Title: Strong Enough Chapter 8
Author: Nicki C.
Email: Nimacu@yahoo.com
Disclaimer: I don't own Once and Again or the characters
Summery: Two days after the Chapter 7
Feedback: Of Course I want it.
A/N* This part took way to long I know, but I just didn't feel inspired about where to go from the last chapter, then suddenly Wham! It hit me! I had an idea. So enjoy!
Grace was in English class, and she wasn't paying any attention at all. Her thoughts were drifting to other things. Other things being Eli, of course. She was absent-mindedly doodling with in her notebook when Mr. Smith called on her.
"Ms, Manning, could please answer the question."
Grace froze; she had no idea what the question was.
"Umm. Could you please repeat the question?"
"Miss Manning if you'd had been paying attention you would have heard me asking you're opinion of Puck's soliloquy at the end of "Mid Summer Night's Dream"
"Oh, that's all"
""Oh" Miss Manning, no answer for us, you'll have to pardon me if you don't feel like my questions are intriguing enough to answer; perhaps you'll find whatever you were writing on the cover of your notebook more interesting"
Grace couldn't believe how this was turning into such a nightmare, before she even had a chance to react to what he was saying Mr. Smith grabbed the notebook off of her desk.
"Hmm. Very Interesting Miss Manning; well whoever this Eli fellow is, I'm sure he feels very lucky to have someone like you wasting all their time obsessing over him, perhaps you'd like to obsess even more this afternoon in detention while you're writing an essay on Puck's soliloquy"
"Yes, Mr. Smith"
Grace sat and listened to the other students snicker for a few moments when it suddenly hit her that Mr. Smith had said Eli's name out loud. The way gossip in this school spread everyone would know by the end of the day. And there would be no doubt about the identity of the Eli that Grace was writing about. Most people knew the connection between the families, and if they didn't someone would explain it to them. She decided that the only thing she could do now was try and pay attention to Mr. Smith and deal with the repercussions after class.