The Girl Was Trouble

One Recess, Mr Boyd gathered all the students in line to seek out a “culprit.” This culprit turned out to be Greta Grobler. Her friends tried to convince Mr Boyd that Greta is the best kid in school, but Greta claimed that she was “nothing but trouble.” Mr Boyd then took her to Miss Orange’s office, where Rita Bassey was waiting. She asked Greta what she did to get into trouble. Greta hesitated, but then began to tell her:

It all started on Greta’s birthday, where she was given a personal computer, on which there was a brainy ogre called Cooper, which she loved. Greta took Cooper to school with her, where she showed her friends and even had it tell Miss Ropey to repeat a question slower. She even played chess with it.

But one Recess, she asked Sleepy Kid to watch over Cooper while she played kickball. She only managed to kick the ball back into the kid’s hands and be declared “out.” Greta went back to the bench and found to her horror, Cooper had gone!

Greta’s friends looked everywhere but they couldn’t find Cooper. Greta then went to Brinklow to ask if Cooper was in the Lost and Found box, but it wasn’t. Brinklow then told Greta that he saw Craig Jones with one. Greta then found Jones writing something bad about Boyd. She promised to help him if he told her where Cooper was, which Jones agreed to. Greta suggested he write “Boyd is a notorious mega,” then Jones said he gave Cooper to Penrod Bendy. Greta found Bendy in the boy’s bathroom throwing soap covered toilet paper on the ceiling, which he called “icy-icys.” Greta promised to help him with it if he told her where Cooper was, which Bendy agreed to. He told Greta he gave it to Marsh the Worst, who was in the cafeteria kitchen. When Greta found Marsh and demanded she give her back Cooper, she ignored her, so she screamed “I WANT COOPER AND I WANT IT NOW!” Marsh responded by throwing food at Greta, who threw flour back at her, which resulted in a food fight between the two.

Bassey asked Greta how Boyd found her out, which Miss Orange responded by saying that Greta spelt the word “Notorious” right on a spelling bee and that she did an “icy-icy” on a science fair project. She then told Greta that she was smart, but it was “all book and no street.” Bassey then asked Greta why she was taking the fall for the other kids. Greta answered that because she did what she did, that made her no better than them. Bassey then gave her Cooper, which she said got off Marsh. Cooper then told Greta she got mail. Miss Orange then told Greta that Principal Prickly is ready for her.

When Prickly saw Greta, he told her to clean up every mess she made and she will look forward to no recess for some time, but then his computer bleeped because it had something wrong with it, which Greta helped with. She also helped Prickly with other computer stuff, so much that he “forgot about taking away recess,” though she still had to clean up the messes. “Still, I got Cooper back. I survived my journey through the underworld and I’m never going back there again.”

The End.