“We only have to write three essays, right?” I asked Irene as I was setting my tray down beside hers. “How about you write the first half, I the second and we slam the third together with magic and rainbows?”
Irene gave out a long-suffering sigh. “I don’t know what was on the teacher’s mind. Pair us together? Really?”
Joy snickered. “The expressions on your faces were really funny. Even the teacher laughed.”
“She must think of us as a joke,” Irene sulked.
She probably did. I usually paired myself with Joy and Irene usually paired herself with Angela whenever the teacher let us choose. If not, we were usually paired with the smarter kids in class. I guess both our luck had finally run out.
“What are you guys talking about?” Angela asked when she arrived with her lunchbox.
“Irene and W
