Locker #2375 Chapter 14

Posted on | April 26, 2009 | 1 Comment

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The Book is Lost!

That little package, once it found the frequency of the schools wireless broadcast system took on a life of its own.

As the school was erupting in an organized chaos we all seamlessly blended into our classes as if nothing out of the ordinary was going on.

Of course I pulled my shirt over my head and ran around the lobby saying, “Dreamland, Dreamland take me to the water park.”

Ana and Kevin ran behind me yelling at the top of their lungs, “MAAAAX, MAAAAX, we have to be outside.”

And the rest of the gang acted as would be expected.

Calm, Cool and Collected.

Omar stood at the front of his class line and tried not to laugh.

Brandon was sitting on a fence recording the whole scene in a pastel drawing.

Nathaniel was trying to get the wifi to work on his laptop so he could do a bit of homework.

Then it was over!

Just as fast as the commotion started it stopped.

Without a second’s warning the water stopped and the siren/bell/owl with its head caught in a humming bird feeder noise was gone.

And without any background noise the entire school, which was standing 25 meters from the front door, was absolutely silent.

There stood the entire administration soaked to the bone and nobody made a sound!

Then out of nowhere came the loudest snort/snore that caused the whole school to turn and look at Sam, who decided that this was as good a time as any to grab a quick 50 winks.

One by one each class headed back into the school.

There were large puddles on the floor.

The school was a real mess!

The student artwork that had been on the walls was now hanging torn or resting on the floor in clumps of gooey pulpy paper stew.

Surprisingly the classrooms were dry.

It would seem that the sprinkler system had malfunctioned!
Only the halls, the principal’s office and the staff room were soaked.

The rest of the school was bone dry.

Of course Ana had planned this all along so she was looking at the three of us and patting herself on the shoulder for another job well done.

I was sitting by the wall close to the door, almost ready to bite into the piece of chocolate cake with green icing that I borrowed from Ana’s lunch when Nathaniel ran past the room with a look of terror on his face.

It was at that moment that there was no question things were getting odd and this oddness was not a bunch of random acts of coincidence.

No, even if others did not see it I knew something was going on.

Jeanne walked past my desk, dropped a stapler on the end of my big toe that sent a sharp pain directly to my mouth and I let out the loudest scream ever.

At that very moment Ms. Shelley came into the room and glared at me.

“Out into the hall Mister…. Nobody makes those noises in my class!”

As I got up to stand in the wet and somewhat smelly hall I noticed that something was missing!

The cake that I had cleverly pulled from Ana’s lunch had been in my hand and with all the confusion caused by Jeanne and the stapler it was gone.

I quickly looked on the floor and then on the desk, all the while Ms. Shelley was counting and glaring at me.

I gave a quick look over to Jeanne and there on the corner of her lips was a trace of green icing!

I had been double-crossed!

Jeanne distracted me and ate the cake and Jeanne was the last person to do anything wrong so there was no chance anyone would believe me if I piped up about the cake being missing.

And it wasn’t my cake to start with.

I had borrowed the cake form Ana in the first place.

Just as I was heading for the door Nathaniel ran past the class again.

“Mister you wait in the hall and I will be right out to have a chat about your behaviour.”

So there I was standing in the hall marveling at all that was going on in the school that I had no clue about!

There was this group of under cover student espionage agents doing something.

There was a detention room that seemed to have a lot more than detentions going on in it.

There was a bat cave like room under a water machine.

And there was a book that seemed to be connected to all that was happening.

As I stood next to my locker, it made a sound.

At first I thought I was just imagining the sound that had come from the floor of the detention room.

Then I heard it again and it was clearly coming from my locker, and it was getting louder and louder!

I looked to the left and I looked right, the coast was clear.

From around my neck, the home of my locker key and 36 ½ key chains, I pulled my locker key from its protective cover.

Just as I was about to push the key into the keyhole Nathaniel tapped me on the shoulder and in a very low voice said were busted!

I just about touched the ceiling I jumped so high and I know I jumped that high because just as I was coming down Ms. Shelley came out of the door next to my locker and seemed surprised that only Nathaniel was at my locker since he was in another class in a totally different grade.

Thanks to Ms. Shelley I didn’t land on the floor I landed on her and not only did she break my fall but she saved me from getting absolutely soaked.

Unfortunately the force I generated falling from just below the ceiling caused Ms. Shelley to buckle under my weight and fall to the floor like a sack of sugar.

Fortunately Ms. Shelley wasn’t hurt.

In fact she was probably saved from serious injury by her face getting planted straight into a pile of English posters that had gone from being a wall display to a giant island of pulp on the floor beside my locker.

Nathaniel grabbed my arm and shouted we’ll get help Ms. Shelley don’t move!

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