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����������������������� �Get out , get out of there!�1 _ the angry crowd of students packed in the school toilets.
� If you 2at once, we�ll knock the door down�.
�Kill him!� shouted �the most extreme ones.
�Open the door and get out!�
One of the loudest, angriest boy was Thomas. He was red in the face and�3_kicking the door with determination. He was really uncontrollable.
Locked inside the cubicle , Richard couldn�t keep his eye off �his new Swatch. He kept asking himself: �Why doesn�t the bell ring?� The break 4 over by now.�
Finally the bell rang, the boys 5_ their siege and went back to their classroom.
But Thomas didn�t. He was too angry. He _6_outside the cubicle in complete silence, and when Richard timidly emerged, Thomas 7 himself on him and kicked and hit like a fury.
Richard 8_ all this and he did not even try to defend or protect himself . He remained still, vulnerable to Richard�s blows.
He only let out a �loud cry when he realized his precious new watch had been damaged.
This stopped Thomas , who seemed to wake from� a raptus �and abruptly left Richard alone .
Fortunately Mr Grant had lengthened his break too, because he was not in the classroom when Thomas entered. His relief quickly 9when he saw Richard enter the classroom. His clothes were untidy and his eyes �were red.
Then Mr Grant arrived and the fear Thomas felt about 10without homework, 11 Richard for a moment.
Why hadn�t he done his English task ��the night before?
What�s ��the use of spending all that time on the trunk business ? To find a ridiculous ,-yes, it was ridiculous now- a very ridiculous skull? And why 12 Mrs Berrin�s invitation to supper and the game of chess that he regularly lost?
It was very late when he 13 home and he had fallen asleep immediately.
Well, he was lucky this morning. The teacher had not chosen �to check his copybook.
�But now he was saying:
� And now, as Richard kindly reminded me earlier on,� 14our test on irregular verbs.�
Teachers are creatures with special powers, said his friend Bingo, and it was really true. Where 15 to sit during the test? Just next to Richard , who kept his eyes averted from him. �
Thomas was staring at the blank sheet, with a blank mind, still 16 everything about �the evening before �except for Mrs Berrin�s pizza, when a small card was pushed under his sheet. He checked if �the teacher 17at him and then slowly uncovered the card. It was the list of verbs he_18 for the test. There was also a Post Scriptum :
I 19__something wrong. Sorry. �Is this enough to make peace?
When he arrived �home, Thomas emptied his money box and ran downtown.
�On the following morning , when Richard 20_ at school, there was a small parcel on his desk waiting for him.
He smiled. He knew what was inside, and not only because the wrapping paper had that famous logo.
Sitting� at his desk on�the other side of the classroom, Thomas was looking at him. He too was smiling.
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