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English Slacker chapter fifteen |
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By chrismorton
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01 June 2008 |
This is the first chapter from section III There was this one time when me and Colin were stuck in detention after school, sitting in the biology lab, just the two of us – yeah, Mr. Andrews had kept us back ‘cause we’d been caught looking at snot under the microscope which we thought was pretty funny at the time.
But anyway, we were sitting in the empty classroom on the desks at the back by the windows when Colin suddenly turned to me and started saying all about how one day he wanted to be a teacher, like going off on one as he sometimes did, all animated and that, but with this really serious look in his eyes.
I remember him all filled with enthusiasm and it being a bit weird actually, like how at first I wasn’t sure how to take him but listening anyway as he went on about how he really thought he could be good at it. How he reckoned it’d be, “Cool to do something worthwhile,” and all how he thought he could really make a difference by simply not being, “An arse-hole.”
I dunno where it came from or why he chose to tell me in this sudden outburst, or at that particular moment (this was the only time he ever mentioned it, although afterwards it was a sort of unspoken piece of knowledge we sometimes hinted towards now and then – at least I think we did), but, actually, now that I consider it, I reckon it would’ve been cool him being a teacher. There was something about Colin that was kind of, I dunno, just the way that when he spoke everyone listened...
Anyway, yeah, not a lot of people knew that about Colin. His serious side I mean. The fact that he actually, I dunno, the fact that he actually did wanna do something with his life. |
Written by bluecity (418 comments posted) 5th July 2008 | Short... but sweet. Kids don't like to admit to a serious side. They'd rather bum around being "well cool". And to admit to wanting to be a teacher - how uncool is that? (You see, I can do the lingo, Chris... in Estruarian.)
Very interested in Colin, now.
Rosemary
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