Creative Writing, Room 203, Fall 1990 by: Anita

Anita walked into Room 203. She was dreading this class because she had heard that Mrs. Boone liked to give lots of homework and liked to make you work in groups. Anita detested working in groups. It was the worst thing that you could do to her.

She adjusted the strap of her Minnie Mouse book bag on her shoulder and walked to find a seat. There were people scattered all over the room. Anita saw a girl that she recognized from her Math class, so she decided to go sit beside her.

Anita put her bag down next Kelly. Anita said, “Your name is Kelly, right.” Kelly smiled and said, “Yea. You are in my Math class, aren’t you?” Anita was happy; she couldn’t believe that Kelly had remembered her. Kelly looked at Brandy and said, “Brandy, this is Anita.” Kelly looked at Anita and said, “Anita, this is Brandy.” Brandy said, “Hi.” Anita said, “Hello.” Brandy went back to reading her book.

Anita said to Kelly, “I hear Mrs. Boone likes to put people in groups. Do you wanna be in a group together?” Kelly smiled, “Yea, that’s cool.” Kelly looked at Brandy and said, “Do you want to be in our group?” Brandy made an ugly face and said, “Yea, I don’t care. I suppose we have to be friends now or something.” Anita said, “Is there something wrong with being friends with us?” Brandy made a silly face and said, “Naw, I just asked a question. How many people are supposed to be in our group anyway?” Anita said, “I am not sure. Maybe five or six.” Brandy blew a breath, “That’s a lot of people.” Anita and Kelly laughed at the face Brandy made. Anita and Kelly talked to each other as they waited for class to start.

Anita looked up when Brandy said, “I hope she is not about to walk back here.” Anita and Kelly looked up and saw a well-dressed young lady walking towards them. Anita asked, “What’s wrong with her?” Brandy said, “She is new to the school and she thinks everyone is supposed to wait on her. She is in my History class. She bugged me for the whole class. She almost got me into with Mr. James. He is crazy. I don’t want to be bothered with her.”

Brandy stopped talking when Mitzy walked up to her and said, “Hi. I am glad that you are in this class. I haven’t had a class with anyone else that I recognize. This place is so hard to get through. Did they ever think of putting elevators in here?”

Anita and Kelly laughed. Anita thought to herself, “Creative Writing was going to be interesting this year.”

posted by Anita @ 10:13 AM