10- Jeffrey TRANSCRIPTION (Because of Mr. Terupt)

Transcript
Luke was tryin’ to feed our plant. I saw the smoke risin’. I knew what was gonna happen. Terupt did, too, ’cause I saw him go to the windows right away. Not fast enough, though. The alarm still went off. The whole school had to go outside ’cause of Luke.

When we came back in, some guy was walkin’ down the hall with our janitors, Mr. Lumas and Mr. Ruddy. Terupt sent us into the classroom, but he stayed in the hall. I hid by the door to listen.

“All of it!” the man yelled. “I want all of it off the walls!” He was pointing at our math posters.

Mr. Lumas looked at Terupt. “You heard him,” he said.

“I’m not taking them down,” Terupt said.

“Do you know who this is?” Mr. Ruddy said. “This is the fire marshal.”

Terupt said, “I don’t care who it is. I’m not taking them down.” He looked at the fire marshal and said, “You have no idea how hard my kids worked on these.”

He was pointing at our posters. He was pointing at my poster. It had one word on it, stupid, and it wasn’t even a dollar word. All of a sudden I felt bad ’cause I hadn’t tried on Terupt’s project.

There were some more words said, but then the fire marshal left. The posters stayed. I hope he felt stupid.

Terupt came back into the room. Peter was out of his seat. “Mr. T, you just told that guy off,” Peter said, dancing around. “That was awesome!”

“No, I didn’t,” Terupt said. “Get in your seat. You shouldn’t have seen that.”

But I saw it, and I heard it. Terupt stuck up for us. There’s always posters up in the school halls, and they’re never fire hazards. I think the fire marshal was just mad about our false alarm, and I think Terupt knew that, too. He wasn’t gonna get pushed around. Our hard work mattered to Terupt—even mine. I owed him now. I had to try, even if only a little.

Present

 * Jeffrey
 * Luke
 * Mr. Terupt
 * Mr. Lumas
 * Mr. Ruddy
 * Peter

Locations

 * Snow Hill School
 * Room 202
 * The Hallway

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