The Great Gatsby: A Short Story

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“Can you believe that the first day of school is already here?”Bobby exclaimed. “No,” Timmy respond. “Let's head to our first class of the day,” Bob said. While walking to class, Bobby thought to himself “what will happen if I start to drink the books.” Bobby rebuffed that question telling himself “No one is going to find out.” Throughout the day he keep thinking about what he he said, and he was beginning to worry. Bobby’s past teacher felt like something was different about Bobby. During lunch, Bob sat by himself because he was still worried about him being an ink drinker. While at home Bob acted even weirder than he did at school, he was worried about his parents finding out that he is an ink drinker.
Bob’s reading class was going to the library to get books. Things started to get heated …show more content…

I can’t believe that she caught me drinking the book,” Bob exclaimed. “My secret is out,” he mumbled. When Bob’s parents came into his room looking frightened he knew that the school had called. He put his head was in his lap as he cried about what he had done in the library. His parents were asking him questions about the books, and Bob denied everything. Except on the last question he succumbed.
While at school, Bob tried to stay quiet and hidden all day. The principal called Bobby into his office to talk. While in the office, Bob negotiated with the principal about his punishment about the book. His punishment was to go and apologize to Mrs. Webb. Before entering the library, Bob thought about how to apologize to her. “Mrs. Webb,” Bob whispered, “I’m sorry about the book.” “Bob, why did you do that?” the librarian said. “I don't know,” Bob responded. “Please don't do that again.” Mrs. Webb said.
At home on that cloudy Thursday, Bob spend most of his homework time writing in his journal about his crush Samantha. To him, Samantha was everything even though they weren’t dating. Before he went to bed that day, Bob prayed to God that he would someday get a