Zack

Bear at the Door
“Hey Dexter” “Oh, hi Jim-bob. Have you found your way around the school nicely.” “I have been um, like, um, looking around. But, um what is these um typing things with the screen.” “Computers?” “Yeah, we only have um, like, um, board with white writing sticks.” “Oh, well that is cool I guess.” “Yeah um, can you tell me where this is.” *Points to a piece of paper with writing on it* “That is room number four and we happen to be right next to it.” “Yeah um I’m not so good with numbers.” “That is the chess room, are you actually signing up for Chess club.” “Well um.” “You shouldn’t because it is already full.” “Um well no the um principal actually um said that I should sign up for it so um I can learn how to like be good at um something.” “But, the first meet is tomorrow and you haven’t practiced once.” “That um won’t be a problem, because like um because.” “Please don’t sign up, just please don’t!” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Um, but the principal said that I um.” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Well don’t!” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“But my grand pappy says that I’m supposed to um listen to the like adults. And um, I like always like um wanted to try chess, but like um I never had the money to like um get a board. I tried to like play with um the dead mice by taping like um, swords to their hands, but they like um, never worked.” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Please don’t do it, if you don’t I will give you anything.” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Can you give me a mouse that can actually like um, talk, and like um, sword fight, and like um and give me hair cuts with its teeth.” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Um well no.” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“My mama says that you should only settle for what you ask for, that is why shes like in jail.” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Oh well in that case the room number is eight-teen and that is right down the hall.” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Nice try, but everybody knows that the highest number possible is eleven. Do you take me for some kind of idiot? Now I’m going in to that room and there is nothing you can do about it.” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“We’re doomed” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The chess team finished in last place with twenty five losses that season.