With each blink I took, my eyes became heavy. After every blink it was getting harder and harder to open them again, but now wasn’t the time to wish I had actually slept last night instead of read 20 chapters of ‘The Astonishing X-Men.’ I took one long blink before sitting up straighter in my chair. That had used the last of my energy, and before I knew it I was back to heavy blinking, but worst my head was nodded off in an unattractive manner.
Have you ever been so tired you couldn’t even close your own mouth as you drifted off to sleep?
I was in that stage. The noise from my mouth was subtle, and I’d like to think maybe even a little cute.
“Lily!”
I heard an ugly snort escape my lips and the giggles from my classmates around me and I averted myself to a normal, human like position, “Yes Ma’am?” I answered in the best possible, ‘I was awake the entire time.’ tone.
I watched her perfectly lined brick house red lips curve into a knowing smirk as I mentally prepared for battle. In the seconds between the time it took my teacher, Mrs. Summers (and no, she’s not related to Scott Summers, Jean Grey, or is even a mutant at all), I ran through every possible topic she could have talked about in the past 20 minutes.
“What do you think is the reason why they did what they did?”
I hate teachers. “Uh, to…” I searched for hints on the board, nothing…damn, “hmm…” I was stalling, “to um…” my classmates started giggling, “So that they..can…” time to bull shit this, “…protect?”
Mrs. Summers raised her almost perfectly plucked eyebrow and nodded, “well, yes…you’re right Lily, to protect. Jake, how about you expand on Lily’s answer.”
I mentally pat myself on the back for that one.