You Mean That Wasn't a Movie?

"Mr.Dukes please come in," Principal Kelly made a motion. Nervously Fred sat down in the chair. "Now I'd like you to tell me in your own words what you think happened the other night at the dance."

"What dance?"

"No, I am not going to go through this again!" Kelly slammed his fist on the desk. "The dance last Friday where you and Miss Smith and Mr. Tolensky were dancing at!"

"We were?" Fred scratched his head. "Uh…I didn't go. I went to the movies. Yeah there was this cool fic where these guys and girls were dancing and then these monsters came out of nowhere and STOMP!" he started to make monster sounds.

"MR. DUKES THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED FRIDAY!" Kelly screamed.

"You mean that wasn't a movie?" Fred blinked.

"Never mind," Kelly put his head in his hands. "Just send Miss Smith in please?"

"Okie Dokie!" Fred smiled and waved as he went out. Tabitha came in.

"Hey Kell," She smiled chewing gum. "How's it hangin?"

"Miss Smith," Kelly decided to overlook the rather obvious breach of conduct. "Can you please tell me what you saw Friday night? Regarding the dinosaurs?"

"Hey I'd love to," She sighed. "But the truth is I didn't see any. I took a bathroom break y'know to freshen up and stuff and I ended up talking to this girl who was really having boyfriend troubles. I forget her name, Tammy, Tara…whatever. Well She's been going with this guy for like two months and he hasn't even kissed her yet. Well they hadn't been to the dance two minutes when she was talking with this kid she's known since third grade and he took her out back and had his tongue down her throat and she's like what's up with that? Where do you get off doing this? But she secretly liked it and now she doesn't know whether to keep the guy she's been dating or dump him for her old friend. So I told her…"

"Miss Smith!" Kelly shouted. "As fascinating as that sounds, I am much more interested about the dinosaurs!"

"Oh," Tabitha sighed. "Well to tell you the truth I didn't really see any. I spent most of my time talking to that girl in the bathroom. Maybe her name was Amber…"

"Miss Smith," Kelly groaned. "That'll be all…Thank you for your time."

She bounced out of the room. Kelly rummaged around for more scotch but couldn't find any.

"Why did I waste this morning talking to them?" He groaned. "Why didn't I just go to the normal students? Why do I even bother with those delinquents? Why isn't there a bar within walking distance around here?"