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To the Future in High School
Note: This chapter is not complete yet.
Ellie arrived at her Basic Drawing class after lunch. The bell had just rung and a dirty, awful smelling Sid arrived after his confrontation with Scrat at lunch. He sat down next to Ellie who scooted away a little despite her high tolerance of people that are different.
"Hey, what's up?" said Sid smiling, acting like nothing was amiss.
"You uh-" Ellie stopped and pointed to all the kids staring at him with their mouths wide open, some covering their noses.
Sid picked up her point even though he didn't have the best odor as a sloth either. Sid got up and was about to walk out of the classroom to go to the office for new clothes when he collided with the teacher at the doorway. The teacher was also very strict unfortunately for Sid.
The teacher looked enraged now that some of the gunk of Sid was on him. "Pardon me, sir, but what do you think you were doing coming to class in soiled clothes?" he pointed a thick finger into Sid's chest so hard it threatened to push him backward. The teacher didn't seem to care that he was touching Sid's shirt again.
Sid was horrified and nervous. "I-I was just heading to the office to get new clothes." Sid still had the teacher's finger pushing on his chest.
"I don't care. Behavior like that calls for an immediate referral and detention or possibly a 9 day suspension."
"Wait! He was heading to the office to get new clothes, he told me so. He got beaten up by a kid at lunch so badly that he lost his lunch. He only bumped into you because he's still wary from the fight." Ellie clarified
The teacher eyed her, glaring. "And what was the name of the student responsible for this incident?"
"Scrat." Ellie said sounding as if she didn't want to get Scart in trouble.
"Scrat?" the teacher repeated. "Is this a teen prank?"
"No, Scrat is a real student who has Lunch B. He has redish, wavy hair. He was sitting at the table next to my friends table. Ask Manny or Diego.
The teacher was lazy about talking to students and decided to dismiss Sid.
"Fine, go to the office, get home and take a shower, and return to class tomorrow. But just remember, if I find out any of this story is not true, you and your friend over there will be suspended. Do you understand?" Sid gulped and nodded earnestly. Ellie also gave the teacher the ok.
There was a brief period after that when the teacher went to change his clothes. Ellie smiled at everyone staring at her, even those that mocked or teased her about Sid. Then the teacher handed out everyone a strict rubric for a creative drawing assignment. Ellie saw it and thought 'Geez, for an art teacher, Mr. Weiner's really not creative.' The teacher spent the rest of the hour lecturing on his strict expectations for the students in his class and about the rubric. Ellie passed the time thinking.
Scrat had 9th Grade Social Studies with Diego and Manfred that hour. Diego and Manny had just sat down next to eat other when a hyperventilating Scrat came in with a bagful of the washed nuts from his lunch and sat beside them. The kids already in class stared, shocked. Manny showed a look of disgust at Scrat's still ruined clothes but Diego had something to say to Scrat.
"Hey, first of all, move away from us." Scrat obeyed. "Second, how did you get here?" Diego asked quietly, ignoring Scrat's appearance.
Scrat thought for a second, then mimicked what happened the night that he was taken from the ice age by pointing at the lights on the ceiling, running with his bag of nuts around the classroom like a lunatic, and then turning the lights off leaving out the part where he rammed into a boulder and how his nut disappeared first. Kids stared at Scrat, wide eyed and giggling as he did his dramatization of what looked to them like a kid going crazy.
Manny looked over at Diego. "I think he's trying to answer your question." They watched as Scrat finished and stepped in front on them silently telling them he was done. Then Scrat heard footsteps. Scrat screamed and bolted out the door for a reason only Scrat and possibly the principal he had been in trouble with earlier, Mr. Crinal would understand. Fortunately, the principal didn't see him and it appeared that Mr. Crinal was only having a casual talk with the social studies teacher; he hadn't come to punish or lecture the class. Manny and Diego exchanged glances. Manny and Diego had the same teacher as Ellie, Mrs. Steinberg. She wasted no time assigning the kids partners since she had arrived late to the classroom. Manny and Diego started quietly conversing on their situation when Manny almost jumped when he heard his name.
"Manfred Gollbeck, you will be working with Shino Alm on the struggles between Native Americans and Americans for land and The Declaration of Independence." Manny took one look at his partner and immediatly drew back. The girl he was partners with had sweet eyes that felt like they held meaning, black hair and a worn but beautiful Native American dress. She was also small and looked like she would never hurt a fly. He didn't know what the something of independence was but was sure Shino was Native American. (not stereotyping here) He wondered if she could help his herd, especially with the topics they were researching and her resemblence to the people from the ice age which probably were Native Americans. Manny got out of his thoughts when he heard Diego's name called.
"Diego Clawsten, you will be working alone on the animal skin trade in the 1700's." Diego scoffed, he always seemed to get stuck with something about predators or worse, hunting animals. Soon, they started their work and Manny tried his best to approach Shino.
"Do you wanna try to work- uh." his face tensed with nervousness. He didn't know how to approach girls period, let alone one that was like this, especially without sounding like he liked her because he didn't and already had Ellie.
"What?" said Shino in the quietest, sweet, most innocent voice. Manny backed a step and by the looks of him to Diego felt much worse about this than when he met Ellie.
"I was wondering if you know much about-" Manny stopped again speechless. Diego decided to help since he knew what Manny was getting at. "early Americans." Diego finished for Manny.
"Oh, sure." she said innocently. Quietly, she mapped out what her and Manny would be doing for their project. Fortunately, she had not taken any of this offensively and at last Manny was able to get a grip on being around her and worked the rest of the hour. Diego looked up hunting of animals for his project as well as the uses of the animals poeple killed. What he found disgusted him; it was not anything like how sabers ate prey. He noted that Scrat didn't show up again that hour.