All the clamoring and chatter quickly dissipated as hushed tones fell over the classroom. The shuffling of feet and scraping of chairs against the tiled floor filled the room. The bang of heavy science books being plopped down onto tables one after another happened in rapid succession.
When Maisy set her science book down, this caused a gust of wind to blow across the table. The force of the wind was strong enough to knock Jordan over. He slid end over end like a tumbleweed across the table before finally coming to a rest in front of Sara. Jordan looked angrily over at Maisy as he picked himself up off the table.
“Oh my goodness, sorry little guy. I wasn’t thinking.” Maisy said with a veiled sweetness that Jordan couldn’t quite tell if was sincere or not.
“It’s fine,” Jordan said with a bit of edginess in the tone of his voice. It was clearly not fine, but he didn’t exactly want to pick a fight with this giant either. As he didn’t want to cause problems for Sara. Partly because it’s the proper thing to do; however, secondarily, he didn’t want the trouble it would cause.
“Ok, class, you will break up into your lab groups today, and you will need to decide what your projects will be. The expectation is that you have several weeks’ worth of data to compile into graphs and charts for your presentation to the class and individually for your term papers. I’m giving you the first fifteen minutes of class to finalize this. You should have already met with your partner to make some of these decisions.” An audible groan filled the room as everyone broke into groups.
Jordan was just relieved that they were going to get away from Maisy for a bit of this class. He turned towards Sara to begin to ask who her partner was when Maisy easily spoke over his now meek voice.
“So I have a great idea, partner,” Maisy said as she looked excitedly at Sara, who had pulled out a notebook.
“Oh,” Sara said with a bit of surprise. “I thought we were doing the plants in different soils thing.”
“We still can if you want. But, I had no idea you had this little guy. We could do an experiment on physical performance after diagnosis.” Maisy said while looking down at Jordan.
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