Thea gets a check

 Alicia written for surreal Saturdays prompt :)

Talking.

It’s what’s written beside Thea’s check on the board

every time.

She can hear the laughter in the hallway of her peers lining up for recess.

the teacher begins the countdown,

She’s using her stern voice which means if she gets to one, Thea might have a punishment comrade…

Someone to talk to, Thea thinks

with a sly smile.

But no luck

the hall goes church quiet

footsteps single file

go marching out the double doors.

To a tune that’s begun to play in her mind

🎵The ants go marching two by two 🎶

Thea rests her fist firmly against her chin staring out the window she wonders if Noah actually put two of every animal on the ark. what about ants? did he collect two ants? and how did he know if one was a girl and one was a boy… and what about the dinosaurs!

He could have fit the little dinosaurs

or a baby brontosaurus.

Thea was beginning to have mixed feelings about Noah.

she gazed at the smiling face of the Bronto in the Sears parking lot.

He probably needed a tie

a 1,000 ties

all sewn together

he could have made a special order

if he called in advance.

Or maybe!

She was a girl bronto

and she needed a car for all her babies

and she smooshed all the empty cars

in the parking lot so they could be

melded together to make one giant car…

the cars were all empty

don’t leave that fact out

she checked first

craning her giant neck down

into each window.

Somewhere between deciding who would teach the mama bronto to drive

and names for all five of her children

the bell rang and

Thea stared down at the empty worksheet sitting in front of her.

she grabbed for the pencil

but it was too late,

Mrs. Webs shadow loomed across her desk like a dark entity

“THEA I HAVE HAD it….. “