The Beginning

I love track and I can run - just like my dad. I hope to join the track team. Coach Jamison is the coach of Harrison School District's track team. He thinks highly of me. This should have increased my chance of getting into the track team. I really admire Steve Hallick. He is just 17 and he is doing the 55 meters in 6.51 seconds as well as running a mile in four seven!

I hate literature. Personally, I feel that literature is boring. Miss Narwin was my Literature teacher. She is as boring as literature and does not know how to joke. The worst thing was, she was also going to be my homeroom teacher.

Then came the winter term examinations. On the English paper, there was a whole segment in reference to The Call of the Wild. That book was so boring that I did not finish it, so I just made up my own answers to the questions. When the term grades were out, I got an A in Mathematics (awesome), B in biology (still okay), C in history (cool - all of that stuff is dead anyway), straight B in health and... I got a D in English! Narwin sure hates me.

This D in English cost me a place in the track team. To get on a team or even try for one, I had to get a passing grade in every subject - at least a C minus. Coach Jamison suggested that I could ask Miss Narwin for extra work, but I felt that it was a personal thing with her.

I was disappointed when I heard about the district rule. I hated Narwin for giving me a D. I hated her for being so boring. I hated Narwin for being my homeroom teacher starting the next day. I decided to get back at her.