The Report Card

Brooklyn

I walked out of the school. I felt like my heart was going to drop. I can feel it pounding already, and I’m not even in my parents car yet. I see their car pulling in o the school. I feel like I have to run away from their car but I pull the door open and move into the seat. I am shivering and I bet my parents can see it is was noticeable.
Mom asked, “ How was school, Mark?”
My voice shook when I said, “Good.”
“What’s the matter?” mom added
“Ummm nothing really.”
“What does nothing really mean?!” She added
“Did you get your report card today?” mom asked me.
“Ummm yeah ummm here it is.”
Mom takes the report card out of my hand fast like she is going to win something from taking it from me.
“What is this?” she asked.
“Nothing!” I said in a tone like I was going to cry.
“Is this a F I see?”
“No!! Well.. Maybe.” I said.
“Well you’re grounded for three months for not getting your homework done!”
“I wish I would have checked my grades before I got the report card.” I added
“Well it’s too late now! I said you were grounded and this is the final decision!!”
When I got home my dad was sitting at the table. I ran to my room terrified from my mom yelling at me in the car. All of a sudden I heard my dad yell at me to come into the kitchen. When I walked into the kitchen I figured that my mom had told my dad about my bad report card. But she didn’t yet.
Supper came and my father called me, and we sat at the table playing with all of our food not eating it and then my father finally talked.
“This is good supper huh” he asked me, trying to brighten the mood in the room.
My face was firetruck red when mom said, “Why do you have a bad report card?”
“Did I hear bad report card?” dad asked me puzzled.
“Yes he did! Our son here has a very bad report card!” my mom said.
My brothers started to laugh saying, “You’re dumb, you’re dumb you’re dumb!”
I started to cry. Of course that didn’t help anything, but I couldn’t help it!!
My brothers started chanting, “Cry baby, cry baby” that made me cry even more.When I went to bed my eyes were all red and I had a bad headache. I didn't sleep most of the night because I felt guilty, because my parents depended on me to get good grades so my name could be in the newspaper.
The next day at school I was very sad. I kept thinking of when my brothers were calling me names at the dinner table last night.
I came to school, the kids were calling me names too! When they started calling me names
I started to cry and just like my brothers they were yelling, “Cry baby, Cry baby!”
Then Billy came over. By the way, he was the school bully. I was so scared that I screamed as loud as I could. I felt very weak now that Billy came over I felt like I was going to run away but I didn’t. I stayed strong and stood there.
He said, “Why are you crying big baby? Huh? Huh?”
I stood there and cried even more not saying anything, because if I would it would come out as a bunch of screams and whales instead of words. when I  stood there he hit me so hard I fell on the ground and I sat there on the ground. The teacher looked out the window and saw me on the ground crying while Billy was hitting me. The teacher raced outside and stopped him and sent him to the principals office.
The teacher was wondering why he was hitting me. She may be thought that I started something and Billy got made so he started to punch me, Because I got bad grades on my report card, when I got out of the teachers class I saw my crush Letisha. I felt like I was going to fall to the ground when I saw her. She is the most beautiful person in the whole entire world! I was murmuring stuff like I was crazy and she was looking at me like I was nuts. Then I walked away and went to class.
We got new seating arrangements in class today. I wanted to sit by Letesha but yet I didn’t want to sit by her, because I make a lot of stupid mistakes in school. Then the most worst thing happened. I was standing by the teachers table waiting to get my spot. Guess who I sat by? Billy, Letisha, and the most smelliest and the most annoyingest person in the whole school!!
I was sitting there doing my assignment, and Billy brought up me hitting him. Wait, I didn’t even hurt him! So he made it sound like I was beating him up! So Letisha thinks that I was the one hurting Billy, but he was the one hurting me!! So I started to cry in front of Letisha.  
I was in trouble when he started saying, “I was hitting him,” so the teacher told me to go to the principal's office. Billy got in trouble for nothing because supposeably he didn’t hit me, I hit him! So when I got to the principal’s office the chair was backwards, so I couldn’t see his body or anything. That moment I thought I was in one of those scary horror movies. Where it is dark in the room and a light shining on the big dark chair spun around. Then a deep voice calls and you don’t know if that voice came from something in the chair or somewhere else.
I heard a voice that said, “Have a seat! I’ve been waiting for you.” I was freaking out! But I didn’t turn around and run because I would get called a scaredy-cat! So I sat down on the chair farthest away from the principal’s big black chair!
He said “GET OVER HERE YOU SIT RIGHT HERE NEXT TO ME!”
