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Last time in Break;
The bell rings loudly for a minute or so, blaring into my skull, and signals the beginning of class.
I feel myself dozing off slowly, but surely, as the teacher drones on about something or other about history. 'Damn... 35 minutes to go... I'll just rest my eyes for a minute or two...' I close my eyes and drift off happily.
I'm having one of those TV screen dreams, the ones where all you see is that black and white static. I hear something, no... Someone, is calling my name...
"courtney...? Courtney...?" I shake my head slowly, irritated that someone's waking me up, and turn my head away from the noise. 'SLAM!'
I jolt upright at the noise and see my irritated History teacher standing in front of my desk with a heavy textbook in front of me.
My ears are still ringing as he glares at me angrily. "Courtney... As I was saying before you so rudely decided that now would be a perfect time to take a nap... What important event happened in the year of 1692 in the United States, back when it was only the Thirteen Colonies?"
I dug through my head and looked at the board, both of which held no answers for me. "I... I'm sorry sir, I don't know-"
Suddenly Duncan spoke up from his seat next to me. "In the year of 1692, in the original Thirteen Colonies of the United States... Most likely that would be the Witch Trials of 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts, when fear and paranoia broke out in the small town. Many innocent people were accused of being witches and many of them died. 17 were hanged in Salem and over 40 died of various reasons while being held in the prisons, such as starvation, dehydration, and sickness and disease.
Other small towns were plagued by the same fear, but overthrew the courts that accused many of the residents, towns such as Andover. Back then the church ruled as the courts because the type of government they had was considered a Theocracy. So as of which anything that was different or changed from their day to day lifestyle, they were afraid of, they considered to be wandering off the path of God.
Many people also knew that witches were often depicted as able to send their spirits out to torture the souls of the innocent. There was no way to actually prove this of course, but people were quite theatrical back then and so they would often pretend to have fainting spells, see things, and say they saw so and so with the Devil. As such, since there was no way to prove it, there was also no way to disprove it.
This was the reason why it was so easy to accuse someone. You could easily find most of this information in Arthur Miller's The Crucible, it's a pretty accurate reference to this event and time period in history. Also it's a pretty good alagory to McCarthyism and the Red Scare."
Duncan sighed softly and I couldn't help but stare at the boy next to me in awe. The teacher just stood there in complete silence, his face drained of color, while the other students stared in a daze, it was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. I coughed then, just to break the silence and the teacher simply nodded and went back to the board, writing down things about the type of government back then.
"As Mr. McGraff just said, back in 1692 the original thirteen colonies had a Theocratic government. A Theocracy was a..."
I tuned out what the teacher was saying and continued to stare at Duncan intently. He looked over at me and raised an eyebrow. "What?"
I felt my face heat up and I chewed on my sleeve for a moment before talking quietly. "It's just that... I didn't know you were so... well..." He smirked at me smugly then. "What? So smart?" I nodded slowly as he chuckled quietly. "Just 'cuz I'm a delinquent doesn't mean I'm a complete moron. I pay more attention than most of these idiots could ever hope to, I just don't show it." I stare at him in new light.
'Courtney... You just found a guy that is in just about the league as you in academics, gives you a challenge, cares about you, and intrigues you to no end... Let's see how you both fare in the long run...' I smile at him, biting my lip, and shake my head. He smiles back and wraps an arm around my shoulder tenderly as I lean my head against him gently. 'I could get used to this...'
Chapter 9 of Break is up and ready to read! Thank you everyone for being so patient with my league of absence these past few months. I'm hoping you guys will forgive me now that I've posted the new couple chapters! With any ideas on what to do next, Private Message me please! Thanks guys!
