"You know boys, you really shouldn't observe Miss Lola too closely anymore." "Why?" Chris asked sadly.
"Because!"
"That's not a reason!" Hatchet replied.
"This is school, boys, not an observation tower. She's teaching material that will benefit our growing minds for the rest of our lives, and the poor lady thinks you're ACTUALLY paying attention!" Chris gave himself defense.
"Penelope, she's prettiful and cool. We'll go to the next grade easily, she won't be like my teacher last year."
"You actually wanna go to another teacher next year?" Hatchet said. "If Miss Lola would be my teacher forever, I'd hold myself back in 1st grade forever!"
The two boys sighed, like they were bedazzled. Penelope couldn't believe what was happening. Soon, Miss Lola came back in.
"Sorry little dears. Now back to the lesson." Penelope raised her hand. "Yes Penelope?"
"Miss Lola, I think if you were to ask all of us questions on the material you taught, you can see who is actually paying generous attention and who wants to learn." Miss Lola loved the idea.
"Very good idea, dear. Okay class, I'm going to ask you questions about the things I've taught you."
She looked around the room for a student to call on.
"Chris." He stared at her.
"Y-you're pretty...Miss..Lola."
"Well..why thank you, Chris. Now I'm going to ask you a question about what we learned."
"Okay." Chris was barely paying attention during the lesson. Miss Lola prepared a question.
"Okay. So, let's say you have a basket full of..9 eggs. You decide to take 3 eggs out of the basket. How many eggs are in the basket?"
Chris was still in a daze.
"Chris?"
"Ummm...."
"Come on, dear, we just learned this."
"There's....ummm.."
"Chris, Miss Lola asked you a question." Penelope said.
"Oh! I know the answer!" Miss Lola was delighted.
"Great Chris! What is it?"
"The answer is....me and Miss Lola are gonna be married!"
The whole class gasped, and Penelope gasped even louder. Miss Lola didn't know what to say.
"Excuse me dears, I have to step outside for something." Hatchet was startled.
"Wow, you really did it, Chris.....you did a good job! Now you guys are gonna be married in a castle!" "Yay!" Chris and Hatchet high-fived.
"That's not good at all!" Penelope said. Chris looked at her funny.
"Why?"
"Because you got the answer wrong, you embarassed the teacher, and worst of all, you showed her that you didn't pay attention to her lesson, which means you missed out on essential learning skills!" Chris was still so confused.
"What's that mean?" Penelope knew what to say. This would make him concerned.
"It means...that Miss Lola probably won't like you anymore and you'll be taken out of her class!"
Oh no, Chris thought. I have to get Miss Lola to like me again. I thought all girls wanted to be married, I thought it was okay to say. What do I do now, Chris thought.