Today’s words are: Increase, retire, dairy, hiccup, verdict.
The alarm sounded. Shanika hit the snooze button and moaned.
She hated chapel. It was only twice a week, Tuesday and Thursday, but she didn’t
have a morning class those days and having to get up for chapel interrupted her
sleep.
Going into the auditorium she found her assigned seat
sitting next to Martha Smith and Alex Baumgartner. Martha is a PK (preacher’s kid)
and Alex is a preacher boy. She usually, once whoever was giving the lecture or
sermon started, scrunched down and went back to sleep. Martha and Alex stayed
alert and attentive the whole hour.
Today the president of the school was giving the lecture.
She remembered the freshman welcome he gave at indoctrination. She never heard
anyone say so much without it meaning anything. A nice jumble of words and that
was about it. This guy should retire and maybe the next guy would increase
the attention span of the student body!
Dr. Slaughter began his mouthing of verbal inanity and she
went promptly to sleep. For some reason half-way through she started to hiccup.
She sat up and had another and another. “Crap,” she said starting to get up and
bothered the line of sleeping students for the aisle and a water fountain. Even
Martha and Alex were passed out.
A couple of gulps and the spasms stopped. Going back to her
seat she heard Dr. Slaughter say, “There was no doubt in Pilate’s mind that
the verdict on Jesus should be not guilty, but the crowd wouldn’t let
him…”
After waking up the slumbering students again she was pissed
off that she wouldn’t be able to go back to sleep and had to listed to this guy
droning in monotone for another fifteen minutes.
If had to pay to attend here, I’d go back to my parent’s dairy
farm.
9 comments:
nice use of the words, and it's good to learn a bit about Shanika's background. I didn't have her pictured as a dairy farmer kid. And I so feel her pain about chapel and sleeping in!
I hadn't pictured her as a dairy farmer's kid, so cool on that. Flowed well, too. :-)
Like the others, the dairy farm was a surprise. :-)
She was going to come from a farming family, and I needed to use the word dairy. It is a nice touch.
Glad you liked it, Megan
Good you know I've got a few tricks up my sleeve.
I can't blame her for any of this. Worship is fine, good even, but forced worship is pointless. Hah. Love learning more about her though.
I can definitely sympathize with getting bored and restless at chapel.
Yes, it was.
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