Percival Bear. My mom is Heather and my dad is Hilbert. I have a sister named Hermoine. We are the Bear family. We live on the Western side of the Arctic Circle. Hermoine and I go to a school called Stephen Bearsly. Anyway, its time for school. I gotta hurry. But I don't feel like it. It's too early in the morning. I don't know how Hermoine gets up at 6:00AM each morning. But she does, and she drags me along. So as always, she drags me out of bed and lectures me about the importance of getting a good nights sleep so I can wake up early in the morning. I sleep at 11:00PM! How can you expect me to wake at 6:00?! I decided not to complain since she is so much smarter and will just blurt out all these scientific and mathematical stuff that is unbearable.
I get my backpack ready with my homework and pencils and things. I'm so certain I forgot to do a homework, but I don't know which one. I guess I will find out later. Hermoine drags me out the cave and we walk towards the school. When we get there, she goes up the stairs to Becktia's room, where she helps out with morning work. I go straight to my class. The teacher, Hendbert, was working on his laptop. When he saw still half asleep, he walked over and stuck his hand in my face, while saying, "blah!" I just call his signature move, blah.
"Woken up now?" He asked.
"Yeah..." I muttered.
"Good. I need you to staple these papers together." He said. He placed the stapler and the HUGE stack of papers on the table. I don't know how these teachers get here so early. I begin to staple the papers. I am a slow worker, and I daydream a lot. By the time I finished, the bell had rung and the rest of my classmates came in. My friends came in and we started chatting.
"Yo, Herbert. Did ya see the snowball game last night?" Bluebert called to me across the classroom.
"Yeah! That was epic!" I yelled back. I get so happy when my friends are around.
"What is?" Greenbert called to me. I don't know why all the boys have to have their name end in "Bert".
"The snowball game with the grizzlys versus the black bears." Tallbert explained. As the name suggested, he is the tallest bear in the class. "Even I heard it. You need to pay more attention, Greenbert." He added.
"Hey Herbert! Did you do the masters section for the homework?" Jonabert called to me.
"No. I'm not in masters for Math." I replied.
"I did it. It was so EASY." He emphasized on the easy part. He was annoying and too smart for my taste, but he was a good friend. I just rolled my eyes.
The bell rang, and we left the classroom to ELA. Our teacher, oddly named Miss. English, was waiting for us.
We took our seats while Miss. English gave us our homework. She also checked our homework.
"Herbert, wheres your homework?" Miss. English asked.
"Umm, I couldn't do it." I lied. I was actually watching TV last night. I did some of it, but I didn't finish it.
"Why not?" She asked.
"Uhh, I was busy." I said. It was partially true.
She sighed and walked away.
"Tsk tsk tsk." Tapbert, one of my friends, said.
"Tapbert! Have you now become a tsker? Shame on you." Miss. English said suddenly.
Tapbert looked down, slightly embarrassed. She continued on with the lesson, which was boring. Except for Serenalia, who absolutely loves going to school and learning. Hermoine told me she gets to school AT 6:00. How does she do it? I don't know.
When the next bell rang, we rushed out to the gym. We enjoyed playing soccer against the girls. They were hopeless. We had another successful game and went to talent next. My talent was computers. My friends and I walked to the computer lab. We played this fun but challenging game. The only one who wasn't playing was a girl in my class, Christy. She was doing boring work. Anyway, we lost and my mate, Hankbert, started using some inappropriate language.
"Watch your language!" Christy said, imitating what Serenalia always says to us.
"Shut up, Serenalia!" Hankbert blurted out.
"What?" Christy said, confused.
The rest of us started laughing. Hankbert got so embarrassed.
"Good one, Hankbert!" Another friend, Albert, said.
"It's not that funny." Shortbert said. We suddenly stopped laughing. Shortbert was that kind of bear that just doesn't find anything funny and always ruins it. He never and I mean NEVER shows any emotion. He is kinda quiet.
After that was lunch. We got onto the line and took our food, pasta.
We quickly ate and headed over to the courtyard. We ran and played ball. We stopped when the principal came out and yelled at us for running too quickly. The principal is very mean. We don't really like him.
Next and final lesson was Math. The teacher gave us a lot of work to do. We began to do it when Annoying J started to tap on the table, which was very distracting. Annoying J's real name is Jaybert, but we call him Annoying J. So Annoying J was tapping, and then Tapbert started joining in, followed by Bluebert, then the rest of us boys started tapping. The teacher yelled at us, but we were saved by the bell and rushed out the door back to our homeroom. Mr. Hendbert was waiting. We sat down and started chatting about the vacation which was coming very soon. Then the bell rang. Jonabert, Annoying J, and I head over to Ms. Becktia's room every Monday. Serenalia tutors that day and we love to crash her reviews and distract everyone.
When we got there, she was getting a group of 4 to sit down. When she saw us, she rolled her eyes and said, "Don't you dare." But we sat down anyway and just listened to what she was saying. Jonabert was constantly asking irrelevant questions. We were talking about science related topics, while Jonabert was asking questions like "what is the Arctic Circle?" And "What are Polar Bears?" I was just laughing the entire time. Annoying J was answering the questions she quizzed us on incorrectly. She seemed really annoyed. When the session finally ended, we left and followed Serenalia out. When we got out, she high-kicked us each and walked away.
"That's what you get for crashing my review." She said.
We just looked at each other and shrugged.
I walked home, and Hermoine was waiting for me.
"Why are you so late home?" She demanded.
"I went to tutoring." I said.
She glared at me and then went to the study. I went to do my homework. It was boring and I didn't understand any of it. Finally I went to Hermoine.
"What do you want?" She asked.
"Homework Help." I said simply.
"What don't you understand?" She asked.
"All of this." I said, and showed her my load of homework.
"Are you serious? Fine. This is how you do polynomials and this is how you write a haiku..." She went on and completed all my homework for me. "Do you understand now?" She asked.
"I sure do. Thanks!" I said, and put all the homework in my bag. I then went on the computer and played games.
A Few Weeks Later...
It was the last day of school before the summer. I could not wait! The day seems to drag on forever, and by the time the last bell rung. I was racing out the door faster than Shybert, who was usually the first one out the door. I ran home after saying bye to my friends.
When I got home, dinner was already done and we sat down to eat.
"Herbert, Hermoine. Your dad and I would like to share some news with you." My mom said.
"Yes?" Hermoine said. She poked me because I was busy eating my potatoes.
"Oh, yeah?" I asked, mouth full of potatoes.
"Don't talk with you mouth full!" Hermoine said sharply.
"Sorry." I said, not meaning it.
"Calm down. Anyway the news is that we are moving away." Mom said.
Ok, I know it isn't really a cliffhanger, but its just the beginning! Anyway, thought since there were so many characters, I would list them and make sure y'all know who is who.
students
-Herbert
-Greenbert
-Tapbert
-Bluebert
-Jonabert
-Tallbert
-Shybert
-Albert
-Hankbert
-Annoying J
-Christy
-Serenalia
Teachers
-Mr. Hendbert
-Miss. English
-Ms. Becktia
more names soon! maybe...