Chapter 4:

Or 'Why Listening To Sarah Is A Good Idea.'

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Physics was next on Sarah's timetable, she walked in and claimed a front row seat, on the extreme left of the classroom, where there was room to store her bag, and she wouldn't be noticed. She was followed by the triplets, and despite Althea's naming, she still didn't know which one was which, and she wasn't going to try. What was the point? They walked around together, spoke together, and acted together. They sat down in a line next to her.

Mrs Rabbit looked at the class, ranging from super bright Susan to super lazy Mary.

"Today we are going to start our study of electricity." She announced. Sarah looked round the classroom, at all the sighing faces; Mrs Rabbit could make a bomb sound boring. Except, the triplets were smiling and punching the air, almost invisibly by their side.

'Either they're really keen about physics.or they're up to something.' Sarah thought, before completely ignoring the thought. She wished she could do what both Henry and Rae did, which was ignore Mrs Rabbit, and read the book to learn, or better still what Hayley did, which was surf the internet, while supposedly doing her coursework (A.N. this is TRUE! It may explain, why Hayley's stopped doing Physics)

"Now what I want you to do is in pairs, see how changing the resistance, using a variable resistor, changes both the current and the brightness of a bulb. All your equipment is over there."

Immediately three hands reached for the sky, the triplets.

"Yes?" Mrs Rabbit asked, "Ah, you must be the new girls, and your names are?"

Silence, then:

"Daria, Quinn and Brittany." Sarah sighed, when it became obvious that the triplets were not going to answer.

"Yes, girls?"

"We've never."

".worked apart before."

"So we were wondering if."

".it would be possible."

".for us to work."

".as a three?"

"Well, there's an even number in the class, but if you team up with Sarah, you can be two two's." Sarah sighed, it wasn't that she didn't like the trips, but they were starting to scare her; she really didn't like the way they finished each other's sentences, without a break.

"Now girls, you may begin."

"Right, if I get the light bulbs." Sarah started, but stopped, the triplets had already got the equipment. "We don't need two power packs, do we?"

"Yes, we're two twos, remember?"

"But don't we need two of everything then?" Sarah asked, as the triplets started to set up a circuit.

"Nope!"

"Are you sure it's safe; or do I need to hide under the table?" Sarah asked, as the triplets wired up the two power packs in series, into the circuit and turned the voltage up to max.

"Oh no."

". It's perfectly."

".safe!"

Sarah looked down as they flipped the switches; almost immediately a couple of bright sparks appeared and landed on her hand. Instinctively she started to shake it.

*It didn't actually hurt! That's odd! Oh well, I'm not risking it. After all a larger one might.* She thought

"I'm getting under the table." Sarah announced, putting action to words.

"Why?"

"We said it."

".was safe!"

"Your idea of perfectly safe is not my idea of safe." Sarah's head remerged, looking at all the pretty sparks, "I'm taking my book, as well!" Again Sarah retreated under the table, this time with her reading book and notebook; protectively she curled up around them, wishing that she had more protection, as the desk only provided protection on three sides (above, below and back), and her preferred place in the I.T. room provided protection on five sides (above, below, back, left and right).

She knew Mrs Rabbit wouldn't notice her disappearance, she was the second worst teacher in the school (A.N. the worst teacher will be mentioned later in the story [all characters are based on real people]).

A short while later she heard a muffled explosion; slowly and carefully she uncurled from her foetal position, even more carefully she raised her head above the parapet. The light bulb had broken, and thrown smashed glass out in all directions, in the explosion the triplets had burnt off their eyebrows, as well as Mrs Rabbit's.

"I said it wasn't safe." Sarah said,

"Maybe we should."

".listen to Sarah."

".next time."

"She has a."

".good sense of."

".personal safety."

"Okay, my sanity will leave if you guys keep that up! It's worse than Hannah's echo effect!"

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