Second-Grade Friends (2)

Second-Grade Friends (2)

Jacob liked the yellow plastic airplanes, blue teddy bears, and red hearts holding all their little pigtails.

He was counting them when he saw Suzy looking at him through her glasses.
They made her eyes look very big and smart.

She shook her head, " Jacob, you're not working. It's important for a Real Author to meet you. "

" Oh, yes, " said Katy. " I just love a Real Author.
Once my aunt was shopping, and she saw a Real Author, and she ran after him to get his autograph.
But it was somebody else who wasn't even an author. 

Jacob said, " I would like to write a book. But it would take too long. Besides, I might get the writer's cramp. "

Mrs Rosebroom had told them how writers hands could pinch up from too much writing.

" Yeah, or a headache, " Gegory said. " Nathan's going to have a big headache. Look how much he wrote ! "

Nathan's story already went down two pages and halfway on another.

Jacob covered up his empty paper with his hand.

Mrs.Rosebroom told him, " Why don't you try a poem ? "

So Jacob decided to write one. Poem could be really short.

He looked up at ceiling. He drew pencil lines between the corduroy on his pants. Finally he thought of a poem.

" I like my teacher.
  She is nice.
  Because she isn't ..."

It was really hard to think of what would rhyme with "nice."
Then he thought of itー"pice."

" What is ' pice ' ? " LaToya and LaTanya asked.

" I don't know, but it rymes, " Jacob said.

Some of the kids laughed, because "pice" sounded so funny.

The Real Author is coming to see your work in a few minutes, " Mrs.Rosebroom told the class.

When Jacob heard Mrs.Rosebloom say that, he quickly chewed his poem into little pieces.
Then he dropped them in the gerbils' cage.

It was all right because gerbils have torn-up paper in the bottom of their cages anyway.

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