Chapter 3: Mrs. Ward

Chapter 3: Mrs. Ward

by: MrSuits

“Then if you look to the first line of the second stanza, you’ll notice the writer uses the blue curtains to represent his overwhelming depression and the fact that his life…” Mrs. Ward your English teacher droned on about some stupid poem though you were hardly listening to a word she was saying. There was nothing more boring than English lessons, you could speak English perfectly fine why did you need to carry on learning it and why the hell did you need to know about some ancient poem about the ocean. And no the curtains were just fucking blue you internally fumed as your teacher continued to drone on. It felt like you’d been in the lesson for hours.

Suddenly you felt a nudging on your arm, it was Travis next to you. You looked over, he was gesturing up towards the front. You turned that way finding Mrs. Ward and the rest of the class staring intently at you. “Johnny what technique has the writer used on lines 7 and 9?” Mrs. Ward asked you her stone cold glare shooting nerve racking lasers down every fiber of your being.

“Uh… Uh…” You stuttered looking down at the poem on your desk scrambling to find where you were, Travis quickly pointed it out. You read the lines but absolutely nothing came to mind. Hesitantly you looked back up. “Um… I’m not sure Miss.”

She tilted her noes downwards looking over the rim of her glasses at you. “Why am I not surprised?” She said displeased, “Perhaps if you stopped flailing off into dreamworld you might actually know something and maybe, just maybe, improve your grades.” With that telling off she moved on as the class nerd Sally Bennett raised her hand to answer.

Your stare lingered on your teacher as anger filled your veins. You could hardly wait for the lesson to end and you could finally use the gun on the old hag. It had been almost impossible to hold back until now after using the gun on your mom you couldn’t wait to use it again and this time you would have 12 hours to get some proper use out of the thing. Boy you couldn’t wait to reduce Mrs. Ward down to nothing but an item of clothing to wear and do with as you pleased and it wouldn’t be long now.

For the next 10 minutes or so you sat daydreaming about the possibilities before the bell suddenly sounded breaking you out of your trance.

“Ok class. That’s all for today, I’ll see you tomorrow.” Mrs. Ward said as people began packing up their things as the noise level of conversation grew.

“God she really hates you doesn’t she.” Travis said to your left as you packed up ready to leave. You switched between looking at him and Mrs. Ward, not wanting to let your target out of sight.

“Yeah tell me about it.” You responded.

With that Travis rose to his feet. “Come on then lets get out of here.” He said.

You had no intentions of leaving the room, at least not as yourself. “Actually Travis I need to ask Mrs. Ward something so I’ll catch up with you later or just see you tomorrow.” You told him.

He shrugged. “Oh alright. See you later then.” Before making his way out of the room with the crowd of other students. You waited until most of the students were out of the room before standing up and slowly making your way over to Mrs. Ward who was now sitting at her desk on her computer.

“Hi Miss. I was wondering if I could ask you a question.” You said nervously.

“Go on then. What is it?” She said bluntly her eyes still transfixed on the screen. Just as you were about to make up a question to distract her the last student left the room. “Come on. I don’t have all day.” Mrs. Ward moaned.

You didn’t even respond instead turning around and walking over to the door closing it shut and twisting the latch to lock it. “What on earth are you doing?” Your teacher said as she noticed what you were doing. You didn’t say a word just slowly pulling the door blind down keeping your eyes locked on your teacher intently as you did. You wanted to at least have a little fun with her before you turned her into your own person meat costume.

“What the heck is this? Open the door you strange boy.” Mrs. Ward said sternly. She rose to her feet.

You quickly reached into the bag and pulled out the gun “Ah ah ah.” You stopped her.

“What on earth is that!?” She fumed stopping in place a shocked expression dropped across her face. “Don’t do anything stupid.”

“Oh I won’t be doing anything stupid. You on the other hand. You’ll be doing plenty of stupid things not too long from now.” You said smiling mischievously. You slowly arched around and closed the window blinds all the while staring and pointing the gun intently at your nervous teacher.

“You’ve gone crazy.” She said panicky, “Just let me go and we can forget this ever happened.”

“Oh I won’t be forgetting this ever. You on the other hand, you won’t remember any of this. The school will most definitely remember this day as well. The day Ward the Witch finally got her comeuppance.” You said hearing how evil you sounded, years of anger a the torment of this women were finally coming out and now you were ready for some fun. “Well her goes nothing.”

“No! No wait!” She shouted.