It was one of those stupid tests again. Every year, we have to go to
the nurse, and get our eyes checked, our hearing checked, and our height
and weight. Why does the school care about us? Isn't that what the doctor
is for? I never look forward to these tests. The nurse is evil, and the
tests are boring. So, when I woke up today, the first thing I thought was,
'Oh no. . . Another test, I'd better sleep in!' But, I was too late, my
mom had already came into my room. It was always so annoying when she
tried to wake me up, and I knew I would have to wake up now.
She was saying, "Alyssa, you better get dressed! You don't want to be late for school!"
"But mom. . ."
"No excuses, you know you have to get up. If you're not up in ten minutes, I'm coming back."
Lazily, I got out of bed and pulled on a T-shirt and jeans. I grabbed my backpack and headed downstairs. I stuffed a piece of toast into the toaster and waited for it to pop back up. . . As I was waiting, I was thinking about the tests. The nurse had never told me anything was wrong with my eyes or hearing or anything, but she always found something wrong with a lot of the other kids. I hoped today would be the same, I didn't want glasses. . . POP! The toast popped up. I grabbed it, buttered it, and ate it. Then I went outside to wait for Vicky.
Right when I closed the door, I saw Vicky. She yelled, "Hey Lyss! What's up?"
Vicky and I have been best friends since second grade, and we always walked to school together. "Hi Vicky," I sighed, "Nurse Evil is testing on us again. . ." Nurse Evil really fitted that nurse. She was evil, of course, but her name was also Eve, which really made evil fit with her.
Vicky stared at me, "Come on, Lyss, you can't seriously still be scared of those stupid tests! That was way back then!"
In second grade, I had been horrified when they tested on me. . . But this wasn't the same! "The tests are just so. . . boring. And, we have to miss our electives! Why can't they have the tests during World History or something boring like that. It would be more fair that way, boring replacing boring. . ."
She replied, "I know, but at least it's only once or twice a year."
We arrived at school in just a few minutes. Not only did Vicky and I live on the same street, but we lived close to the school. Sometimes I wished we could take the bus, but the fresh air was good.
As we entered the building, I said, "See ya after school!" And I walked to my locker. Vicky and I weren't in any classes together and our lockers were nowhere near each other. It wasn't fair, just because the teachers knew we were best friends didn't mean that we couldn't be in any classes together. We didn't even have homeroom together.
I walked to homeroom after my locker, and took my seat next to Brielle. She was super annoying, but our teacher, Mr. Shifner, was really weird. He did seating in alphabetical order all right, but by first names! And that got me stuck next to Brielle. She was so annoying, she was always blabbering on about something. Today, she asked me, "Aren't you excited about the tests? I hear that Nurse Eve has gotten new equipment that makes it a lot less boring!!"
Sarcastically, I said, "SURE. . . I'm SO excited, I just CAN'T wait. . ."
I tuned out Brielle and her irksome questions, and Mr. Shifner and his boring lecture about the tests. I had heard both thousands of times, and I was really getting tired of it. But, there was something that didn't happen often. Actually, it had never happened before at all! The loudspeaker had suddenly said, "Mr. Shifner, can you send Alyssa Panera to the nurse's office?" I was so surprised that I thought I was imagining it! But, Mr. Shifner gestured out the door, and I knew I had to go.
I walked through the halls to the nurse's office thinking all the way, 'What does Nurse Evil want with ME?'
I didn't find the answer when I walked into her office. She just made me put on the headphones for my hearing test. I raised my hand at every beep, and when I took the headphones off, she said, "Well, well, well. Alyssa, you have very well hearing, but I'm not so sure about your eyes." I didn't know why she said that, my eye tests had always been as perfect as my ear tests.
Without a word, I looked through the binoculars for the eye test. She asked me what I saw, what letters, what numbers, what pictures. Everything seemed fine, but when I looked up, she said, "Hmm. . . It seems as if your eye sight has gotten worse. You should get glasses right away. I don't think you should even wait. You must go home right now!" Wow, I was getting out of school early! But. . . why did she think my test results were bad, nothing seemed blurry or anything, and I didn't have to squint. I sat down as she called my mom.
