Detention

KARMA

Danny stared at the clock, shaking his knee impatiently, and tapping his fingers on the desk, waiting  for the bell to ring. He dreaded having to miss baseball practice, since he was the star pitcher.

 

The principal assigned him custodial work for skipping five history classes. As the bell rang, he watched  his buddies yelling and running out the front door, leaving him behind angrily jamming his books into the locker.

 

Grudgingly, he walked to the tool-cluttered, dust riddled janitorial room to pick up trash barrels reeking of moldy food waste. Almost gagging, he pushed them on a cart to hall “B" where his history class was located. 

 

  He waited to clean out that room last. Opening up paper wads to see “F” marked on his friend's discarded homework, he laughed. The last group of papers he tossed into the barrel were clean and straight. Picking them up, he noticed the teacher's handwriting.

 

All the test questions and their answers were neatly written down for tomorrow's mid-term exam.

 

 

Reviews

[Albert Freeman]

Wooohooo. Pays to skip History class after all.

[Autumn Starberry]

Oh my gosh! This was actually really wicked awesome! Sicknasty! Sweet! You write anything else? Ima gonna check!

[Christina2]

Mystery Janyce!

Nicely done, I need to go and read it again...hilarious that he pushed the stink to his history class, did he discard them to the proper place later.... haha.... the visual is clear. More?

[Jacqueline]

So mischievous! You have this gift of making your snarky characters likable and having the readers root them on. I liked this story-is there a little bit of non fiction in this tale?

[BrightEyes]

ohhhhh my! and what, pray tell, might our little student do with this find???? lol. I like that you don't tell us - we get to imagine how moral or immoral he may be for ourselves.

laura