Jane Austen Made Me Do It (2011)
“Pilkington, the guidance counselor, discussed my Problem.
They crack the door, thinking I overhear what’s going down, I’ll figure I’m busted, and take a plea deal, like a week’s detention over getting suspended. But until they got DNA, the Fifth Amendment is a fourteen-year-old’s best friend.
So Principal Oakes thanks Mom and Dad for coming and they go, “Is anything wrong?” and he goes, “Not wrong, per se,” which is his way of saying, “Yes, there is something wrong,” and Mrs. Pilkington goes, “...We’ve been a little concerned about James’s behavior,” which is her way of saying, “James is seriously freaking us out.”
“What behavior?” Dad asks.
I hear the taptaptap of Principal Oakes’s pencil on his coffee mug. “It’s not any one thing. More like a lot of little things.”
“For example?”
That was Mom. She fires off the “for example,” stick a fork in it. Don’t do your homework and try to float with “I had other stuff I had to do”? Mom goes, “For example?”MoreLess
They crack the door, thinking I overhear what’s going down, I’ll figure I’m busted, and take a plea deal, like a week’s detention over getting suspended. But until they got DNA, the Fifth Amendment is a fourteen-year-old’s best friend.
So Principal Oakes thanks Mom and Dad for coming and they go, “Is anything wrong?” and he goes, “Not wrong, per se,” which is his way of saying, “Yes, there is something wrong,” and Mrs. Pilkington goes, “...We’ve been a little concerned about James’s behavior,” which is her way of saying, “James is seriously freaking us out.”
“What behavior?” Dad asks.
I hear the taptaptap of Principal Oakes’s pencil on his coffee mug. “It’s not any one thing. More like a lot of little things.”
“For example?”
That was Mom. She fires off the “for example,” stick a fork in it. Don’t do your homework and try to float with “I had other stuff I had to do”? Mom goes, “For example?”MoreLess
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