pinker by the second From the corner of my eye I watched Ellie Preston’s perfect little manicured hand shoot up She always has the right answers That’s because she’s a Thursday And Thursdays read minds Once I thought that I wanted to be one too but decided it would get exhausting always being in other people’s thoughts Plus I wouldn’t want to share Thursday with Ellie I’d rather be forced to spend my evenings at Power Academy or eat fried cockroaches with anchovy sauce Yuck Heck I’d rather be a Saturday Miss Preston Mrs Flannagan called beaming Ugh Ellie perked up while pushing away from her face a few strands of long straight chestnut hair that had escaped from her obnoxious headband She answered confidently as usual Similes compare two objects using the words like or as Metaphors don’t Ellie had the brightest whitest smile that was always plastered across her face when answering a question She pursed her lips and shot me an of course YOU didn’t know the answer Poppy kind of look She’s never liked me Cheater You’re not supposed to use powers in school but Ellie
got away with it and still gets away with it today You took the answer right out of my head Ellie Mrs Flannagan chuckled and her double chin jiggled right along like Jell-O Cherry Jell-O Her face always turned bright red when she taught about special literature terms My best friend Veronica looked over at me and we rolled our eyes together Mrs Flannagan kept babbling on and on about more English stuff I zoned out again Ellie’s desk sat right across from mine so I could see her blue eyes darting around the room from person to person I knew what she was doing listening to thoughts How could Mrs Flannagan just ignore this I couldn’t wait for the day she would actually get punished Ha Ellie Preston sitting in Principal Wobble-Wible’s office That would be pretty much the most amazing thing ever I laughed to myself and imagined Ellie’s fluorescent-pink-and green headband flying off her perfect little head and breaking into teeny tiny pieces on the tiled floor below That’s when it got weird What I imagined actually happened In like a millisecond after my thought the sparkly headband literally flew off her head without a push shake or anything It smashed
on the SMART Board directly behind Mrs Flannagan The pieces scattered across the floor A few of them even hit grossy Mark His dirty finger immediately pulled out of his nose Who did that Ellie’s head whipped around and her hair smacked Veronica in the face Ellie’s eyes searched down the rows one by one She was using her powers on us yet again But at that point who was I to comment on using powers I put her in this position in the first place by using mine I thought so at least Before she got into my head I quickly changed to thoughts of my dog Pickle If Ellie looked in she would see dog poop and dirty fur Nothing that could incriminate me for what just happened But someone knew it was me Veronica smirked I winked back Poppy Mayberry Mrs Flannagan’s nostrils flared as she stomped toward me like a big red bull charging How dare you use your powers in this classroom Her pudgy hand pointed about a foot above the door to a plaque stating the number-one rule of Nova Elementary NO POWER USAGE Although I should have been ashamed of the awful trick I had just played I couldn’t stop the giant smile from spreading across my face Finally My telekinesis was here That’s when I knew that I Poppy Rose
