Slice of Paper

I have to say, I did a lot of things as a kid. Today, I felt reminiscent and started thinking about the school I left behind. Good ol’ middle school. Those were the days of childish fun with adult motives and humor. I can’t say I loved those days, but I don’t hate them either. It’s a bittersweet kiss.

“Shhhh…,” goes the pouring rain. Skies’ clouded with the rain clouds and I find myself in a boring old science class room. We’re mixing stuff! How fun! Today, we’re learning what happens when you mix certain things together! But there aren’t enough substances to go around, so we sit from our desks and watch Ms. Wiggins mix things together in vials and beakers. She turns to the class room with great enthusiasm and shouts, “Alright! Who wants to mix this up? Anyone? Terry! Come on up!” Surprised and grinning, I strut all the way over to the island and grab the vial. The white, viscous fluid wobbled in the vial. “Shake the vial!” instructed Ms. Wiggins. I nodded and the shaking began. “Swish swish swish,” went the liquid in the vial. “Swish swish swish,” said the swishing liquid. I kept shaking and shaking until I noticed that a certain someone was grinnin’ an’ laughin’ at me.

Katie. As soon as I look directly at her, she went on even harder. Leaning back in her chair, she cupped an’ invisible stick and moved her hand up and down the shaft of the invisible thing. “Whoosh whoosh whoosh,” went the air around her. Her eyebrows jumped up and down a bunch of times, gesturing about my habits. Not as if there was anything wrong with it. But I decided to play along and moved the vial lower. Now the liquid swashed around beside my hips. Ms. Wiggins was completely unaware of this though as I stood in her blind spot. Her eyes filled with devilish intent, fixated on my hand kept gesturing one perverted things after another. But this didn’t last forever. “Thank you Terry. You can go back now,” said Ms. Wiggins and we both stopped our act. I returned to my seat, satisfied with my performance and the boring old science room never looked any less boring than it did a minute ago.