Chapter 2
‘‘Hurry up Brock, you don’t want to be late for first day of fourth grade.’’ Brock rushed outside the door, and hopped into his parents’ truck. His dad drove as fast as he was allowed to, in order to get brock to school on time. They got there, both entered the school, and search for Brock’s classroom. After two minutes of searching, they finally got to the class. The teacher was standing outside of the door. They walked in front of the teacher, the dad said, ‘‘Hi, this is my son, Brock Cantu. He’s going to be in your class.’’ The teacher said, ‘‘Oh, hi Brock. My name’s Ms. Cano. Come in to my class, sit wherever you want. Soon, we’re going to get started ok.’’ The boy replied, ‘‘Ok.’’ Brock entered the classroom and sat in the desk. After a while, a girl came in and sat down next to him. It was the most beautiful girl he ever seen. She turn to look at him, she introduced herself to him. She said, ‘‘Hi, I’m Natalie Ortiz. What’s your name?’’ Brock replied, ‘‘Brock, Brock Cantu.’’ He asked, ‘‘Is this your first time going to this school? Because I didn’t see you last year.’’ She said, ‘‘No. I went to this school last year.’’ She asked, ‘‘How old are you?’’ ‘‘I’m seven years old.’’ Brock replied. He asked, ‘‘And you? How old are you?’’ She said, ‘‘I just turned seven a few days ago.’’ He said, ‘‘Oh, your birthday is this month.’’ She replied, ‘‘Yes, it is.’’ The teacher was walking into the classroom while she was saying yes. The bell rang, Ms. Cano said, ‘‘Time to start class, and let’s start to get to know each other. Tom, let’s start with you.’’ tom stood up, and said, ‘‘Hi, my name is Tom Wilson. I’m eight years old. I like hockey, music, eating pizza, and my favorite color is orange.’’ He sat down after finished. She went to another kid, which that kid stood up, and said about themselves. She went around until it was Natalie Ortiz’s turn. She stood up and said, ‘‘My name’s Natalie Ortiz, I just turned seven years old. My favorite food is, chicken. My favorite drink is, sprite. I enjoy sports, and playing outside. She sat down after she finish talking. The teacher pointed to Brock and said, ‘‘it’s your turn to speak.’’ Brock stood up, and said, ‘‘Hi, my name is Brock Jude Sanchez. I’m seven years old, my favorite color is red, I like football, and I also like playing outside.’’ He sat down after he was done speaking. The teacher began to the first assignment was going to be, it was a team assignment. As the teacher was giving out the assignment, Brock and Natalie began to whisper to each other, saying, ‘‘Cool. You like playing outside?’’ she said, ‘‘Yup, I play almost all day outside.’’ He respond, ‘‘Awesome, my kind of girl.’’ The teacher walked towards them. They both turned at the teacher. The teacher said, ‘‘Brock, Natalie. Since you liked talking to each other so much, I will pair up together and you’ll have two weeks to complete it. You’ll stay afterschool to do it, and I hope you don’t have plans for the weekends. Because you’ll have it for homework for the next two weeks.’’ The teacher walked back to the chalkboard. Natalie just rolled her eyes, and Brock lifted his eyebrows. They connected their desk together, and they started their project. They discuss what should do. After ten minutes of discussion, they both agreed to do the history on Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America. They began to research on the encyclopedia books. She asked Brock if she could borrow a pencil, Brock looked for an extra pencil inside his backpack, found one, and gave one to Natalie. It was the last pencil that he had. It was time to go to lunch, Brock asked for the pencil back. Natalie said, ‘‘I give it back when we go in the playground.’’ Brock said, ‘‘Ok.’’ They finish their lunch, and they went to the playground. Brock came up to Natalie and asked, ‘‘Where’s the pencil?’’ She took it out of her pocket, she hold it up close to her head. She said, ‘‘if you want it? Then come and get it.’’