When my mom came to pick me up, she exclaimed, "Alyssa! Your eyesight has always been so perfect! I wonder what went wrong. . ."
No one in my family wore glasses. I would be the first. I kept wondering why as we drove to the eye doctor. My mom said when we got there, "Nurse Eve said that we had to go to this one. . . I wonder why." That was when I saw the eye doctor's place. It didn't look like it was for an eye doctor at all! It looked crazy! Way too many colors. . . Way too bright, way too crazy for an eye doctor. What was going on?!?!
I walked in, and a woman with purple and blue hair said, "Alyssa. . . We've been expecting you." This couldn't be the eye doctor! She took me to a small room, and I discovered that she WASN'T the eye doctor, but the eye doctor was much more outrageous. He had pink, lime green, and blue hair, a highlighter yellow beard, and a purple mustache. His hair was not only wild colors, it stuck out everywhere. And his clothes! They were just as astonishing as the rest of him!
He said, "Hi, Alyssa, I'm Dr. Wilkern. Let's get started!"
With that, he put a blindfold on me. Everything was black, and I didn't know what was going on. But, before I could ask, the blindfold was off, and he was handing me glasses. I took them without a word and walked back to the waiting room. I found my mom, and we got into the car to drive home. In the car, I studied the glasses. They looked almost as crazy as the building and the people inside. The frames were millions of bright colors in random places. But, what really surprised me was the lenses. They has these weird purple and pink swirls on them. I said to my mom, "I don't think the school will let me wear these, they always say that the lenses have to be clear, no designs, no color tinted, no nothing."
My mom just stared at me, "What are you talking about? Those are perfectly normal glasses."
She couldn't be serious! "But mom, look at all the crazy colors, and the swirls on the lenses! They're just as crazy as those people at the eye doctor!"
She stared again, "What are you talking about. Those glasses are plain. They have copper frames, and clear lenses. And the people at the eye doctor weren't crazy at all. I'm beginning to understand why you need those glasses. Why don't you put them on now?"
She couldn't see it? It was either that, or she was really good at faking. I didn't argue, I just put the glasses on, and looked at my mom. But, before I could say, "Are you happy now?" I saw it. Where my mom should have been, a weird alien like creature was staring back at me. . .
She was saying, "Alyssa, you better get dressed! You don't want to be late for school!"
"But mom. . ."
"No excuses, you know you have to get up. If you're not up in ten minutes, I'm coming back."
Lazily, I got out of bed and pulled on a T-shirt and jeans. I grabbed my backpack and headed downstairs. I stuffed a piece of toast into the toaster and waited for it to pop back up. . . As I was waiting, I was thinking about the tests. The nurse had never told me anything was wrong with my eyes or hearing or anything, but she always found something wrong with a lot of the other kids. I hoped today would be the same, I didn't want glasses. . . POP! The toast popped up. I grabbed it, buttered it, and ate it. Then I went outside to wait for Vicky.
Right when I closed the door, I saw Vicky. She yelled, "Hey Lyss! What's up?"
Vicky and I have been best friends since second grade, and we always walked to school together. "Hi Vicky," I sighed, "Nurse Evil is testing on us again. . ." Nurse Evil really fitted that nurse. She was evil, of course, but her name was also Eve, which really made evil fit with her.
Vicky stared at me, "Come on, Lyss, you can't seriously still be scared of those stupid tests! That was way back then!"
In second grade, I had been horrified when they tested on me. . . But this wasn't the same! "The tests are just so. . . boring. And, we have to miss our electives! Why can't they have the tests during World History or something boring like that. It would be more fair that way, boring replacing boring. . ."
She replied, "I know, but at least it's only once or twice a year."
We arrived at school in just a few minutes. Not only did Vicky and I live on the same street, but we lived close to the school. Sometimes I wished we could take the bus, but the fresh air was good.
As we entered the building, I said, "See ya after school!" And I walked to my locker. Vicky and I weren't in any classes together and our lockers were nowhere near each other. It wasn't fair, just because the teachers knew we were best friends didn't mean that we couldn't be in any classes together. We didn't even have homeroom together.
