Saudade: Life Lessons Addendum Sneek Peek
It's been a busy month and I'm just now getting to edit the next chapter. Hopefully it will be out on the 31st. In the meantime, here's snippet from a scene full of 90s nostalgia.
Shawn was flabbergasted by the entire conversation and the inclusion of SNICK in the lobbying for their grounding made him very confused. “What day is it?”
“Friday,” Cory said, annoyed Shawn wasn’t backing him up. “We already established that.”
“Then how can we go to Blockbuster which is a Friday night thing and watch SNICK which is a Saturday night thing on the same night?”
Cory stared at him for a moment then blinked. “What?”
Shawn stared back. “What?”
“Shoot me now,” Jon muttered under his breath.
“Point is,” Cory continued after the delay, “We can’t do all those fun carefree things because we haven’t studied. We can’t do anything fun until we do. Nothing. Nada."
“Nothing?!?” Shawn no longer cared what Cory’s point was in all of this, he just didn’t want his weekend ruined because Jon was talked into grounding them.” You gonna make him not feed us either? No food until we study?”
“Well, no,” Cory quickly adding, realizing he may have gone too far. “We gotta eat so we can focus on the books. And I think those perfectly sized personal pizzas from Pizza Hut are the right study fuel.”
He turned his attention back to Jon and said indignantly, “I mean, it’s only fair considering how much reading we’ve done this year. How come you haven’t given us any of our stars for those books?”
Jon gave him a withering look. “Because those stars are for summer readin’ when you’re eight, Matthews. My class ain’t Book It, it’s English Lit.”
“Well you should consider stars and pizza,” Cory sniffed put off by his teacher’s rudeness. “It might get us to focus more so last-minute cram sessions wouldn’t happen.”
Jon put his hands on his waist as he looked over Cory’s head to Shawn. “Get him out. Now.”
