1. VOLUNTARY .

The girl behind me has blonde hair. She is small and quiet. I never hear her talk. Her big eyes are hanting and so full of knowlege but no happy life. I wonder if she knows I think about her every day.

2. UBIQIDOS .

I shoud have studied. The girl behind me did. I saw her bent over her work, sounding out each word, spelling it, checking, smiling when she got a word right. She's not smiling now. I can here her teeth biting her yellow, scarred pencil.

3. ASTROLOGY .

Easy. Easier than spelling. Ganpa taught me the constelations, Big Dipper, Little Dipper, Cancer. Granpa died of cancer. Maybe the girl behind me likes stars. I don't know. She never talks. Maybe I should ask her.

4. HEINOUS .

Mr. Krawsky is heinous... hienous? Heynous? He's mean. He makes other students cry, but not me. He can't make me cry. Maybe he made the girl behind me cry. He'd do that. I know he would. Maybe that's why she never talks. I bet her voice is beutiful. I'll fight him.

5. ASTETIC .

Mama said I was never very smart. She told me I'd have to marry a pretty, rich woman or just a pretty rich woman. Smart too to make up for my idiocrasee. The girl behind me is smart and pretty. Her brown eyes are very astetic.

6. VIRTUOS .

Mama raised me to be a gentleman. Never shout, don't talk back, ladies first, hold doors open, don't wake Mama when she's sleeping, the bottles in the top shelf are poison for rats. Men like Papa are stupid. Mama used a lot of rat poison.

7. ABHORENT .

We don't have rats. Rats are diseese.

8. HONORABILITY .

Mama said in the old days men were honorabole. Papa laafed at her, said she was a dreamer and a drinker. Mama did drink from her fancy cups a lot. She liked it when I bought her big glasses of water with ice clinking in them. Mama called me the most noble of nights. How can nights be noble? I bet the girl behind me woud like big glasses of water.

9. PREPOSTERUS .

I never finish tests early. The girl behind me finished forever ago. Mama and Papa said it was because I'm the stupidest boy in the hole wide world. There are lots of boy more stupid than me. Jimmy beat a wasp nest just to see what happens. Ernst thinks he can fly sometimes. I know not to beat wasp nest. I know I can't fly. I have commen sense, but I have no book smarts.

10. KNOWLEGEABLE .

The girl behind me taps her foot. Tap tap slap pat. I like when she taps her foot. She does it so much I learned letters, numbers, equations, facts while she tap tapped. I wonder if that's how she learns, tapping while learning. She must be pretty smart to do two things at once.