December 16th, 2007
In the Head’s Office…
“Beazie Toiz,” Head saye in him deep and boo ming voice. “What you did today was a humiliation upon the school. But I do not think it can have come unprovoked. Have a candy-cane.”
Beazie has one, they are on him desk and Beazie like’s them. they make him feel all light-headed.
“Now Beazie. Why don’t you tell me what happened? Why did you feel the need to embarrass yourself like that?”
“Not embarrassed,” Beazie, “they deserved it.”
“Why did they deserve it?”
“I… Kringle said…” BEazie seems to be having trubble expressing himself. “And Rose is a bossy cow anyway. And anyway! He probably liked it, he’s got his attention now, hasn’t he.”
“Who has? Everyone has their chance on Snatavity night,” say Head. “It is everyone’s chance to shine, not one person’s. You can’t have all the attention to yourself just by pushing over some boards. They’ll be put back up by now and the play will be carrying on. They’d even had time to put two of them back up and in position by the time I arrived, they were back in position to the pixel, even with the coats and donkey set up in exactly the same way as well. They did it between you pushing things and me arriving. That is how it happened.”
“Yeah,” Beazie say, “but the attention isn’t on the play any more! It’s scattered about, like he said! I wasn’t even going to do anything but then he kept telling me that Rose was laughing at me because she got the part and I didn’t…”
“Beazie,” saye HEad, “has someone been taunting you?”
“He kept saying everyone hated me, and I didn’t believe him at first but then there was proof, every time!”
Head looke serious.
“If you mean that another student has been saying these things to you, then that is a matter I take very seriously. What has been going on?”
“He said Kringle thought I was some kind of moron, so I said that he was a commie, and his beard made him look stupid anyway. But then in Beard Growing, he was really smug about having a beard and beard powers, and I got all embarassed and messed up the beard growing. And it never got better!! And after that he kept telling me little things I could do to get my own back and make it even, but they kept going wrong and I never got even, and he said I’d have to do bigger and bigger things so that if they went wrong a little bit then at least there was still some left that worked… but, but every time he would tell the teacher I did all those things! And, I did, but, they were his things!! And I kept listening to him because he always said that he had to look like he wasn’t my friend so that he could keep helping me, and… and then he said we needed to do something really big.”
“You let someone talk you into spoiling the Snatavity play? Oh, Beazie, why did you listen to someone like that?”
Beazie look up.
“Noe, not the Snatavity. That’s just what I was doing. It’s what he’s doing that’s big. He said tonight would be the best day to really get my own back, and at the same time, while the attention’s scattered around, then, you see?”
“No,” saye Head, looking very serious indeed.
“Well, it was a distraction, he said. And while I was doing that…”
A sort of shadow of foreboding fall upon the office. It shaped like an advent calendar chocolate. om.
“I think you’d better take me to himme,” saye the Head.
And today’s chocolate is in shape of that present again, with the ribbon that made it look like either really thin ribbon or a really big present. But this time the present is openning.
Oe! Who is this running down the corridor towards the Head’s office? 😮
