Hot Lunch

Authors Note: This is my fictional piece I wrote while the sub was here. My prompt that I used was " David froze, checking his pockets. Where was the money?" I was trying to score high in either voice or dialog.

Today was the day. The day that David was finally getting hot lunch. He was tired of his old paper bag and ready for a change in taste from his original PB & J.  The school was serving pizza today, his favorite and David's mom even gave him extra money for a double milk! Just as he sat down on the bus, David froze, checking his pockets. Where was the money? David started panicking. What was he going to eat today?! He can't skip out on lunch-he has a math quiz afterwards and needs his energy! The 1st Graders around him could tell he was worried by the way he was frantically searching his backpack and every other pocket he was wearing.  Nothing! Not even a penny! Benny sitting beside him noticed the way he was acting,

"Hey David, what's wrong?"

"Well my mom gave me money for hot lunch and I lost it all! I don't know what I'm going to eat!"

"Don't worry! I gotcha covered!"
"What do you mean?"

"Is this your first day getting hot lunch?"

"Is it that easy to tell?"

"Yeah, kinda. Anyways, didn't you know? You can give the lunch ladies a whole bunch of money so you can eat lunch everyday for a while until it runs out!"

"But I don't have any money!"

"Yeah, but I do! I'll just pay for your lunch today!"

"Oh, would you?!"

"Sure! By the way, I'm Benny!"

"I know, you're the kid that ate glue right?"

"Yeah, about that…"

A Christmas Carol

 In the book A Christmas Carol  Scrooge mentions that "…If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the population." about a boy in the book. This was in the beginning though. As a reader, my first thought is that Scrooge is just an awful person who says things like this all of the time. But as Scrooge is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future one of the ghosts mimic's his words when Scrooge sees a dear relative about to die. Scrooge no longer agrees with his words which is one reason the quote was used-to teach a lesson. Later on, in Christmas future he figures out that soon he will die too.  I figured that since Scrooge used to believe that if someone was not benefiting the world they should die, he should die as well. Although he is rich he doesn't use his wealth in a positive way so "If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the population."