I walked to homeroom after my locker, and took my seat next to Brielle. She was super annoying, but our teacher, Mr. Shifner, was really weird. He did seating in alphabetical order all right, but by first names! And that got me stuck next to Brielle. She was so annoying, she was always blabbering on about something. Today, she asked me, "Aren't you excited about the tests? I hear that Nurse Eve has gotten new equipment that makes it a lot less boring!!"
Sarcastically, I said, "SURE. . . I'm SO excited, I just CAN'T wait. . ."
I tuned out Brielle and her irksome questions, and Mr. Shifner and his boring lecture about the tests. I had heard both thousands of times, and I was really getting tired of it. But, there was something that didn't happen often. Actually, it had never happened before at all! The loudspeaker had suddenly said, "Mr. Shifner, can you send Alyssa Panera to the nurse's office?" I was so surprised that I thought I was imagining it! But, Mr. Shifner gestured out the door, and I knew I had to go.
I walked through the halls to the nurse's office thinking all the way, 'What does Nurse Evil want with ME?'
I didn't find the answer when I walked into her office. She just made me put on the headphones for my hearing test. I raised my hand at every beep, and when I took the headphones off, she said, "Well, well, well. Alyssa, you have very well hearing, but I'm not so sure about your eyes." I didn't know why she said that, my eye tests had always been as perfect as my ear tests.
Without a word, I looked through the binoculars for the eye test. She asked me what I saw, what letters, what numbers, what pictures. Everything seemed fine, but when I looked up, she said, "Hmm. . . It seems as if your eye sight has gotten worse. You should get glasses right away. I don't think you should even wait. You must go home right now!" Wow, I was getting out of school early! But. . . why did she think my test results were bad, nothing seemed blurry or anything, and I didn't have to squint. I sat down as she called my mom.
When my mom came to pick me up, she exclaimed, "Alyssa! Your eyesight has always been so perfect! I wonder what went wrong. . ."
No one in my family wore glasses. I would be the first. I kept wondering why as we drove to the eye doctor. My mom said when we got there, "Nurse Eve said that we had to go to this one. . . I wonder why." That was when I saw the eye doctor's place. It didn't look like it was for an eye doctor at all! It looked crazy! Way too many colors. . . Way too bright, way too crazy for an eye doctor. What was going on?!?!
I walked in, and a woman with purple and blue hair said, "Alyssa. . . We've been expecting you." This couldn't be the eye doctor! She took me to a small room, and I discovered that she WASN'T the eye doctor, but the eye doctor was much more outrageous. He had pink, lime green, and blue hair, a highlighter yellow beard, and a purple mustache. His hair was not only wild colors, it stuck out everywhere. And his clothes! They were just as astonishing as the rest of him!
He said, "Hi, Alyssa, I'm Dr. Wilkern. Let's get started!"
With that, he put a blindfold on me. Everything was black, and I didn't know what was going on. But, before I could ask, the blindfold was off, and he was handing me glasses. I took them without a word and walked back to the waiting room. I found my mom, and we got into the car to drive home. In the car, I studied the glasses. They looked almost as crazy as the building and the people inside. The frames were millions of bright colors in random places. But, what really surprised me was the lenses. They has these weird purple and pink swirls on them. I said to my mom, "I don't think the school will let me wear these, they always say that the lenses have to be clear, no designs, no color tinted, no nothing."
My mom just stared at me, "What are you talking about? Those are perfectly normal glasses."
She couldn't be serious! "But mom, look at all the crazy colors, and the swirls on the lenses! They're just as crazy as those people at the eye doctor!"
She stared again, "What are you talking about. Those glasses are plain. They have copper frames, and clear lenses. And the people at the eye doctor weren't crazy at all. I'm beginning to understand why you need those glasses. Why don't you put them on now?"
She couldn't see it? It was either that, or she was really good at faking. I didn't argue, I just put the glasses on, and looked at my mom. But, before I could say, "Are you happy now?" I saw it. Where my mom should have been, a weird alien like creature was staring back at me. . .