Play practice was going to start right after Thanksgiving. Penny was going to get very busy about the time I was done with football. The two of us agr...ed to try to make as much time as possible for each other. I agreed to help Penny memorize her lines for the play. It would give me some time with her.I told Penny about some of the colleges I wanted to attend if they offered me a scholarship. Penny had her heart set on the University of Pennsylvania. They have an excellent veterinary program.. She even seemed overwhelmed.You could see in her eyes a migraine, since she had just come from the"special" classroom where she usually worked to teach mentally handicapchildren. Our 1B class was no better. I was going to say something toMartin, who sat next to me, but he was fast asleep. That little bastardonly complained about the grade he was getting in English, and he wasasleep. "I bet that's what Ms. Rodriguez wants," I muttered. That gave me an idea.Martin was known to be very brave. If. To which I chuckled that “it won`t hurt you a bit, believe me, and she cheered up a lot. Though looked a bit quizzical so I added, “or me!” and we laughed!A few days later mum said that Reb had spoken, that she wasn`t at school on Friday so it was `on’ and that I was going to have to be unwell and off for the day. I am a schoolboy when all is said and done and said I was broken hearted at the thought of missing of double maths, and double PE! She grinned, “I just bet you are” she chortled. “You. He thought to call Mrs. Radson, but dismissed that idea out of hand. With undirected fury and despair boiling in his head, he knew he would likely tell her what kind of superstitious bullshit witchcraft really was. He wondered what solutions he may have devised had he put the journal aside and used science instead. He had almost convinced himself that the supernatural was just another form of science, and he had only to learn its rules and structure.He raised his head when he heard the garage.