Then I ducked behind the teacher's desk! I waited until I didn't hear anymore feet walking and nobody talking. I peeked out and nobody was there. The door was even closed. I dusted myself off and looked around. A big supply drawer was in the corner of the room so I went over and looked in it. And wowie-wow-wow! There was clay in that drawer! I picked some pink and some blue. And I rolled them into balls on the floor.
I mixed them together and it turned into a pink and blue swirly thing. It was a masterpiece, even if a bit of dirt and hair got into it from the carpet. Pretty soon I heard feet coming towards the classroom! They were running feet. My heart pounded.
"Oh no…what am I gonna do? I have to hide…" I whispered. I opened the supply drawer and squeezed myself into the bottom shelf, on top of the construction. Then I closed the door, only not all the way. I was very comfortable, except for my head was squishing between the top shelf and the paper. I heard two voices talking.
"Now, what happened again?" A man was talking first. His voice didn't sound familiar.
"One of my students is missing. She was supposed to get on the bus this afternoon, but when I lined the class up, she wasn't there. She wasn't on the playground either. We have to go out and try to find her," Mrs. Laura's voice told the man. I then heard the feet running the other way.
I didn't come out of the closet for a real long time. 'Cause what if there were other people around? Then I would be in big trouble, young lady. I think I must have fallen asleep, 'cause all of a sudden I woke up.
I crawled out of the door and rubbed my eyes. I listened carefully and didn't hear anything, so I stood on a chair and looked out of the window. Good news! I didn't see the dumb bus anywhere, and no cars were outside either.
"Whew! That was a close one!" I said, just to myself. I looked all around the classroom. Then I looked inside Mrs. Laura's desk drawer. There were rubber bands. And staples. And scissors. And paper.
I lifted the paper in the back of the drawer.
"Jackpot!" I yelled. It was a box of stickers! There were all sorts of different kinds. I stuck three star ones on my forehead. I also took a few animal stickers and put them in my pocket. I closed the drawer.
My eyes spotted chalk! I ran over to the chalkboard and pretended I was the teacher.
"Okay, everybody. My name is Mrs. Maddie. Today we will be learning how to write my name. Plus we will also do math, but not right now." I instructed the pretend class. "See?" I wrote my name in big letters on the board. "Now you do it."
I waited for them to finish up.
"Now you have to watch me draw other stuff on the board." I drawed another pony. And I drawed me, London, and my new friend Corrie. I also drawed that meanie Matt. Then I made a big X through him.
"Perfect," I said. I wrote other things I knew how to write. Like my last name and the word cow.
"Okay, the end. Now you can all go out for recess."
I paused and thought. Then I added sneakily, "But not you, meanie Matt."