Glasses

“Ahem, excuse me Ms.Smarty but I am in the middle of teaching a lesson so if you’ll let us finish,” the kids faces fell faster than greased lightning. Ms.Smarty looked at the kids’ gloomy faces to Ms.Vulture’s gleeful one. Something seemed to click into place as Ms.Smarty looked at them all.

“I see,” she breathed, then with one last look added louder, “Ms.Vulture, can I speak to you in the hall for a moment?” Ms.Vulture looked like she wanted to object then Ms.Smarty looked at her and ordered, “That is not a question,” Ms.Vulture reluctantly followed Ms.Smarty out the door.The class leaned forwards in their seats to hear better and heard Ms.Smarty’s calm voice rumbling outside the door and then heard Ms.Vulture blast, “Your class is a miserable, misbehaving bunch of mud balls! Especially that girl May!” Ms.Smarty rumbled something in response and the class heard Ms.Vulture’s footsteps retreat down the hall. Ms. Smarty walked into the classroom and smiled at everyone.

“Ms.Vulture won’t be subbing here anytime soon, in fact, never!” The class let out a big cheer. May could have hugged Ms.Smarty and she did. Right in front of the whole class. She didn’t care about that anymore. “The class is dismissed for recess,” Ms.Smarty stated, “but May, please stay here. I want to talk to you.”

The class left for the playground, shooting May curious glances on the way out.

“May, Ms.Vulture was a meanie beanie hostile person and it wasn’t right for her to say those things to you,” May nodded and Ms.Smarty continued, “I’m glad that you know that because it’s not fair to treat a student that way. Is there anything else you want to tell me?” May shook her head. “Okay, you can bring your stuff back to your desk while I go outside and make sure that the other students don’t kill each other.

Bye,” Ms.Smarty left the room leaving May alone.

May didn’t want to tell Ms.Smarty about the blurry letters. It was probably nothing, May told herself. I’m probably just tired, but May couldn’t help but think that that wasn’t it. She shook it off and started thinking of other things. May felt like the luckiest person in the world to have a teacher like Ms.Smarty.