Literature
The Visitor, pt 1
"Jennifer! There is no snoozing in my classroom!" Only half-conscious, I heard the voice from far, far away, as though someone where calling to me from the center of a broad, empty canyon. "Somebody nudge her awake, please."
I felt an instance of pressure on my shoulder, and another moments later, harder this time. Blinking awake, I groggily lifted my head and squinted at the intensity of the artificial light raining down on the cramped classroom.
"Now, let's continue. Now that you're bright and shining, Jenny, can you recall why King Afonso was so important?"
Who the heck was that? I immediately glanced at the boy sitting beside me, silen