A Slice of Life by Samuel Topham

I was sitting in homework club doing my confusing hard math homework, when I saw a seventh grader named walk into the room. I knew what was going to happen at this moment. Earlier in the day this kid had taken Mike’s lacrosse stick from the lacrosse bucket in the Arrupe lobby. Mike’s stick was in the bucket after Ms. Guiney had yelled at us in the morning to put the sticks in the bucket and that she didn’t want the sticks in the room. So I never learned how this kid had broken the stick, but I could see that he had cracked the head and it couldn’t be fixed. All I could hear while trying to do my math was that he was going to have to buy Mike a new head and get him mesh to get it strung. I have to say that they were making him pay a little bit too much. But I know that the head costs at least $90. And that to get mesh to string a stick was $20. And to get it strung was $15. They had said that it costed $50 but I knew that they were just trying to get money from the kid. I didn’t say anything I just left my mouth shut. I tried to finish my math but couldn’t get done due to all the noise and distractions.