The bell had rung and the students portrayed that miserable and depressing look of being in school as they moved about the numerous and at the same time crowded hallways. Some of us came from lunch, others going to lunch and others filled with a sense of freedom because they were done for the day and were allowed to go home. The students were all proceeding to their respective classrooms, indifferently waiting for the teacher to begin the lesson for the day. It was during the middle of my sophomore year in high school, where my nightmare began.
As I arrived to the classroom and went to my seat, I noticed that out math teacher was already in her seat, eagerly waiting for me to settle down so she could begin, I was late to the class. Our teacher got up and told us she had something very important to tell us. At this time, all of us looked up at her w/ a confused look, wondering to ourselves what was it that she had to tell us that was so important. She was one of the best math teachers in our school, always asking us if we understood what she was teaching, and asking us questions on the topics presented "I"m going to have to leave you," she told us. "I am pregnant, and for that reason, I must leave." It hurt us to know that towards the end of the year she would be leaving us, and even though most of it didn't want her to leave, we knew she had no choice. That day came, when she had to leave us, we gave her a mini baby shower and a little going away party, hoping that one day she would come back to visit us with her baby.
The next day she arrived, our "sub" walked into our classroom. The was a sense of quietness that possessed the classroom. It felt like the first day of school, all aver again, when no one knows anyone, and we"re waiting for that someone to break the ice. .
Well, our substitute broke the ice, she talked to us, told us her name, and what college she came from and what she was going to teach us, you know the whole, "Hi, I"m Ms.
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