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Chapter 9

"I... Over slept on accident," I said telling him the truth.

"Work on it. If you're late again for every half an hour you're late the price will be a nickel."

I nodded. I couldn't afford to be late. I needed every nickel, especially if I wanted to make my life as comfortable as possible. Not to mention I wanted to get John a real babysitter. Not that I didn't trust Flame, I did. I would just rather that John was with a real babysitter.

"Mr. Ghoti expressed that he would like you to help him in his classroom." The headmaster said glancing up before going back to his paper work. I nodded having already known this. "I have agreed seeing as there isn't much for you to do."

I nodded again and knew that he could see it out of the corner of his eye. I stood there a moment waiting for him to dismiss me I guess.

"Go girl," he said noticing that I was still there. I scurried out and made an attempt to find classroom four. This I did not succeed at. That class room was impossible to find. Managed to find classroom three again; took a while though. I eventually stumbled across the room and let out a sigh of relief.

I entered to find Mr. Ghoti at his desk looking over papers. I glanced over his shoulder to see what looked like history essays. He glanced up at me. I smiled back at him.

"Revolution," he explained holding up one of the essays.

"Ah," I replied. He handed the one he was holding up. I skimmed through it and found that it was pretty well written. There were a few grammar mistakes here and there but besides that it was good. Then again if he was teaching the revolution then he was teaching history and grammar wasn't as critical. "Nice essay," I commented not sure what to say.

"It was written by one of my top students. David Jacobs." He replied adding back to the pile. "I first class will be arriving soon. We're just finished covering the revolution and are going to study the constitution a little more closely now. I've decided that my students should memorize the preamble for starters."

I nodded. My 8th grade LA/SS teacher had made our class memorize the preamble by listening to the school house rock song over and over and over and over again. I know it by heart now. The song gets caught in my head too and annoys the heck out of me.

"I'd like you to help them memorize it while I finish grading these papers." I nodded again I could do that. "I have a copy of it for you." He handed me the preamble but I handed it back.

"I think I'll be fine without it." I replied confidently.

He looked up at me with a little bit of confusion and I seized the opportunity to show off.

"We the People of the United States of America, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. (Alright I was checking this and a bunch of words were capitalized and I figured there was a reason for that. So I figured that I should capitalize them too.)"

Ghoti smiled and gave me a golf clap.

"Alright then you won't need the written copy."

"Yep," I replied with a little smirk.

He pulled out a pocket watch and checked the time.

"The first set of pupils will be here shortly."

A second after he said that one walked through the door and found his seat. They all poured in with in a 2 minute range and Ghoti was allowed to start his class. After a moment of explanation I was allowed to take over.

Once at the front a few boys sent flirty compliments my way. Ghoti immediately intervened and calmed the class. I rolled my eyes. These boys weren't going to be any better than the boys in 2003. Except that they were complimenting me. That was kind of cool.

"Go ahead, go luck," Mr. Ghoti said getting ready to go back to grading papers.

Then I got an idea.

"Can I assign them assignments, so that they will remember it?" I asked remembering how our teacher had gotten us to remember the preamble.

"What ever works," he replied sitting back down.

"Alright," I said gaining a small smirk. "Mr. Ghoti said that you were going to learn the preamble, but I say that you're going to learn a song. The catch is that you and a buddy have to get in front of the class and sing it." The students stared at me in horror. This was school Mrs. Peterson style. Well actually Mrs. Peterson had had us sing it in front of the class for extra credit not our grade. So I felt like being cruel. "The song is the preamble to a catchy tune. This song will get in your head and stay there for the rest of your life."

I sang the song once through. They nodded I guess figuring they could do this. "You guys wanna hear it again or do you want to give it a try?" 'Hear it again' was the general answer, so I sang it again. I sang it four more times before the class was ready to give it a try. They were really close.

We went through it several more times before it was time for them to change classes. The rest of the day went pretty much the same way over and over again. I decided I for sure was not going to be a teacher when I grew up; it was much too repetitive for me. Oh I was glad when it was over.

When it was finally over, before I went to collect my daily salary from the headmaster, Ghoti approached me. I knew exactly what he was going to ask. I decided it was best to let him ask. If I knew what he was going to ask then he might think that I think it's an uncommon song, which it is for 1899.

"Where did you learn that song," Oh look at that. Exactly what I predicted it would be.

I shrugged. I still hadn't thought of what to say to that. There was a moment of silence before I had something semi decent to say.

"Heard it some where and got the stupid thing stuck in my head. I still haven't forgotten it." I pretended to be mildly annoyed by it.

"Hmm," was what I got in reply. "See you tomorrow morning."

With that I was free to collect and leave. So I did. Luckily the headmaster didn't deduct from my collection because I was late; it was probably a warning thing. Yeah so I started my trek back to Brooklyn. It was about a 45 minute walk.

I liked to walk it gave me a minute to think and plan things through. Oh there was so much on my mind it was surprising that I could get to sleep some nights. Then again I was too tired to think by the time I got in bed at night.

I walked deep in thought when it caught my eye. There on my left was a small toy store and in the window display sat a small brown teddy bear. I knew right then that John would love it. It would make him so happy. I felt I owed him for having to go through this. It wasn't my fault but I still felt like I owed him.

I entered the store slowly looking around before approaching the salesman to find out how much the bear was. A quarter, the same quarter that I could use for that nights dinner or breakfast the next day. The quarter I needed to use for food, for lodging, or for a new pair of pants when john wore his out. The quarter that I didn't have for buying gifts, even gifts that would bring joy to my little brother that had been dragged with out a choice into a world that he didn't belong in.

I nodded to the salesclerk and turned to leave. It was hard taking the steps out of that store but I knew I needed to. It was hard really having to use money management for the first time in my life, like this, but I knew that John would much rather eat than have a stuffed bear.