25th
Excerpt
from: Spider Quinn
“Anna,
it’s your friend,” her mother said. “Please tell him he’s not sick!”
Anna
got out of bed and went to the phone. “You’re not sick.”
“Yes,
I am,” Ben said.
“No,
you’re not.”
“Really.
I am.”
“We
have to sleep,” Anna said with a yawn.
“I
can’t go on this field trip.”
“Yes,
you can.”
“No,
I can’t,” Ben objected.
“Yes.”
“No.”
“Bye!”
Anna said before hanging up.
Ben
was still sure that he was unwell when he got to school. He headed straight to
the nurse’s office straight after Homeroom.
“See,”
he said.
“It’s
nothing,” Nurse Chase said.
“It’s
a fever,” Ben said..
“Your
temperature is only a quarter of a degree above normal.”
“That’s
right.”
“It
is easily prompted by emotional stress,” Chase said.
“Or
an influenza virus.”
“You
don’t have a flu. I’m not giving you a medical excuse. Not this time. You
shouldn’t have that thermometer! I’m sure it’s school property. You are going
on that field trip. You won’t have time to be worried about getting sick.”
The
school day went as usual. The field trip started at the beginning of the last
period. Anna, Ben and Gerald met Quinn and the young science teacher at the bus
stop behind the school’s football stadium.
“Are
we ready to go?” Quinn asked.
“Yes,”
Anna said.
“As
I’ll ever be,” Gerald said.
“I
still don’t like it,” Ben answered.
“Let’s
go,” the teacher, Ms. Olivia Sanderson, said.
Ms.
Sanderson had prepared as much as she could for the field trip after Ms. Li had
informed her that she would be taking the students early in the day. She went
over the checklist again before sitting in the drivers seat. She did have a bus
licence, but she didn’t know why Ms. Li wanted her to drive rather than one of
the staff hired to drive the school’s buses.
“We’re
almost there,” Sanderson said.
“Cool,”
Quinn said.
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Total: 320
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