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The Curious Sounds of a French Test |
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Tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap... an endless, annoying tap fills the almost silent classroom. My pen is constantly tap-tap-tapping against the edge of my desk. The French test is actually a lot harder than I thought. I’ve had enough... J’en ai marre. Great. That’s one. Another fifteen to go. Next to my ticking, I hear another noise. Click-click-click-click-click, someone’s clicking their pen open and closed constantly. I immediately stop ticking when I realize how annoying it is. My neighbor that’s clicking looks at me, his eyes narrowed and a grin spreading over his face. He tears off a corner from his answer sheet and scribbles something in an uneven handwriting and passes it to me. The message? I win. The teacher is looking at some tests that have already been handed in and so she doesn’t notice. Win what? I wonder, and then my neighbor starts clicking his pen again. Oh. I get it. I start tapping my pen and some people look around to stare at us momentarily, some looking irritated, some laughing almost soundlessly.
“Jack! Alexia! Do you think this is funny?!” Both of us look up, and stare into the angry face of our French teacher. “Stop ticking and clicking and get on with your test! Five more minutes!” he says, glaring at us both. I immediately look back down at my answer sheet, realizing I have ten minutes for fifteen questions. Absent-minded, I start tapping my pen again, softly. Tap-tap-tap-tap. Jack looks at me, a challenging look in his eyes, and his finger jolts back to his pen. I notice his test papers aren’t lying on his desk; he’s already finished. Another click-tap orchestra is heard in the room. This time the teacher doesn’t even look up, he just rolls his eyes. “Would you shut up!” a girl growls next to me, trying to grab the pen out of my hands. “Silence, please,” the teacher sighs. He’s not even bothered to stop her trying to grab my things. Suddenly, the bell goes, announcing the end of the period. “You’re a dead girl, Alexia,” Jack says, smirking and looking at my answer sheet. As I hand my sheet in, I notice I have only written down one answer for the first question. J’en ai marre.
Note: I got this idea after my friend started tapping during a french test, but she DID finish the test unlike Alexia.
Crystal-Jinx · Sun Nov 15, 2009 @ 12:08pm · 0 Comments |
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