Creative Writing: The Great Lunch Disaster

The Great Lunch Disaster
Madilyn Collins

DING-DING “That’s the lunch bell children, line up.” My teacher exclaimed while standing and walking to the door. I got up and jumped into line so I was the first person. I was always the first person in line because lunch was the one time a day I couldn’t wait for. I opened the door and began to walk down the hallway leading the class to the cafeteria. A few paces before the entrance to the cafe I looked into the big glass windows that look directly into the table where I sit. ‘“Megan!!” I had completely forgotten that today was Megan’s first day back from her vacation at Deep Creek. I hadn’t seen her since the week before and missed her so much.
I first met Megan when I switched to Rainbow

I grabbed a big bunch of her dirty blonde hair and pulled it hard.
“OW!” She turned back around and started to pull my hair and hit my arms. I was so angry that I grabbed the first this I could get my hand on. A spoon. What am I supposed to do with a spoon? I looked like an idiot sitting there holding a spoon as Megan was continuously wacking my arms.
The sauce. I took the spoon and dipped it in the sauce. I held the handle of the spoon in my left hand and used my right pointer finger to push down on the front of the spoon. The second I let go, the red spaghetti sauce flung all over Megan’s white Hollister sweatshirt. Her favorite sweatshirt.
“MADI!!” She began to cry and then I began to cry. It was about 5 seconds before all of the lunch aides were standing behind Megan and I.
“Girls, you need to come with us.” We grabbed our plates and follows the ladies all the way to the principal's office. We got in there and were told to sit and wait for him. Before the aides had even left the principle had came out and got us.
We went into his office and sat as he offered us a box of tissues for our running noises and red faces. After we started to calm down, he asked us what had