“P Is for Practice Room” The Encyclopedia of an Ohio Girl in Love, by Mallory EvansMallory’s guidance counselor, suspecting she needed positive interactions with adults but having no evidence for this other than his own suspicions about teenagers who made themselves deliberately invisible, signed her up during third period to be a teacher’s assistant.
On paper, this meant Mallory helped a teacher in a grade below with classroom tasks while they worked together on a lesson Mallory would actually teach at the end of the term. In practice, this meant Mallory had third period mostly to herself, since stapling packets and laminating posters took up no more than the first fifteen minutes of the period.
It was during one of her third-period wanderings through the eerily quiet high school halls
