This choice: Phil decides to not ask anymore questions. • Go Back...Chapter #5Phil decides to not ask anymore questions. by: NVR   Phil tried to follow the lecture but without the book it was hopeless, in just a couple of minutes he was entirely lost already. However, he didn't dare raise his hand again. He had seen the look Ms. Prittey gave him with his last question, he knew she was annoyed, and it reminded him of back at home whenever her mother "argued" with him. From his point of view, seeing someone looming over him and glaring at him with displeasure was simply too scary, so he quickly learned when to shut up and accept the hand he was given. But he still wanted to do well at school, so he stood up and walked to the alternative.
The alternative was a closed book that Ms. Prittey had on the other side of the desk, a walk that only took him a minute and that fortunately for him nobody noticed, the entire class focused on Ms. Prittey and what she was writing on the board. Once he arrived, he realized with a bit of dread how out of his depth he was, he had never opened a normal book before! His mother always provided him with the supplies at adequate enough sizes so he could read and learn things, but his mother wasn't here anymore. Phil felt a spark of confidence lifting the hard cover, it wasn't that heavy! But as he kept lifting it higher and then pushing it so it could fall to the other side he found out the task got progressively harder. The good news was that he only had to push it a bit more than halfway through, and the hard cover landed with a small thud.
Phil tried to ignore the fact that he would have to do a similar effort many times just to reach page 126, taking solace on the fact that moving paper should be a lot easier than moving the cover. But he was wrong. With a single page he found the movement to be so awkward he couldn't just lift the paper and push it the other way, he had to pretty much do it by parts, and when he tried to grab a bunch of pages to next to get the work done quicker, he found himself overwhelmed as he tried to lift them, which meant he had to allow himself to get "crushed" by the paper and crawl out before trying again with less weight.
"What's the doll doing?"
"Is he trying to move the book by himself? Didn't the teach told him books are for people?"
"Aww, that's adorable"
Phil was so focused on finding the most efficient way to move the pages he didn't notice his efforts finally caught the attention of some girls, distracted by the little movement and noises. And of course, it also caught the attention of Ms. Prittey.
"Girls, stop that.. Phil! what are you doing?" Ms. Prittey finally turned towards him once she realized what the girls were whispering and giggling about. He looked up and froze under her stare, which wasn't as annoyed as when he was pestering her with questions, but was also nowhere near the affection she received him with before class started. He found it hard to read, almost as if she was half amused which only made him more nervous.
"I-I was just trying to.. the book" Phil stuttered and pointed to the book that was turned only to page 8. Even if the girls couldn't hear him just seeing you in trouble elicited another round of coos and awws and mocks from the girls.
"Okay, seems we need to do things different then" the teacher said holding the bridge of her nose, a bit annoyed even if she knew it wasn't his fault. In fact she found his efforts adorable too, but she couldn't let him distract the whole class and stop her from doing her job.
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