8 Ch8-Getting the Goods on Ms. Todd

Chapter 8 Getting the Goods on Ms. Todd I couldn't wait to get to school the next day. Yes, you heard that right! I wanted to go to school for the first time in his- tory. That was because weird Ms. Todd would be gone and good old Miss Daisy would be back. Mom said I could ride my bike to school so I wouldn't have to

wait for the bus. Mrs. Kormel, the bus driver, gets lost all the time. She's not normal. It was Flag Day so we all wore red, white, and blue to school. There were flags of all different countries all over the place. When I walked in the class, Miss Daisy wasn't there yet. But Andrea was sitting there with this pruny mean face

on and her arms folded in front of her like an x. "What's eating you?" I asked her. "Did somebody steal your dictionary?" "You know why I'm mad, A.J.," she said. "No I don't." "Yes you do." We went back and forth like that for a While, until Andrea finally said why she was mad. "I found out that you're gifted and tal- ented," she whispered. "It's not fair!" "Who told you?" I asked. "My mother," Andrea said "She's vice president of the PTA. She knows every- thing."

"Well, I'm not telling anyone," I whis- pered. "I don't want the guys to know I'm a gifted and talented dork like you." "I'm not telling anyone either," Andrea said. "I want to be the only one in the class who's gifted and talented." "Agreed," I said. "It will be our secret." The only problem was that Ryan was hiding under his desk listening to us the whole time. "Oooooh!" Ryan said. "A.J. and Andrea are both gifted and talented. They must be in love! When are you gonna get—" Ryan never got the chance to finish his sentence because at that very second, guess who walked into the door?

Nobody! It would be dumb to walk into a door, But guess who walked into the doorway? Ms. Todd! Oh no! The Andrea clone was back. It was like a horror movie! "Miss Daisy is still sick," Ms. Todd said. "There must be something going around. So I'll be your teacher again today." She didn't look all that happy about it. She wasn't nearly as smiley as she was the day before. "Open up your math books."

Ugh! We had to do reading and writ- ing and math all morning. I thought my head was going to explode. Then Ms. Todd forced us to play more of her dumb games where nobody wins or loses. What's the point of playing? I thought I was gonna die. I couldn't wait for lunchtime. "I miss Miss Daisy," Ryan said as soon as we sat down in the vomitorium. "I miss miss Miss Daisy," said Michael, "Ms. Todd is weird."