Eating With Knatt Jones July/August 2014 | Page 19

“Life is what you make it.”

Chapter 1….. I Run This Joint
If she touches me again, I am going to bite her hand. Nobody told her to touch me the first time. I can’t believe she
keeps saying the same things over and over. She has said it about 100 times. “Line up on the white line.” She is driving
me crazy. Miss. Nelsok thinks she runs this class. She doesn’t. I run this joint. I scream at her. “You better not touch
me or I’m going to kick your butt you ugly hog!” I shrug my shoulders because I know what she is about to say.
“Write up.”
I could care less about a write up. “I don’t give a care.” I say it loud enough for her and anybody else to hear. Here she
comes.
I am Maurice Wells. I am ten years old and in the 4th grade. People keep saying something about me having ADHD.
They call it Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder. I am going to try to look it up. I want to know what it means. This
is my second year in 4th grade. I heard Miss Nelsok tell Mrs. Sparks, the guidance counselor, that I should have been
passed on since last year. Mrs. Sparks says that my other school must have failed me on purpose to teach me a lesson.
I’ve got a news flash for them. “LESSON AINT LEARNED!” Now it’s time for me to teach the school system a lesson. The lesson is going to be: Don’t mess with Maurice because I run this joint. “Maurice. I would appreciate it if you
would not curse at this school.” There she goes again with her preaching. I could just slap her. Miss Nelsok is the worst
teacher that I’ve ever had.
I move out of line again. Just to let her know that she doesn’t tell me what to do. Like I said, I run this joint. Everybody else moves along. I’m not. I’m going to show her