I was shaking and almost tripped when I walked over to sit down. To be honest I think I peed my pants.
“Billy told me that you should be coming,” deeply spoke the principle.
“How would he know if I was coming?” I asked scardly.
“Well. Ahhh. I don’t know!”
I was very confused when he said that it was Billy. But that didn’t bother me too much, I just let it go. I got bored sitting in his room, so I read stuff that was on his desk. I read some papers I don’t think I was suppose to read, but oh well I guess! Then I came upon his name plaque, which said “Mr. Bellbottom.” That last name was really firmillier. So I started to think of last names in my grade. Dohlman, Hosek, Shelton, Voves, Hanni, Balk, Mast, Bellbottom. Whoah, wait! Billy BellBottom, was the school bully who made me get sent to the principal's office, for HIM picking on me, HIM hurting me, and HIM embarrassing me in front of Letisha. So I went up to the principle and asked if he had any kids.
He responded, “Yeah.”
“Whats his name?” I asked curiously.
“You know him. In fact he was really close to you today!”
“How close, was close?” I wondered.
“Okay since you really have no idea I will tell you that his name is Billy”
Know I was scared. Billy never had talked about his dad. To be honest I always thought that Billy never had a dad, thats why, his dad is the principal and he may be embarrassed by him. I would be too! Because he is short and stubby, has very nerdy glasses, curly brown hair, and freckles. Billy had to get his bullyness from somewhere, and right now, I am thinking he got it from his dad!
I’m sitting quietly thinking to myself when someone comes in. I ignore it, because what I am thinking right now is more important than what is going on out there. If you want to know what I am thinking about, I am thinking about my future with Letisha. I hear my name getting talked about out there, and I think whoever is out there doesn’t know I am in here. I am thinking that if I stay quiet and don’t make any noise, I will get to know what the principal and the kid out there are talking about. So thats what I do.
“I don’t know dad, I feel guilty about it,” says the kid.
“Come on son! He is crying in my office, and its very funny! No one knows what we did so lets keep it a secret,” says the principle.
What secret? Was repeating going through my head. Okay, there was a secret that only they knew. I don’t even know who the kid was! I see some windows. I was going to climb over his desk, stand on the chair and see who the principal was talking to, and thats what I did. All I knew was that he was a boy and the principal called him son. So I climbed over the desk, stood on the chair and looked over the dirty window ceil. Oh my gosh… I saw…. Billy Bellbottom. Then I saw the principal started to walk over to me, so I bend down below the window and lunged over the desk and miss the chair barley.
Then the principal came in and says, “You can leave now!”
“Okay thanks! I promise I won’t cause anymore trouble,” I said.
“Thats good! Now get to class!!” Angrily growled the principal.
The bell rings to dismiss us from school. I decided to walk home, so I could think of what the secret could be that the principal and Billy could be talking about me.
The pieces were falling all together! Billy started to pick on me because I got a bad report card. Hold up a second, I never told Billy that I had a bad report card, and I never beat him up he told everyone that I beated him up AFTER he went to the principals office. What I am guessing was that him and his dad switched my report card with his, then his dad gave me his report card. I rushed home to look at the name on the report card. I saw Mark Shinney, which is my name. I hold it up to the light to see if there was anything behind it. Then, I saw that the color of the paper was a different color behind of my name.
I wanted my parents to know why I got a bad report card. So I placed my report card on the dinner table, and at dinner I got to pour the milk. So I accidently missed the cup and got milk all over my report card! My mom and dad weren’t so happy, but then I looked at my report to see if my name disappeared. It did!! My name washed away and sure enough BIlly Bellbottom’s name was there! With all of the bad grades he earned and not me. I shoved the report card in my mom’s face.
“Whoah!! This was just mistake honey. Tomorrow we can take it in to the principal,” mom said.
“No mom!! I overheard them talking. They planned this whole thing, and they thought they could get away with it!!”
“Oh my!” My mother shrieked!
So instead of proving to that nasty family what they did was wrong, we went to the courthouse. We explained everything to them. They fired Mr.Bellbottom, Billy got suspended for a while, and I got my REAL report card back! A, A , A, A, A!!! Straight A student.
What I still remember that day was when the principal got fired he went on his knees and begged for his job back, and what really got me was that he said that it was all Billy’s fault! Billy on the other hand said that he did it so he could get out of school. So it after all it was a happy ending! The mean teacher got fired, and Billy, the school bully got suspended for a long time.
Did I tell you that Letisha and I got married? Well yeah, and the stinky and annoying guy that I had to sit by is now my best friend!