Tina's Gimmick-- Re-released!

Excerpt from Tina's Gimmick chapter three...

LATE! You can't walk in late in my class young woman!" she bellowed. I stared at Mrs. Parker and nodded dumbly. She was in her mid-forties and really angry looking. Her gray hair seemed to bob every now and then as she spoke and her glasses were dangerously perched on her head. I kept wondering if they were going to fall on the floor and break into a million pieces. As soon as I had entered class, she had begun screaming. I was gasping for breath and most of her screaming was lost on me because I kept hearing the loud thud of my heart beating against my ribs and I was sure my ears had turned bright pink. I had never been so embarrassed in my life!

"I…I'm sorry," I said timidly. She stared at me and I was pretty sure she was going to hit me right now. But instead, she nodded her head.

"Detention after school. Now go to your desk," she said and turned back to the board.

"But…but?" I started to say but it was a big mistake, for she turned around sharply to glare at me, her face now turning to fuchsia.

"Do you want to stay after school every day for two months?" she asked

"No," I said in a small voice.

"Then go to your desk," she roared.

I literally ran to an empty desk near the back of the class and plonked down but not before I caught a few amused glances from my classmates. Oh great! Just what I needed! I had hoped to make tons of new friends on the very first day and now I was just a joke. I hid my blushing face behind the Math textbook and wished no one would look at me.

The class seemed to go on for hours and I didn't understand a word Mrs. Parker was saying. The syllabus was completely different from my previous school. We hadn't even begun algebra, and over here, we were already doing complex algebra sums. Finally, after I couldn't take those complex sums anymore, the bell rang. I picked up my books quickly and dashed for my next class, which was Science. But this time I checked the school map and made sure I was going to the right class.

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