An Unexpected Ending

by Andrea Chirre

I had to read a part of the book “One hundred years of solitude” because I would have an evaluation in school. I didn´t read the book because I didn't have time to read it. I was afraid because this evaluation was going to be pretty important.

The next day in school, the class started and immediately the teacher asked to one girl about the book but she didn't answer. Then another girl and another boy but no answer. They could not answer because they hadn't read the book too.

The teacher was very angry and he asked who else hadn't read the book. I am just a girl who like to tell the truth so I raised my hand. Someone behind me did the same.

It was terrible. We got scolded by the teacher and I felt so bad because the teacher would give me a bad grade.

Then the teacher, hoping that somebody would answer, asked to the class questions about the book but nobody answered.

Finally the teacher, tired of this, asked who in the class had read the book but no one had.

So the girl behind me and myself we got congratulated for our honesty. The teacher said if everyone had been so honest we would not have wasted so much time. By the end the teacher gave us one week more to read the book.