Chapter 12: Erin“Yes, you can do a make-up test. Just be sure you send in all those missing assignments first. I’ll see you next Thursday at three-thirty.”
“You’re going soft in your old age or what?”
“Huh?” Erin, who’d been watching Brian slink away, his eyes already again on his smart phone, undoubtedly messaging his friends about his good luck, turned to see her one teacher friend, Klaire, standing behind her, laptop case in hand. “Could you repeat that?”
“I said ‘are you going soft?’ Since when do you allow make-up exams when the student isn’t caught up on homework assignments?”
“Guilty as charged.” Erin shrugged, even as her face flushed. “It’s just that Brian always has these long-winded explanations why he couldn’t do something. Some of them even make sense, in a weird, convolut
