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Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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prologue. He was trying to cheer me up. We were driving home from my soccer game and my team had just gotten creamed dad was goofing around trying to make me laugh. I pretended to ignore him, but as usual that just egged him on. Ah! He said in his mad scientist voice even now the diabolical laughing formula is racing through your veins. Why do you even try to resist give in? My little cabbage give in? I started cracking up. It was the little cabbage thing that did it when I knew I couldn't hold it in anymore. I bugged my eyes out and made a face at him. I knew that would get him. He laughed. It was that big booming laugh he used to have that made his whole body shake. He laughed so hard. There were tears in his eyes. I don't remember much after that. Chapter Two Pine Ridge Middle School was only a few blocks from the new apartment At my old school, there were only about 80 kids in the whole building. Hundreds of kids were pouring into this school. I squeezed through the front door with everyone else and follow the signs to the office. May I help you? The woman behind the front desk asked in a nasal voice. She smelled like perfume and cigarette smoke and her bright orange hair matched her fingernails. It was a color you don't usually see except on parrots. She wore it in a bun so tight it pulled back the skin around her eyes. The nameplate on her desk said Miss Gruber, I'm new, I answered, I'm supposed to be in Mrs Raptor. First period biology class. We'll see about that, she said. She took out a little pair of glasses and perched them on her nose. Name molly O'Connor. She pulled some papers out of a drawer and ran a long orange fingernail down the first page. When she got to the bottom She started on the next one. I sat down on a bench by the wall and stared at the ceiling. After about a year she looked up and smiled triumphantly. Here we are, O'Connor, molly be. You should be in mrs Raptor first period biology class, gee thanks. I said wait here Mr Dink erman will want to take you there himself. He does that for all the new students. Mr Dink erman, our principal. Wait right here She got up and knocked on the door at the back of the office. A short man in a dark blue suit, answered he was balding, but he had one of those hairdos where you comb the hair really long on one side and put it up over the top to cover it up. He walked over and held out his hand. Hello mary I'm mr Dink erman. I shook his hand. It was soft and damp molly! I said what molly my name is molly! He grinned as if he had meant it as a joke. Yes of course it is