Chapter Two: Falling Asleep
"Who can tell me what kind of reaction can form smoke?" Ms. Parato asked. "Adele?"
"Huh?" I mumbled, jerking my head up off my desk. Staying up late (unintentionally) had SO not been a good idea. Especially as I'd been doing so for a little more than a week. I'd had trouble sleeping since-
"The kind of reaction that can form smoke," Ms. Parato sighed, shaking me from my thoughts.
"Oh, uh… a combustion reaction?" I said quickly.
"Yes, thank you, and please try to stay with us from now on!" Ms. Parato said. I nodded and she turned back to the board. I felt bad for almost falling asleep, but it just seemed to keep happening… ever since I said no to this jerk of a guy who asked me out about a week ago. I'd had a weird feeling that refused to go away, too. Hopefully the shock of being called on would keep me up for a while, but there were no guarantees.
As predicted, my consciousness started fading again in a few minutes. Ms. Parato was now talking about smoke and it's properties and other stuff. My sleep-fogged mind took this thought and connected it with I Dream of Jeannie. Like how Jeannie would smoke into her bottle. Starting to doze off now, I didn't notice I was beginning to slip out of my chair. I was thinking about how cool it would be if I could meet Tony and Jeannie; go to the IDoJ universe, you know? Finally, I completely slipped out of my chair, squeezing my eyes tight shut in alarm. I felt my head hit something hard, hard enough to knock me out. My last conscious thought was that what I was landing on felt a lot more like carpet than the hard, cold, linoleum floors of my school.
Wow, I got Chapter Two for this out MUCH quicker than I did for my Chronicles of Narnia story. This was what, a couple days? The Narnia gap was about six months. But these two chapters are a lot shorter than the Narnia ones… am I moving too fast?
Just so you know, I've got one more long(er than these two) chapter that I have most of written. That's not the end of the story though. I'm just letting you know because then there might end up being a Narnia gap soon… not that I want there to be… I'm just a notorious procrastinator, even though I do love writing. It's just that I've got a lot of projects now and coming up in school and then my home life is kind of hectic.