School: the greatest adventure of all time

Mary, Marcus and Mystery-Man were having a picnic. It was a nice sunny in June and everything seems to be going well. The MacArthur twins are getting on better than ever. Between them lie a large bottle of coke a tin of biscuits, two tuna sandwiches, and ONE DOUGHNUT, and there still hasn't been a single slap. Mystery-Man is soaking in the shower of compliments (why can't he have a normal shower of water?) as his admirers leave the park. The village fair is on ad they have the park to themselves. Everything is going fine until out of the shadows comes a terrible creature. Not an evil giant cheese, not a rebellious fallen happy-dappy bunny, not a Darth Vader, not a grim reaper but a...

TEACHER!!!!

Mary and Marcus quiver and huddle close to Mystery-Man, but even he, the man too old to go to school and a super hero who has saved the day a million 3/4 times is looking scared. Then, it speaks.

Teacher: Ah, Mary and Marcus MacArthur. I was told by a Mr. The Bunny Wabbit of Doom that I would find you here.You have not been attending school since October.

Marcus: B-b-but-

Teacher: No! Don't explain now. Save your tongue for later. You'll be doing a lot of explaining, then- in the headteachers office. *Evil Laugh*.

Marcus: Gulp.

Marcus stands up, but Mary crawls quickly into hiding behind a tree. She is nimble and luckily waring brown and green which would have fooled most people. But, as you all know, teachers have eyes at he back of their heads. They are always watching.

Teacher: Mary MacArthur, where do you think you're going?

Mary is a., despite her falter of creeping behind the tree, a clever and knows that teachers ask questions like this so that they can get angry. If you answer truthfully they get angry for you for doing whatever you did. If you lie they get angry for you for lying. They do actually know what you were doing. That's not why they ask. If you don't answer they get angry for you for not answering. If you mumble quietly hoping they don't understand your answer but can't tell you off for not answering, then they'll throw another answer at you (what did you say?) and assume you said something rude. If you do say something rude... let's not even go there. Mary decided to tell the truth.

Mary: I w-was try-tr-tr-trying to g-ge-ge get aw-w-ay.

She (Mary) had expected this to go down badly, but even a fortune teller could not have fore said this. Teachers are very unpredictable. Which was a problem. Mary would have managed a detention of maths or writing out the entire dictionary backwards. She would not have liked it. She would have hated it in fact. But she would have been prepared for it. Not this.

Teacher: Oh, you poor thing! You must be very deeply disturbed. Why don't you talk to me about it. We'll all go back to school, and we can discus it at lunch.

Mary: Will Marcus be there?

Mary was not exactly very fond of Marcus, but it would be good moral support. The teacher had other plans.

Teacher: No, dear. Just us.

This was the last straw. Mary burst into tears and ran. But the teacher followed soon she was hot on her tracks, closer and closer. And a cold hand grabbed her shoulder.

Teacher: Come with me children.

Mary and Marcus forgot their earlier fight about the doughnut,gripped each other tightly and screamed for help. But Mystery-Man had disappeared and the park was empty. They had to face the teacher, themselves.

to be continued...

TUNE IN NEXT WEEK... where emotions are pushed to the limit and nerves are high as Marcus comes face to face with the head teacher and Mary finds herself alone with the teacher!