The Evil Green Goo Lady
Sofy:
This isn’t something that happened today, and it actually happened quite some time ago, but Alvy and Cary said I should write about it, so here.
Alvy, Cary and I have sort of a ritual when we go to lunch. We eat, we buy TicTacs or Mentos, we go down to the soccer stands, stay there talking and listening to music, and go back up to the lockers. So a couple of weeks ago, we were going back up to the lockers. There are three stairs we can use, the library one, the elementary computer lab one, and the one close to the nurse’s office, which is the longest one. We used the one close to the nurse’s office.
The stairs are really narrow, so only two people can walk side-by-side. Since Alvy and Cary were listening to Alvy’s iPod together, they walked behind me, next to each other. So that we could talk better, I turned around and faced them, walking up the steps backwards.
“Sofy, you’re gonna hit.”- Cary said, looking at me seriously.
I thought she was saying that I was gonna trip on the steps, so I just looked at her like she was crazy and continued walking backwards.
Suddenly…
I BUMPED INTO SOMETHING BIG AND SQUISHY
I turned around and found myself staring straight at the boobs of someone that looks exactly like that lady from Monsters, Inc. That one that wears glasses and is made of, well, green goo.
But I forgot a detail. BEFORE I actually turned around, my hand involuntarily reached up and patted whatever I had bumped into.
So I turn around and my hand was resting on the boobs of the green goo lady. I look up at her face, stare at her for two seconds, and scream. I screamed REALLY loud.
This was one of those flight-or-flight situations that we learned about in Science class. I could either stay and say sorry and handle the green goo lady’s stare, or I could run away and let Alvy and Cary take care of this mess.
I chose flight.
I quickly turned away and ran up the stairs. I literally flew up those stairs, I’m serious. For a minute, my feet didn’t touch the ground. But then I remembered that humans don’t fly and got guilty about leaving my friends behind. So I stopped. But I was actually going so fast that when I wanted to stop, I couldn’t stop right away. So I tried to stop, but I didn’t really stop. I tripped.
So I’m sitting there, all sprawled out on the steps, and I slowly look up at the green goo lady. (Who was actually, like, two steps behind me, which means that I hadn’t been going that fast at all.) I give her an embarassed smile and say ‘I’m sorry.’
Green goo lady just stares. She looks at me with mean and beady eyes, and she looks SCARY. I look over at my friends, and they have now stopped laughing like crazy and are staring at the green goo lady, eyes as big as mine. Then she leaves. Alvy, Cary and I were so quick getting the heck out of there that we didn’t have time for checking, but I could swear, that if we had, there would be a trail of green goo left behind where she walked.
About To Lose A Friend… But Already Won Another
Alvy:
Today was the worst and one of the best days of my life. To begin with, you all probably know that Ms. Coggio (Gina Coggio) is a great friend, to Sofy, Cary and I, so there we were, on our own, living life and laughing near the drinking fountain, until Cary shouts: “Oh My God, What Is That?” and then, I look at where she was pointing.There, in the little “ramp” heading to the art room, were two 6th graders and Ms. Coggio (And here comes the worst part…) SOCIALIZING! I told Cary: “We have to do something about this!” we made a “mean people” march and butted in the converstaion. The 6th graders became uninterested and intimidated by us (Who wouldn’t after the march?) then they said: “Good bye, future teacher” (Or something like that) How dare they say that! and Ms. Coggio even seemed to have fun while talking to the little “Intruders” Humph… But they’re going to see… (Evil Laugh, like the ones that sound like Muahahaha)
After I arrived home, I sat on the couch and asked about Prince to Ana (My maid) and she told me that he never showed up since last friday. I became a little sad, although I already expected that answer. The phone rang, and I answered. “Alvaro, could you come out for a minute, I have a surprise for you and your sister!” I hung up the phone. I then saw my mother searching through the seat next to her’s. “It’s Prince! She found him!!” The thoughts of finding him again ran through mind until she pulled out a small little figure. The car’s glass was dark, so I couldn’t see too much. When I looked out through the window, I saw the cutest thing, we just won a new little Lhasa Apso puppy! “I’ve read she brings luck, let’s see if she brings Prince back!” I smiled and held her tiny little fragile body. My mother read the printed page of info about the Lhasa Apso, I heard the words China, calm, and elegant a couple times, I spent some hours with her and then my father came and robbed her from me.
The title of the post might make you think that I am substituting Ms. Coggio for my little Crystal, but that isn’t true. Ms. Coggio is a great friend (Although she stares at me for a long time when I make fun of her, like the way she says a word sometimes.) and she is also a great teacher (But you know what, now that I’m describing them, Crystal and Ms. Coggio are’nt THAT different…) And you know what, if Ms. Coggio is substituting us for the 6th graders, then I will substitute her for Crystal… (See, Ms. Coggio, told you that I would talk bad about you in “On Our Way.” I’m Hazardous!) (And smart, um, hello, Vocab!)
