You remember that kid in elementary school, the one that would wear strange outfits and thought that they could fly, would eat glue and always seemed a little off? If you were that kid, stop reading now…I don’t want to upset you with this story.
So the super hero girl has achieved a new nickname at school… Demon Bat Girl…hmmm… “why?” you ask, well let me recount the events of last Friday at approximately 2:10 PM in Perris CA. There I was, standing like I always stand during the passing period, greeting my kids so that they feel welcome and loved. I had noticed that though the brutal heat of Perris in the summer had remained, the sun had disappeared and yet another thunder storm was about to hit.
Seems like a pretty normal thing right? Well that is how all American gothic stories start, with something normal, but there is always a glint of foreshadowing in the weather or something…and that is when things go horribly, horribly wrong. I’ve read enough Poe, I should have seen it coming… Screams of terror begin to rise into the oppressively moist filled air. I turn, in expectation of a “physical altercation”, when I realize that the “super hero girl” has thrown herself on the ground just to the left of my class room and is sobbing out the words, “You are a MURDERER”. By this point a crowd had begun to gather, like flies to honey… stupid teenagers, they didn’t even see it coming.
“Apologize! A-pol-O-gizzzzeee!!!”, she yelled at the top of her voice, and began to run after one of the senior boys. “You killed it! It was a defenseless animal and you killed it… APOLOGIZE!!!”, and as any though guy would say, “No! It flew at me. It attacked me! I didn’t mean to kill it, but I won’t apologize that I killed it”. (Apparently a fruit bat had flown at and attacked the senior boy, who smacked it to get it away from him…and he killed it. Really, she had the bat in her bag and took it out and it went crazy. Because despite the fact that bats are cool, they can’t be out in the 112 degree weather during the day. They are NOCTURNAL!!!)
So reader, guess how well that went over. Your literary skills are impressive, but I doubt that even Faulkner could have guessed what would happen next in this tale. “If you don’t apologize, I’m going to put a curse on you!” to which he replied, “Go ahead, I don’t believe in that crap anyway”. So what do you think she did? She started going off in some strange gibberish and then said she cursed us all and the school. And of course, because I always get the weird ones and she has my class right after this incident… she comes storming over to my room. But after she just cursed us all and wished evil down upon us, there was no way I was letting this one into class. I moved from my greeter position to block the door with all you’ve got position and told her no way was she coming into class. I yelled for security and told them to take her to counseling. So they come over and take her away as she looks back at me with hate in her eyes. But what was I supposed to do? The entire class saw her acting crazy and cursing us. Try calming down a room full of teenagers, mostly who are Catholic and have all pulled out their rosaries and are praying for their lives. I even had a kid ask if I would pray with them, that is when the wind and thunder storm hit…
It’s going to be a loooong school year…
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