ANTONIO DIMARCO THUNDERBOTTOM

Snake and Pickles.

“Ok class, let’s review today!” His teacher said happily, several kids were excited as she began writing on the chalkboard.

“Ok! So,” She turned and faced the class, “Who can tell me what 1 + 1 is?”

Several kids shouted it out but she gently reminded them that they are supposed to raise their hands and they did so. Shaking with energy and the effort of trying to stay seated.

Her eyes scanned the class and Magnus knew she was going to call on him. She did this horrible thing (he thought it was horrible) where she would walk to the desk of the child she was going to choose.

And she was quickly approaching him. He groaned and put his head on his desk, he twirled his wooden #2 pencil in his hands under the desk.

She stopped next to him and even knelt down, placing her hand on his desk.

“Magnus, can you remember what 1+1 is?”

He hoped that if he ignored her she would move on, but she stayed where she was.

“Magnus, we learned it yesterday. I’m sure you can remember.”

She kept repeating herself and he was honestly getting sick of it. He snapped his pencil in half while his head shot off the desk.

He stabbed both jagged ends of his pencil into her hand, causing her and several classmates to scream while blood shot out of her hand.

The Jeune Carré, a little bit of France in Manhattan…